The Rootes Group was one of the earliest practitioners of badge engineering. Long before the K-Cars, ’82 GM A-body quartet or first generation Neons came into being–going back to the mid-1930s, in fact–Rootes was keeping busy with variations on a theme, a practice that by the 1950s had become a long-established Rootes tradition. Take today’s…

It’s officially spring, and this past Monday I was out just cruising around. I had gotten a picture frame for a 1966 Lincoln Continental ad I’d acquired awhile back at an antique store. But the previous night, while putting it together, I pressed the back a little too hard and broke it. Dagnabit! So it…

Here’s something you would not expect to see amongst common late-model fare at a small repair shop/car lot. Yet there it was: this stately ’56 Buick Special, looking like an elegant matron stranded at a Burger King. A car built during Buick’s early- to mid-1950s heyday.

Since about 1995, my metropolitan area has had a local car show. New cars, mind, not vintage ones. I usually go, simply because it’s something to do before spring arrives. Plus, I’m a car nut. Plus, I know a lot of the local dealers and salespeople.

Since I have a lot of free time of late, I have been haunting Marketplace a lot, just looking for anything interesting and land yachtish from the ’70s. And today what did I spot but this green on green ’73 Nimitz-class Caprice wagon in San Diego.

Note: Today’s post is by frequent commenter and regular RG reader, Patrick King. Enjoy. -TK My parents didn’t drive so when I got my license and convinced them we needed a “family car” I suggested a 1969 Dodge Dart GTS 340, yellow with black interior, black vinyl roof and black bumblebee stripe. It was hardly…

Remember the Fiat X1/9? It  was a lovely little go-kart by all accounts, but with its rust-prone steel and thin-on-the-ground Fiat dealer network (at least in the U.S.) it slowly faded from the scene. Believe it or not, there is a nice bright blue one still living around here. I’ve seen it in a driveway…

It’s time, once again, to return to those once upon a time daily drivers of the past, in 1980s and 1990s Illinois. How about a nice opera-windowed Continental? This was taken in Plainfield, IL on February 26, 1986.

Last Wednesday I had an hour to kill before seeing a movie at the local Cinemark (it was the new Liam Neeson action flick, if you were curious).

It’s no secret I love Cadillacs. Even more so when the Cadillac is “triple yellow”, meaning paint, top and interior are all in that classic Cadillac pastel yellow. In 1977 it was Naples Yellow, in 1978 it was slightly paler and renamed Colonial Yellow.