On the night of April 16, 1964, Americans watching television saw the same new car on all three networks at the same time. The next morning, Henry Ford II stood in Ford’s pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows and unveiled it. The car was called Mustang, it started at $2,368, and about 22,000 orders came in almost at once. Depending on the source, that was the first day or the first…
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In 1960, Chevrolet built more than 250,000 compact cars with an air-cooled six in the back and no radiator. By 1969, it was building…
In February 1982, Buick announced a two-tone Regal named after NASCAR’s top series. It had a 125-horsepower V6, and only about 16 of the…
The Dodge Charger made its debut on New Year’s Day 1966, in a commercial during the Rose Bowl broadcast. Twelve years later, the last…
By 1967, a well-equipped muscle car was no longer a cheap car. Plymouth’s answer for 1968 was a plain two-door with rubber floor mats,…
On August 11, 1965, Ford showed the public a vehicle that did not fit any of its existing categories. It was not a pickup,…
Most people picture the early Chevrolet Blazer the same way: short, boxy, top off, four-wheel drive, somewhere on a dirt trail. That is the…
Tesla will stop building the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027. Elon Musk announced the plan on X late on Thursday,…
Pontiac expected to sell about 5,000. By the end of the 1964 model year, buyers had ordered 32,450 Tempests with the GTO package, a…
