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We're staggering back into the sulfurous quagmire that is life in the Project Car Hell garage, and we're feeling a need to follow up German luxury coupes with near-total value depreciation with one of ...

Some classic cars are fine three-course meals, giving gastronomic, physical and even spiritual sustenance at every sitting. Others are stylish little entrées or canapés: a pleasure to look at, very ...

The 1965 Simca 1000 is one of those small European sedans that quietly rewrote packaging rules, then slipped from everyday memory. To most modern drivers it looks like a simple box on wheels, yet its ...

Earlier this week I said I was looking for a sensible, reliable, no-bullshit daily driver that would give me time to work on my project cars. Someone suggested this $700 Simca 1204, and I'm seriously ...

Fully boxed frame was constructed by Callies from 2x3-inch steel. Engine is a 303-inch Trans Am Poncho torquing through a '73 M-22 four-speed attached to Lakewood bellhousing. Shifter is by Hurst, ...

One evening last March, Francis Carlson (“Jack”) Reith, general manager of Ford of France, went to an American Embassy dinner in Paris and found himself sitting next to Henri-Thèodore Pigozzi, ...

Famous people everywhere have benefited from manufacturer largess through the years, from Clark Gable and his crazy Duesenbergs to the blinged-out Escalades and Hummers that prowl Hollywood Boulevard ...

The Matra-Simca Rancho was a crossover that appeared in 1977, decades before anyone had thought up the term. Back then, it was known as a “lifestyle” vehicle, and in many ways, it set the template for ...

During its heyday, the Bagheera offered an affordable, practical, and genuinely creative take on the motorsport-derived, mid-engine formula. Yet its lackluster performance, lack of brand prestige, and ...