From the time when Detroit was dazzling the public with their new ohv V8s in the 1950s, and through the incredible ‘60s and the rise of the muscle car - print advertising often focused on the engine. Here’s some brilliant examples…
The exclusive hardtop wagons of 1955 to 1964
In mid 1950s American car makers realised there was a market for glamorous, prestige wagons. Families with a little extra cash didn’t have to miss out on having a cool car after all. Enter the big hardtop wagons - full pillarless styling could be yours with a Mercury, Buick, Olds, Chrysler, Dodge…even a lowly Rambler offering hardtop open air motoring on their wagons.
The Birth Of the GTO
If it was up to the top brass at Pontiac - the GTO never would have happened. Read on to find out how the first, most legendary muscle car was born
Exhaust Tips - a brief styling history
One of the big current styling trends is for fancy exhaust tips and outlets - often multiple outlets. It’s nothing new - sixty years ago Detroit was making cars with very cool integrated exhaust outlets. Here’s a brief history of this styling trend
Guess you had to be there...
Back when the roads were ruled by two-toned, chromed, firedomed machines
What's in a name?
The Big Three’s marketing men searched high and low for unique names, often looking to nature and history for inspiration…
Five of the Weirdest: Mercury tail lights
Mercury’s stylists went all out with their tail light designs in the 1950s!
1970s Holdens in South Africa
Read on if you’d like to know a bit about the background behind Holdens exported to South Africa in the 1960s and 70s…
The Get Smart cars
In this article we step through all the iconic models Secret Agent 86 drove in the legendary 1960s tv series Get Smart
Why did rodders put Chev engines in Deuces?
Read on to find out why the practice of dropping Chevs in Fords started way back in the late 1950s…