1963-65 Ford Falcon Sprint
June 30th, 2008A trio of American compact automobiles pioneered the domestic answer to the small, efficient European imports that gained popularity in the 1950s. (…)
A trio of American compact automobiles pioneered the domestic answer to the small, efficient European imports that gained popularity in the 1950s. (…)
Now, for the final installment of the May 1964 Car and Driver retrospective (read Part I here and Part II here), we see how the high-end cars of the mid-60s stacked up against each other in the minds of America. (…)
“… and they come in to 66 from the tributaries, side roads, from the wagon track, and the 66 is the mother road…”
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck’s Route 66 was a miserable place. (…)
Last week I wrote about an issue of Car and Driver from May of 1964 in which the results of a then-recent reader poll were reported (read Part I here). (…)
We moved to a new house recently, and, despite my wife’s best efforts, the movers brought along my “library” of old Road & Tracks, Sports Cars Illustrated/Car and Driver, Sport Car Graphics, and the like. (…)
Arriving in India for the first time can be a daunting experience. Suffocatingly hot temperatures, a maze of immigration and customs procedures, and a chaotic arrival hall await the intrepid traveler. (…)
The apocryphal version of the tale stages the steel hull of the Queen Mary as a transatlantic cocktail shaker that swizzled together Donald Healey and George Mason. (…)
In the living rooms and dens of 1950s America, kids sat bathed in the dim glow of the first color television sets. (…)
There are lots of things I’m looking forward to in Oregon. (…)
We might sometimes slip and refer to them as XKEs, but America loves its E-types in all of its incarnations and body styles. (…)