The Volkswagen Golf is still not really seen as a classic car by many fans of the old sheet metal. This may be due to the fact that it is now in its seventh generation and shapes the image of everyday traffic.
Yet it is actually already 40 years old and the new Oldtimer Markt devotes a nine-page report to the early years and allows Wolfgang Blaube to talk in depth with the then Chief Development Officer Ernst Fiala.
The motorized car of tomorrow
The Phantom Corsair is a one-off and, at over six meters, a unique vehicle. Nevertheless, it drove and was shown around a lot. A look at the long life of the prototype reveals some interesting facts.
The open goddess
Henri Chapron cut open many a Citroën, including the Goddess. But how does the open-top DS drive? OM had a BX driver and a duck screwdriver put it to the test.
Who is the real king?
A Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow cost DM 88,700 new in 1965, a Mercedes Benz 600 DM 56,500. The Sindelfingen luxury car offered more of almost everything, at least in terms of quantity. How do the two luxury cars compare today?
And if you own an early-generation Silver Shadow, you might also enjoy the technical background article on the SU carburetor.
The tough nut to crack
A German coupé based on the Ford 17M is certainly worth restoring. But sometimes the path to a classic car in mint condition is more complex than expected, especially if the car was originally hand-built and had already been refreshed in a questionable manner in the 1970s.
There were good sheet metal cutters not only in Germany, but also in Czechoslovakia. One of them is Sodomka, as a two-page article entitled "Bohemian Beaus" teaches us.
It rides better in a classic lemon
The Anti-Pebble Beach Festival Concours d'LeMons is worth a six-page look in the current issue, which photographically reproduces some of the many anti-Concours cars on display, such as an AMC/Renault GTA convertible, an AMC Pacer, a Chrysler TC by Maserati or a 1969 Toyota Corolla station wagon. Not all the cars on display are scrap ...
There is also a report on the Lancia Stratos, buying advice on the Willys Jeep and technical help on retrofitting electric fans. And that's not all. 254 pages full of reading material, winter can come.
