This isn't the first Toyota Starlet I've owned, and it won't be my last. In fact, it's the fifth in the family, counting the one my father built and raced in the 1990s. (My wife also has one that ...

One of the things you need to know about "rust buckets" is that they can cause significant health and environmental hazards. They can leak toxins and heavy metals, which is why you should get rid of ...

A team specializing in car revivals found this 1977 Pontiac Trans Am that looked like a Bandit at a pull-a-part junkyard in Birmingham, Alabama. They could not just leave it there and walk away. So, ...

With increasingly bigger and more luxurious cars in high demand after World War II, U.S. automakers ignored the compact segment almost entirely in the 1950s. But that changed during the Recession of ...

In restoring classic cars, usually the objective is to make it look as good as new. But for Gary Meadors, founder and chairman of Good Guys Rod and Custom Association, good as new wasn’t good enough.

Man, I really, really hate to do this. Readers forced me to, constantly griping about magazines scoring unbelievable deals on Southwestern rust-free cars when all they have to pick from are ...

Local mechanic “Loose” Luggnutts declared our 1952 Ford dead: “Homer, she’s just all conked out.” Cars 70 years ago were big metal boats with fire-breathing, carbon-spewing engines that conked out all ...

Forget about performance, the greatest changes in the automotive industry over the past few decades have taken place in the name of safety. New cars are safer than ever and that’s a good thing. But ...