Classic cars are about more than chrome and horsepower, and an automotive journalist says the ones that make people pull over are the ones attached to a memory.

Lorraine Sommerfeld says a Gremlin club and a Nova club both exist, not because those were great cars by any standard, but because someone’s mom drove one. What turns a car into a classic isn’t the specs, she says. It’s the story.

Sommerfeld was at the Pebble Beach Concours when an unrestored, rusted car won its category while no one in the crowd had a photo of it. She says the people who own these cars are proud and want to tell you everything. Find one and let them.

Topics: classic cars, Pebble Beach car show, classic car stories, Gremlin Nova clubs, muscle cars

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Originally aired on2026-05-19