If you were a kid in the early ‘70s, chances are you were a big fan of the Batman TV series starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. When the Dynamic Duo needed to stop a crime or catch their nemesis, Batman would always say to Robin, “To the Batmobile!” In the late summer of 1965, Dean Jeffries ...

  When I was 13, the first poster that I ever bought with my meager savings was that of the 1974 Ford Gran Torino from my favorite TV police detective show “Starsky and Hutch”. Detectives Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson were played by actors Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul, who was also a popular singer then with his hit ...

To the uninitiated, the mere mention of the name “Ferrari” conjures images of fast swoopy sports cars and exotic automotive lifestyles. Couch potatoes and TV addicts will immediately think of the red 308 GTS driven around Hawaii by Tom Selleck in the old Magnum P.I.; the white 512 Testarossa driven around Miami by Don Johnson in Miami Vice; or the ...

As we welcome 2019, we take a look back to almost 54 years ago when a French automaker introduced a new innovative body style that would change how family cars are made. The Renault 16 (R16) was introduced in 1965 to augment the Renault product line which included small cars like the Renault 4 and Renault Dauphine. The R16 was designed to replace the larger ...

Can a cute little sports car with a small boxer engine provide the same driving exhilaration as the larger ones with more powerful engines? Well, with the 1965-69 Toyota Sports 800, the answer is a resounding YES. Nicknamed the “Yota-Hachi”, which is Japanese short form for “Toyota 8”, the Sports 800 is Toyota’s first production sports car. The prototype debuted ...