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4 weeks ago | hagerty.com | Andrew Newton |Rob Sass

Mercedes-Benz has had an on-off relationship with its two-tiered sports car lineup. More recently there has been the SL/SLK, but the original was the 300SL/190SL dichotomy. The 300SL, whether in Gullwing or Roadster form, was of course a classic for the ages, while the 190 was a handsome but relatively heavy, underpowered boulevardier. Both had run their course by the early 1960s—the 190 was outdated, and the 300SL was both complex and very expensive to produce.

1 month ago | hagerty.com | Andrew Newton |Rob Sass

My gap in giving any thought (serious or otherwise) to the Lincoln Mark VII probably spans close to four decades. As a teenager in the late 1980s, I remember a neighbor (who was I believe an orthopedic surgeon) owning one. Not the silly Designer Edition on whitewalls and fake wire wheel covers, but an all-black LSC (Luxury Sport Coupe), with black BBS-style wheels wrapped in blackwall Goodyear Eagles.

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1 month ago | hagerty.com | Andrew Newton |Rob Sass

Perhaps the music of the day says it all. When the original Z-car—the Datsun 240Z (S30)—was new in the fall of 1969, you could go into a record store and pick up a Led Zeppelin’s debut album (titled Led Zeppelin,of course), or a single by Iggy Pop and the Stooges—a proto-punk song called “I Wanna be your Dog.” Both fit the raucous, elemental character of the 240Z.

2 months ago | hagerty.com | Andrew Newton |Rob Sass

MG billed itself as “the sports car that America loved first.” Back in the Mad Men era, it was one of the few taglines that wasn’t complete BS. That’s because back in the ’40s, American servicemen brought back spindly, underpowered, right-hand drive T-Series MGs from England, and MG in turn shipped its TC model to the States in significant numbers. That’s what lit the sports car fuse in this country. Popular as it was, the TC was a prewar design.