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Sometimes, the car is a supporting player in the picture. At Carlisle last summer, Bob Miller and I were reflecting on the fact that the cars have come and gone over the years, but we've been friends for over four decades since Baby Blue brought us together in 1983. Photo was taken in 2013...

I've watched the auction results on restored factory A/C cars closely, and it doesn't seem to add anything. With that in mind, I've bought cars that had working factory units, but never considered adding it to an existing car. I also treated it as a negative when I negotiated the price on the...

My younger friends all thought I'd lost my mind when I sold my Hemi GTX, and replaced it with a 440 with factory A/C. I'm 71, and don't regret the swap.

I lived in NW Indiana in the 90s, and had a GTX with fully operational factory A/C. I loved it, but didn't crave it. I was in my 40s then. Had three non A/C cars afterwards, and didn't miss it. Now I've gone full circle, with another factory A/C car. Sure is nice on the trek to Carlisle in...

Welcome from PA. My former brother in law drove a fraternal twin to your car. Column automatic with saddle bucket seat interior, but otherwise identical. Company car, he was service manager at the local dealer. Those were the days.

Installed one in my last GTX in 2021, and had no problems with it.

Never say never. What's interesting in this scenario is that the original owner still had the title, and the fact the car was stolen created a record outside the mainstream. Then the human network enters the process. I recovered two "back in the day" cars, one I owned previously, one I didn't...

I had bias plies on my first three GTXs. On the third one, I switched to radials as soon as I got it home. What a difference. Did the same thing in reverse with the current one, drove home with radials, switched out to bias plies. I'm old, and barely drive the car now. Nostalgia finally won...

1965 Pontiac Catalina

1967 Ford Fairlane

It is. I drove one before I had my first GTX.

Absolutely. With vehicle purchases, my practice has been to eyeball the vehicle and a clear, unencumbered title, then show the seller my funds, or source of them. As a seller, I've shown the unencumbered title, buyer has to show me the funds. When I bought my Peterbilt, the seller had an...

If you can get both at the same place, that's a win. My corporate employer abused the daylights out of everyone who worked there, standard operating procedure, but they paid the most in their industry, and it was well known. I worked for myself when it was over, less money, but a walk in the...

I don’t think they care once they get the fee. I’ve shuffled cards for many years, registered, bring car, or different vehicle, or none.

I checked a few days ago, my hotel of choice still had a few rooms. Holiday Inn Express, Technology Parkway, Mechanicsburg. Most hotels fill up a year ahead. This one is a little further out so it fills up a little later. I'm cramming five guys into my suite this year, so my wife got on my...

I wonder if that was the one owned by the gentleman who sold me my '62 Imperial. He had a nice collection of C bodies, including some ridiculously low mile cars that had been kept by dealerships and never sold. His '79 300 was one of those cars. L.B. Watson, Elizabethton, TN.

I like this definition. Key point being a car that was maintained to a level that it was never taken off the road. My current one defies some standard definitions. It's been registered its entire life, freshened twice, rotisserie restoration the second time, but it was still a rust free...

I think I got incredibly lucky. The next time around I'm going with Kelsey. I'm guessing the quality issues are not going to get better with time.

I've had them on my GTX for three years. I would have preferred the Goodyear Polyglas version from Kelsey Tire, but they were on back order. No troubles with mine, but I've heard plenty of horror stories. I ran the radial version of the Coker with the Firestone logo, and bias ply tread...

Well spoken. I chased my current GTX for five decades after test driving it when it was new. The first year I drove it to Carlisle after I finally bought it, I got a cash offer from a high roller. Nearly twice what I'd paid for the car the year before. I thought about it, but I couldn't think...