As has been discussed exhaustively right here, the Alfetta GT is a pretty good weekend touring car. However, there were complaints from when it was new about the level of power. And the Alfa Romeo GTV6 has some styling updates that were modern in the 1980s, but some now find those choices questionable. So you prefer the aesthetics of the earlier car, but the power of the later car? Well, there’s a solution for you – this 1979 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT V6, for sale in Wethersfield, CT for $2500.
In a 1949 advertisement, Plymouth boasted “Engineering magic greets you right from the start.” And sure enough, it did, with a stunning 2hp boost over the previous year, due to a raised compression ratio. The advertisement also mentions some kind of automatic choke system, which is rather surprising for the immediate postwar years, when a car basically had to have 4 wheels and an engine to be successful. Against the pre-war based Fords and post-war styled Chevrolets that were its competition at its debut in 1946, it looked quite modern, but in the year our feature car was built, it looked dated compared to the new 1949 shoebox Fords, which no longer showed any trace of the separate-fender era. However, with 65 years gone by, these cars are quite compelling as classics – simple mechanics and equipment. You can find your collector car bargain in <a href="http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/4280586514.html" title="1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe Club Coupe for sale” target=”_blank”>this 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe Club Coupe (what a mouthful!), for sale in Auburn, WA for $2500.
Today, we’re going to look at a couple of cars inspired by the film, American Hustle. One of the great things about older cars is they not only represent the period in which they were built, but also their country of origin. It’s nothing that hasn’t been said before, but with globalization of the automotive industry, cars have lost their national characters, such that you could hide the badges on Lexus, Mercedes, and Cadillacs and couldn’t definitively tell each sport-luxury sedan’s nationality, even if they have distinctive brand styling attributes. You can find an exemplary expression of 1970s America in this 1978 Cadillac Eldorado for sale in Everett, WA for $4000.
Rusty But Trusty 