Sometimes, you see the train wreck coming. Tony Ridder, the last CEO of Knight Ridder, saw the classifieds pileup ahead and would talk about it in our company meetings by the mid-’90s: the replacement ...

Twelve grand for a Hemi Cuda?! Hindsight is 20/20, as these automotive classified ads from the 1980s demonstrate with painful clarity. These listings for a Corvette L88, a Buick GNX and the ...