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OLCOTT, N.Y. – Hard to find any reference to the 1975 Chevrolet Camaro Rally Sport model in any of Chevy’s advertising/sales material for that year. A website dedicated to Chevy's SS396 has a blurb on one of their web pages about the Z85 Rally Sport option package though, which you can read b...
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SILVER CREEK, N.Y. – This 1970 Ford LTD doesn’t quite look totally abandoned. From its surroundings I’d say it’s either on its way out or has just come in from elsewhere. For model year 1970 you could choose a luxurious LTD or the even better LTD Brougham. Curiously, Ford described the LTD...
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – It’s not everyday you come across a 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit Diesel pickup that still looks as good as this one. Even the example we found last month, parked in the driveway of a Coronado, California home (which was rented by L. Frank Baum from 1904-1910 while he wrote some of hi...
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SOUTH BYRON, N.Y. – When this body style debuted for model year 1947, some wags joked that they couldn’t tell if it was coming or going. The wraparound rear windscreen on this 1950 Studebaker Champion Regal Deluxe Starlight Coupe was certainly unique. It was the ultimate in eliminating those b...
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. – In for an annual car inspection last month, I was taken into the back room to see shop owner Dave Mastracci’s 1963 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport (which was sporting a For Sale sign in the window) in temporary storage. The Impala SS was Chevy’s full-size sports car, if y...
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ELMA, N.Y. – This 1956 Mercury Montclair is definitely another case of “Where’d they all go?” The Montclair was the Big M’s top line for 1956, and they produced 50,562 of the two-door hardtops that year, but in my experiences you rarely see one these days (or a ’56 Merc of any series ...
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FALCONER, N.Y. – This 1976 Dodge Aspen Special Edition is one of those cars you rarely see anywhere anymore, never mind at a car show/cruise night. But here this one was a few weeks ago at the annual Festival in the Park Cruise-In. Looking at these photos and comparing them with its cousin the P...
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CHATHAM, Ontario – Odds are that if you’ve ever seen a 1960 Frontenac like this one, you were somewhere north of the 49th parallel. Although… thinking about it, when Niagara Falls, Ontario classic car photographer Bob King saw this one at this year’s Retrofest Car Show he was farther sou...
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – If you want to stand out at a car show, what better vehicle to show up in than a Citroën Visa. Of course, seeing that we saw it at the 2016 Citroën Rendezvous — a celebration of all things Citroën — it didn’t stand out quite as much as it might of at your local ...
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LOCKPORT, N.Y. – If I’d have taken this photo in the last ten years or so, I would have noticed immediately that it was blurry and taken another one. As it happened, I didn’t know it was a bust until the prints came back from the drug store photo lab. But, I still hung on to this imperfect p...
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BATAVIA, N.Y. – The 1954 Hudson Jet-Liner was a last-ditch effort by Hudson to lure buyers into the compact car market. Hard to imagine the buying public was able to resist “The greatest luxury in the lowest price field!” with such niceties as: six-passenger interiors which were “rich be...
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ANCASTER, ON. – From the front this 1951 Dodge Kingsway looks like any other Dodge in the lineup. But a look around back reveals a Plymouth Concord body from the doors on back. This allowed Canadian Dodge dealers to sell a two-door sedan priced lower than the Wayfarer which was sold in the State...
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DUNKIRK, N.Y. – Last week on this page we featured a Jimmy Carter-era Ford pickup dolled-up in a chicken costume. Actually, we should call it a Pierre Trudeau era truck, seeing that it was up in Oshawa. Today’s RealRide is just as interesting… but for totally different reasons. This 1953 Fo...
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DUNKIRK, N.Y. – This 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu was seen at this year’s first Cars & Coffee at the Rails along the Lake Erie shoreline. Chevy sold almost 355,000 Chevelles for model year 1969, in two wheelbases (112” for two-doors, 116” for four-doors & wagons) and five series: 300, M...
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WELLSVILLE, N.Y. – The 1940 Buick Super was a new series from the Flint manufacturer. It came in two models: a six-passenger four-door touring sedan, and this five-passenger sport coupe. One feature which made it stand out from the other 1940 Buicks was its absence of visible running boards. Yo...
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LEWISTON, N.Y. – To put it politely, the color palette offered when this 1950 Chevrolet Fleetline DeLuxe was new was rather muted. Maybe calming is a better word. If you can believe it in this day and age, white wasn’t even one of the choices! For some reason the truck color chart looks like a...
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WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. – It’s not often that you come across a 1992 Toyota Celica All-Trac Turbo. It’s a huge upgrade from the base Celica, but the differences (visually) are rather subtle. Yes, there’s the hood scoop up front along with a more massive bumper, and a spoiler in the rear, but th...
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NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. – This 1957 Cadillac Sixty-Two seems to have been around a bit. The back is sporting a 1957 New York tag, while the front wears both a California Marilyn Monroe tribute plate and a “Florida Land of Sunshine” plate topper. Cadillac called the Sixty-Two convertible “.....
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SANBORN, N.Y. – If you want your vehicle to stand out at a car show, one way to do it is with an attention grabbing paint job. Even better when it’s an attention grabbing paint job that came right from the factory. Case in point: this 1976 Volkswagen Beetle sedan and its Lime Green Metallic hu...
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OLEAN, N.Y. – Okay, yesterday we had originally questioned the paint job on the ’69 Cadillac featured on this page and came to the conclusion it was a factory color. Today, we — ahem — were quite sure that this 1953 Chevrolet Two-Ten was wearing a custom color when we came across it at a w...
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THOROLD, Ont. – Was it just some advertising confusion, or did the Ford Motor Company actually use different model designations north and south of the border for these cars? This base model 1964 Mercury Comet 202, according to one Mercury brochure, was simply badged as a Comet in the states, but...
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BEMUS POINT, N.Y. – I’m not 100 percent sure the paint job on this 1956 Ford Fairlane is a factory color (although it looks like it could be Diamond Blue?), but I can say without a doubt that the grille and its surrounding frame did not leave the factory painted the same color as the rest of ...
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ELMA, N.Y. – Whatever happened to cool engine names? The 1961 Pontiac Bonneville was “…powered by the new, fuel-saving Trophy V-8 Engine!” A Trophy V-8 just sounds so much better than a plain ol’ V8. Back in the 1950-60s Buick offered a Fireball V-8, Oldsmobile the Rocket V-8, and Dodge...
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SPRINGVILLE, N.Y. – when it’s 1948 and you’re in the penultimate year of a styling cycle which basically began before the war, what do you tout in your advertising to attract customers? One of the answers is in the ad seen below. I’ve gotta admit that even as a youngster I noticed how many ...
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Day 4 of A Week in Canada…PORT PERRY, Ontario - Pictured above is some of the welcoming committee at this past summer’s Rambler-Rama. Here they’re shown guiding a 1969 Rambler and its driver to the parking area of the scenic Scugog Shores Museum Village grounds, just outside of this quaint ...
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WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. - We didn’t plan it this way, but it’s kind of ironic that today’s RealRide is this 1971 Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia. Yesterday’s Porsche 914 was originally conceived as the K-G’s replacement by Volkswagen. But instead the Ghia soldiered on through MY 1974 (1975 in Brazil)...
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DUNKIRK, N.Y. - Came across this nifty 1959-60 Larkette over the summer at the Studebakers @ Dunkirk Swap Meet & Car Corral at the Chautauqua County Fairgrounds. The Larkette was manufactured by Master Enterprises of Eau Claire, Michigan, and could be powered by either a gasoline engine or a batte...
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Hard to imagine now by looking at it, but the 1960 Chevrolet Impala was actually toned-down a bit (just a bit, though!) from the radical 1959 models — especially at the back end. The double (Biscayne and Bel Air) and triple (Impala) taillight clusters would become somewhat of a Chevy trademark. B...
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We couldn’t make it to the 2015 Antique Automobile Club of America Car Show in Elma, but John Trotta did go, and he was kind enough to let us share his photos of this 1941 Chrysler New Yorker Six-Passenger Sedan. (There was another NYer four-door called Town Sedan, which didn’t have the extra ...
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