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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prefer this one myself but to each their own

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Not all railroading jobs back in the days of steam were created equally. This photo more than adequately proves just that point. The date is January 1909 and station agent C.R. Lively has left his station on Cumbres Pass, Colorado to capture on film the approaching narrow gauge D&RGW rotary...

Waiting for Murray's response

SEEN ON Rruuff's PROPERTY

General Motors had a massive ego problem in 1969. The Plymouth Road Runner was completely stealing their thunder by offering cheap stripped down speed to young buyers on a strict budget. Pontiac boss John DeLorean was absolutely furious and ordered his engineers to build a bare bones GTO to...

Canadian Association of Rally Sport????

When John DeLorean set out to build his dream sports car, he promised a futuristic, stainless steel marvel. He hired Giorgetto Giugiaro to style the brushed steel wedge body and tapped Colin Chapman of Lotus to engineer the chassis. Underneath that sleek skin, the DMC-12 actually rode on a Lotus...

If you look at the aggressive slope of the roof you naturally assume this started life as a highly coveted 1965 Fastback. That is completely false. The team at Timeless Kustoms actually started the build using a standard 1965 hardtop coupe. They completely chopped the original roof off the car...

I wonder at times if companies were to offer models like this if they would sell enough to make it viable. Or is it just for us hot roders and memory lane guys & gals Here is the thing about this build that nobody tells you. The body is completely original. The paint is original. The chrome...

By 1933, the Great Depression was hitting General Motors hard, and the board of directors was prepared to kill off Cadillac's junior companion brand, LaSalle. Enter Harley Earl, the legendary design boss who refused to let his favorite brand die quietly. Earl's team had drafted a breathtaking...

In the late 1980s, Chrysler executive Bob Lutz wanted to capture the uncompromising, raw spirit of the Shelby Cobra for the modern era. Designers penned a low slung, aggressive shape, but they needed an engine that could match its intimidating presence. Chrysler turned to their subsidiary...

Before the GTO or the Chevelle SS, a plucky independent automaker in Kenosha secretly pioneered the muscle car. In 1957, American Motors head George Romney normally focused on sensible compacts, but he greenlit a wild experiment: stuffing a massive 327 cubic inch V8 into the lightweight Rambler...