Remembering Thomas Murray and Car Collector magazine.
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| It was great while it lasted. |
I subscribed to Car Collector magazine back in the 1990's. It was a well produced collectible automobile magazine of high quality. Unfortunately it suffered a downsizing move and a switch to lower quality paper at the end of the decade. I let my subscription run out after that.
Thinking about old Cadillacs, a little bit more.
It's hard to believe now, but twenty year old Caddys were once commonly found on used car lots. I had my eye on a particularly nice '58 Coupe de Ville, but it was sold just before I unloaded, ahem, sold the Pontiac. I was disappointed, but I just kept cruising by the used car lots that lined E. 14th. St. from San Leandro to Hayward. As luck would have it I found a very clean Sedan De Ville hardtop. Yes, I would have preferred a coupe, but four door hard tops are pretty cool, and I'd lusted after that '56.
Later model Mustangs. A design analysis. Part Two.
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| A very successful retro design. I do love fastbacks. |
The 2005 Mustang was much anticipated by enthusiasts. Truthfully it was overdue. The SN 97 models spanned a lot of Mustang fans youthful years. 1994 to 2004. Eleven years is a long time, but not as long as the previous Fox bodies. Their run spanned from 1979 to 1993, 15 years, a surprisingly long run. For many Mustang enthusiasts, the Fox body and and SN 97 "are" the real Classic Mustangs. These are the only ones that they had ever known in their youth.
