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From the Archives: 1957 International Travelall
1957 International Travelall S Series.
International Harvester had a milestone year in 1957. It was the 50th anniversary of the commercial truck company and it had built over 2.5 million trucks in the half-century. This S Series Travelall was the last of its kind, as International had begun to promote its A Series line, with the "A" denoting anniversary. Built from 1953 until March of 1957, the R and S Series models were three-door wagons featuring two side doors and a rear door, a design which was beginning to be fall out of favor by 1957. The A Series would add a third door to the side as one of the many improvements.
This particular S Series Travelall appeared in the June 1977 issue of Hemmings Motor News. From the seller's description: "Classic Safari Vehicle, Dual rear wheels, four-speed, two-way Ramsey winch with power drive, two 15-gallon underskirt tanks, heavy-duty yoke and suspension, six-cylinder engine, new paint and under 5,000 miles on the engine." The list price was $2,500 which would equate to less than $10,000 today. The picture makes it look as if it's out in the jungle if you ignore the brick building in the background, though the shrub makes this truck look a bit like a "chia" Travelall with a Don King hairstyle. At any rate, International built a nice alternative for those who did not wish to own a Suburban; today, these can be had for around $12,000, with perfect examples bringing in around $30,000. The Travelall would remain in International's lineup through 1975.
Distracted driving's granddaddy: the 1967 Ford Thunderbird Apollo
Photos by the author.
Long before Ford partnered with Eddie Bauer to sell upscale Explorers, and before Abercrombie & Fitch became the official clothing store of prep schools and frat houses across the country, the two companies got together to produce and market one of the most gadget-laden Thunderbirds ever conceived.
"I enjoy it, even though I'm a Chevy guy," said Gene Martini of Denver, Pennsylvania, who brought his unrestored 74,000-mile one-of-five 1967 Ford Thunderbird Apollo to the Saturday car show at this year's AACA meet at Hershey. "It's unique."
The Thunderbird Apollo's story, some claim, started in 1966, when Chrysler displayed at that year's New York Auto Show the Imperial Mobile Executive show car, an Imperial Crown Coupe two-door hardtop fitted with leather upholstery, walnut wood trim, a front passenger bucket seat that swiveled 180 degrees, a small desktop that flipped up, a typewriter, a couple of telephones, a dictating machine, reading lamps and even a television. A year later, the Mobile Executive would become a $600 Imperial option, one that included the swiveling front seat, flip-up table, and reading lamp, but not the phones, typewriter, or television.
Gene believes the idea for a Thunderbird version of the Mobile Executive came from officials at Abercrombie & Fitch, at the time a sporting goods outfitter with five flagship stores across the country—in Miami, West Palm Beach, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. Perhaps Abercrombie & Fitch, which had arranged with John Fitch to display the Fitch Phoenix at its New York store and take orders for it at other stores in 1966, had sought a substitute for the Phoenix when John Fitch canceled that project. Or perhaps officials there simply felt an uber-luxury automobile fit in with their demographics.
Whatever the case, Ford agreed and sent five Thunderbird hardtops with special blue metallic paint down the Wixom assembly line—four Q-code 428-powered cars and one Z-code 390-powered car—and loaded them with just about every available Thunderbird option. Ford then shipped all five over to Andy Hotten at Dearborn Steel Tubing—the same company responsible for the Ford Thunderbolts and many other special Ford projects—for conversion into Apollos. The process included cutting holes for electric sunroofs, transforming them into Landaus with blue vinyl roofs, and then loading them up with a whole smorgasbord of extras: blue leather upholstery, foldaway desks in the front seat backs, a footrest in the reclining (but not swiveling) front passenger seat, a Philco television set, a radio telephone that necessitated an aerial mounted to the trunk, and reading lamps.
Of the five, only four made it to their original destinations; the one slated for the San Francisco store was destroyed en route. The rest then went on display in their respective stores for the 1967 holiday shopping season and were sold off—at a cost of about $15,000—around the end of the year.
The Chicago car, the only one of the five with the 390 V-8, went to a Mr. Polsinelli. Then, in 1989, it showed up with a relatively recent repaint at the Kruse Auburn auction, where Gene's brother-in-law bought it for $5,800. He ended up parking it, and for another 10 years it sat largely unused until Gene asked about it and was told he could have it if he got it running and out of the garage it inhabited. Despite his Bowtie loyalties, he took on the challenge just because it was such an unusual car.
Nowadays, he'll point out a few flaws on the car—the special gold anodized badges and Thunderbird scripts have dulled over time, but he can't remove them without removing the special sunroof-accommodating headliner, and so he's leaving them as is for fear of making the car any worse—but notes that all of the add-ons still work, or at least they would if the television broadcasters still put out analog signals. For his first AACA show, he earned a Junior with the Thunderbird.
As for the other Apollos, Gene said that both Florida cars have been accounted for, and the New York car has reportedly surfaced, but has yet to be confirmed. That's a pretty good survival rate for a bunch of cars loaded with potentially distracting gadgets and gizmos.
Lies, Falsehoods and Other Misconceptions
1931 Ford Model A Victoria. Photo by author.
(Editor's note: This first appeared in the August 2011 edition of Hemmings Motor News. It's still sound advice, which is why we're reprinting it here.)
If ever there's an activity or business filled with misconceptions, our beloved old car hobby is the crowned king. For years, certain descriptors have been wrongly used to either sell a car or to make a point of fact that is simply wrong. Like fables, new folks to the old car hobby quickly adopt these falsehoods because they just don't know any better. So let's set some things straight.
The bigger the engine, the greater the demand:
Not everyone who owns a muscle car wants a big-block V-8 under their hood. Small-block V-8s are lighter, so the car will handle better. And sometimes a larger engine can be overstressed, which can make it less durable and quicker to overheat. Also, keep in mind that in today's world, an engine that is more fuel efficient is more desirable, especially for those owners who plan to drive their old cars regularly. Other much preferred "smaller is better" examples are Alfa Romeo's 1,750-cc engine over the 2,000-cc version, and the Triumph Spitfire's superior 1,300-cc engine over the larger 1,500-cc unit.
If it's 25 years old, then it's an antique:
This is perhaps the biggest falsehood of all time. Just because many car clubs, such as the AACA, state that a car has to be 25 years old to qualify for admission, that doesn't mean that it's an authentic antique, or classic for that matter. There are many different classifications, depending on the year, make and model car. The general consensus is that cars of the early postwar era can be referred to as classics, but usually anything built from the mid-1970s onward is simply called a collector car. Then again, all desirable old cars are collector cars; however, not all collector cars are Classics, or antiques. Yep, this is one point that people will never agree on, especially those who are new to the scene.
Convertibles are worth more:
In most cases, this may be true, because as the saying goes: "When the top goes down, the price goes up." However, not everyone in the market for a collector car wants a convertible. Many enthusiasts prefer the security and comfort of a fixed roof. For those who enjoy spirited driving on curvy roads, a fixed-roof car handles far better, because its chassis doesn't flex as much as a convertible body does.
New paint makes a car more salable:
Sometimes cars are painted before they're put up for sale to hide rust or recent accident damage, which causes more knowledgeable buyers to be suspicious of new paint. It's better and easier to sell a car with its old paint, because the buyer will better be able to see just how honest the car really is, and if its body had any prior damage. In many cases, cars with their original paint—however faded and scratched that paint may appear—will command a far higher price because unrestored original cars are fast becoming the most desirable type of collector cars to own.
100 percent original, new paint and interior!:
Any major item that has been replaced or refinished renders a car a non-original. The car may be restored or rebuilt to original specifications, but it's not original. Authentic original cars still wear the same paint the factory applied when they were first built, and upholstery, drivetrain and everything else, too. As soon as a car is repainted, or its interior or engine replaced, it's no longer original.
Mint condition:
The only thing that can be labeled "mint" is an uncirculated coin that has never been touched by human hands. Even cars that had just rolled off the assembly line were not mint, as they had handprints all over them. So let's toss this overused, mislabeled term aside and replace it with something more appropriate and more truthful; How's "excellent showroom condition" sound?
Whether your name is on the title or not, if you're the person selling the car and you did not buy the car when it was brand-new, then it's not a one-owner car. Not that this really matters to many people, because it doesn't, but we need to state the facts as they are; it's not good to mislead a potential buyer into thinking otherwise.
Adding Sizzle to Spark Plugs
Art by GM from the author's collection.
Let's face it, spark plugs weren't known for igniting the imagination (too soon for a bad pun?). Despite having "spark" in the name and initiating an explosion in the combustion chambers, back in the 1960s much like today, they went relatively unnoticed until it was time for a tune up, an ignition miss developed or you were a drag racer who wanted to shave a few hundredths off your E.T. with a plug of a different heat range.
Developing an advertising campaign for spark plugs must have ranked right up there with claiming your brand of iceberg lettuce was best…an oversimplification of course, but you get the idea. Independent spark plug brands usually enlisted a parade of race winners from as many forms of motorsports as they could fit on a page, to convince readers that using their sparkplugs would make them winners, too.
Though the automakers did much of the same, they also had another avenue at their disposal. They could cross-market with their own products…you know—cars! Many did just that, including GM, which advertised Fire-Ring spark plugs (with the exclusive self-cleaning hot tip) in the mid-1960s with a variety of its latest models.
But the auto-producing giant didn't stop even there. The company also ran spark plug ads in the enthusiast car magazines featuring their own concept cars. Their artwork is certainly striking, and the fact that most times these ads ran on the back inside cover meant they benefited from the thicker higher quality cover stock. Many adolescents of the day recognized the ads as something cool enough to rip out of the magazine and tape up on their bedroom wall.
It was genius for the General. In one fell swoop, the advertisement made a boring tune-up part exciting by equating it with a car so modern and exclusive no one can buy it! That car on the kid's wall would serve as a daily reminder of the incredible things of which GM was capable, all the while keeping that AC spark plug in the teenager's subconscious.
What brand name do you think instantly popped into his mind the first time he needed to buy a set of plugs for the jalopy that his part-time job dictated he could afford? Why, AC Fire-Ring spark plugs of course. He probably figured, "My car may not be a dream car, but it can use the same ultra-modern spark plugs as one." After all, the ads just about said that verbatim.
Hence the brilliance of selling spark plugs via the Monza GT and Cadillac Cyclone, complete with captivating artwork.
Can you recall other seemingly mundane car parts that featured dream cars in their ads? Tell us about them. Do you feel that this type of marketing was successful?
After a 25-year slumber, the VH1 / Peter Max Corvettes resurface
The Peter Max Corvettes in the summer of 2014. Photos by Richard Prince, courtesy of Richard Prince Photography.
1990 October 1989, a Long Island carpenter by the name of Dennis Amadeo Amodeo won the prize of a lifetime for a Corvette fan: one of every year Corvette built from 1953 through 1989, courtesy of music television network VH1. Artist Peter Max soon acquired the cars for an ambitious art project that never materialized, and for 25 years the cars sat, largely ignored and only occasionally moved from one New York City storage location to another, until a New York Corvette fan and automotive consultant helped broker a deal to buy the cars. Now, thanks to their new owners, 36 pieces of Corvette history will soon be back on the road, and if all goes as planned, back on the market.
The story begins in 1989, when a television producer named Jim Cahill pitched an idea to the music network VH1 to boost its sagging ratings, particularly among baby boomers. A Corvette fan himself, Cahill suggested the network hold a contest to award one lucky winner 36 Chevrolet Corvettes, one from every year of manufacture up to the date of the contest.
The idea was given the green light, and as Sam Smith related in a 2010 Jalopnik article, Cahill spent $610,000 amassing the collection, which consisted largely of "driver" quality cars. Fourteen of the Corvettes were convertibles, and over 2/3 came equipped with automatic transmissions, yet that did little to diminish the appeal of the contest. To cover its costs, VH1 set up a 900 number, and entrants were charged $2.00 per call, of which the network received $1.49. In less than two weeks, it had recovered the full cost of staging the giveaway.
The paper taped to the side of the car was a color swatch test by Peter Max.
Amodeo, who'd placed just a single phone call, was the lucky winner, and the network spared no expense in making the presentation as theatrical as possible. Beach Boy Mike Love was on hand to pass Amodeo a big bag of keys, and ample video of the winner, his wife and their new baby was shot for promotional purposes. When the festivities were over, Amodeo returned to Long Island to await the delivery of his Corvettes.
Which is when Amodeo received a phone call from Peter Max, who requested a New York City meeting to discuss a deal to buy the cars. As Max explained to New York magazine in 2005, "I'm not a car guy. I never drive," so his interest in the cars was solely from a self-promotional point of view. Max had first seen the collection at a 1990 auto show, and was struck with the vision of painting all the cars in bold, psychedelic colors.
The morning after the VH1 giveaway, Max was awakened by a phone call from a friend, advising him that the cars had been given to a carpenter from Long Island. After hanging up the phone, the artist drifted back to sleep, only to have a vivid dream of the Corvettes driving onto a football field, cheerleaders standing atop them, while a man behind Max ate a hot dog with yellow mustard. In the world of the artist, truth really is stranger than fiction.
Inspired, Max arranged the meeting with Amodeo, who opened the discussion by asking $1.5 million for the collection. Max countered, and eventually the pair settled on a deal that may still have repercussions: Amodeo received $250,000 in cash, $250,000 in Peter Max artwork and an agreement that if Max sold the collection at a future date, Amodeo would get a portion of the proceeds, up to an agreed upon cap of $1 million.
For two and a half decades, that's more or less where the story ended. From time to time, articles would crop up on the internet about the Peter Max Corvettes (particularly when they were moved from one location to another), but Max showed no interest in selling, restoring, or even maintaining the cars.
As late as 2010, he still seemed determined to do something with the cars, and even spoke of acquiring 14 more to bring the total number up to 50, making it complete through the 2003 model year. It never happened, and every year saw the Corvettes piled higher with dust.
Fast-forward to June of 2014. Corvette collector and Dream Car Consulting founder Chris Mazzilli was showing his 1971 Corvette at the Old Westbury Gardens car show, when, as Chris told us, "This guy walks up and starts asking me questions about values and restoration costs on a series of Corvettes. At one point I stopped him and said, 'You're talking about the Peter Max Corvettes, aren't you?'"
The guy was Peter Heller, and he was indeed speaking of the Peter Max Corvettes. As The New York Times related in a recent article, Peter's cousin, Scott Heller, had been approached by Max to find a new storage garage for the cars, and the conversation soon turned to the possibility of Scott buying the cars from Max.
After the chance meeting between Chris and Peter Heller at the Westbury Gardens show, the Hellers asked Chris to inspect the Corvettes, and restorer Dave Weber (whose shop, Vintage Automotive Restorations, specializes in Corvettes and muscle cars) accompanied him to the New York City garage. A Saturday full of research later, Chris laid out the good, the bad and the ugly for Scott and Peter Heller, giving them and their partners, the Spindler family, a value range for the cars. Chris told us that the Corvettes were purchased "in this range," but wouldn't elaborate on a more precise number to protect his clients.
Chris' assessment of the cars matches that of Cahill from 25 years earlier. When new, the vast majority of the cars were, at best, driver quality, and time has not been kind to many of the cars in the collection. Some, like the 1974 and 1984 models, make no financial sense to restore, as their resale value wouldn't approach the cost of restoration. Some are hidden gems, like the numbers-matching 1953 Corvette that Chris pegs as a late-production car. Others, like the numbers-matching 1957 or the Cascade Green 1956 (which lacks its original drivetrain), required little more than elbow grease to become, in Chris' words, "gorgeous cars."
While none of the cars sport a big-block engine or come with rare and desirable options, all have merit as pieces of Corvette history wrapped up in a bit of urban legend, tied to an artist that once captured the zeitgeist of an era.
Chris tells us that all of the Corvettes, regardless of their value, will be reconditioned to make them mechanically sound and as presentable as possible. As for long-term plans, the Hellers and the Spindlers would prefer to sell the cars in a single lot to an interested collector, though Chris recognizes this is a long shot. "We haven't started talking to auctions just yet," he said, "but it probably makes the most sense to offer the cars through a Mecum, Barrett-Jackson or Russo and Steele sale." From a financial perspective, he's right, but from an emotional perspective, who wouldn't want to see these Corvettes stay together as a single lot?
To learn more about the VH1/Peter Max Corvettes, visit VH1MaxCorvette.com.
Editors note: The gallery below, which includes photos of the 1956 and 1957 Corvettes in their post-refurbishing state, was supplied by Chris Mazzilli.
How I made and lost nearly $500,000 on old cars in a few months
Photos by Tom Hardy.
[Editor's Note: Tom Hardy uploaded the following story about four Buick Skylarks that he let slip away to the My Hemmings pages and we thought it worth sharing here. If you have an old car story to tell, My Hemmings is the perfect place to do so.]
I was a nine-year-old boy, headed to Miami in the family sedan for the annual summer vacation rite. When we pulled into the motel and started unloading all the trappings of a big 1950s family, this baby-blue car next to us gleamed in the Florida sun. Wire wheels, continental kit, it had it all. That 1953 Buick Skylark became the model on which all my car obsessions were based for the next 50 years.
In my 20s, I always admired cars with similar lines – those Jaguar 120s, Austin-Healy 3000s, anything that resembled the flow and look of that distant childhood image in my head. But I never saw another Skylark for sale, and I certainly didn't have the money to pick one up. In 1970, I found myself in North Carolina, selling sand for an industrial sand producer. In a copy of Hemming's, there was an ad for a 1953 Skylark about 100 miles away in Roanoke, Va. Money or not, I decided to at least give the fellow a call. I don't remember how much he asked for it – I was and still am a salesman, so the opening price never matters that much – but we settled on $1,100 for a white version of my dream car. It was in near-perfect shape, unrestored with low mileage: an absolute barn beauty. Furthermore, a blue one sat in the backyard, not too much more than a parts car but still intact that I convinced him to throw in! Who would have thought that two '53s would be found in the same homestead, much less for sale?
I wasn't flush with cash, but I certainly was with obsession. I called a banker back in my home state (Tennessee) to borrow the money and wire it over, and then arranged to be dropped off to triumphantly drive my new white stallion back to North Carolina. Not being the wisest in my 20s – much more on that in a moment – I never did pick up the less-alluring parts car, but as it had already sat back there for years the fellow didn't mind holding onto it for a few more months while I figured something out. I had a few blessed months with the beauty as my show car to tool around town, and a company car as my daily driver.
Not content with two '53s, I kept asking around about the Skylarks, and an acquaintance told me about a junkyard on the north end of town where there were a couple vehicles that at least looked similar to my ride. Lo and behold, in a massive junkyard, there were TWO '53s – a white wreck with a replaced Roadmaster left front fender (note the Skylark emblem by the back left wheel) and a black one, complete with continental kit, whose only crime was being old and uncared for. Just one row apart, they were within a week of being burned and scrapped, the junker told me. I bought them both for a grand total of $75.
My original find, that white apple of my eye, served me well but my marriage was going south. I was getting ready for a divorce and to head back to Tennessee. As many will attest, getting a divorce often leads to losing more than one thing we at least, at one time, loved and my four Skylarks would be no exception. Living in an apartment complex, I'd left the two in the junkyard where they rested as much for storage as anything else, and I decided that's where they would stay for the time being. Having to haul all four cars to Tennessee was just going to be too much hassle.
When I got back to Tennessee to start working on the move, I borrowed a box truck with a homemade trailer to haul my show Skylark. After me and my buddies arrived and loaded all my now-single man trappings into the truck, I fired it up to drive onto the trailer… and discovered I was out of gas. The complex was on top of a hill, so we positioned the trailer by the entrance and pushed the Skylark onto it, not realizing that the trailer (being homemade and such) was too narrow to haul the car. The doors butted up against the exposed tires of trailer, making the whole affair completely immobile and impossible to open the doors. My friend steering the car was now stuck inside, since the vacuum-operated windows required the car to be running to be let down. So there we left him, on top of an unattached rat-trap trailer inside a gorgeous Skylark, completely blocking the complex as folks were coming home from work, while we took the box truck to get a can of gas.
Broke, frustrated and without a great many other options, I called up a local friend who loved the Skylark as much as I did and cut a deal. I sold him all four for $750 – taking a loss at the time on cars that, if three were restored and my showboat simply preserved, would be worth well over $400,000 today. To this day, I've never heard of finding four of the 1,690 produced for sale within a 100-mile radius… much less ever hearing about any fellow lucky enough to buy four, in any shape, from a desperate guy in his early 20s for less than a thousand bucks.
Here comes the future: Cars from 1990 now eligible for AACA shows
Photo courtesy General Motors.
The decade
didn't see a carburetor on a new car from the factory. It ushered in new alliances among auto manufacturers and swept other manufacturers away. It brought performance back—in more than just looks—and to unexpected places. And next year, when the classic car show season starts up again, the Nineties will for the first time have the opportunity to appear on an AACA show field.
Thanks to its rolling 25-year acceptance rule, the Antique Automobile Club of America tends to serve as a bellwether of the collector car hobby, accepting cars for display that many in the hobby don't—or, at least, wouldn't otherwise—consider as anything more than simply used cars. Take, for instance, the 2010 Hershey show, which marked the first appearance of a Mopar minivan: John LaBar's 1984 Plymouth Voyager, which technically was eligible to show the year before. It brought about cries of the end of the world approaching, but the last time we checked, the hobby has continued motoring along these last four years, likely with a few new participants.
So, if we do the math right, that means that next year's AACA show season, which begins in March, will be the first to accept cars from the 1990s, the decade of grunge music, the end of the Cold War, and the coming of the Internet.
Front-wheel drive and aerodynamic designs continued to dominate the automotive market during those years, but the renewed attention to horsepower during the latter years of the 1980s produced some exciting new performance vehicles at the start of the 1990s that took advantage of both proven and cutting-edge technologies.
Given the ground that foreign carmakers—particularly the Japanese—made in the American car market during the 1980s, it's no surprise that they continued to solidify their position here during the 1990s. That upheaval in the market led American carmakers to address their dwindling market share head-on during the 1990s with captive imports, marketing and manufacturing partnerships with foreign carmakers, and new approaches to designing, building and selling their vehicles.
Focusing specifically on the 1990 model year, we've identified a number of significant cars and trucks that were available on the U.S. market and that that are soon to be eligible for AACA shows. That doesn't guarantee that any will actually show up, nor does our list comprehensively cover the various cars and trucks offered by the nearly 50 carmakers that operated in the United States at the time, but the dozen and a half vehicles we've rounded up offer a rough snapshot of what the car scene looked like 25 years ago.
Buick Regal Gran Sport (top)
Just a couple of years after redesigning the Regal as a front-wheel-drive sedan/coupe pair, Buick restyled it for 1990 with a more flush, aerodynamic look—a major contrast to the Estate Wagon, which dated back to the late 1970s but remained in the Buick lineup. While the Gran Sport appearance package carried over from the year before, the big news for Buick in 1990 was the mid-year introduction of the 170-hp 3800 V-6 with tuned-port fuel injection, a development of the 3.8-liter (and before that, the 231-cu.in. V-6) that would go on to power nearly every vehicle in GM's lineup and earn a place on Ward's 10 Best Engines of the 20th Century list.
Image via lov2xlr8.no.
Eagle Talon
Along with the Plymouth Laser and Mistubishi Eclipse, the Talon resulted from the Chrysler-Mitsubishi hookup known as Diamond Star Motors, and represented the first Eagle-brand model that didn't come as a result of the baggage Chrysler inherited when it bought AMC from Renault. True to its brand's heritage, the front-wheel-drive Talon could be had with all-wheel drive, though this time around it featured the drive configuration not for off-roading or poor-weather conditions, but for outright performance, as evidenced by the turbocharged DOHC 2.0-liter four-cylinder that powered the AWD version. Though hampered by poor sales throughout its run, the Talon would last through 1998, longer than its Laser sibling.
Photo courtesy Toyota.
Toyota Celica
Like the DSM triplets, the Toyota Celica could be had in naturally aspirated, front-wheel drive form or turbocharged, all-wheel-drive form. However, the Celica had a 20-year history as both a front-wheel and rear-wheel-drive sports coupe behind it, along with a plethora of Japanese market-only variants and solid chops on the rally circuit. Introduced for the 1990 model year, the T180 fifth-generation Celica would last through the 1993 model year.
Image courtesy Nissan.
Nissan 300ZX
A complete redesign for Nissan's long-running Z car in 1990 brought the tech: Not only did the new Z32 300ZX get a completely overhauled version of the VG30 V-6—now featuring dual overhead camshafts, variable valve timing and distributorless ignition and a twin-turbocharged version—it also benefited from anti-lock brakes and used a four-wheel steering system. Little surprise that it took Motor Trend's Import Car of the Year award for 1990.
Image via lov2xlr8.no.
Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1
Tech wasn't limited to the imports in 1990, either. Witness the ZR-1, the ultimate version of the fourth-generation Corvette, which hit the scene in 1990 with the LT5, a small-block V-8 developed by Lotus and built by Mercury Marine with 32 valves, dual overhead camshafts and tuned-port fuel injection good for 375 horsepower, an astounding figure for a buying public not used to seeing V-8s produce much more than 200 horsepower for the previous 15 years. The ZR-1 would last through 1995, eventually cranking out 405 horsepower.
Photo via Auctions America.
Mercedes-Benz 300SL and 500SL
Technology did far more than merely make cars faster in the 1990s; it also helped make them safer, as we can see from the R129 300SL and 500SL, which featured an automatic rollbar that popped up in 0.3 seconds in the event of a rollover, which Mercedes-Benz used to keep the clean lines of its SL-series convertibles while at the same time add an element of safety. And lest we forget, each flavor of SL used overhead-camshaft engines with variable valve timing, and the six-cylinder 300SL also used a five-speed automatic transmission.
Image via OldCarBrochures.
Chevrolet 454 SS
While high technology went into plenty of new performance cars for 1990, truck buyers at the time still wanted simple, proven, no-replacement-for-displacement performance, and Chevrolet—at a time when pickups evaded most of the regulatory attention heaped on cars—obliged with the 454SS version of its C1500 half-ton pickup, fitted with an updated and throttle-body fuel-injected 230-hp version of the 454 big-block engine, previously available only in Chevrolet's one-ton vans and Suburbans. Available only in black with a red interior, the 454SS also got a handling package, bucket seats with a console and heavy-duty driveline, drawing comparisons to the 20-year-gone muscle cars.
Image via OldCarBrochures.
Lincoln Town Car
Full frames and rear-wheel-drive platforms weren't entirely relegated to pickups and pony cars in the early 1990s. As mentioned above, the Buick Estate Wagon (along with its GM full-size counterparts) survived the Eighties unibody/downsizing craze, and so did the Lincoln Town Car, restyled for the new decade with softer lines that would carry it through 1997. Though still riding the 11-year-old Panther platform and not much changed under the skin, the 5.0L-powered Town Car still sold in impressive numbers and went on to win Motor Trend's 1990 Car of the Year award.
Image via OldCarBrochures.
Chrysler Imperial
Once again, Chrysler trotted out its Imperial nameplate, this time for an upscale version of the Fifth Avenue, itself a stretched and more luxurious version of the front-wheel-drive New Yorker. Along with the 3.3-liter V-6, the Imperial came loaded with plenty of luxury items—leather, memory power seats, four-wheel anti-lock discs—but little more than slightly different front sheetmetal separated it from the Fifth Avenue. It only sold in tepid numbers until the beginning of the 1993 model year.
Photo courtesy Chrysler.
Chrysler Town & Country
Nowadays, it's unimaginable for a luxury carmaker to not also offer a truck line. Until 1990, however, it was unimaginable for a luxury carmaker to offer a truck line, but Chrysler changed all that when it re-introduced another old nameplate, the Town & Country, on an upscale version of the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, both dating back to 1984. Early versions used a Mitsubishi 3.0L V-6, while later model-year versions used Chrysler's 3.3L V-6, and production only totaled 5,000-some units that year, but its impact would reverberate throughout the 1990s and up to today.
Image via Honda.
Honda Accord
One of, if not the best-selling car in the United States, the fourth-generation CB Honda Accord debuted in 1990 with larger dimensions, new styling (foregoing the flip-up headlamps of the previous generation) and a 16-valve, aluminum 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine. While not overtly flashy or full of gee-whiz technology, the new Accord simply refined what worked in previous iterations and discarded what didn't. And it seemed to be effective: While we don't have sales figured for 1990, Honda sold almost 400,000 Accords the next year.
Image via ProductionCars.com.
Subaru Legacy
At what point did Subaru switch from selling scratch-your-head cars to something more Honda-like? We'd argue that point came in 1990, with the introduction of the Legacy, a larger compact available in bog-standard four-door and station wagon bodystyles that was actually assembled (in part) in Lafayette, Indiana. Then again, while the Legacy looked fairly typical on the outside, it still used a 130-hp, 2.2-liter, dual overhead camshaft flat-four engine and could be had with full-time all-wheel drive, both hallmarks of Subaru equipage to this day.
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Chevrolet Lumina
Based on the same W-body platform as the above-mentioned Buick Regal Gran Sport and intended as a replacement for the discontinued-after-1988 rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet Monte Carlo, the front-wheel-drive Lumina added yet another nameplate to the already sprawling Chevrolet lineup. It also threw a Eurosport trim atop both its coupe and sedan versions that included a 3.1-liter V-6, and in 1991 Chevrolet would also add a Z34 performance version. Production of the Lumina would span the decade, though in its latter years, it would split off its coupe version to become (yet another nameplate) the resurrected Monte Carlo.
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Saturn SC
Intended as GM's direct competition to the Japanese trio of Honda, Toyota and Nissan, the Saturn brand spent most of the 1980s mired in Roger Smith's General Motors to finally debut in the late summer of 1990 as 1991 models (the Infiniti and Lexus brands, too, debuted in mid-1990 as 1991 models). Plastic body panels promised dent- and rust-resistance, probably the brand's biggest selling point, particularly among middle Americans, but Saturn also got a sporty-ish little coupe, the dual overhead-camshaft, 124-hp, 1.9-liter four-cylinder-powered SC, to go along with its SL series of sedans. The SC lasted the span of the S-series cars, and Saturn itself folded in 2009.
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Dustbuster Gang (Chevrolet Lumina APV, Oldsmobile Silhouette, Pontiac Trans Sport)
While Chevrolet and GMC had the rear-wheel-drive Astro and Safari twins to compete against the front-wheel-drive Mopar minivans, they were really just a stand-in until GM could develop a series of front-wheel-drive people movers. The latter wouldn't appear until half a decade later, however, when the Chevrolet Lumina APV, Oldsmobile Silhouette and Pontiac Trans Sport debuted for 1990, and none of them escaped the comparisons to the As-Seen-On-TV Dustbuster handheld vacuum. Like the Saturn, the U-platform vans used a space frame and plastic body panels derived, in part, from the Fiero's architecture, and got their power from a 3.1L V-6. The Silhouette, intended to compete against the Town & Country, lasted until the demise of Oldsmobile 14 years later; the Lumina APV eventually became the Venture in 1997; and the Trans Sport, which took its name from the concept van that inspired the whole lot, became the Montana in 1997, as well.
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Geo Metro
Captive imports had largely died out by the mid-1980s among American automakers in favor of other approaches to boosting market share. GM, for instance, created joint ventures with Suzuki (CAMI) and Toyota (NUMMI) to produce smaller, import-derived vehicles for its Geo brand, launched in 1989. However, the Metro, which had evolved from the Chevrolet Sprint of the mid-1980s, remained, essentially, a Suzuki rebadged as a Geo—a point underscored by the fact that Suzuki sold the Swift in the United States at the same time. Yet, while the Swift gained a reputation as a hot hatch, especially in GTi/GT form, the Metro became known as a fuel miser, able to regularly achieve 50 miles per gallon or better, thanks to its 55-hp, 1.0L three-cylinder engine and 1,500 pounds. One of the few Geo vehicles to outlive the Geo brand, the Metro again became a Chevrolet in 1997 and remained there through 2001.
Midweek Matinee: Motorama Dreaming
The Oldsmobile Golden Rocket concept. Still image from video below.
Surreal. Ethereal. Dreamlike. These hypnagogic adjectives may rarely come up in conversations with your buddies as you wrench on the car. But the next time they're over to help you drop in that newly restored engine, switch off the How to Drop in a Newly Restored Engine video and and run this bit of whimsy instead. What it lacks in pertinent information is more than made up for in atmospheric sets, choreography and musical production value.
Pontiac's Club de Mer concept.
In addition to the Motorama vehicles you're here to ogle, this bizarre theatrical number has far more to offer. Not just the cars of tomorrow, but the kitchens of tomorrow, and the electronic roadways of tomorrow and the promise that diaphanous gowns, masquerade masks, top hats and tails will always be in style. At least in certain venues.
GM's Firebird II concept.
Revealed in this all-nocturnal staging—created for those unable to attend Motorama on tour—is a sampling of GM's 1956 production models. But what's truly worth the effort of enduring all this High Art (Oh, if you must, jump to 6:00) are tantalizingly brief glimpses of the Cadillac Eldorado Town Car, Buick's Centurion, the Oldsmobile Golden Rocket, Pontiac's Club de Mer, the Chevrolet Impala and, after an impressive salvo from the smoke machines, the turbine-powered Firebird II takes to the road of tomorrow.
This film is exactly what developed when GM's advertising budget was way too high, which is one reason why we don't expect to see the likes of this head-scratcher in production any time soon. We got yer culture AND cars right here, in under 10 minutes.
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Rubber stamps? Not quite. The automotive art of the last letterpress engraver in New York City
Photos by the author.
A thousandth of an inch at a time, using a bit that spun at 33,000 RPM, Jim Graney etched his line cuts. Thousands of them, all of different designs, all in reverse, committed to zinc and copper plates no more than a few inches square and backed with a few layers of thin wood. And of the countless engravings he produced in a 50-year career, maybe a few hundred remain, all displayed on a table at the edge of the recent AACA Hershey swap meet.
His work appeared in newspapers across the country, including the New York Times, and in many other publications, including Hemmings Motor News. All of it went uncredited, however. Graney, who grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in Warwick, New York, never really considered himself an artist, just a laborer who took on a photo engraving job in 1946, when he was 15. "I just needed an afterschool job," Graney said. "I worked for a mail order shop to begin with and did a lot of thumbnail prints that people could order from a catalog for their business cards or whatever. There were slews of Model A's and other old cars in there, and so, every time we got an order for an old car, I made two and set one aside."
He would eventually take on commercial photo engraving as well and go on to work for Sterling, at the time the biggest photo engraving shop in New York City. And he became known among his colleagues as the guy who wanted duplicates of all the automotive photo engravings that came through the shop. "Everybody knew to make another one for Graney," he said.
The line cuts that came about, largely genericized depictions of popular cars, tended to illustrate classified ads when classified editors didn't have a photo of a particular car for sale, but still needed an illustration that was close enough to it. "They were ersatz when it was okay not to be specific," said Graney's daughter, Jen Graney O'Connor, who said she grew up learning to identify collectible cars through her father's line cuts. "He just happened to get the job and stayed with it for 50 years. He loved the art and loved printing and gadgets."
His love for gadgets also led him to a love for older automobiles, and that in turn led him to start Obsolete Fleet, a company that specialized in renting out older cars to film productions in New York City. If he didn't own the vehicle himself, he'd consult the member list of the Greater New York region of the AACA, for which he served as treasurer, to see if a fellow club member had a car that would work. And he'd often pull out his automotive lithographs to help movie producers narrow down what sort of vehicles they wanted to cast. Through Obsolete Fleet, he provided cars to Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather movies, among many others.
Then in the early 1980s, the printing industry completed its move away from the letterpress technology—which dated back to Gutenberg and relied on millions of engravings like Graney's—toward offset printing. The shop that Graney worked for, the last offering such photo engravings for commercial use, closed in 1983. "I was the last man standing, more or less," he said. Graney, however, had seen the end coming years before, when he came across a photo engraving machine like the one he worked with every day during a visit to the Smithsonian. In the meantime, he persuaded the shop's owner to let him engrave as many different automobiles as he could before he eventually made the switch to offset printing.
Starting in 1982, he and his family made the annual trek to the AACA's Eastern Fall Meet at Hershey to sell the small engravings to enthusiasts for a buck apiece. Among them, logos and scripts abound—for Ford, Packard, Oldsmobile, and for lesser-known marques such as Kline Kar, Orient, Elgin and Tourist, all rendered about as accurately as if they came from the auto manufacturers themselves—but the majority remains reliefs of collector cars in profile or nearly so, somewhat generic but still readily identifiable as a 1958 Cadillac or a 1969 AMX or a mid-year Corvette or a Curved-Dash Oldsmobile.
The Graney family still makes it out to Hershey every year, even though their inventory's down to the three or four boxes and trays of engravings that the family had for sale on a folding table for $8 apiece. "What you see here, this is all that's left," O'Connor said. She had her pitch down pat, grabbing swap meet attendees as they headed toward the car show on Saturday morning, and had even enlisted her son into relating parts of his grandfather's story.
Graney prefers to sit back and play it low-key while his daughter and grandson work, while his own life's work slips away in ones and twos to other auto enthusiasts scanning the jumble for a car or a logo they identify with, something to keep on a shelf as a unique piece of memorabilia.
"They're disappearing pretty fast," he said, without much reluctance. "I'd say we have another five to eight years before they're all gone."
Not your average beer truck: 1930 Morgan Super Aero van
1930 Morgan Super Aero with custom van body. Photos by author unless otherwise indicated.
Ron Garner has a taste for the unusual, as demonstrated by his four-plus decades of Morgan ownership. While his current collection includes both three- and four-wheelers, none stands out in a crowd quite like his restored 1930 Morgan Super Aero trike with a custom-built van body, affectionately dubbed the Porta-Pub for its built-in beverage-dispensing apparatus. Ron brought his one-of-a-kind Morgan to the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Concours d'Elegance (where he took second place in the Prewar European class), and his rig proved to be among the most popular cars on the show field.
Ron, starting the Matchless V-Twin to the delight of the crowd.
In the early 1970s, while still a graduate student in Los Angeles, Ron acquired his first Morgan. Fortunately, the car was not a pillar of reliability, which introduced Ron to a cast of characters in the Southern California Morgan community, including Gerry Willburn. It also showed him the diversity of Morgan vehicles, but one in particular stuck with him: A British auto parts delivery van built upon a 1930 Morgan Super Aero, powered by a 42-hp, 1,000 cc Matchless V-Twin, shifted through a two-speed transmission.
42 horsepower to move 850 pounds sounds reasonable enough.
The van body was the creation of Alexander Fraser, who started an auto parts business in Purton, Wiltshire, England, during the 1960s. To handle the Morgan's increased weight, Fraser replaced the original AJS engine with a 42-horsepower Matchless MX4 V-Twin, added stouter front wheels and hubs from a later-production three-speed Morgan and fitted hydraulic brakes to the front wheels.
Equipped with many parts from his own catalog, the Morgan served as a rolling billboard for Fraser's vintage parts business. Not content, or perhaps financially unable, to sell from a high street shop, Fraser fitted a trailer hitch to the Morgan and took his wares on the road throughout England, bravely towing a four-wheel gypsy caravan behind his distinctive trike.
An in-period image of the Morgan towing the gypsy caravan. Photo courtesy MadAboutMorgans.
Fraser and the Morgan parted ways in 1970, and by 1972 the van had hopped the Atlantic and crossed the continent, winding up in Southern California. Fast-forward to 2006, when Ron and his wife Kathi, now living in Hull, Massachusetts, ran into old friend Gerry Willburn at a Morgan gathering in Maine.
Somewhere along the line, Willburn, still in Southern California, had become the third American owner of the Super Aero van, which lay disassembled in the midst of a long-forgotten restoration project. Despite this obvious obstacle, Kathi knew how much her husband still wanted the Morgan, and wasted no time brokering a deal with Gerry to buy the boxes of parts that made up the van.
The Morgan during its years with Alexander Fraser. Photo courtesy MadAboutMorgans.
After shipping the crated Morgan from California to Massachusetts, a serious restoration effort began in 2007. Lost over the years was the Morgan's radiator, which necessitated the laborious task of building one from scratch, complete with a newly fabricated radiator surround. The bonnet had to be recreated as well, as did the trike's ash wood body frame, long since damaged by insects and wood rot. The effort would take four years to complete, and the initial end result was a conventional "beetle back" 1930 Morgan three-wheeler.
The van body, which remained in remarkably good shape over the decades, was repainted and fitted to the Morgan circa 2012. With no need to peddle auto parts, and with a daughter and son-in-law who brew beer, the choice of what to do with the van seemed obvious: Mount a few five-gallon kegs, cool them with dry ice, install taps below the suitably appropriate portrait of Queen Victoria and turn the van into a "Porta Pub" for friends, relatives and concours-goers to enjoy. (Editor's note: On the day of the 2014 Hemmings Concours d'Elegance, the taps were dispensing apple cider and iced tea. At least that's what Ron told us.)
Queen Victoria, looking less than amused.
Ron admits to driving the Morgan on a regular basis, though he hasn't tested its claimed top speed of 85 MPH and won't tow a trailer, despite the existing hitch. As Ron said to us, "Even without the trailer, it barely stops," and Ron's not one to press his luck. It took him more than three decades to land this particular Morgan in his garage, and another four years to get it restored; rebuilding it again isn't on Ron's bucket list.
For more on the 1930 Morgan Super Aero van, visit Ron's website, MadAboutMorgans.com.


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LOS ANGELES -- Hines Ward added a disco-ball trophy to his Super Bowl shelf Tuesday night after he samba-ed his way to the "Dancing with the Stars" championship.
The Steelers wide receiver and former Super Bowl MVP won the title, besting actresses Kirstie Alley and Chelsea Kane to become the season 12 champ.
"You are the MVP of 'Dancing with the Stars' season 12," judge Carrie Ann Inaba said after Ward and professional partner Kym Johnson finished their last dance. "You learned how to lead the dancing, not only in the dance, but you led your partner out of injury. You dance with heart and it shows."
Ward said after the show that he owes the victory to his partner, hard work and the fans.
"The competition has been so close all year, we knew it was going to come down to voting," he said, "so we want to thank our fans."
Judge Bruno Tonioli said Ward "really is like a ray of sunshine when he enters the arena."
Ward was chosen by viewer votes combined with judges' scores. All three couples emerged with perfect scores after dancing Tuesday night, which kept the competition tight. Ward came into the season finale tied for first place with Kane, who finished in last place when the votes were tallied. Alley finished second.
Alley was a fan favorite all season, whittling down her body as the daily dance exercise allowed her to shed 38 inches by Tuesday. She was also one of the most amusing contestants on the ballroom floor, losing her shoes during one performance and always getting through her challenges with a smile and a quip.
"I know I'm not alone when I say I love you for being you," Inaba said Tuesday after Alley and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy finished performing a cha cha. Alley wore the same dress she had worn on day one of the competition -- nipped and tucked by 38 inches.
"I'm just going to miss dancing with Maks," Alley said of her partner.
Kane, who waltzed to the theme from "Harry Potter" with professional partner Mark Ballas, was the first to be eliminated Tuesday. But she wasn't too upset.
"The fact that I'm here (in the finals) is super flattering," the 22-year-old actress said after the season finale. "For me, I'll never experience anything like this ever again."
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Hines Ward surprised by winning "Dancing With the Stars," but his abilities on the football field translated well to the dance floor, James Walker writes. Blog
Wendy Williams, Kendra Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Leonard and other celebrity contestants cast off the hit ABC show earlier in the season brought their sometimes stunning, sometimes wacky moves back to the ballroom for the finale.
The show opened with an all-cast routine and the Black Eyed Peas singing their new single, "Don't Stop the Party," to an energized audience.
Besides the Peas, the Go-Go's played their classic "We Got the Beat" for a frenzied dance routine, and Josh Groban sang "You Raise Me Up" while Petra Nemcova danced. Sara Evans performed "A Little Bit Stronger" at the end of the show, before Ward won the mirrorball trophy.
Famed sports announcer Michael Buffer called Leonard and pro wrestler Chris Jericho to the dance floor for a tough-guy dance-off. Wilkinson reprised her sexy, booty-and-bosom-shaking cha cha, then nearly fell off the judges' table when she finished. Radio personality Mike Catherwood, who was the first contestant dismissed this season, poked fun at his lack of dancing skills and stripped down to a leotard during his goofy routine.
Ralph Macchio, who dazzled judges when the show first started with his quick step, returned with partner Karina Smirnoff for a reprise.
Williams was the only contender who didn't take to the dance floor. She instead interviewed herself during a segment where she said Alley would "be a perfect drinking partner."
The 35-year-old Ward is the second professional football player to win the "Dancing" crown. Emmitt Smith won in 2006.
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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A military judge says she will rule later Tuesday on a motion to dismiss all charges against an Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.
Col. Denise Lind's announcement came during a pretrial hearing Tuesday at Fort Meade for Pfc. Bradley Manning.
The 24-year-old former Army intelligence analyst is trying to get the charges against him thrown out, arguing that the military held him in unduly harsh conditions for nine months to punish him after his 2010 arrest.
The Pentagon has said that Manning was a suicide risk and that it was only trying to keep him from hurting himself and others when it confined him to a windowless, 6-by-8-foot cell in the Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Virginia, for 23 hours a day.
Legal experts say the chances of the case being thrown out are slim, but Manning could win extra credit for the time he has served if he is ultimately convicted at a court martial and sentenced to prison. He faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum of life behind bars.
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