Old cars

1910 International Auto-Wagon High Wheel

1940 Plymouth PT105

Chrysler Corporation's dealer network strategy drove Plymouth's entry into the light-duty truck market in 1937. While Dodge/Plymouth dealers already had commercial vehicles, those paired with DeSoto or Chrysler lacked truck offerings for customers, creating a clear business opportunity.

Plymouth adapted Dodge's existing light-duty truck chassis and offered four body styles under the PT series designation (Plymouth Truck). These included the Express pickup, cab-and-chassis, Commercial Sedan delivery, and wood-bodied station wagon variants.

The 1940 PT105 series received several updates that improved both appearance and functionality. New sealed-beam headlamps replaced older units, while the upper grille gained three horizontal strips for a more modern look. Engine output increased from 70 to 79 horsepower, though bore and stroke dimensions remained unchanged from previous years.

Mechanical improvements included a larger 35-amp generator to handle the sealed-beam headlamps and increased electrical demand. However, Plymouth's decision to use left-hand and right-hand threaded wheel bolts proved unpopular with mechanics and owners alike.

Despite a $10 price increase, sales improved slightly with 6,879 pickups and 174 cab-and-chassis units produced.

1915 Lanchester Sporting Forty Torpedo Tourer
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George Lanchester's first design for the company bearing his family's name, the Sporting Forty of 1913 marked a sharp departure from the bluff-fronted Lanchesters that preceded it.

A 5½-liter (5,496cc) side-valve inline-six beneath a lengthy hood gave the car the appearance and performance to rival the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.

Only a handful had been completed when World War I redirected Lanchester's factory to munitions and aero engine production, limiting total output to six examples. One was retained by the factory as its publicity car.

The Sporting Forty was replaced after the war by a new 40 hp model of similar appearance, and today the factory's retained example is believed to be the sole surviving original Sporting Forty. Curb weight was approximately 3,300 pounds (1,500 kg).

1959 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL

First shown in prototype alongside the 300 SL at the 1954 New York Auto Show, the 190 SL was a deliberate visual echo of its more expensive sibling.

Styled by Karl Wilfert and Walter Häcker, the bodywork carried the 300 SL's round headlamps, prominent three-pointed star grille badge, and muscular rear fenders into a more accessible two-seat roadster package.

An optional removable hardtop (cast in aluminum during the first production year, then replaced by steel from 1956 onward) allowed year-round use and gave the car a distinct coupe presence when fitted.

Mechanically, it was a different proposition. Rather than the 300 SL's purpose-built W198 tubular spaceframe, the 190 SL used a shortened unitary floorpan derived from the W121 sedan platform.

Its 1.9-liter SOHC inline-four (the M121, fed by twin-choke Solex carburetors) produced 105 horsepower, with the factory claiming a top speed of about 108 mph and 0-60 times of roughly 14 seconds.

Conceived as a comfortable two-seat tourer rather than a competition car, it was priced at about $4,000 new in the United States (roughly half the cost of a 300 SL) and found strong demand here.

Of the 25,881 built between 1955 and 1963, a significant portion crossed the Atlantic.

1965 Iso Grifo A3/C

Ferrari's legendary GTO engineer Giotto Bizzarrini created this extraordinary Italian-American hybrid after leaving Maranello.

Working with industrialist Renzo Rivolta, Bizzarrini developed a sophisticated platform chassis for what would become one of the most celebrated GT cars of the 1960s. The A3/C designation stood for "Corsa" (competition), distinguishing it from the luxury A3/L variant.

The stunning coachwork came from Giorgetto Giugiaro’s pen at Bertone, with lightweight riveted aluminum bodywork constructed by Carrozzeria Sports Cars (Drogo) in Modena.

About 20 of these cars were built with the distinctive riveted Drogo body, featuring side vents and four round taillights echoing the Le Mans competition cars. The advanced chassis layout delivered excellent weight distribution and handling for its era.

Powering this Italian exotic was a 327 cubic inch Chevrolet Corvette V8, typically producing between 350 and 400 horsepower depending on tune, with some competition-prepared examples reaching higher figures.

Top speed was around 170-175 mph, placing it among the fastest GT cars of its day. The marriage of Italian design and American reliability solved many of the dependability issues that plagued contemporary exotics.

With roughly 23 Drogo-bodied Stradale examples built out of a total production run of about 124 A3/Cs between 1963 and 1968, these remain some of the rarest and most desirable GT cars of the era.

55 Bel Air👌

1977 Lincoln Continental

1953 MG TF—vintage charm or too old-school?

1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sport Coupe

For 1958, the Bonneville became its own model line rather than a performance upgrade within the Star Chief series, and a new two-door hardtop Sport Coupe joined the convertible, giving buyers a second body style in what proved to be a one-year-only design.

Both models rode on a new X-member cruciform frame that permitted coil springs at all four corners, replacing the semi-elliptic rear setup of the previous chassis. Placement on the 122-inch wheelbase gave the Bonneville more responsive handling than its size suggested.

The 370 CI "Tempest" V-8 (bored out from the 347 CI unit used in 1957) was offered in three configurations: a four-barrel at 255 HP, a Tri-Power three-carburetor setup at 300 HP, and Rochester fuel injection at 310 HP.

A Tri-Power convertible was chosen as the 1958 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car. Fuel injection, priced at $500, found only around 400 buyers before being discontinued mid-year, leaving the Tri-Power as the preferred performance option for most buyers.

Sport Coupe production reached 9,144 units, all in this single-year body. By 1959, the entire full-size GM lineup was redesigned under the Wide Track program, making the '58 Bonneville a notably brief chapter in the model's history.