This model has a vintage appearance, harkening back to when it was produced on January 19, 1955.
When did BMW become synonymous with sporty great-handling cars for drivers? You might look to the company’s CS models, produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for when the Bimmer became the “ultimate driving machine” and earned its reputation to conquer not only Lemans and Nürburgring, but also the daily...
At eBay Motors we spend a lot of time studying cars and today we are going to make a bold statement about a Japanese car, which is a risky move. In doing so we will take a path less traveled. So brace yourselves.
Listen to Led Zeppelin’s howling lyrics on numerous tracks and you’ll hear a howling, barking, snarling vocal quality that in many ways is reminiscent of this 1970 Plymouth Barracuda’s engine note.
In the depths of winter, when some people are leading lives of quiet desperation, part of the human condition is the desire to break out of the cold, to seize each day as if it were our last, and to cherish spring and summertime for what they can represent to each of us, the glory of our own existence. That is how we...
eBay Listing: 1969 MG MGB GT Coupe Morris Garages or MG was a producer of some wonderful sports cars throughout the years. The T series, the A series, and the B series, and of the course the Midgets are some of the most popular models produced by MG. Today we will be looking at a variant of the MGB a model that was...
eBay Listing: 1977 AMC Gremlin X with Levi Denim Upholstered Seats Ah! The Mirth Mobile! ” -Wayne Campbell Remember Wayne and Garth rockin’ to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in their AMC Pacer? They may have been a little offbeat, but few cars from the 70s were so wonderfully weird, the Pacer fit right in with the...
Growing up around cars or near cars is one thing, but for some people the infatuation with cars is inborn. We often compare it to how some people love sports, or dancing, or fashion, or even music. It is hard to explain why something evokes such passionate responses, but they often do. And that zeal for the...
eBay Listing: 1948 Ford, rebuilt Mercury Flathead, perfect chrome Truthfully, we are partial to Fords built from 1940-1948. We realize that is a large spectrum of cars, but that was a turbulent time for our nation and the world. During that period many cars from this era carried moonshine in the South before, during,...
Zoinks! What crime-solving group of teenagers known as Mystery Inc. drove around in the coolest psychedelic van known as the Mystery Machine? If you answered Scooby Doo and his gang, you would be correct. Clones of the fictional cartoon vehicle known as the Mystery Machine have been built before, but what caught our...
Lucifer himself might find the paintwork on this 1960 Buick Lesabre dark and mysterious, even quite tasty, with its sinister shade of blood red. Restomods are nothing new these days. They’ve been done to death, to the nines, and to the extremes; however, tastefully updating classics is something we understand,...
Many people put pen to paper when the time comes time for their first car. That first car should be safe, practical, reliable, fuel efficient, and yes, boring. Did we mention that safety is crucial? To the chagrin of teenagers everywhere most parents choose something extremely bland and safe. And while that is fine...
eBay Listing: 1961 International Harvester Metro Mite Delivery Step Van “Are you rockin’ the rust?” should be met with a resounding, “hellz yeah! Are you into cars that are “sweaty” with patina in your paint that can only be replicated by decades of lackluster treatment? We thought so. While most people would rather...
eBay Listing: 1963 AC Shelby Cobra CSX2047 Sometimes forces beyond our control conspire in the universe whether it be fate, destiny, divine intervention, or even coincidence, we’re just glad the universe works the way it does. Such was the good fortune when A.C. Bristol cars lost an engine supplier, and Carroll Shelby...
The Porsche 911 is an icon of automotive design. And over the years it has transformed, time and time again, to become one of the ultimate driving machines. But in many ways, like its predecessor the 356, and its predecessor the Volkswagen Type I or Beetle, it is the type of vehicle that continuously morphs bit by bit
What car makes you feel like you were sixteen again? What car makes you feel invincible, if only for brief moments? What car calls out to your inner child? We’d argue time and time again that the answer to these questions is the Corvette. It’s been that way since 1953.
A rose is a rose by any other name. For General Motors in the early 1960s, there was a seemingly endless sea of opportunity epitomized by the 1963 debut of its Buick Rivera. A man by the name of Bill Mitchell and his teams were hitting some truly great design home runs.
eBay Listing: 1971 Fiat 500L Some people say, “big things come in small packages” like wedding rings, children, and yes sometimes even tiny cars. Examples would include the Austin Mini, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Citroen 2CV, and Italy’s answer to these cars — the Fiat 500. Many of us have seen the more modern...
Forward control pickups or vans came into being post WWII. One could argue about who was the first manufacturer to develop a driver over the front axle design. Some might say Volkswagen, others would say Ford, but the truth of the matter is that many manufacturers came out with similar designs in the 1950’s and early...
Germany is a country with a great love of the automobile. When many people think of the Volkswagen Beetle, they think of the flower power generation, of bright groovy colors, and the 1960’s, but the basic design dates back to the 1930’s. If you consider Doctor Ferdinand Porsche was inspired by other manufacturers of...
Right around 1959 and 1960 automotive styling, at least in terms of tailfins and chrome, was reaching new heights with many manufacturers setting their style trends. Cadillac’s tailfins of the Series 62 and Eldorado Seville were arguably some of the most iconic, and Chevrolet’s Impala and El Camino also featured wild...
