Drifting is a style of motorsport that was founded primarily in Japan around the winding mountain roads of Mount Fuji. The original concept was to implement controlled oversteering or power sliding of the car’s rear end to get around corners faster and beat the competition to the end of a track. Essentially it was...
For many people Rolls-Royce equates to the highest standards of excellence, opulence and the ultimate excess in luxury. Seemingly miles of deep sumptuous leather, hand craftsmanship, and old world technology that today might seem outmoded, was once standard for the elite coachmaker, and in many ways it still is.
No doubt the early seventies was the peak period of American muscle cars. It was a time in the world before the energy crisis stifled the quest for more horsepower and the Big Three were battling for muscle car King of the Hill. The progress made in the sixties and early seventies was exemplified extremely well by the...
Forever young… It’s more than just a song, or a state of mind, or a thought. It’s a feeling deep within that can surface whilst driving around in a cherished car. For us certain Japanese cars take away the years and we are again forever young. And while Japanese cars clearly are not for everyone, to some they...
A sinister second-gen Charger in a deep hue just looks monstrous. It’s only fitting that “The Fast and the Furious” film franchise chose a 1970 Charger as the quintessential halo car because it truly is a star. The Charger is the only car that could upstage Vin Diesel. It is American Muscle looking its finest,...
eBay Listing: 1983 Mazda RX-7 with only 36,000 miles When most people think Mazda sports cars, they quickly assume the Miata is the topic of conversation. And, why wouldn’t they? It’s the best selling convertible sports car of all time. But, today we are straying from the MX5 Miata to focus on another iconic Mazda...
eBay Listing: 1963 Cadillac DeVille Convertible “Cadillac,” the word, means something that is an outstanding example of its kind, especially in terms of luxury, quality, and size. And historically, Cadillac has always been closely associated with those three terms. Regardless of definitions, or dimensions, and...
Personal connections with cars can often run deep. It is one of many reasons people desire a classic car, especially one in good or great condition that reconnects you to your inner child who recalls the car their father drove with them in the backseat. Or maybe it was your first car that you bought from that now long...
eBay Listing: 1971 Datsun 240Z Series 1 Sometimes in life things, people, places, and even ideas come full circle. When you might’ve looked at something one way, the sands of time can alter your perceptions. It seems like an eternity, but one of my first posts for the eBay Motors blog was a Datsun 240Z. Not...
eBay Listing: 1966 Lotus Elan Series 2 “Simplify, then add lightness,” was Colin Chapman’s philosophy, way before minimalism became commonplace. “Adding power makes you faster on the straights, subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.” Essentially what Mr. Chapman understood was less weight is a huge principal...
eBay Listing: 1967 Alfa Romeo Duetto “Sexy” is a very subjective word frequently applied to people, but it also describes the curves of the Alfa Romeo Duetto or Spider. Sure it could apply to other cars too but for us there is a romanticized relationship with Italian car manufacturers. They have a passion that is hard...
eBay Listing: 1962 Lincoln Continental Convertible Updated: Aug 7, 2014 The death of our former president was a traumatic moment for our nation, one that hurt many of us deeply. He was arguably a charismatic president, with many interesting tastes. His Lincoln Continental limousine has since become immortalized due in...
eBay Listing: 1949 MG TC Roadster A wise mechanic once said, “Older classic cars and their engines are supposed to leak oil, smell bad, and go forth screaming into the modern age.” We couldn’t agree more with that sentiment, because there is a certain charm that comes with classic car ownership. If anything we’d only...
eBay Listing: 1970 Plymouth Barracuda 440 Magnum, 1 of 618 Updated: June 13, 2013 American Muscle. That statement brings to mind so many great cars from the mid-sixties until somewhere in the early seventies. For ‘Mopar fans it couldn’t have gotten much better from 1966 till 1974. Names like Charger, Challenger,...
eBay Listing: 1972 VW Vanagon “Purple haze all in my brain – lately things just don’t seem the same – acting funny but I don’t know why – excuse me while I kiss the sky.” -Jimi Hendrix Something about this song stuck with us when looking at today’s 1976 Volkswagen Bus. Most likely it was due to its vibrant color purple...
eBay Listing: 1972 Volvo P1800E Of the entire classic Volvo collection in all the lands, one model seems to reign supreme as a ‘saint’ of a car. We are speaking of course of the 1962 Volvo P1800 that had a distinguished role as the car of choice by the fictional character Simon Templar played by Roger Moore in the...
eBay Listing: 1967 Fiat Dino Spider 2.0 Passion, it is something a Ferrari has in spades, but does that same amount of passion go into Ferrari’s lesser models like the non-V12 cars? We’d argue yes, and most definitely that applies in the case of the Fiat Dino Spider. The Fiat Dino Spider was and is for all intents and...
eBay Listing: 1966 Porsche 912 Porsche – the very name conjures up images of racing cars like the 356, the 911, the 914-6, the 917 race car, the Carrera GT, and now the 918 Hybrid. They constantly are upping their game to create race bred sports cars and super cars. Yet, they’re still diverse enough to put out SUV’s on...
eBay Listing: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad Wagon The ’57 Chevrolet has a mystique all its own, and yet it seems to many that it is a car so common and coveted that it almost seems ridiculous. Many people want the convertibles of this body style, but coupes and wagons and the highly coveted Nomad also have a strong...
eBay Listing: 1961 Chevrolet Corvette LS3 Pro Touring Custom Interior Corvettes are great whether unmodified or highly modified. The C1 built from 1953-1962 was a monumental car for Chevrolet, and while some deserve to be preserved in their original form for posterity, those highly modified examples only seem to make...
eBay Listing: 1965 VW Beetle Classic The Volkswagen Type 1, also known as Kafer, Vocho, or Beetle, is quite a common car in many places around the world, especially south of the border in Mexico and South America where production outlasted even that of the car’s original home. Production began officially in Germany in...
