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The Generation X Top 40/40/40: The 1990s

December 13, 2011

40 Collector Cars, Built In the Past 40 Years, That Cost Under $40,000
Editor’s Note: As Gen X-er Jeff Sabatini confronts his fifth decade on the planet, he’s having something of a minor midlife crisis. What better panacea for age-related angst than compiling a list of the top 40 cars for Generation X collectors from the past 40 years? Here's the second installment of this four-part series, in which Sabatini tackles 10 cars from the 1990s.
Moving back in time from the first 10 cars on the list, the cars of the 1990s represent some of the best models to emerge from a decade in which the auto industry finally figured out how to make good, fun products again ...
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Threatened Endangered and Extinct Cars: Readers' picks

November 08, 2011

The most recent iteration of our list of threatened, endangered and extinct cars generated hundreds of comments from readers suggesting cars that should be included. So we crunched the numbers, and it's clear: The latest cars qualifying for inclusion on the list were roundly decried by critics or shunned by consumers, likely accounting for the few remaining examples of these vehicles.
Below are four cars that we’re adding to the list ...
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Car Gals respond to top 10 chick magnet collector cars

September 28, 2011

After Jeff Sabatini wrote a tongue-in-cheek story about what he considered the
Top 10 Chick Magnet Collectors Cars
– and included what he guessed women might say – many of you responded. So we decided to take another stab at it, entirely from a woman’s point of view. We asked several collector car enthusiasts from Hagerty to tell us what cars they are attracted to and why ...
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Auto intervention?

September 07, 2011

We’ve all seen it: a potentially great old car sinking under the weight of an unsympathetic or even downright abusive owner. Case in point, this black Alfa Romeo GTV6 found by Hagerty magazine Publisher Rob Sass and Executive Editor Jonathan Stein on the streets of Portland, Ore.
The GTV6 was a development of the Alfetta GT Sprint, only in place of the old twin cam four-cylinder, Alfa inserted its new quad-cam V-6 with predictably positive results ...
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A 'Clutch' Driving Experience: Learning to drive stick on a Model A

August 29, 2011

If you’re going to learn to drive a manual transmission, you may as well do it right. Watch as Hagerty Marketing Account Executive Ben Walmer masters the art of the stick shift on a 1930 Model A, then read on for his thoughts about the experience.   
 My interest in learning to drive a vehicle with a manual transmission did not arise until recently during a visit to a client’s collection ...
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