It was the early 1960′s and one of America’s quirky car companies was on the ropes. The company was Studebaker and sales of their somewhat dowdy and conservative cars was decline. So what did the designers at Studebaker decide to do? They swung for the fences and designed and eventually built the Studebaker Avanti. Was [...]
Ford built the 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V Diamond Jubilee Edition to celebrate the companies 75th year in the automobile business. A grand total of just 5,159 cars were built. To help celebrate the the 75th anniversary and to distinguish the car from other Lincoln Mark V the Diamond Jubilee was available in only two [...]
Is there a better way to spend a Thursday evening, then enjoying a beverage and a BBQ sandwich with a few hundred of your favorite car buddies at Pinkee’s Rod Shop? I think not! Owner, Eric Peratt, is the master mind behind this operation and also a 1998 Detroit Autorama Ridler Award winner. His shop [...]
Ford built the 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V Diamond Jubilee Edition to celebrate the companies 75th year in the automobile business. A grand total of just 5,159 cars were built. To help celebrate the the 75th anniversary and to distinguish the car from other Lincoln Mark V the Diamond Jubilee was available in only [...]
Over the decades Aston Martin has built some of the most beautiful and sexy cars ever made. And many would argue that the 1955 Aston Martin DB2 4 Drop Head Coupe is no exception to the rule. This model was featured in Alfred Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. It is also one of only a few [...]
Low on cash? Looking for something cheap that will return a few smiles? Why not look around for something a little different? Let TFLCar show you rides that might give hope to the hopeless feeling of vehicular inadequacy. Every once in a while, “Cheap as Chips Diamonds in the Rough” will titillate the nostalgic while [...]
If you love cars, you’ll love the monthly gathering of car nuts that happens across America the first Saturday of every month. It’s called Cars and Coffee and across the nation some of the coolest new and classic cars gather at local coffee shops. This weekend in Lafayette, Colorado millions of dollars worth of cool [...]
It’s a simple recipe: two doors plus a top that goes down equals an instantly desirable vehicle. The worldwide car industry has been following this lead for decades now, arguably starting the trend with the gorgeous Mercedes Benz 300SL roadster and continuing on through today’s Jaguar XKs and Mercedes SL 550s. But notice a common [...]
In this ‘Classics Revealed’ episode, TFLcar finds out where the 2013 BMW M6 draws its root – its grandparents. Take a look at an original German spec 1984 BMW M 635 CSi that started it all. We also take a look at a 1988 M6, which marks the first year the M6 arrived on the [...]
The 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt SS follows a tried and true formula of taking a small an unassuming car and dropping a powerful engine into it. The Super Sport (SS) label of the Cobalt was sold from 2005 to 2010. It started out with a Supercharged motor, then went naturally aspirated for a year, and finally [...]
The Ferrari was the very last car that Enzo Ferrari built. The Iconic Ferrari F40 was the last car that the Italian brand’s founder oversaw before he passed away in 1988. The supercar was built to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary from 1987 to 1992 and was the successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO. The car [...]
The 1973 Porsche 911 RS & 1963 Chevy Corvette Split Window don’t have much in common expect for the fact that they are both sports cars and that they are both rare examples of the breed. The 1973 Porsche 911 RS is the first of the RS models that created the iconic Porsche whale tail. [...]
Here at TFLcar.com, we define a “modern collectible” as a vehicle with timeless looks, extraordinary performance, and extremely limited availability. A car we choose must be beautifully mechanically and aesthetically, but, above all, must be able to turn heads and create conversation wherever it travels. This last quality is the most illusive and the most [...]
TFLcar presents a Car Quiz segment, and this is the Classics Revealed car quiz edition. This is the next in a regularly scheduled series. Can you tell us the Year Range, Make, and Model of this car? Please be as specific as possible. Car Quiz Rules: New ‘Car Quiz’ is posted every Monday and Wednesday (at [...]
