Classic Cars

How I passed on the opportunity to own classic cars. What a memory! — When we were a young married couple, my husband and I often used public transportation. The buses in Miami, Florida were fairly reliable and usually took us where we needed or wanted to go. But when we started having kids, we decided we needed a car. We bought our first…

How my dad tried to get me to shun the Beatles — [Cue music] Picture yourself in a black El Dorado, with dark leather seats and a body so wide. Everyone smiles as you drive by the flowers with a grill so incredibly high- I remember sitting in the front seat of my dad’s Cadillac in the late 1970s. I must have been about four years old. Both of us were seatbelt free as we drove around town, doing errands and listening to hits on FM radio.

“I don’t care how bad it looks as long as the numbers match,” the old man told me. — Return to the daze of my youth. Back in the days when I used to haul cars I was sent to a used car dealership in Thomasville, North Carolina to pick up directions and $2,000 cash to buy a ’65 Pontiac Grand Prix convertible in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and haul…

Automotive treasures lurking in abandoned barns — I drove by an abandoned barn today and it got me thinking. What could possibly be inside. I took this picture. I did a little research. I discovered some interesting facts about a connection between exotic cars and abandoned barns. People park their classic and exotic cars in barns. …