Class of ’86 – Oldsmobile Toronado

Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com Looking back over the vehicles we’ve so far selected for the Class of 1986, we can pretty quickly come to a couple conclusions about the vehicles in showrooms that year. One, it was a year that saw great downsizing, thanks in part to the previous decade’s fuel crises and to the early […]

“Keep straight on. Let the road look after itself.”

Last week we took a look at “Sorcerer,” and this week, BigLorryBlog turned us on to another truckin’ film, Cy Endfield’s “Hell Drivers” from 1957. What at first seems to be typical mid-1950s B-movie fare actually has plenty of good reviews, based more on the plot (ex-con takes a job at a corrupt trucking firm […]

Hemmings Saturday Cinema – Hot Rod Girl

Apologies to those of you looking forward to our weekly Four-Links this weekend; I simply ran out of time this week to curate a good selection of collector car-related links from around the Interwebs. Instead, I did come across the 1956 drive-in staple Hot Rod Girl in its entirety over on the Internet Archive, so […]