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The vehicle auction industry has grown significantly in recent years. Online platforms have emerged, offering a convenient way for buyers and sellers to meet. Despite the proliferation of these platforms, there are several reasons why there’s still...

A Lifelong Passion: Why It Makes Me the Ideal Partner for Customers For as long as I can remember, cars have been more than just a means of transportation to me; they’ve been a passion, an obsession, and a key part of my life’s story. From my ea...

Facebook Marketplace has become one of the most popular platforms for buying and selling items.  From second-hand furniture to electronics and clothing, vehicles and parts have also become popularly listed items. Facebook Marketplace's user-friendly...

How do you determine your car value? Every seller who starts to think about selling their car must ask themselves, “What’s my car worth?” There are many tools and resources out there to try and gauge the value of your car. These resources incl...

Selling a vehicle is a lot of work – and it SHOULD BE a lot of work. I have bought, restored, and sold several vehicles before. Every vehicle I have sold, I put a lot of effort into showcasing the work that I had done on it.  This way, the buyer c...

What is a Corvette Z06? It all started back in 1962, when Zora Arkus-Duntov proposed the idea of continuing to produce performance parts for the Corvette to support private racing teams without officially supporting them.  GM had withdrawn from rac...

What is the most popular Chevy truck ever made? We’re not 100% sure, but we think it’s likely the 1973-1987 Rounded Line.  It’s a confusing line of trucks.  Not only was it in production for a huge length of time, but when the pickups receiv...

What is a Mustang Mach 1? It all started in 1969, with the introduction of the new Mach 1.  Here was a performance-oriented Mustang designed and engineered to look and perform with the best-of-the-best 1969 had to offer.  The Mach 1 competed with ...

If you’ve read some of my restoration articles, you’ll know that I did the bodywork on most of the cars. I’ve often been asked about how I usually go about this process. There are certainly different ways of doing bodywork and the steps taken h...

Coming from a small family construction company with a loyal customer base, one of many things we were taught first and foremost was Customer Service.  Absolutely no business will survive without the customer.  Satisfied customers will usually retu...

There are a lot of folks out there that are intimidated by electricity, let alone the automobile electrical system. To bring some clarity to the mystery, let’s dive right into the basics. What are the main components of a car electrical system? H...

The year was 1976, I was 13 and for some unforeseen reason my father decided to do one of those infamous father-son projects.  Early on a Saturday morning, we piled in the truck with the trailer in tow and headed to the small town of Akron in the e...

Interestingly, while there are plenty of people who still snub the notion of a kit car, there are seemingly more motoring enthusiasts roaming the planet today who appreciate them.  What began in the 1950s with people scouring junkyards for frames or...

What is the Fiat Abarth? After exiting the North American market in the early 1980s, Fiat returned for the 2012 model year with the diminutive but adorable Fiat 500.  Available in a multitude of variations, the Fiat Abarth 500 would be the family h...

One of the deepest communities in the motoring world is that of the hot rod.  At least, in the United States.  In the good ol’ US of A, the hot rod is really its own culture, it’s not just a community, it’s a way of life – truly.  Hot rod ...

Fiat concepts, celebrity producers, and a Plymouth Barracuda At the 1963 Turin Auto Show, the Ghia G230 S was set on display.  Based on the Fiat 2300, the G230 S used a specially designed and constructed tubular spaceframe.  Two convertibles and ...

In 2010, while visiting a local car shop, the shop owner told me about a guy with a bunch of cars that were going to be for sale soon. We've all heard various stories over the years, and some of us have even had the chance to chase these alleged cars...

The Nissan Skyline GT-R Arguably, the beginning of the Nissan GT-R can be traced to 1957, when the Prince Motor Company, which would merge with Nissan in 1966, introduced the ALSI-1 luxury-performance sedan. Shinichiro Sakurai would have a heavy han...

In the summer of 1981, I was 17 years old. Full of spunk, I was ready to take on the world and to buy my own car. Most of the guys I was running around with had Camaros, Chevelles, and a few Fords sprinkled in the mix. Always wanting to be a little d...

Was the Triumph TR6 an all-new car? In short, no.  The TR6 offered buyers an all-new, sharper, blockier, more modern body style designed by Karmann of Germany, but was based upon the familiar chassis with the new 2.5L inline 6-cylinder engine that ...

The new Z started with a V For 1984, Nissan would unveil the new 300ZX, a car using much of the outgoing 280ZX chassis and overall architecture, but sporting an all-new 3.0L V-6 engine.  This was a bold departure from the inline six traditionally...

The differences between a TR2 and a TR3 At the Earl’s Court Motor Show of 1952, Triumph showed the first iteration of the TR2.  It was a popular attraction, and the company felt it would succeed very well in the United States.  Once production c...

There’s a lot of things to consider when buying a car online. With so many listings that can yield from a single search, sometimes you’re lucky and the car might be within traveling distance, but in most cases, the car is not. Many have asked me ...

The History of Triumph The Triumph TR line of cars largely put Triumph on the map and saved the company by making it a more valuable property than it ever had been.  Triumph Motorcars originated as the Triumph Cycle Company when Siegfried Bettmann ...