MyStarCollectorCar

MyStarCollectorCar attends plenty of shows, but few of them include a real deal first-gen 1963 Studebaker Avanti R2-complete with a Paxton supercharger. The Studebaker Avanti...

  TV Westerns ruled the airwaves when I was a kid. For me, the toughest choice was to pick my favorite show and TV hero.   I...

  We were very happy with 2017 here at MyStarcollectorCar.   Our numbers show we beat 2016 website traffic by about 45% in 2017.   No surprise that...

  Blayne Weidner is the latest generation of car guys in the Weidner family.   His vintage car choice is a 1962 Sunbeam Alpine Type II and...

  Morris Jensen was a young guy when he bought a 1966 Chevy ½ ton from a local dealership in the Sixties.   The pickup was brand...

  Frank Sinatra was right—it was a very good year.   Every year is a very good year in this comfortable world of nostalgia/old iron.   Here (in no...

  500 was a famous number long before it ended up in chrome on a car from the past.   The storied Indy and Daytona races ensured...

2017 MSCC "WHAT'S IT?"   WEDNESDAY MSCC What's It? Wednesday is back for 2017. This is a weekly guessing game for car guys and it was one...

    The most popular non-fictional book on the 1966 New York Times best-seller list was a largely fictional book titled Unsafe at Any Speed, written...

  Merry Christmas to our MyStarCollectorCar readers who have already discovered that, “Yes Virginia”, there is a written story that always accompanies our pretty pictures...

  Trevor Comfort is one of our most talented and dedicated local car guys.   Trevor is also a collector and his memorabilia includes many items...

The Virgil Exner era was in its twilight at Chrysler in 1961. The fin era had come and gone and with it went Exner’s legacy. The...

  Society has a basic set of rules and in most cases they make sense because they separate us from anarchy.   The car hobby isn’t chaotic...

  Tuner cars are definitely the domain of younger car guys.   They squeeze enormous power out of engines the size of a picnic basket and there’s...

  I’m pretty good at identifying old cars and trucks—within a certain range.   I can I.D. most old cars between 1955 and 1970 because they changed...

  Rock’n August is one of Western Canada’s biggest annual car shows.   The whole community gets behind this week-long event because this is a showcase for...

  There was a bygone era when a first car meant everything to a young car guy.   A first car represented a golden opportunity to hit...

  Many car guys were probably unaware that Dodge produced a heavy truck from 1960 to 1976 for its domestic market.   The LCF (Low Cab Forward)...

    A giant pre-war two door coupe became an instant automotive rock star at a summer show.   MSCC is not afraid to admit that we do...

  There’s been a solid trend toward resto-mods in the old car hobby and  that’s a good thing in many ways.   Classic iron with great brakes,...