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Buick has always lived in Cadillac’s shadow at General Motors, but the 1963-1965 Riviera quietly proves that reputation wrong. This entry breaks down the aluminum-finned Al-Fin brake drums, the double wishbone suspension tuned to reduce body lean, and why any Buick from this era commands a premium at resale. Read on to find out why the Riviera’s fan base keeps growing decades later.

The 1973 Corvette is the only one Chevrolet ever built with a soft, body-colored nose bolted to a hard chrome tail, and that mismatch was not a styling choice at all. A federal bumper rule landed halfway through the car’s life and forced Chevrolet’s hand, setting off a chain of changes that reached far deeper than the front end. Quieter, smoother, and riding on radials for the first time, the ’73 marks the moment America’s sports car started becoming something else entirely. Read on for what that year really changed.

A homemade video shot at a small Michigan dragstrip in 2001 captures something the big-budget car shows almost never do: what grassroots Mopar racing actually looked like when nobody was performing for a camera crew. Pat Muscle Car Fan’s footage from Ubly Dragstrip is a time capsule of a scene that shaped how an entire generation of Mopar owners learned to race.

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