From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a beautiful 1965 Valiant Signet V8 convertible with Barracuda grill from the rare Acapulco trim model. This original California car is virtually rust-fre...
From the seller’s description: 1948 Buick Roadmaster Convertible, Older frame off with recent cosmetic restoration. This was Buick’s premium and best appointed model. Known for interior luxury and qu...
A common complaint of those looking to get into the collector car hobby is the high cost of entry. Cars that were largely overlooked a decade or so back are, in some cases, now priced beyond the mean...
From the seller’s description: 1972 Ford Mustang convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. MACH I convertibles were Not produced for model years 1971-1973. This convertible was ordered/built with options...
Chrysler pitched its 1956 New Yorker models as “The perfect combination of style and beauty, and a performance that is as exclusively Chrysler as is the new PowerStyle design.” That performance came ...
Photography by author. If you appreciate Pontiac’s outstanding engineering and sleek style yet you prefer to own the type of collector cars that are unique and fairly rare then consider the 1967 Gran...
Mazda took a significant gamble in 1989 when it released the Miata, its take on the classic British roadster. The risk paid off, and after eight years of building the car’s first generation NA models...
Mazda’s millionth MX-5 Miata, a Soul Red Club edition. Photos courtesy Mazda. Whodathunk in the late Eighties that we were ready for a small, lightweight sports car of modest power – and impeccable r...
The first gauzy green signs of spring in the Northeast can turn a past-middle-aged car-magazine editor’s fancy to thoughts of affordable convertibles. Fox Mustang droptops were so prolifically produc...
Today, the terms “convertible sports car” and “Mazda” seem to go hand in hand, as the brand’s MX-5 Miata has proven itself the best-selling two-seat sports car in the world. Before there was the Miat...
These days, the concept of a full-size convertible from a domestic big-three automaker is as foreign as building a car with an estimated fuel economy of 8.1 MPG. In the early 1970s, however, five of ...
What do you prefer: a numbers-matching car with low miles and lots of original parts, or a clean restoration that deviates from original for the sake of enhanced performance? If you’re of the latter ...
In case you haven’t noticed, Jaguar E-Type prices have climbed into the stratosphere in recent years, placing the model beyond the reach of many British car fans. Its successor, the Jaguar XJS, remai...
This 1951 Muntz Jet for sale on Hemmings.com definitely won’t make for an easy restoration – after all, there’s no manual for restoring a limited-production car like this that received an unorthodox ...
Buick’s limited-production, two-year only Reatta convertible always struck us as a car that should be more popular than it is among collectors. Though styling is subjective, it’s certainly not a bad-...
To broaden the appeal of its compact Tempest, introduced for the 1961 model year, Pontiac added a convertible model to the lineup for 1962. Even in its debut year, the drop-top Tempest was a hit, sel...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. By the late 1970s, America’s love affair with the Volkswagen Beetle was coming to an end. The final year for the Volkswagen Beetle sedan in the United States was 1977, but wi...
Debuting in 1962 as a personal luxury coupe under the Studebaker brand, the Avanti has enjoyed more lives than the average house cat. Studebaker’s production of the Avanti ended in 1963, but the mode...
1954 Kaiser Darrin 161, serial number 161.001001. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Introduced at the 1952 Petersen Los Angeles Motorama, the Kaiser Darrin was the first fiberglass-bodied convertible sports c...
Chances are, if it’s an assembly line car, it was built to a certain price point, which of course means compromises. One side-benefit of restoring a car, however, is the ability to un-compromise. Tak...
1954 Ford Crestline Sunliner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To win concours d’elegance gold, one must be prepared to spend whatever it takes to achieve automotive perfection, or so says conventiona...