We’re going to let Cheektowaga’s Steve Halasz describe this himself: My car is an all stock 1971 Pontiac Trans Am I’ve owned for the last 41 years. It has a 455 and a four-speed. I bought it two weeks after I turned 18 and beat the crap out of it year-round for the next five years. Took it off the road to restore it and spent the next 25 years trying to kill myself on Japanese bi
Speaking of cars not that old which you rarely see anymore, here’s a 1968 Buick Special Deluxe, seen in the spectators’ lot at last year’s All-Buick Car Show at Cheektowaga Town Park. Buick certainly produced a lot of them, but it seems like most of the cars which were saved from this era are the two-door models. Now that prices are rising on these cars, four-door versions are ge
Today’s featured car is a 1970 Pontiac GTO, which was ordered new in September 1969 from Jim Culligan Pontiac by current owner and RealRides reader Bill Knoof of Cheektowaga. Under the hood is a Ram-Air III 400CID, 366-hp engine, which is connected to a Hurst 4-speed shifter. This 47-year-old beauty has just 66599 showing on the odometer. Thanks, Bill, for sharing it with us!Jim Corbran, RRo
A few weeks back we featured a Ford Escort wagon from the nineties, which brought a request. So in our never-ending aim to please, here’s a Mercury Tracer wagon from that same era — 1991-99. The front grille design on this one, seen a few weeks ago in Cheektowaga, indicates a 1992-96 model. Other than the grilles, wheel covers (not these though, which are aftermarkets), and badging, th
Looking at this 1977 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham, it would appear that stylists took a 180° turn from the first-generation models, which when introduced for MY 1966 were unlike anything else coming out of Detroit. The Toronado was the first mass-produced American car with front-wheel-drive since the Cord of the 1930s. The swoopy-looking first generation cars gave way to this more boxy look be
When I think back to some of the cars I bought in the 1970s it makes me cry. For less money than my brand-spanking-new 1974 Pinto Runabout I probably could have had something like this 1972 Datsun 510, which is now enjoying cult status. This yellow four-door, seen recently in Cheektowaga, is probably pretty rare these days. Do a Google search for the 510 and (except for old factory photos) you&rsq