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MSCC APRIL 2 STAR OF THE WEEK: 1970 HEMI CHARGER RT—DISTINCTIVELY CLASSIC MOPAR MUSCLE   There are few distinctive rides in the 2017 car brochures. There...

DeSoto is a familiar name to car historians and Mopar fans, even though the last one rolled off the assembly line in 1961.   The first...

  There isn’t a car guy on the planet who doesn’t wander through a wrecking yard and see possibilities.   Every car there is a potential dream...

  The post-war era was a recovery period for the auto industry because the manufacturers had to change gears from military production back to domestic...

  One of the most famous features of Detroit’s finest in the Fifties was the generous use of fins on cars.   The finned rear deck styling...

  Danny Gans was a familiar name in the Las Vegas entertainment scene because he was a headliner on the Strip billed as “The Man...

MSCC MARCH 26 STAR OF THE WEEK: ’58 PACKARD HAWK SPORT COUPE—NOT EVERYTHING WAS A VETTE 1958 was a big year for fast cars. There were...

  1973 was a year of big change for the General when it came to trucks. One of the most popular pickup truck production runs...

  Vehicles from the Dirty Thirties have a defined look in many ways.   'The headlights still rode on top of the front fenders for most of...

  MSCC has a love-hate relationship with reality TV car shows.   The upside to these grease and oil soap operas is the exposure the car hobby...

    Paul Simon wrote a song called Kodachrome back in 1973.   It was a cynical look at his personal past and ended one line with the...

  Car guys have a few unofficial rules.   One is the blood and guts rule—they have the utmost respect for bloody knuckles, grease under the skin...

MSCC MARCH 19 STAR OF THE WEEK: LATE JULY—PERFECT WEATHER FOR CLASSIC MUSCLE Classic muscle cars were always a little temperamental. The amped up cams, higher...

 I grew up during a time when we had events that were a regular part of our family routine. One was Sunday dinners and the...

  I’ve loved smoke shows ever since I was a kid.   We used to live in the country and there was a well-oiled gravel road in...

  Car guys are, by nature, traditionalists because tradition is the essence of the car hobby.   Despite this commitment to “things that were”, car guys also...

  We live in the most connected world in the history of mankind and it comes with a big price.   The new age cyber-universe is a...

  The debate has raged for decades about the first muscle car.   Many take the easy way out and assign the title to the 1964 Pontiac...

  The fastback roof line began in with the Stout Scarab back in the 1930s.   Europe wasn’t afraid to push the styling envelope plus many of...

  The best connection in the old car hobby is the family connection.   'This is a culture based on the most positive features of the past...