JULY 30, 2009: MY STAR REVISITED AUG 2009:1976 Mercury Grand Marquis...
Most of us have purchased raffle tickets in the vain hope that we would win that brand new Corvette Z06 and most of us...
JULY 30, 2009: My Star 1963 Ford Galaxie XL-Mopar Guys Rejected...
Ike Martens has a very simple automotive philosophy-anything between 1955 and 1965 works for him.
Everything else is pretty boring in Ike’s world.
This...
JULY 30, 2009: 1953 PONTIAC CHIEFTAIN-THE “FOOD BANK FREDDIE” MOBILE.
Fred Scaiffe is, (as the late, great James Brown used to say), “the hardest working man in show business”.
'Fred runs a food bank in...
JULY 30, 2009 1968 CORONET 440: A SOLDIER’S WELCOME HOME FROM...
'NOVEMBER 11 IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT IS VETERANS DAY IN THE UNITED STATES AND REMEMBRANCE DAY IN CANADA. WE DID THIS STORY A FEW...
PART 4 -The Silver Anniversary of a classic Chevrolet Bel Air...
Sure he’d thought about selling his dream and building a new hot rod-in marriage circles they used to call this the “seven year itch”.
Later...
TRAFFIC STARS AUGUST 2009
More pictures of the old iron in real 21st Century traffic...just a little reminder that the cookie-cutter look that we see in cars of...
FALLEN STARS AUGUST 2009
Unfortunately these photos are a great example of the disoposable nature of cars...Who knows-maybe in 50 years we'll have a whole bunch of car...
FRONT WHEEL DRIVE vs. REAR WHEEL DRIVE-Real safety or just a...
There are a few schools of thought about whether a car should be front wheel drive or rear wheel drive. I intend to throw...
PART 3-The Silver Anniversary of a classic Chevrolet Bel Air –the...
In 1993 the car was slated for more cosmetic and drive-line surgery.
The bondo on the original fenders was starting to show-the net result of...
JULY 15, 2009: Caveat Emptor- The 21st century version. SALEEN MUSTANG...
Ryan is a young guy with a young family-he’s a self-employed contractor who has aspirations to join his hometown fire department.
He likes the...
PART 2–The Silver Anniversary of a classic Chevrolet Bel Air –the...
Dave was happy to learn that the 2-door hardtop style made the car significantly more valuable than a sedan.
Not surprising.
Dave came from a...
The Restoration From Hell Part Ten-IT’S OVER
THE FINAL PUSHI’d done a competent job with the reconstruction of the finned refugee from 1959 but I had clear limitations. The interior was...
JULY 3, 2009 EDITORIAL:Tom McCahill…A god among car guys-the legendary MI...
There are many great reasons to be happy to be a Baby Boomer.
We may be getting old but we misspent our youth in...
STARS OF THE SHOW JULY 2009
It's all about the show-the place where you and your car are part of this great world where a 52 Chevy can be found...
FALLEN STARS JULY 2009
In our continuing efforts at mystarcollectorcar.com to live in the past we offer this glimpse into the past-a past that included saving cars like...
PART 1–The Silver Anniversary of a classic Chevrolet Bel Air –the...
At MyStarCollectorCar.com we often compare the relationship between car and owner to a marriage-we joke about it in most cases but the parallels between...
JULY 1, 2009: MY STAR ARCHIVES: 1958 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE–A TIME...
Mike is one of those young guys who happens to own a piece of automotive history.
Usually that kind of relationship can go any number...
JULY 1, 2009: My Star 1959 Chevrolet Impala 4-door hardtop-Stock forever
These are the car stories that we really seek out at MyStarCollectorCar.
Alex Inglis was destined to own this incredibly nice '59 Impala 4-door hardtop-thanks...
JULY 1, 2009: MY STAR REVISITED JULY 2009- 1968 Camaro-the World’s...
Reinhard and Marilyn Timmermann celebrated their 15th anniversary back in 1999.
'Reinhard is a planner so he asked Marilyn what the perfect 25th Anniversary present...
JULY 1, 2009: MY STAR REVISITED- ’63 Plymouth Super Stock-sleeper with...
Wendell is a young man with a problem-a Mopar addiction.
He’s the kind of guy that simply can’t pass up any opportunity to own...