If you wanted a big American car with a retractable rear window 57 years ago, you may have opted for something like this 1964 Mercury Park Lanefour-door sedan. Didn’t want to spend that much? You could have also chosen a Mercury Monterey or a Mercury Montclair. Your choice wasn’t limited to a four door sedan either — there were also two-door sedans, as well as two- and four-door
We spotted this 1958 Edsel Citationyears ago at an Edsel owners’ meet held in the parking lot of a Cheektowagahotel. I don’t imagineit won any awards (lol), but I’m sure it garnered a lot of attention. Hard to tell from this photo, but the Citation was the top-of-the-line Edsel in 1958 (and only for1958, as things went south pretty quickly for the whole Edsel lineup). I’ve
From the front this 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supremelooks very much like a full-sized Olds Delta 88 (see bottom of page).In a Canadian sales folder, Olds described the ’82 Cutlass Supreme as having “Classic styling in a total-value car.”It also went on to mention how “Over the past seven years, more new car buyers in North America have chosen Cutlass than any other car!&rdqu
Like the Energizer Bunny, these things just keep going and going… Saw this 1991 Volvo 240 a couple of months ago in a Cheektowaga parking lot. Not only were these cars long-lasting (odometers reading in the hundreds of thousands of miles aren’t uncommon), they were well-known for their safety. Below is an illustration from their Dutch brochure which shows the car’s front and rea
It’s the little things. Notice how different this 1966 Ford F-250looks without its hood badge (see brochure cover photo at bottom of page).This one has the optional Custom Cab package, which consisted of “…woven plastic seat fabric, full foam seat and cushioned back, vinyl-padded doors and smart interior trim, bright-metal grille and windshield moldings.”Smart interior tri
The subtle two-tone of this 1984 Buick Regal Limited(which from here appears to be the rather unimaginatively named Light Brown and Brown) is a far cry from some of the colors offered back in the 1950s — like the Condor Yellow Roadmaster convertible pictured in the inset… with a red interior! The 1955 models also offered Tri-Tones, easily made possible by the car’s chrome sweep
The 1960 Ford Falcon was the initial winner in the import-fighters category, pitted against American-made compacts from Chevy, Chrysler Corp., Rambler, and Studebaker. It may not have done the desired damage to the German Volkswagen brand, but it certainly beat the domestic competition hands down. A pretty simple design, the small Ford was an immediate hit with families on a budget, families looki
We found this 1967 Lincoln Continentala few weeks ago, appropriately, in a parking lot adjacent to the building which houses one of Buffalo’s oldies radio stations inCheektowaga. The Continental was all-new for 1966, so the ’67 models had minimal changes — one of them being “…the Continental emblem has been embroidered into a new knit broadcloth Chalfonte fabric.&rdq
A raise of hands please, from anyone out there who has everseen another1966 Buick Electra 225wearing a set of Moon discs. I didn’t think so. Me either. Lol… That being said, it certainly gives this luxo-barge an entirely different look, wouldn’t you say? The more I look at it, the more I like it. Compare it to the brochure illustration at the bottom of the page, which looks like
Today we bring you another entry in the “You NEVER see these anymore!” category — a 1973 Buick Apollo, spotted on a Cheektowagaside street a few weeks ago. The Apollo of course was not much more than a Chevy Nova in disguise. Buick even alluded to the fact in one of their ads: “Let’s face it. Apollo’s basic body configuration is something you’ve seen befor