American Motors’ (AMC) Javelin was an unlikely (and late) entry into the pony car market – arriving in late 1967 – almost four years after the GTO, Mustang, and Barracuda. In some ways, this was due to AMC’s evolution as a company. AMC had been born out of the merger of Hudson and Nash-Kelvinator in 1954. The architect of this merger, George Mason, died shortly after it was consummated, and control of the new company passed to George Romney....

The Austin-Healey 100/6 was a raw, fast, and tough sports car – it dominated rallying in the early sixties and it did well in pavement racing too. At once both glamorous and guttural, its delicate styling looked as at home on the Cote D’Azur as it did racing at Sebring. It was a natural favorite of those who wanted to go fast and look good, and became one of the most loved British Sports Cars of all time –...

In the U.S., the rubber-bumper GT is the rarest of all MGBs, with just under 1,300 imported between September and December of 1974. For 1975, British Leyland decreed that Americans interested in coupes should be directed to the then-new Triumph TR-7, and the GT was pulled from the American market only a few short months after the rubber bumpers had been added. These GTs are officially “1974.5” models. Many scoff at the rubber bumper cars, but honestly I always...

The fall of 1954 marked the arrival of the very new, very different Chrysler Corporation products of 1955. For twenty years, since the marketing failure of the streamlined Airflow in the mid-thirties, Chrysler had played it strictly conservative when it came to style. The Chryslers of the forties were solid machines but often dowdy and tall, and while the competition go lower, longer and wider, Chryslers stayed tall and boxy. This call came to an abrupt end in 1955,...