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Dodge Charger - The Big American Muscle Car

The Dodge Charger is the epitome of the American muscle car. It's big, it's loud, it's fast. The original Charger was sold from 1966 until 1978. It was revived as a front wheel drive compact car in the 1980's, and then again as a return to its roots...

Chevy El Camino - The Truck That Looks Like A Car

This lens will give you a little info on the Chevrolet El Camino, along with pictures, videos and products relating to this memorable car.

Ford Galaxie - A Beast Of A Car

The Ford Galaxie was sold from 1959 until 1974. It was Ford's answer to the Chevy Impala, and it just seemed to get bigger and bigger as the years went by. By the end of the 1960's, Ford had added enough performance enhancements to make the Galaxie a...

Chevrolet Camaro - Chevy's F-Body Answer to the Mustang

The Chevrolet Camaro was created by General Motors to compete with the Ford Mustang. The Mustang fell between a traditional sports car and a comtemporary car. General Motors did not have any cars that matched up well with it from its introduction in...

Chevrolet Corvette - Greatest American Sports Car

Introduced in 1953, the Chevrolet Corvette is America's longest-running sports car, and also it's most popular. Compared to the exotic sports cars imported from Italy and Germany, the Corvette is downright cheap and offers the most bang for the buck....

Dodge Challenger - Classic 1970's Muscle Car

The Dodge Challenger was one of the last new muscle cars introduced during the original muscle car era. It was late to the scene when it made it to showrooms in 1970, but it has since been a huge hit with collectors and muscle car aficionados. As wi...

1969 AMC AMX For Sale

As part of my neurotic journey to document all the interesting cars I see for sale on eBay, this page covers this 1969 AMC AMX Auction. The AMC AMX is another one of my favorite quirky muscle cars. It's smaller than many of the other cars from that...

Chevy Chevelle - Pure Muscle From Chevrolet

The Chevrolet Chevelle was Chevy's first entry into the muscle car niche, although determining the exact point at which this car became true Detroit muscle is debatable, we do know that the car was produced from 1964 until 1977.

Pontiac GTO - The World's First Muscle Car

The Pontiac GTO was introduced in 1964, and it is now widely recognized as the first muscle car. In the years that followed, every major American automaker began using the same concept that Pontiac an used in the GTO: cram a powerful engine in a rela...

Buick Grand National - The Lone 80's Muscle Car

The Buick Grand National started life as an option on the Buick Regal in 1982. It was the performance option on that car until 1986, when the Grand National became its own model. This was a car that stood against everything people thought of when the...

Apple iPhone Competitors

The Apple iPhone was released on June 29, 2007 to much fanfare. This phone is the second coming on The Beatles, or so Apple would like us all to believe. The truth is, there is competition out there, and there are a lot of things the iPhone cannot do...

Plymouth Barracuda - Nash Bridge's Muscle Car

The Plymouth Barracuda started out as a simple A-body in 1964, but by the time it was switched over to an E-body for 1970 it was one of the most powerful muscle cars on the road. The 1970 through 1974 versions of the car are among the most popular. T...

Oldsmobile 442 - The Muscle Car Defined

The Oldsmobile 442 was a two-door muscle car sold from 1964 to 1991, although it can really only be considered a muscle car from the late 1960's until the mid-1970's. In fact, it did not become its own model line until 1968, when it split from the Ol...

Chevrolet Impala - A Luxury Car or Lowrider

The Chevrolet Impala was introduced in 1958 as a full size luxury alternative to the family car. The Chevrolet Bel Air was the hot family car being made by GM at the time, but it was barebones in its features compared to the Impala. In the 1960's th...

Plymouth Roadrunner - The Zero Frills Muscle Car

Perhaps no car represents the definition of muscle car better than the Plymouth Roadrunner. As muscle cars started to gain all sorts of expensive options in the late 1960's, Plymouth decided to make a car that would bring muscle cars back to their ro...

1972 Chevy Nova For Sale

This page is a review of this 1972 Chevy Nova eBay auction. I am not the seller of this car. With an oil embargo about to erupt and cause prices at the pump to go sky high, the 1972 Chevy Nova came at what can be described as the end of the muscle c...

1967 Ford Falcon Hot Rod Wagon For Sale

As part of my ongoing journey to document cars listed on eBay that I find interesting, this page is dedicated to this auction for a 1967 Ford Falcon Wagon Hot Rod. The Ford Falcon was a rather tame car made by Ford's Australian division in the 1960'...

The Enzo Ferrari Supercar

From 2003 until 2004, Ferrari hand-built 400 supercars that are unlike any other on earth. Despite a hefty price tag, these cars were sold long before they had a chance to reach dealer's lots. More Ferrari Cars

Nissan Skyline

The Nissan Skyline is a sports car made by Nissan. It has been sold in some markets since 1957, when it was being manufactured by Prince Motor Company. While the original was clearly a rip-off of the Chevrolet Bel-Air, the modern versions of the Skyl...

1969 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible For Sale

This lens is mostly a review of this 1969 Chevrolet Corvette eBay auction, but for kicks I'll throw in some pictures and videos and other Corvette related media. This lens is intended to provide information about the Corvette while at the same time e...

Ferrari Testarossa - The Sports Car from Miami Vice

Ferrari's are perhaps best known for three qualities: performance, style, and rarity. While the Ferrari Testarossa might qualify for the first two, it was one of the only Ferraris ever that should not be considered rare. In fact, over 10,000 of these...

Mercury Cougar : Mustang Plus Luxury Equals Cougar

The Mercury Cougar was introduced in 1967 as a more luxurious option for people who wanted the engine and other mechanical parts featured in the Ford Mustang. These cars did not look at all like the Ford Mustang, but the first generation Cougars were...

Subaru Impreza - Big Horsepower in a Small Car

While the Subaru Impreza base model may be a tame car for sports car enthusiasts, the upgraded sports models provide some of the best performance for the buck of any sports cars made today. The Subaru Impreza WRX was the first performance Impreza mo...

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon might just be the most mysterious living writer. He's been said to be more reclusive than J.D. Salinger, and so little is known about his private life that many have speculated that he doesn't exist at all. Some have even suggested tha...

1969 Chevrolet Chevelle For Sale

This page is a review of this 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle eBay auction. As much as I love an original muscle car, I also love a muscle car that has been respectfully restored and modified to the owners taste. That's what we have here, a mild restomod of...

1958 Edsel Bermuda - Rare One-Year Station Wagon

The Edsel Bermuda is a bit of an automotive rarity: a station wagon that is both rare and sought-after as a collectible. It was only made for one year - 1958, and it was made by Edsel, a company that had waning popularity at the time. The Edsel Berm...

Apple iPhone Nano

Apple has responded to critics who claimed its $600 iPhone was too pricey by announcing that it would be releasing a smaller iPhone based on the iPod Nano. Although it will likely have fewer features than the standard iPhone and less storage space, i...

Lamborghini Countach - Space Age Exotic Car

The Lamborghini Countach was the car that popularized the modern wedge design that is still used for exotic cars to this day. The Countach was sold from 1974 until 1990, with a little over 2,000 of the cars hand-built during that time. It was voted o...

Lamborghini Diablo - Exotic Italian Supercar

The Lamborghini Diablo was an exotic car sold from 1990 until 2001. With 2,900 Diablos built, it is one of the more common Lamborghinis on the road today. That's not to say that you'll see one of these cars around every corner. They still tend to con...

Google's Android Phone

Google is not making a smartphone. That said, they are going to revolutionize the smartphone industry with the introduction of their Google Android platform. This is expected to go head-to-head with the best in the smartphone industry, including the...

Dodge Viper - Corvette-Crushing Sports Car

The Dodge Viper is a sports car sold since 1991. It has long been recognized as the peak of American sports cars, even beating out the Chevrolet Corvette. Although some Corvette specialty models like the Z06 and ZR1 could perform better than the Vipe...

Lamborghini Murcielago

The Lamborghini Murcielago replaced the Diablo in 2001. It features many modern features that are not found in previous Lamborghinis, such as rear scoop wings that are activated at high speed to increase downforce. Like the Diablo, the Murcielago ha...

1969 Lamborghini Miura P400 S For Sale

As part of my ongoing quest to document every interesting car I come across on eBay, this page is dedicate to this 1969 Lamborghini Miura P400 S. Before Lamborghini went way over the top with cars like the Countach and the Diablo, the Miura was typi...

1964 Jaguar XKE Roadster For Sale

This is another lens for a cool car I found on eBay. This one is a 1964 Jaguar XKE Roadster. The Jaguar XKE Roadster is the epitome of elegant car design. Anyone would look cool driving one of these cars. The 1964 Jaguar XKE Roadster is a good year,...

Volkswagen Golf - Compact Utility Car or Pocket Racer

The Volkswagen Golf has been sold since 1974 and is one of the most successful car models of all time, with over 25,000,000 of them sold around the world. Some generations of this car were named the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and some oth...

Toyota Supra - Beyond The Fast and The Furious

The Toyota Supra started out as a sporty version of the Toyota Celica in 1979. There would end up being 4 generations of the Supra, with a long-rumored 5th generation comeback Supra remaining... well, rumored. The 4th generation Supra sold from 1993...

Plymouth GTX - Muscle Car with Luxury

The muscle car era of the late 1960's was all about stripped down cars with big engines, right? Well, not exactly. As the car companies tried to appeal to a more upscale market, they started to add luxury features to their muscle cars. One such car w...

The Red Sox will win the World Series again this year

The Red Sox will win the World Series again this year The bookies in Vegas are already taking bets on the 2008 baseball season, and at the current time the favorite is the Boston Red Sox. In what might surprise some people, the runner-up is the Chica...

Ford Thunderbird

The Ford Thunderbird was sold from 1955 until 1997, and then was revised again from 2002 thru 2005. It started out as a 2 seat roadster intended to compete with the Chevrolet Corvette. By the 1960's the Bullet and Flair Thunderbirds were large luxury...

Ferrari F40 - A No-Frills Supercar

The Ferrari F40 was made from 1987 until 1992, and is rightfully considered the first of the modern Ferrari supercars. Although this definition is vague, it is the oldest Ferrari supercar that can outperform the majority of the newest exotic cars fro...

Ferrari F50 - Italian Exotic Supercar

The Ferrari F50 was the successor to the Ferrari F40 supercar. It featured a 60 valve V12 engine that had been derived from an engine used in a Ferrari Formula One car. Though the F50 was made from 1995 until 1997, only 349 of these cars were sold in...

Porsche Carrera GT - The Modern Supercar

Porsche is a car manufacturer that only makes performance sports cars, but they are not so well known for their supercars. A supercar is made in very limited numbers and should be the epitome of automotive performance. The Porsche Carrera GT is the l...

Shelby Cobra - The Ferrari-Trouncing Roadster

The Shelby Cobra was the culmination of a simple idea that turned out to work masterfully: combine a small British car chassis with a powerful American engine. The resulting car was a 2-seat roadster that could outperform anything on the road during...

Mazda RX-7

The Mazda RX-7 was a sports car sold from 1978 through 2002. It featured Mazda's signature twin rotor Wankel rotary engine, which was mounted in the front but close to the firewall to help center the weight distribution. The RX-7 was a rear wheel dri...

Jaguar E-Type Roadster

The Jaguar E-Type is a car that goes by several names. You might hear it being referred to as the Jaguar XK-E or even the E-Type Jaguar by people who like to mix things up a bit. No matter the given name, the E-Type will go down in history as one of...

Acura CL

The Acura CL had the unenviable task of replacing the popular Acura Legend. The CL was first sold in 1996. It would continue to be sold in the United States until 2003, although sales after 2000 slowed to a trickle and the later year models are not v...

Alfa Romeo Spider - America's Favorite Italian Roadster

From 1966 until 1993, Alfa Romeo made a roadster that became a recognizable symbol of teenage angst and freedom across the United States. The Spider had a design so beautiful and distinct that it was changed very little during its three decades of pr...