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For all middle children life is hard. And no life is harder in the automotive world than the middle model or trim level. The most difficult life to live is...

Curbside Classic: 1963 Buick Wildcat – I Think I Want To Fight

Grab the Kleenex; the Graham story is a real tearjerker. All too often, the good guys do lose; and timing is everything. The three Indiana-bred Graham brothers were already stars...

Curbside Classic: 1940 Graham Supercharged Sedan – Graham Jumps The Shark

The Volvo 140 series was introduced in 1966 as a ’67 model. This car, with continuous updating over the years, finally ended production in 1993 as the 240. The 140...

Curbside Classic: 1972 Volvo 144E – Volvo’s Blueprint For The Next Thirty Years

First things first: I like these cars. The downsized 1986 Riviera was a little too downsized, and its resemblance to the N-body Somerset/Skylark made matters worse. While I didn’t care...

Curbside Classic: 1989 Buick Riviera – What The 1986 Riviera Should Have Been

Powered By Ford. There’s something special about those words, something iconic, something that evokes nightmares of an uniquely American scope, from our first family cross-country trips in a 1954 Ford...

Curbside Classic: 1976 Mustang II Cobra II – Ford’s Deadly Sin II

Every now and then, cosmic forces beyond our control come into play. When Laurence Jones and I were simultaneously pounding out our takes on the ’58 Olds while completely unaware...

Curbside Classic: 1958 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 – OLDSmobility

This type of car doesn’t exist any more. The last vestige of this type of traditional American luxury car ended when the last Town Cars rolled off the line in...

Curbside Classic: 1978 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe – CAFE is Coming

The Mercedes W114/W115 ‘New Generation’ was the continuation of Mercedes’ new styling direction for the Sixties, which began with the finless 220SEb coupe and cabriolet in 1961 and the S...

Curbside Classic: 1970 Mercedes-Benz 220D – Ride In Teutonic Luxury (With 65 HP)

There was a time, in the halcyon days of the American auto industry – and, indeed, of America itself – when there were “Chevy families,” “Ford families,” and the like....

Curbside Classic: Mazda RX-7 FC3S – Middle Child Syndrome

In 1928, Singer was the third-largest car manufacturer in Britain. By 1970, it no longer existed, despite a history of commercial success and technological innovation. Like SAAB and the other...

Curbside Classic: Singer and the 1964 Gazelle – Motoring’s Most Elegant Experience

The 3rd Generation Subaru Leone was a car of many names during its run from 1984 to 1994. In the US market it was know as DL, GL, GL-10 and...

Curbside Classic: 1984-94 Subaru – Loyale with Cheese

Black front-engined Porsches must have been calling to both Tom Klockau and me on almost the same day. The 928 story is a big one, given what a radical departure...

Curbside Classic: Porsche 928 – The Future Of Porsche, Twenty-Five Years Too Soon

We can thank Mazda for adding a lot of spice to the automotive landscape. Their compact, smooth and high-revving rotary engine started (and ended) in the most obvious of places:...

Curbside Classic: 1974 Mazda RX-4 Rotary Wagon – Still Spinning

Fair warning: these are not your usual, daily driven Curbside Classics. However, they are driven, and many of the following cars aren’t vehicles you’re likely to see parked downtown or...

Curbside Classic Visits The Old Car Home

Since the beginning of time, man has had the innate need to hunt. Early on one’s desire to hunt was in a direct relationship to whether or not he consumed...

Curbside Classic: The Elusive 1955 Plymouth Savoy

The GMC “Old Look” bus was first made in 1940 and was phased out when the “New Look” buses arrived in 1959. They utterly dominated the bus market with their...

Curbside Classic: GMC TDH-5105 Old Look Transit Bus – GM’s Greatest Hit #9, Despite Being The Agent Of A GM Deadly Sin

Three-wheeler week wouldn’t be complete without a Zap Xebra. The Chinese-built Xebra surfed the 2006 – 2008 wave of EV enthusiasm, only to find itself all washed up once buyers...

Curbside Classic/Review: Zap Xebra – The Justified Assassination

This truck is the archetype of all pickups, in all its simple but beautiful essence. If you grew up in the fifties or sixties, these Chevy’s are probably as deeply...

Curbside Classic: 1951 Chevrolet 3100 Pickup – America’s (And My) Favorite Truck – GM’s Greatest Hit No. 4

In 1912, the White Star Line launched its biggest and most luxurious ocean liner ever, the R. M. S. Titanic. An engineering marvel said to be unsinkable, the ship fell...

Curbside Classic: 1956 Packard Patrician – Please Proceed to The Lifeboats

It seems to be Land Rover day today, so here’s one I snapped recently. Michael Freeman shared his life with a very similar rig a few months ago. Unlike his, this...

Curbside Capsule: Land Rover Discovery V8i – Silly or Serious?

How many truly original cars are there? Here’s the test: take any car, and one can almost always find their antecedents or inspirations. One that stands out is the Citroen...

Curbside Classic: 1969 Citroen 2CV – The Most Original Car Ever

Since we’re wallowing in old Ford dump trucks, how about a little pictorial on one that showed up at my house demolition party this summer? A couple of days late...

Curbside Classic: 1964 Ford F600 Dump Truck – Still Hard At Work

Elwood Engel, fresh from Ford Motor Company, did not waste any time in making his mark at Chrysler Corporation. His most famous design is the 1961 Lincoln Continental, and it...

Curbside Classic: 1968 Chrysler 300 – Elwood’s Designs Were Jake

That air presented the greatest obstacle to automotive speed and economy was understood at least intuitively, if not fully scientifically since before dawn of the automobile. Putting it into practice...

Automotive History: An Illustrated History Of Automotive Aerodynamics – Part 1 (1899 – 1939)

Galesburg IL, 2/21/86 A lot of times I’ll think, “why didn’t someone take pictures of common things twenty or thirty years ago?” I would have loved to see pictures of...

Street Scenes: Curbside Classics In Their Prime

It’s bus week at CC, so how could I not show you Eugene’s most famous bus, Further. It’s not the original 1939 Further, the prototype of all hippie buses and...

Curbside Classic: 1947 International Bus “Further” – Ken Kesey’s Merry Prankster-Mobile

Since 1958, the Impala had been Chevrolet’s top of the line model. When Ford added the luxurious LTD package to the Galaxie 500 for the 1965 model year, Chevy quickly...

Curbside Classic: 1966 Chevrolet Caprice – Chevy Joins The Great Brougham Epoch

We build cars to sit in, not to pee over. Chrysler Persident K.T. Keller’s delicately-chosen words resulted in boxy tall-boy sedans out of sync with the market, leaving Plymouth drowning...

Curbside Classic: 1955 Plymouth Belvedere Suburban – Suddenly It’s…1956

I have never been to Eugene, Oregon. You see, I am a corn-fed midwestern boy, born in Michigan and raised in the Hoosier state. We eat breaded tenderloins, watch basketball...

Curbside Classic: 1967 Dodge A-100 – What Are You Doing Here, Eugene

You have to hand it to GM. The 1980 X-bodies were by all accounts an unmitigated disaster. Yet they took that very same platform, updated and enlarged it, and turned...

Curbside Classic: 1988 Chevrolet Celebrity – When Life Hands You Lemons…

Is it a stretch to say that finding this beater Corolla AE86 GT-S on the street is the equivalent of finding an original and beat up 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda? Maybe,...

Curbside Classic: 1985 Toyota Corolla GT-S – The Legendary AE86

Datsun pioneered the little Japanese truck in America; more correctly, they built their business on it. In the early sixties, their cars weren’t exactly quite ready for US prime-time, given...

Curbside Classic: 1977 Datsun King Cab Pickup (620) – Yes, We Have Long Legs In America

LuAnn was a modest, quiet, and unassuming woman. During the late 1980′s, she was in her mid-60′s. LuAnn had had a sad, rough life. Widowed at an early age,...

Curbside Classic: 1964 Rambler Classic 770 – Miss LuAnn’s Ride

The Volvo GL was a stroke of genius for Volvo. Adding a little luxury and exclusivity to its tough-as-nails 240 series gave you the option of a luxury Volvo without...

Curbside Classic: 1984 Volvo 240GL – Sensible Luxury

The smartest move I ever made was moving to California in 1976. It was then still truly the Golden State; I just couldn’t believe how incredibly beautiful it was, and...

Curbside Classic: 1978 Plymouth Fury Ex-Cop Car – I’d Recognize That Shape A Half-Mile Away

Here I am again, resident defender of some underdog car (whether it be in looks, sales, relevancy, etc.) This time I’m going to go as far as saying the 1962...

Curbside Classic: 1962 Plymouth Fury – If You Think This Is Bad…

Until science makes a giant leap forward, there are two avenues through which humans can strive for some semblance of immortality. We can leave behind some of our genes, a...

Curbside Classic: Porsche 911 – Immortality Attained?

The Legacy represented a precarious journey upmarket for Subaru’s lineup, as well as being the springboard for the price point too-far SVX coupe (CC here). Breaking out of their small...

Curbside Classic: 1990-94 Subaru Legacy – The First Generation

As a child of the 1980s, I am very familiar with the GM A-bodies, and Cutlass Cieras in particular. They were everywhere at the time, and there were at least two of...

Curbside Classic: 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser – Jerry Lundegaard’s Folly?

Americans generally just don’t take too well to tiny cars. Perhaps they’re too much like toys, not really yet grown up? (the cars, I mean; mostly). The Metropolitan certainly looks...

Curbside Classic: 1957 Metropolitan – Toy Cars Are For Kids

What a difference twenty years makes. The eighties was the Japanese decade, when they were going to take over the US, if not the world. They bought prime real estate...

Curbside Classic: 1989 Daihatsu Charade – Treat And Retreat

Mom’s Curbside Classic: 1995 Jaguar XJS Convertible – T-Bird Substitute

Cruising down the highway, most of an engine’s work is spent pushing air out of the way. Common sense tells us that depends on 1) how much air is in...

Automotive Aerodynamics: Drag Area – Size Matters

When the Honda Prelude was first introduced, it was meant to be a more stylish commuter than the Civic. While its performance didn’t set the world on fire, it was...

Curbside Classic: 1991 Honda Prelude Si – Improving The Original

This is it. The biggest Thunderbird ever built, a Mark IV in disguise. Hard to believe this car is related to the trim, befinned 1955-57 two seat T-Birds, huh? The...

Curbside Classic: 1974 Thunderbird – A Mark By Any Other Name…

If you grew up in the Seventies, you know this car. You know it very well. If any one car could best define that wild and crazy decade, the Chrysler...

Curbside Classic: 1976 Chrysler Cordoba – Fine Corinthian Brougham

There were innumerable milestones in GM’s terminal decline , but the Cadillac Seville makes for a very convenient set of markers. In its four incarnations as GM’s most expensive car,...

Curbside Classic: 1980-1985 Cadillac Seville – GM’s Deadly Sin No. 17 – From Halo To Devil’s Pitchfork

1958 Packards are not really Packards. A series of poor decisions and lack of funds resulted in an unfortunate merger with Studebaker and what may be the very first badge-engineered...

Curbside Classic: 1958 Packard Hardtop – The Last Gasp

Of the three US compacts introduced for the 1960 model year, the utterly conventional Falcon was the most successful, so much so that Chevrolet and Chrysler would quickly modify their...

Curbside Classic: 1964 Ford Falcon – Plain And Simple

You have to wonder about GM sometimes. Between the 1940s and 1960s, they were an industrial powerhouse. Deep, deep pockets, technological know-how and widespread popularity. They could have done anything...

Curbside Classic: 1969 Opel Kadett – Buick Dealers Really Sold These?

Fifty years on from their planning stages, it’s obvious that the 1964-67 A-Body intermediates were one of the greatest hits of General Motors. In all four flavors, from the lowliest...

GM’s Greatest Hits #7: Easy A – General Motors A-Bodies 1964 -1967

We’re all experts on EVs now, and can chuckle about the challenges EV makers had before large lithium-ion batteries made cars like the Leaf, Volt and Tesla (relatively) possible, although...

Curbside Classic: Nevco Gizmo – Eugene’s Own EV

We all know how it actually went, as the Falcon led the big 3 small car parade in 1960. But never before did the mighty big 3 contribute 3 vastly...

Curbside Comparison: Compact Conundrum – Who Would You Choose in ’60, ’65 and ’69

For those under a certain age, the name Opel Kadett may be as familiar as Richard Speck, The Troggs, or Valley of the Dolls. Yes, 1966 was a long time...

Curbside Classic: 1966 – 1973 Opel Kadett (B) – It Dethroned The Volkswagen

Yes, every car has a story; it’s just that some are a lot easier to tell than others. This Esprit punches its way into the latter category with the full...

Curbside Classic: 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 – Giorgetto Giugiaro Takes Up Origami

The Porsche 924 and 944 were the first Porsches with a front-mounted, water cooled engine. In the not too distant past, these Porsches, along with the more expensive grand touring...

Curbside Classic: 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo – VW’s Loss Is Porsche’s Gain

Ah, the Country Squire. What says 1960s to 1970s upper-middle class suburbia better than one of these? Before minivans, before SUVs, and before crossovers, these were the ne plus ultra...

Curbside Classic: 1975 Ford Country Squire – The Car That Made Di-Noc Millions

A lot of us here at CC love the classic land yachts of the 1950s through the 1970s. If you feel the same, you’re in luck, because the subject of...

Dockside Classic: 1968 Chris Craft 35′ Commander – Dream Boat

Poor Chrysler. They have certainly had their issues, both in the distant and not so distant past, eh? But somehow, they manage to get up, dust themselves off and carry...

Curbside Classic: 1977 Chrysler Newport St. Regis – Old Soldier

Passing by these old Ford/Mercury wagons, you don’t really think of them as “state of the art.” But an ingenious hinge is all it could really take to transform the...

Curbside Classic: 1966 Mercury Commuter & Ford Country Sedan – Open The Door To America’s Heart

The Mercury Colony Park was one of Mercury’s longest-lived models, lasting from 1957 to 1991. While it did have some Mercury identity (such as it is) early in its life,...

Curbside Classic: 1988 Mercury Colony Park – Colonizing Mercury

Well, I went and did it again. Yes that’s right, the last car in this author’s Cars of a Lifetime is another Land Rover. A sickness you say? Well, yes...

Cars Of A Lifetime: 2000 Land Rover Discovery II SE7 – Oops, I Did It Again

“It’s about the journey, not the destination”. Tell that to a family of six, one of them seven months pregnant, on the third day being jammed into in a black...

Curbside Classic/Auto-Biography: 1962 Ford Fairlane – Sometimes It Is About The Destination

The Chevrolet Chevy II/Nova, introduced in 1962 to supplement (and eventually replace) the Corvair, stayed true to its roots during its production run in the 1960s and 1970s. The second...

Curbside Classic: 1977 Chevrolet Nova – Incognito Camaro

This Buick has so much going for it: a killer grin, a svelte long hood covering a genuine straight eight, a delicious aero-back tail, and the kind of delightful chrome...

Curbside Classic: 1948 Buick Series 40 Special Sedanet – Just A Few Inches Short Of A GM’s Greatest Hit

(curbside images by captchris from the CC Cohort) Sometimes being great just isn’t good enough. In every objective parameter, the 1961 – 1965 Corvair Greenbrier had the VW bus beat...

Curbside Classic: 1963 Corvair Greenbrier – GM’s Greatest Hit #6 – We Don’t Want A Better VW Bus

Starting in the early Sixties, trucks started to get fun. Off-roading, camping and other outdoor recreation really came into its own. International was first out of the gate with the...

Curbside Classic: 1989 Dodge Ramcharger LE – Mopar Joins The 4×4 Craze

This was the wave of the future in 1949. While US automakers were still selling every facelifted prewar car they could make – and at a healthy profit – it...

Curbside Classic: 1950 Nash Statesman Airflyte: Did Somebody Say Bathtub?

Bryce delivers once again, posting these cool photos to the Cohort. Here’s something you’re not likely to see in North America: the Humber Super Snipe. I am not making that...

CC Capsule: 1960-67 Humber Super Snipe – British Rootes

Oh, what could have been. Maserati had been producing very fast, very expensive sports cars for many years by the time the Biturbo debuted in late 1981. It was the...

Curbside Classic: 1986 Maserati Biturbo Spyder – Do You Feel Lucky?

With a little imagination (not in short supply here), this could be the 1949 Cadillac or Oldsmobile. In the mid-late thirties, radical innovations in aerodynamics, rear engines, front-wheel drive, unibody...

Curbside Classic: Tatra 603 – This Could Have Been The First New Post War Cadillac, Olds, Studebaker, Or?

Chrysler’s Town & Country went through several iterations over the decades. It had been a station wagon, two-door hardtop, four-door sedan and convertible between the 1940s and 1980s, but the...

Curbside Classic: 1990 Chrysler Town & Country – What Happened To My Wagon?

In the months before the 1928 U. S. presidential election, Herbert Hoover’s campaign slogan was “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” Even at the...

Curbside Classic: 1937 Packard Six – Prestige on the Installment Plan

The MGB is one of the most common classic 1960s British sports car. Even folks who are not into cars probably recognize an MGB if one passes by on the...

Curbside Classic: 1972 MGB GT – Early Adopter

About thirty years ago, Toyota pickups such as our featured CC were everywhere. And why not? They were tough, efficient, and hauled a fair amount of stuff. For those who...

Curbside Classic: 1982 Toyota Truck – When Compact Pickups Roamed The Land

What do you get when you cross the marketing savvy of Lee Iacocca, the star power of Frank Sinatra, and an attractive personal luxury coupe with tried and true Mopar...

Curbside Classic: 1981 Imperial by Chrysler – It’s Time For You. Or Not.

After the Volvo 1800 series was discontinued in 1973, Volvo had a hard time getting back into the specialty coupe business. Their next attempt to get back into that market...

Curbside Classic: 1990 Volvo 780 – Rectilinear Luxury By Bertone

Can a vehicle be a Curbside Classic if it is still in production? When it is a throwback like the Club Wagon Chateau (and when I am the appointed arbiter)...

Curbside Classic: 1995 Ford Club Wagon Chateau – Welcome to the Club

Americans are a forgiving sort, and redemption from sin is just the right gesture away. Well, that applies more to politicians and celebrities than to car companies. It can be...

Curbside Classic: 1988 Hyundai Excel – The Damn Near Deadly Sin

Curbside Classic: 1992 Lexus LS400 – With All Due Respect

The recently discontinued Panther platform Ford Crown Victoria had some serious staying power. The styling of the car you see above would last all the way to 2011 with only...

Curbside Classic: 1998 Ford Crown Victoria LX – Beginning Of The End

Hybrids are very big in Eugene, but some are just plain huge. The Prius has become the official car of Eugene, having dethroned Subaru. But here’s a hybrid of a...

Curbside Classic: 1968 Chevmobile Impala – Hybrid Of A Different Sort

Does this face look familiar? British Motor Corporation (later merged into infamous British Leyland) did a lot of business with Pininfarina in the 1960s. Starting with the 1958 Austin A40,...

Curbside Classic: 1962 Austin A110 Westminster – Junior Jaguar Or English Fintail?

If you were looking to buy a 1977-1979 full-size Pontiac today, you would have a long road ahead. Looking online and in Hemmings, you could be forgiven for thinking that...

Curbside Classic: 1978 Pontiac Bonneville Brougham – No, Pontiac Didn’t Just Make Firebirds In The ’70s

The 1980s were not kind to Cadillac. While in the 1960s they could do no wrong, in the 1980s it seemed they couldn’t do anything right. The shrunken new-for-1985 models...

Curbside Classic: 1988 Cadillac Coupe de Ville – How Not To Downsize A Luxury Car

In the mid 1990s, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan described an economic situation in which investors were extremely active in the financial markets even though common sense would find no reason...

Curbside Classic: 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk – Irrational Exuberance

Here we have another question of where to go between extremes. Normally it’s the retreat from extremes of excess when we think of cars from the 1950s. But when it...

Curbside Classic: 1956 Studebaker President – Sadly Squared Up

[Today is Curbside Classic's first birthday. So I've picked a post from that first day to re-run, as perhaps quite a few of you weren't around then to catch it....

Curbside Classic: 1959 Cadillac – False Prophet Of A New Era

So, it’s actually 1960. Aren’t you happy with the portrait I painted? What do you mean no? No? What do you want then?

Curbside Classic: 1960 Chrysler Saratoga Sedan – Forward Fini

Curbside Classic: 1992 Oldsmobile Touring Sedan – A Regency With An Attitude

I really was rather excited to find this Montego at BiMart the other day; I can’t even remember the last time I saw one of this vintage. And just in...

Curbside Classic: 1969 Mercury Montego – Another Mercury Moment

Ah, Caprice. The pride of GM’s big car line, darling of police departments and taxi companies everywhere; you were taken from us too soon. Yes, the GM B-body was a...

Curbside Classic: 1994 Chevrolet Caprice Classic LS – Last Of The Best

The 1971-76 GM full-size station wagons were the largest wagons the company ever made. Each division had their own fancy version, usually with vinyl wood appliques on the sides –...

Curbside Classic: 1974 Buick Estate Wagon – Hold The Fake Wood, Please

Growing up in south-central Pennsylvania, trips to the Gettysburg battlefield were a regular family outing. My father has always been a history buff, which meant that we spent quite a...

Curbside Classic: 1976 Hornet Hatchback – AMC’s High Water Mark

In 1971, when General Motors unveiled the redesigned B and C body lineup of full-size cars, the gap between the bread-and-butter Chevrolet and top-tier Cadillac narrowed even further. However, this...

Curbside Classic: 1972 Chevrolet Caprice – Cadillac Carbon Copy?

You all should know that my collection of train books probably exceeds the one with cars, and if I ever burn out on CC, I’ll start Trackside Classics. I promise...

Trackside Classics: PRR GG-1 And DB E18/E19/ÖBB 1018 – The Two Greatest Electric Locomotives Ever

The Lincoln Mark VII was not your typical floaty, land yacht Lincoln. The new LSC (for Luxury Sport Coupe) model was the first Lincoln marketed as a driver’s car, and...

Curbside Classic: 1990-92 Lincoln Mark VII LSC SE – Not Your Uncle Max’s Mark

Australian cars have been an endless source of fascination for me and many American car enthusiasts. It’s an alternate reality down under: the cars look so familiar, yet they’re obviously...

Curbside Classic: 1973 Australian Ford Fairlane ZXGLQ-FU Found In Eugene – That Thing Got A FEMI?

I spent many happy days behind the wheel of a Simca Aronde exactly like this one. It was in Colorado, and I drove it on all of the most scenic...

Curbside Classic: 1956 Simca Aronde (90A) – French Training Wheels

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The Curbside Pickup Classic: 1988 Peterbilt 320

Posted on May 16, 2012 | 29 Comments
Today I’m going to take you on a tour of my assigned company vehicle, a front loading refuse truck. C-32 is the 2nd oldest piece of equipment my company operates...
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Cohort Classic: 1981 Oldsmobile Omega – X Marks The Spot

Posted on May 15, 2012 | 60 Comments
So far, I’ve found all the versions of GM’s fabulous X-bodies (even a Phoenix coupe) except for the Olds Omega. So when I saw this fine example posted at the...
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CC Outtake: Stag Party

Posted on May 15, 2012 | 18 Comments
Sunshine in England means one thing – taking the Stag out for a spin.
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Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part I 1946-49)

Posted on May 15, 2012 | 19 Comments
The month of May means many things to many people. But if you are anywhere around Indianapolis, the month of May means only one thing: that the annual Indianapolis 500...
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Curbside Classic: 1976 Chrysler Cordoba – Fine Corinthian Brougham

Posted on May 15, 2012 | 89 Comments
If you grew up in the Seventies, you know this car. You know it very well. If any one car could best define that wild and crazy decade, the Chrysler...
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CC Capsule: 1983-85 Jeep Grand Wagoneer – Chet Ripley Would Approve

Posted on May 14, 2012 | 30 Comments
On a recent Saturday, the family wanted to go see a local Civil War reenactment. While walking across the grounds going to see the “battle”, I spotted this Grand Wagoneer...
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CC Outtake: Ole Purp

Posted on May 14, 2012 | 61 Comments
I was walking back to the car while running errands this afternoon, when I saw this purple, ahem, I mean Rose Mist, 1996-97 Taurus GL parked next to my wagon.
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CC Outtake: 1956 Or 1957 Studebaker Champion? – You Decide

Posted on May 14, 2012 | 7 Comments
About a block from my home (Note: blocks are flexible, I live in the country) is a mechanic who has decided to sell cars. Generally he has pretty normal cars....
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CC Clue: Remember Bumper Guards?

Posted on May 14, 2012 | 12 Comments
If you do, you may recall the car wearing this one. Maybe this one will be a bit easier to place than the Peterbilt 320 garbage truck, which no one...
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Curbside Classic: 1973 Australian Ford Fairlane ZXGLQ-FU Found In Eugene – That Thing Got A FEMI?

Posted on May 13, 2012 | 65 Comments
Australian cars have been an endless source of fascination for me and many American car enthusiasts. It’s an alternate reality down under: the cars look so familiar, yet they’re obviously...
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