All Entries Tagged With: "muscle car"
2014 Corvette
I have owned Corvettes, old and new since I was 21 years old. That amounts two approximately two dozen different cars over the years. Each one had an entireley different personality. It wasn’t until the C5 cars came out that I absolutely fell in love with them. The C5, in my mind, was the very [...]
Set Up Day at the 2012 Muscle Car Corvette Nationals
Every year we go to several car shows ranging from local to national events. We go both as spectators and as participants. It is always much more fun when we are showing. Unfortunately, most people who go to a national car show and never get the opportunity to display their own car at such an event. They never [...]
Legendary Collector Cars TV; Episode 7: Nashville Good Guys
Previously we brought you some individual photos of our favorite cars at the 2012 Nashville Goo Guys show. Today in this Episode of Legendary Collector Cars TV we decided we would just sit back and let you enjoy some of the great cars drive buy. Not only will you get to see them but listen [...]
New Feature: Legendary Collector Cars TV, Episode 1: GM Heritage Collection
We are always trying a new way to bring our stories to you in the best way we can. Today marks the beginning of Legendary Collector Cars TV. These will not be every day or even every Post but they will provide you with more video and audio of the cars and activities that we [...]
Good Guys Nashville 2011
We just returned from the first day of the 2011 Good Guys Show in Music City, Nashville! We have over 50 photos from the first day, Friday posted on our Show page. We will be posting many time that over the next few days. These are only the very first photos to give you just [...]
Breaking News, Classic & Muscle Car Auction
I have just been informed that Tim Lopata is planning a Classic and Muscle Car Auction for Saturday September 10, 2011 as part of the Forge Muscle Car Classic and the Talladega Family Reunion. That is all that is known at the current time. If you didn’t have enough reasons to come to the 2nd [...]
1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II Overview
As you know, the Ford Talladega Family Reunion being held in conjunction with the Forge Muscle Car show in Kingsport TN on Oct. 1 and 2 will feature two cars in addition to the Ford Talladega. One is the 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler and the other is the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II. The visual clues [...]
Muscle Cars by Mike Mueller and Motorbooks
Motorbooks knows what us gear heads like and they have struck again. This new Muscle Car book is a smaller size paperback for $19.95 retail. You don’t even have to read to enjoy this one, it is full of great color photos. There are 55 muscle cars featured with 350 color photos. Production and performance [...]
Beach Hop Whangamata New Zealand
By: Richard Fleener I love my cars and all we get to do with them but it is really about all the great people we meet when Katrina and I take them out. One example of that is Robert Pegler of New Zealand. Robert and I first met through this web site. Last summer he [...]
Another GT 500?
Over the last year or so we came across the 1968 Mercury Cyclone GT 500. Not a GT; a GT 500. It is a very rare specimen and you would walk right by most any car you would see thinking it is just another Cyclone GT. You can read all about what we have found [...]
Top 10 Collector Cars for 2010-2020
Do you remember all the squawk over the New Millennium back in 1999? It seemed no one believed the World would survive the changing of our calendars to the year 2000. All of our computers were predicted to spit up little micro chips and die; airplanes were going to fall out of the sky and our [...]
Motion Performance; Tales of a Muscle Car Builder
Motorbooks with author Martyn L. Schorr has done it again. They have taken us back to the glory days of Muscle Cars in America. They tell us about the the American Dream of living your dream and they tell us about loosing that dream. Motion Performance is a very well know quantity to anyone into [...]
Cars of Norway
We have visitors to our site from all over the World on a daily basis. Every once in a while one of them will send an email with a question or a comment. We have even had readers from New Zealand stop by our garage during their visit to the States this year. Regular reader [...]
Barn Find page updated
We have had a very productive November from a Barn Find perspective. Not only did we find a bunch of different cars out in the woods but we even found a high quality Barn Find in a Barn that we purchased and hope to have on the road by spring. If you like to look [...]
Floyd Garrett Museum Video
You may have missed our coverage of the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum from a few days ago so we have added a video you might like. This serves as a good overview of the Museum but you should go to our web page on the Museum to see all the great photos of the [...]
Music Video; Part 2: Gloriana
Gloriana is the Country Music group that asked to use our Project Mustang and we could not be more thrilled. It was an exciting experience and they are a great sounding group. I can hardly wait for the video to be completed. Here are some more photos of the shoot but you can see even [...]
Music Video and our Project Mustang Fastback
This week we are involved with shooting a country music video in and around Nashville, TN. I won’t yet tell you who for or any of the details but we had a blast and you will enjoy all the photos we will be posting. The video should be released in a couple of months. For [...]
1969 Mercury Cougar 428 CJ XR7 comes to life!
We just finished the Labor Day Weekend and had great time. Our goal this summer has been to see our Project Cougar (Click Here for Project Cars) on the street before the cruise season ended and we made it! On Friday night of Labor Day Weekend we drove out to the Murfreesboro Hot Rod Club [...]
Top Ten Collector Cars; Fantasy Car Collecting
Fantasy Car Collecting I have recently visited a number of museums and private car collections and the thought crossed my mind; “If I had the money what would I buy?” It is a very difficult answer because so much depends on how much money you have and what you want to do with the cars. [...]
Good Guys Video, Des Moines, Iowa Heartland Show
It has been a few weeks since we went to the Des Moines Good Guys Show but we finally got a video complete of some of the cars we saw. Check this out and also visit the photo pages.
1969 Yenko Camaro Dragster, Cliff Ernst Collection
We all know how special the 1969 Camaro is. Seems like it is the stand out favorite of most collectors and car geeks of all kinds. On top of the regular Camaro stands the ultra rare COPO cars. You know the ones. The ones, you go into the dealer and give him the magic hand [...]
2010 Camaro 2SS RS
When ever a remarkable new car comes out there is always the rush and thrill to be the first in your community to have one of the prized vehicles. I remember the first time I drove my new C5 Corvette out into the world when hardly anyone had ever seen one on the street. It [...]
Chevy Chevelle-abration Video has been added!
The video from the Chevy Chevelle-abration has been added, Click Here for all the Sights and Sounds of the show. You can also see it below but you will miss all of the photos we took! VIDEO OF CHEVELLE-ABRATION
Mercury Cyclone GT 500 More new news and photos.
I ask and you guys deliver! We just got some more photos in on the legendary but lost white 1968 Mercury Cyclone GT 500s. Here is a teaser and you can Click Here to see the rest.
New Cruise-In Photos from Murfreesboro
The weather was good last Friday and we finally had a real cruise at the Murfreesboro Hot Rod Club cruise in Murfreesboro. Check our our photos at the Car Show page, Click Here. We have also added a new little feature to keep you on your toes. Going to a cruise is all about the [...]
Keeping a Muscle Car Alive
This book authored by Harvey White , Jr. and published by Motorbooks, applies to all cars of the 1960s and1970s with particular emphasis on muscle cars. It is for the beginner guy or gal who wants a good overview of the workings of a typical muscle car. You aren’t told how to repair every specific [...]
New Feature Car: 1969 Dodge Charger 500
Make sure you check out our Feature Car Page and visit the 1969 Dodge Charger 500. This is the aero car that Dodge built for NASCAR racing in 1969. Not the winged Daytona but the 500. Read about it and see this beautiful example owned by Jerry and Ann Narramore. We saw this car at [...]
Memphis Super Chevy Show 2009
We just spent a wet weekend at the Super Chevy Show in Memphis. We had a successful trip with no problems and brought home a Class Win as well as a Sunday’s Best of Class award. In the very near future we will be posting a few clips of the very little racing that went [...]
Camaro A Legend Reborn; Book Review
The new book, Camaro A Legend Reborn, was just published in early 2009 by Motorbooks. The author is Larry Edsall. Although he contributed some of the photos used in the book most are from the records of GM. This book is an insider’s perspective of the historical record on how the new 2010 Camaro came [...]
Muscle Car Book Review: Chevelle 1964-1972
Arguably, the Chevelle is one of the most popular Muscle Cars of all time. Ok, don’t leave if you aren’t a Chevy guy, stay with me. I have owned some Chevelles and Chevelle based El Caminos and loved everyone of them. I am not sure why there isn’t one in the garage right now. After [...]
Muscle Car Book Review: Camaro Forty Years
Motorbooks has published a great book by Darwin Holmstrom titled Camaro Forty Years. It is a combination coffee table book with wonderful David Newhardt photos with great historical info on the Camaro. Some call the Camaro a Pony Car but it is a Muscle Car in the right trim levels. Although most of us will [...]
Smokey Yunick’s Hot Vapor Fiero; 51 mpg and 0-60 in less than 6 Seconds!
Don’t believe this is real, check out the VIDEO on our Feature Car page. We have just put up on our Feature Car page the Smokey Yunick Hot Vapor Fiero that gets 51 mpg and performs like a muscle car. If you aren’t familiar with either the car or Smokey I suggest you check it [...]
The Legend: What is this site all about?
According to the Webster Dictionary A legend is a “non-historical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical”; legendary is likewise defined as “celebrated or described in legend”. The right stories can make any car Legendary. Part of the fun and mystique of owning collector cars are the [...]
I will work for Gas!
Gas Prices How are you going to change what you do with your collector car now that fill up more than a set of tires? No kidding, I went to the gas station to fill up the motor home with diesel and paid more for a tank of fuel than I paid for my first [...]
Father’s Day Gift Ideas
Dear Shifty, Father’s Day is coming up real soon and I have no idea what to get my Dad. He is really into cars. He goes to all the cruise-ins and muscle car shows. He has an old white 58 Chevy. In fact it still has the old paint from when it was new. Can [...]
Welcome Legendary Collector Cars Blog
Legendary Collector Cars are not made in a factory, they are made on the street, at the racetracks and at car shows. They can be Muscle Cars, Sports Cars, Hot Rods, Rat Rods, Classic Cars, Antique Cars, Collector Cars or any other car you love. This page is about our Legends and about making your [...]
