Posts Tagged: Timely
Plymouth built only 824 convertible Road Runners for 1970 before killing the body style for good. A clean survivor hardtop, featured in a recent walk-around, carries all the same oddball 1970-only details: a licensed cartoon bird, a vacuum-actuated hood scoop, and a facelift that lasted exactly one model year.
A Ford Torino GT built for Street Car Takeover’s Heavy Street-style class went into eliminations with zero test passes — and still lifted its front wheels beating a 707-hp Hellcat Charger, a Hellcat Challenger, and a Cadillac CTS-V. See how a half-century-old Ford handled three modern factory muscle cars in one quarter-mile pass.
A Minnesota collector has spent decades keeping his 1965 Rambler Marlin on the road, and it still stops traffic at every show he brings it to. Before the Dodge Charger existed, this AMC fastback quietly set the template for the American personal muscle coupe. Here’s why almost nobody remembers it did it first.
Pontiac drilled roughly 130 holes into a 1963 Catalina’s frame just to shave weight, then sold it through a regular dealership. It was one of seven street-legal factory drag specials Detroit built in the 1960s, each rarer and wilder than the last. Here’s what made all seven nearly impossible to insure.
