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As a car enthusiast, when you hear the word “woodie,” you probably picture a station wagon of some sort, perhaps one with a surfboard on its roof rack. Those are out definitely out there, but there are more wood-sided vehicles than just wagons. Take this 1947 Chrysler Town and Country Convertible Coupe as an example. You can see it – and win it – at the upcoming Barrett-Jackson 2026 Scottsdale Auction.

The Town and Country nameplate dates back to 1941, when Chrysler introduced the model as a wagon with wood paneling that covered the doors and extended to what many call the “barrelback” rear end, which featured a pair of side-hinged doors to ease loading and unloading. America’s entry into World War II cut the 1942 model year short. When the Town and Country returned to the Chrysler lineup in 1946, it looked completely different. Not only was it restyled, but it also wasn’t a wagon any more. Instead, Chrysler turned the Town and Country into its own model line, which included a 4-Door Sedan, Brougham 2-Door Sedan, Custom Club Coupe, Convertible Coupe, and Roadster – all decked out with White Ash wood frames around Mahogany panels bonded to the steel bodywork. Depending on model selection, the Town and Country was either based on the 121.5-inch-wheelbase Windsor chassis and powered by the 250.6ci Spitfire straight-six or set on the 127.5-inch-wheelbase New Yorker frame and equipped with the 323.5ci Spitfire straight-eight.

Changes for 1947 were minimal, but if you check out the Town and Country section of the ’47 Chrysler brochure, you’ll see that there’s no Roadster variant. Fortunately, Chrysler still offered the six-passenger Convertible Coupe. The one you see here is finished in a lovely shade of light green, which coordinates wonderfully with the well-preserved ash and mahogany wood. Chrome bumpers, bright trim, chrome wheel covers and beauty rings, and wide-whitewall tires add even more sparkle to an already eye-catching car.

According to the auction listing, the 323.5ci inline-eight and Fluid Drive semi-automatic transmission have been “consistently serviced and maintained during approximately 15 years of ownership.” The green and tan leather interior has also been cared for and is protected by a power convertible top that “operates easily” and fits under a beige top boot.

There’s a chance you’ve seen this 1947 Chrysler Town and Country Convertible Coupe somewhere before because it’s been in several car shows, museum exhibits, parades, and community events. You’ll definitely see it cross the block at the Barrett-Jackson 2026 Scottsdale Auction, which runs January 17-25, 2026. Click here to register as a bidder. Want to sell your car at the event? Go here.

Picture opening your garage door and seeing two perfectly matched legends staring back at you. That’s exactly what’s on the line in the Corvette Dream Giveaway, and time is running out. This giveaway ends December 31, and when the clock strikes midnight, the opportunity is gone. Click here to enter now!

At the center of this prize package is a timeless icon: a 1964 Corvette Sting Ray Convertible, professionally restored and reimagined with serious muscle under the hood. Its 502ci Chevrolet Performance big-block V8, manual transmission, side pipes, and Stinger hood give this midyear Corvette a bold, modern attitude without sacrificing its unmistakable classic soul. It looks incredible, sounds even better, and delivers the kind of driving experience that made Corvettes legendary.

Parked beside it is the ferocious 2025 Corvette Z06, a modern American supercar powered by a 670-horsepower flat-plane-crank V8 that screams to an 8,600-rpm redline. Mid-engine balance, carbon-fiber performance upgrades, and aggressive blacked-out styling make this Z06 a statement piece wherever it goes. It’s refined, ruthless, and engineered to dominate roads and racetracks alike.

As if a midyear Corvette and a mid-engine Corvette weren’t enough, the winner also takes home a Wildfire Lifts Exotic Lift so your new dream garage is ready from day one. And to make the victory even sweeter, $60,000 in federal prize taxes is included.

This giveaway ends December 31, and once it’s over, these matching black Corvettes will belong to someone else. Don’t wait.

Every donation supports veterans’ and children’s charities, turning your entry into something that truly makes a difference.

Two Corvettes. One winner. Enter now—before time runs out on December 31.

The Ford Motor Company made an interesting strategic move when it put the “Mustang” nameplate on an electric crossover called the Mach-E beginning in 2021. That same year, the brand launched the sixth generation of its traditional, gas-powered pony car. Featured on AutoHunter is a high-performance variant of the latter, a 2023 Ford Mustang Mach 1. The car is being sold by a private seller in Carlyle, Illinois, with the auction ending on Friday, December 19, 2025, at 11:15 a.m. (MST).

About that dual-nameplate move: Some folks may not realize that the electric Mach-E would go on to outsell the gas-powered version just a few years later. In 2024, the sales numbers showed 44,003 internal-combustion Mustangs versus 51,745 electric Mustangs. Will that direction continue? Time will tell. For now, let’s shift our focus to a gas-powered Mustang that has raised the performance bar in recent years.

The Mach 1 originally appeared in August 1968 for the 1969 model year. It has since been a part of the Mustang’s evolution off and on, most recently making a reappearance for the sixth-generation (“S550”) pony car from 2021-23. It is estimated there were just 3,030 Mach 1 Mustangs built for 2023. As a track-focused model, the car came with things like a sport-tuned adaptive suspension, Brembo brakes, larger radiator, and coolers for the transmission and differential.

Finished in Fighter Jet Gray, this Mach 1 has just 16,362 miles and has been left unmodified with exception of window tint. Distinctive exterior features include a front splitter, hood air inlets, Mach 1 decals, orange and black accent striping, decklid spoiler, and quad exhaust outlets. Each Mach 1 had an individually serialized dash placard on the passenger side; this car shows production number PO 183.

This car’s low mileage reading is corroborated by its AutoCheck report, which shows Georgia ownership through May 2025 and the most recent odometer reading of 14,919 miles in September. New front Michelin Pilot Sport tires were installed in recent months.

Up front is an unmodified 5.0-liter Ti-VCT V8 that was rated at 480 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque. It is mated to a SelectShift 10-speed automatic transmission and a Torsen limited-slip differential with a 3.55:1 gear ratio. Real-world tests showed the 10-speed automatic Mach 1 achieving 0-to-60 times of about four seconds, which is plenty fast for most people.

The Mach 1 has been a favorite of enthusiasts and journalists alike. Cool Hunting said, “Even at low speeds, the Mach 1 provides a sense of occasion, with its visceral exhaust note, notch-perfect stick shift, and deeply bolstered Recaro seats. There’s ample tactile feedback to keep the driver feeling engaged, and it’s easy to keep the Mach 1 pointing in the intended direction.”

As EV sales gain momentum, there will be fewer and fewer opportunities to buy low-mileage, unmodified gas-powered versions of Ford’s famous pony car. Make a move as the auction for this 2023 Ford Mustang Mach 1 ends on Friday, December 19, 2025, at 11:15 a.m. (MST).

Visit the AutoHunter listing for more information and a photo gallery

Shortly before Thanksgiving, I wrote a piece about how a Marrone Colorado brown Ferrari 365 GTC4 showed that Prancing Horses look great in colors other than Rosso Corsa red. Our Pick of the Day is more proof of that concept. You can find this Blu Chiaro 1977 Ferrari 512 BB listed on ClassicCars.com by a dealer in Houston.

At the 1976 Paris Salon, Ferrari debuted the 512 BB as a successor to the 365 GT4 BB (as in Berlinetta Boxer). Visually, the differences between the two cars were subtle: the 512 BB featured a chin spoiler, NACA side ducts, satin black louvered tail panel, wider rear track, and four taillights and exhaust outlets instead of six.

The biggest differences were mechanical, starting with the name. As Ferrari puts it, the 512 BB “broke with standard Ferrari practise of referring to the swept volume of a single cylinder. Instead it continued the theme started with the Dino series, of referring to the total engine capacity and number of cylinders. Hence it meant a 5 litre engine with 12 cylinders,” paired with a five-speed manual gearbox. Despite its larger displacement (which was closer to 4.9 liters) and four Weber carburetors, the dry-sump, DOHC flat-12 generated only 360 horsepower—less than its predecessor. The good news is that the F 102 B delivered more torque and offered better driveability.

Between the 512 BB’s introduction and 1981, Ferrari only produced 929 cars, none of which were built for the U.S. market. Ferrari’s private clients took the 512 BB (with light modifications) and its 512 BB LM race car sibling to Le Mans, where the drivers took 1st place in the IMSA (International Motor Sports Association) class and 5th place overall in 1981, and 6th overall the following year.

This particular 1977 512 BB has come a long way, both literally and figuratively. True to its heritage, it went racing in Europe in the 1980s. In a way, it hasn’t fully retired because its flared rear fenders and wider Campagnolo wheels are still present. Later, this car became part of a collection of Ferraris owned by Frits Kroymans, Ferrari’s Netherlands importer. Eventually, chassis 20747 wound up in a garage in Palm Beach, Florida, “where it remained tucked away and largely forgotten—preserved, untouched,” according to the selling dealer.

Luckily, the engine still runs after that hiatus, although the dealer recommends having a full inspection and service performed. The passage of time certainly hasn’t dulled the visual appeal of this mid-engine machine. It has a definite ’70s Italian car wedge shape to it, but the flared rear fenders add an undeniable muscularity. The body is even more striking in Blu Chiaro, a beautiful and refreshing change from the reds that cover many Ferraris. Whoever spec’d this car made the wise decision to pair that color with a tan interior with black horizontal ribbing on the seat inserts.

Every Ferrari looks ready to hit the track, but this 1977 Ferrari 512 BB actually has. If you want this attractive piece of Ferrari history to cross the finish line and reach your driveway, it’ll take $227,500 to get it there.

Click here to view this Pick of the Day on ClassicCars.com

The postwar automotive market in the United States is full of spring marketing efforts to give sales a kick in the rear. When it comes to Plymouth and Dodge, one of the most famous features introduced in the spring was the pair of colors that are quite rare: FM3 and FJ6.

Those codes translate to Moulin Rouge/Panther Pink and Sassy Grass Green/Green Go, respectively. The magenta hue in particular commands a strong premium for any vehicle that came with it from the factory; the green, in comparison, is equally as rare but was carried over into the 1971 model year, so it tends to sit in FM3’s shadow.

Those colors were among a bunch of other options that were introduced in the spring, though many happened to be delayed from the model year’s introduction and were not introduced to spur sales. Below, you can find several new features available for the Dodge Challenger.

At the 2025 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, fans of these high-impact hues had the chance to appreciate the eye-searing goodness of Mopar A-bodies, B-bodies, E-bodies, and even a special-order C-body painted in one of these colors. Dig into the Spring Fever Invitational and find a variety of cars, engines, and stripes!

The production numbers stated are based on U.S. shipments and don’t include Canadian cars and exports, so the numbers don’t represent total production. That’s a quirk of surviving production records that is rarely explained in articles and literature.

One thing that I’ve learned about vintage cars is that no matter how expensive or luxurious they were when new, many of them have been hacked up, modified, and painted different colors over the years. Nothing is sacred—at any dollar amount. Rolls-Royces are no exception, not even the one-off 1925/1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom I “Round Door.”

Why does the Round Door have two model years? If you read my piece about it back in June, you’ll know that it’s because the 1925 Phantom I started life with a Cabriolet body by the coachbuilders at Hooper & Co. After it was purchased by the the Raja of Nanpara in India, it changed hands once again. In 1934, the new owner sent the Rolls to Jonckheere in Belgium for a custom body with a sloping radiator grille cover, dual sunroofs, semicircular fender skirts, louvered rear end, side-hinged trunk cover with a prominent fin and—you guessed it—round doors. The car is currently housed in “The Vault” at the Petersen Automotive Museum, wearing a black finish over a red leather interior.

The Round Door hasn’t always been that way, though. It’s had several owners in different continents over the last century and who-knows-how-many color changes. According to the Petersen’s short history of the vehicle, “Once thought to have been owned by the Duke of Windsor, the concours-winning car then passed through the hands of several other owners before being discovered in New Jersey in the early-1950s in near derelict condition. Max Obie later acquired the unusual Rolls-Royce, had it painted gold, and charged curious individuals one dollar to enter a special enclosure to look at the car.”

Apparently, in the 1980s, the Round Door was painted another color. I discovered this on the America’s Packard Museum website, of all places. The photos sourced from the museum’s Automobile Quarterly collection date back to 1989 and show the distinctive 1-of-1 creation in all white, complete with wide whitewalls.

This goes to show how much color can change the personality of a car. Black-over-red makes the Round Door look like the vehicle the main villain in an Ian Fleming James Bond novel would drive (and probably use to bash another vehicle off the road, sending its occupants to their deaths). In white, the Round Door brings to mind the hero’s car in a fantasy action/adventure film set in a utopian future.

With its undeniable presence and dramatic lines, the Rolls-Royce Phantom I Round Door would probably look great in any color, but tell me your answer to this question in the Comments section below: Does it look better in black or white?