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Car of the Week: 1977 AMC Hornet AMX | Old Cars Weekly
Story and photos by Brian Earnest
Bob Wunrow just chuckles when you ask him if his shiny, bright-yellow 1977 AMC Hornet AMX has ever been restored.The answer is sort of a qualified “yes,” and the story of the restoration is about as unusual as the sight of a Hornet AMX at a vintage car show these days.Suffice it to say that Wunrow was glad he had his high-visibility Hornet rustproofed after he bought the car new 34 years ago. And he is even happier that he kept the warranty valid by faithfully taking the car in for rust checkups every year.“Nobody restores the Hornets because they kind of rusted out and nobody did much with them. I drove it daily for 10 years, and when it started getting all that rust on it I’m glad I had the lifetime warranty on the Rusty Jones rustproofing,” said Wunrow, a resident of Marshfield, Wis. “I took it in every year and did the service checks on it with the AMC garage, so every year they’d say, ‘OK, it’s getting a little rust.’ Then the fenders got holes in them and it kept getting worse. I guess the key thing was when I got a flat tire and tried to jack the thing up with the scissors jack under the rocker panel and the only thing that I jacked up was the rocker panel.
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By Brian Earnest Back on Aug. 20, 1966, Lucille Chambliss of Evansville, Ind., marched down to Keys Ford to pick up her shiny new 1966 Ford Mustang. Chambliss was 53 years old at the time, and she was determined to take very good care of her new pony car.In the next 20-plus years, Chambliss only [...]
Car of the Week: 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge | Old Cars Weekly
Story and photos by Brian Earnest Even if it wasn’t super rare and didn’t carry a champion’s pedigree, Steve DeMars’ 1970 Pontiac GTO “The Judge” convertible would still be ultra-cool. It’s just hard not to be impressed with the immaculate “triple-black” ragtop and its perfect paint, perfect chrome and that ominous 366-horse, 400-cube Ram Air [...]
Car of the Week:1959 Buick Electra | Old Cars Weekly
By Brian Earnest If he had a garage back in the day, Ron Bishop might have become a Cadillac man instead of a Buick guy. He can laugh about it now, but not having shelter for a new ride was a pretty big issue back in 1964 for the Phoenix, Ariz., resident. “I found [...]
Car of the Week: 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler | Old Cars Weekly
1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Story and photos by Brian Earnest Chris Cekosh will probably never get to meet the guy who stole his 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler many years ago. But if he could, he’d probably want to shake the guy’s hand. Actually, the car wasn’t stolen from Cekosh, a resident of Stevens Point, [...]
Car of the Week: 1984 Ford Mustang GT | Old Cars Weekly
Story and photos by Brian Earnest It’s not particularly easy to make a stock, unrestored 1980s car stand out in a crowd. Especially when your car was wildly popular and a lot of them were made.Jack Deutscher has found his collecting niche with 1984 Ford Mustangs — he owns four of them and [...]
1959 Pontiac Catalina | Old Cars Weekly
Story and photos by Brian Earnest Looking at it today, it’s hard to believe that Jeff Duranso’s beautiful 1959 Pontiac Catalina coupe was once viewed as a bit of a bargain-basement stripper. Dressed in stunning red with matching red rims, chrome-laden high-rise fins in back, a Tri-Power 389 under the hood and gorgeous [...]
Car of the Week: 1927 Franklin | Old Cars Weekly
By Brian Earnest Alan Gollakner had been restoring and reviving old cars for years, but he’d never even really heard of a Franklin. Until he bought one, that is. Then the fun really started for the Iron River, Mich., resident. After years of working on Mustangs, hotrods, muscle cars and other hobby mainstream machines, Gollakner [...]
Car of the Week: 1976 Pontiac Trans Am | Old Cars Weekly
Story and photos by Brian Earnest Things seem to have worked out pretty well for Rick Mielke. He got to keep both the girl and the car.At one point back in the late 1970s, though, neither was a sure thing for the Fond du Lac, Wis., resident. His main squeeze, Carol, hadn’t officially [...]
Old Cars Weekly – Car of the Week: 1949 Hudson Super
By Brian Earnest Jerry Van Horn can laugh about it now — the idea that he was “crazy” for wanting to drag an old car out of a field and someday make it beautiful again.If he was crazy, though, it was more a matter of being nuts about Hudsons, and in his mind, it wasn’t [...]
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