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The Handsome Jenson-Built Austin A40 Sports and Other Colorful Austins From...
Today’s CC Austin A40 Devon too frumpy for your taste? Austin’s Chairman Leonard Lord (shouldn’t that be the other way around?) read your mind. When he saw Jensen’s handsome new Interceptor, he made a...
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Town Car Comes To A Halt At 490,789 Miles
Here at TTAC, we just love to talk about the Panther-based Town Car. I’m personally a big fan, but the rest of the staff is not as fond of the last full-sized Lincoln. Whether you love or hate driving...
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Adventures In British Leyland Marketing: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Like the MG...
Even though I’ve never been in a Austin/MG Maestro, I feel fairly confident in stating that the Rover Group’s little front-drive compact was unexciting at best. Still, the advertising folks must have...
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Junkyard Find: 1960 Nash Metropolitan
I find 1960s cars in self-service wrecking yards all the time, but the last time I saw a Nash Metropolitan in this type of yard was, I think, in 1983, at the long-defunct U-Pull in east Oakland. I went...
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Junkyard Find: 1957 Nash Metropolitan
When we had a 1960 Nash Metropolitan Junkyard Find a couple months back, you may have thought “Well, that was a once-in-a-lifetime occasion!” As it turns out, finding examples of the little...
View ArticleGoogle Sends Self-Driving Lexus Hybrids to Test in Texas
Google’s autonomous cars have made it to the Lone Star state for testing, The Detroit News is reporting. A self-driving Lexus 450h prototype was recently dispatched to Austin, Texas for testing on that...
View ArticleBaby Dies After Being Left Alone Inside Hot Car
A 10-month-old baby is dead after being left alone Thursday inside a hot car in Austin, Texas, KTLA reported. Police haven’t charged the male driver, who was found at the scene, with a crime. It’s...
View ArticlePiston Slap: I Like the Sprite in You?
Nicholas writes: A friend recently acquired the carcass (very deliberate choice of words) of a Bugeye Sprite. We were discussing what engine might go into it, and I was thinking that the turbo...
View ArticleJapan’s Captive Import History of Masquerading Marques
The Japanese market is notorious for being closed to the outside world. It has forced successful U.S. companies to abandon the country, as Ford did recently, and propped-up sales of niche producer...
View ArticleRare Rides: A Microscopic American Motors Metropolitan From 1962
Recently, we featured a grandiose convertible Hudson once owned by actor and car enthusiast Steve McQueen. Today’s Rare Ride came originally from Nash, the other company which combined with Hudson to...
View ArticleRare Rides: This Midas Gold From 1998 Is Grey
Every once in a while, a car surfaces from the vast internet that truly deserves the title of “obscure.” It happened previously with a beautiful Gordon Keeble, and now Rare Rides is proud to present...
View ArticleRare Rides: A Vanden Plas Princess 4 Litre R – Overwhelming Britishness From...
Vanden Plas. It rolls off the tongue the same way as other luxury words, like Ferrero Rocher. And right now you’re thinking of chocolate, a Jaguar, and walnut tray tables. But today’s Rare Ride has...
View ArticleRare Rides: A Prototype Rover P6 From 1966
The P6 was an important leap forward in style and modernity for the small and independent Rover Motors. And today’s Rare Ride subject is particularly important because of its prototype status. It’s an...
View ArticleRare Rides: Vintage England Via the 1957 Austin Cambridge
Recently Rare Rides featured the Rolls-Royce powered Vanden Plas Princess, which was the very pinnacle of luxury offered by BMC’s coachbuilding arm. Today we’ll check out one of the less luxurious cars...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1959 International Harvester AM-80 Metro-Mite
Looking at my Junkyard Find posts for 2020, I find that I’ve been neglecting American trucks for much of this year (I don’t consider the PT Cruiser to be a true truck, despite being categorized as one...
View ArticleTesla Cybertruck Delayed Until 2022
Tesla’s Cybertruck has been delayed. The automaker updated its online vehicle configurations to reflect that the model will no longer be arriving in 2021. The pickup’s new launch date is set for...
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