The Pontiac brand is dead, dead as a doornail, but some cannot let it die with dignity:

The Lingenfelter Trans Am, a bastardization of the new Camaro… good idea, or mocking the dead?

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I suppose someone, somewhere, is using this as a daily driver:

Sad.

And I left my lightsaber at home… [Hemmings Auto Blogs]

A legend drives a near 30-year-old rallye car – if only I could drive like that.

Yes – I’m a gearhead – I admit it.

No, it’s not what you think it is. I meant to blog on this a while back, but, well, I didn’t.

The Japanese were accused of aping car designs not their own years ago, and now it’s China’s turn to rip off its competitors.  China, however has taken it to a whole new level.  How about this fake Roller?

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Specifically, Neil Young’s old Packard:

Only $49,500. Damn I would love to have that old thing.

I thought an old Packard wagon was needed before we step off the cliff of the MA senate race.

Hemmings Find of the Day [Hemmings Auto Blogs]

Since I mentioned it in the comments … stick with it at least until he takes the car on the road … imagine seeing that flash by you.  Stunning, at least to this gearhead.

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It’s not what you think it is:

I remember maybe one of these surviving to inhabit my high school parking lot – FoMoCo’s attempt at a Dodge Charger beater along with the Torino GT (same car as in Gran Torino).  In the end, not so much.

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