1967 Oldsmobile Toronado in Greensboro, North Carolina

The Pick of the Day was a front-wheel-drive landmark of the 1960s

The Pick of the Day was groundbreaking at the time and still commands a strong presence

Pick of the Day is a 51,000-mile Oldsmobile survivor

Following solid sales and critical success for the Buick Riviera, General Motors came out with a groundbreaking design for its next “personal-luxury” car.

I worked at Clark Oldsmobile in West Palm Beach, Florida, right after graduating high school in 1978. This (formerly) beautiful but still rare and unusual Oldsmobile Toronado came in for service and oil changes.

For the 1966 model year, Oldsmobile rolled out a relatively revolutionary car — a full-size car pulled around by its front wheels rather than pushed around by those at the rear.

Drag racing is usually some serious business, except when it turns into comedy.  Here’s a compilation of drag-racing mishaps that shows what happens when thing go awry just as the bottom light turns green.  Talk about funny cars!   Amid all the smoke and noise and drag racers hurtling forward on the quarter mile are these […]

Of the first generation of exotic cars, the most reliable and most usable, and the one I had a poster of on my wall while in high school, was the Porsche 930 Turbo. It was the car I most wanted and was to me the ultimate. It was a model derived from Porsche’s racing cars […]

During the recent Fourth of July weekend, Disney+ debuted the original-cast performance of the historic Broadway musical, Hamilton. To help promote the event, and its parent company, ESPN’s Sports Center offered up one of its 10-best segments, this one featuring the 10-best Hamiltons.  The list didn’t include everyone’s favorite Hamilton, the $10 bill, but it […]

The Italian name for Neptune is Nettuno, and it has been chosen by Maserati as the name of the new engine that will power the MC20 super sports car, which is scheduled to be unveiled September 9-10 at a special event, “MMXX: The time to be audacious,” in Modena. In anticipation of that event, the […]