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Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast
Whether you drive a car, need a car, or just occasionally bum a ride with friends, you’ve come to the right place. Join Jill and Tom as they break down everything that’s going on in the auto world. New-car reviews, shopping tips, driving green, electric cars, classic cars, and plenty of great guests. This is the Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast.
1941 Chevrolet
You can’t exactly say that Plymouth created a market segment, but the new-for-1928 Chrysler division went to great lengths to define one. Plymouth was founded specifically to tackle the “low-cost” competition, which at the time was primarily Chevrolet and Ford.
Classic Car Ads: Newspaper Bargains
What was with the big floating heads? Why were so many of the advertised vehicles displayed at extreme angles? And why, tell me why, no one bothered to have these delightful ads proofread?
2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray
To celebrate its 70th birthday, Chevrolet is launching the 2024 Corvette E-Ray. This will mark the legendary performance car’s leap into the electric age, as well as the first time it will offer the enhanced traction of all-wheel drive.
Chevrolet Bolt EVs for Pizza Delivery
In an effort to get a bigger slice of the EV market, Chevrolet is partnering with Domino’s to introduce a fleet of Bolt EVs as delivery vehicles. The rollout is starting in the pizza chain’s home state of Michigan with 12 Bolts currently on the road with plans to increase that to 93 by the end of the year. The company has agreed to purchase a total of 800 vehicles for deployment across the US.
Classic Car Ads: Cars of 1974
1974 AMC Matador
It was a bad year to sell cars, especially large American cars. For those not yet alive, 1974 arrived towards the end of the OPEC Oil Embargo—and the related record-high gas prices—and at the beginning of a mild recession.
Classic Car Ads: Coupes of 1971
1971 Ford LTD
If you’ve been following auto stuff long enough, you’ve likely come across the descriptor 2-door sedan. Some will argue that all 2-door vehicles with a trunk are coupes, while other folks argue otherwise. According to the editors at website Curbside Classics, this is the real story:
1961 Ford Econoline Pickup
It may appear to you that the criteria for our popular classic ad galleries are somewhat random, and you wouldn’t wrong. The model year for this particular collection of vintage magazine ads was indeed selected randomly, but the net effect was pretty cool, nonetheless.
Functional as they were, station wagons were generally marketed as upscale. Not that low-end models weren’t available, but ads and commercials for wagons generally put a luxury spin on the situation. And, at least for a while, inextricably linked to the premium wagon experience was the woodie look.
1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu Hardtop Coupe
Note: The following story was excerpted from the October 2019 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine
Do you still want my old car? I’m at the beauty shop and it won’t crank. If you can get it home, it’s yours.” With that, Kevin and Kelly Sheehan of Harleton, Texas, became the owners of this 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe.
