While we have the rolling 25-year cutoffs for most shows to give us some idea of what’s newly considered collectible, there are indeed other standards which we can use to determine when a car becomes collectible. For instance, when a car appears in the Hemmings classifieds, certainly somebody out there believes it to be collectible. […]
In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly […]
It’s hard to forget this two-page spread from American Motors that ran in just about every automotive magazine in 1970. Sure – go ahead and laugh. To be honest, I did as well when my dad brought one home on occasion (it was a company car – he didn’t actually go out and purchase one). […]