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1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray: Really Red!

Some cars are just sexier. For all the boring, dull, sometimes willfully ugly modern combovers we see in Fleet Car White, Dark Black and I Have No Imagination Silver (all leased or on a 72-month note of course), the roads these days can be as depressing as a Toyota dealer lot. So, here we go!…

1962-63 Oldsmobile Jetfire: With Turbo Rocket Fluid!

Note: Another one from Tony LaHood! The featured car was spotted by yours truly at the Oldsmobile Nationals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, back in 2015. Enjoy. -TK Our youngish readers might find it hard to believe that in the early 1960s the idea of a turbocharged production car was only slightly less fantastic than that of…

1963 Studebaker Standard: Plain Jane

1963 was really Studebaker’s last full year as a full-fledged automobile company. Sure, the marque would go on through the 1966 model year, but ’63 was really the last chance for the South Bend, Indiana-based company’s relevance in the auto market.

1963 Rambler Classic 770 Cross Country: The New Shape Of Quality

In Autumn of 1962, the high water mark of American Motors Corporation was arguably reached. Between 1958 and 1963, the Rambler lineup, in its frugal American, mid-priced, family-friendly Classic and deluxe Ambassador lines, hit a sweet spot in the domestic market that it never really recaptured. When the all-new 1963 Classic and Ambassador debuted, AMC…

1963 Cadillac Convertible – Luxury Jet

Finding this fine Bill Mitchell-era Cadillac was all due to a battery failure. Not to get too deep into it, but I wear a cochlear implant, as I lost my “factory” hearing back in 1996. It uses rechargeable batteries, and when it goes out, I can’t hear. Really. You could fire a shotgun behind me,…