10+ hour, 50+ min ago   (206+ words) The Quad-City Times Javascript is required to use this website. Air Force veteran Darrell Slabaugh discusses his restoration project during the Maple City Cruisers Car Show in downtown Geneseo on Saturday, Sept. 12. Slabaugh, a Geneseo resident and longtime classic-car enthusiast,…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (561+ words) Brothers Lee and Richard Saunders were already seasoned Moparheads by the time their dad crashed his 1969 Charger R/T and the three of them went looking for parts to fix it. Being the 80s, parts were most commonly found in junkyards,…...

8+ hour, 51+ min ago   (540+ words) The legendary Pontiac Firebird, which officially launched on February 23, 1967, was designed as an upscale pony car to aggressively challenge the Ford Mustang. It shared an F-body platform with the Chevrolet Camaro while wearing distinctive styling. Spanning four production generations, the…...

1+ day, 42+ min ago   (427+ words) image credit: TheNoClipTerminator / Reddit Forum / Reddit Wet-weather safety wasn’t a design priority for most of the automotive industry in the 1970s, as it is now. Tire technology, brake systems, and even basic suspension geometry all lagged behind what a rainstorm actually…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (268+ words) Your daily dose of steel, rubber and soul The postwar era brought optimism along with automotive innovation On display at the Millbrae Machines Motor Show this year was a spectacular baby blue 1949 Buick Super (Series 50) convertible. The first thing I…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (393+ words) Image credit: Wikimedia Commons A car is a beautiful thing right up until it breaks. The engine turns over, the paint gleams, and then one day a part fails, a specialist gets called in, and the beautiful thing has quietly…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (427+ words) Yahoo Autos Most barn-find stories end the moment a car gets dragged out of storage and loaded onto a trailer. This one keeps going. In the latest episode of Barn Find Hunter, host Tom Cotter meets Molly and her husband,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (365+ words) With its formal roofline and one-of-a-kind rectangular taillamps, it became one of the era's most memorable vehicles—along with the TV commercials in which actor Ricardo Montalban extolled the virtues of its "rich Corinthian leather" interior. Cordoba models sold better…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (954+ words) Ralph Michaels can’t put a finger on exactly why, but he just had to have that little white MoPar. The white 1971 Plymouth Duster 340 was tired and didn’t look all that great. Michaels didn’t know who owned it, how it had…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (300+ words) Pontiac in the 1960s was a powerhouse of brilliant engineering and rebellious ideas. John DeLorean, Russ Gee, and Bill Collins had the mechanical genius, but the real magic often happened in the marketing department. Jim Wangers was the advertising mastermind who…...