MyStarCollectorCar

    Robert Mitchum was already one of Hollywood’s biggest bad boy stars when he wrote and acted in ‘Thunder Road’.   The movie played to Mitchum’s strength...

    There are two schools of thought on trailer queens.   The car guys in favor of it see trailer queens as investment protection while the other...

  Body color bumpers are a common sight in 2018.   You’ll see them on everything from microcars, SUVs and Japanese sedans to 1-ton 4X4s so they...

  We at MyStarCollectorCar spend plenty of time on the road during the summer car season-but the long winter season gets a little longer because...

  A rock star arrived at a car show.   It came in the form of a 1951 Chevy COE truck that was transformed into the one...

  The Land Down Under has produced some very unique vehicles over the years.   Australia is connected to the big manufacturers but they have their own...

    Ron McLean has always been a Mopar man.   Mopar is the term used for Chrysler products and has stuck with the manufacturer ever since...

    Your grandfather probably drove a boring car—unless your grandpa was a guy named George “King of the Customizers” Barris.   Grandfathers were big on stripped down,...

    There are very few stock 1936 Oldsmobiles left in the world.   There are even fewer Olds Business Coupes on this planet that have survived in...

  Big rigs were never a glamorous form of transportation because they were built for work not recreation but these big machines still have a...

    A black 1962 Mercury Meteor four-door sedan garnered plenty of attention at a summer car show.   Some Canadian car guys will bristle at the...

  The mid 1960s spawned the modern version of the muscle car and that culture started a flood of car songs.   The radio was filled with...

There are many reasons why car guys have brand favorites but one of the biggest is family influence. Fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles all...

   MyStarCollectorCar does not typically dabble in odd ten dollar words so we will offer a brief interpretation of our title.   An “anachronism” is something...

  Full disclosure: MyStarCollectorCar was unaware that Ford of Britain even made a Zodiac for export in 1959.   We were aware of the Ford Zephyr (the...

  The Plymouth GTX was a marriage of brute force and elegance.   The car was known for its simple engine options: 440 cubic inches of pure...

  The source of the current collector car hobby is rooted firmly in the past.   Most car guys lean heavily toward the vehicles that lassoed...

  The most obvious thing about car shows is the average age of the owners.   The demographics spike heavily in favor of the Baby Boomers because...

  The 1948 Chevy was the last of the post-war models built by GM because the 1949 Chevys were a sleeker, more modern version that...

  Corvair vans are a rare sight at car shows.   They didn’t build a lot of them and few of them survive to this day so...