Stories
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Plymouth Built a Corvette Fighting Roadster, Then It Disappeared Into the Middle East
Plymouth’s Corvette Fighter Looked Like Nothing Else The 1960 Plymouth XNR was supposed to make people look at Plymouth differently. At the end of…
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Virgil Exner: The Designer Who Gave Chrysler Its Forward Look
Early Life and First Steps in Automotive Design Virgil Max Exner was one of the most important American automobile designers of the 20th century.…
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The Historic Chrysler Concept at the Bottom of the Ocean
Chrysler’s Lost Dream Car Was Built for the Spotlight The Chrysler Norseman should have been one of the great American dream cars of the…
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This Day in Automotive History: August 16
1906 – The First Mason Motor Car Is Produced The first Mason motor car was produced on August 16, 1906, introducing a small but…
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The Most Expensive Cars Sold at Monterey Car Week 2026 So Far
1935 Duesenberg Model JN Convertible Coupe – $9,080,000 From the Mann collection, Clark Gable’s 1935 Duesenberg Model JN Convertible Coupe by Rollston and Bohman…
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Ford Built a Futuristic Lincoln Dream Car, Then Batman Took It
A Jet-Age Lincoln From Another Planet Before it became one of the most famous TV cars ever built, the 1955 Lincoln Futura was already…
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One on the Road: The First Four-Door Lamborghini
The Lamborghini Sedan Before Lamborghini Built SUVs The Lamborghini Faena is one of those cars that sounds fake until you see it: a four-door…
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This Day in Automotive History: August 15
1717 – “Blind Jack” Metcalf Is Born John Metcalf, better known as “Blind Jack” of Knaresborough, was born on August 15, 1717, in Yorkshire,…
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One on the Road: Aston Martin’s Mysterious 200-MPH Wedge
The Aston Martin Bulldog was built to do one very specific thing: prove that Aston Martin could create a road car capable of 200…
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This Day in Automotive History: August 14
1893 – France Introduces Motor Vehicle Registration France became the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration on August 14, 1893, when the Paris…
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Chrysler Built a Jet-Powered Car, Let Families Drive It, Then Destroyed Almost All of Them
In the early 1960s, Chrysler did something that still sounds unreal: it built a small fleet of turbine-powered cars and handed them to ordinary…
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How Actor Robby Hoffman Turned a Toyota Corolla Into Her Dream Porsche 911
Comedian Robby Hoffman is known for sharp, high-energy storytelling, and on a recent episode of SmartLess, she turned a simple question about her dream…