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![We had a lot of good nominations about the easiest cars to work on. How about the opposite? And let’s expand that a bit, up to 1990, so that we […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Honda-1985-vacuum-hoses.jpg "QOTD: What Old Car (Prior To 1990) Was The Most Difficult To Work On?")
![GM B-Bodies used to be the top dog of Beaterville. Our biggest Goodwill store is across the street from Home Depot, so I could always count on one or two […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CC-433-082.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1980 Olds Delta 88 Royale – The Ever-Vanishing B Beater, With Pontiac 265 V8?")
![The other day we looked at the similar-looking Bedford and GM NA vans, and pointed out the Bedford came along two years before the American version, which it undoubtedly influenced […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/50710717127_f15fc8f150_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: How The Ford Econoline Van Was Influenced And Ultimately Replaced By The European Transit Van")
![John Lloyd posted this shot with the following comment: Pueblo, Colorado. This is the fifth one of these I have come across in the past five years. A lot of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/34984917882_b62add0ddd_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day #2: Packard Henney Junior – John Lloyd Has Found And Shot Five of Them")
![Checker Motors, the builder of the iconic Checker Marathon, was not exempted from the increasing federal rules governing new automobiles. That meant a full complement of 5-mile bumpers, starting in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/50813901403_90425a8fe4_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1976-1978 Checker Marathon – How To Do 5-Mile Bumpers The Right Way")
![It’s easy to forget that the Prius has been sold in the US for 22 years now, starting back in 2000. And Eugene had plenty of early adopters; there’s several […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CC-428-020.jpg "Curbside Outtake: The Twenty Year-Old Prius Gives Way To The New Kid In The Driveway")
![(first posted 1/19/2015) GM’s US market share peaked at 51% in 1962, thanks to Chrysler’s implosion that year. During the rest of the sixties and early seventies, its market share […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a-monte.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo – A Modest Beginning To A Huge Hit (and Hips)")
![image via microcars.ch (first posted 1/17/2015) In an e-mail exchange with my older sister this morning about microcars we used to see in Innsbruck back in the 50s, she […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a-lib.jpg "Automotive History Capsule: 1952-1954 Libelle (“Dragonfly”) – The Only Car Ever Built In Innsbruck")
![(Update: this is actually a Bedford-Blitz, with some added Vauxhall badging) We’ll do something a bit different today, combining shots from two different Cohort posters because of the subject matter. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a-van2-vert.jpg "Cohort Pic(k)s of the Day: GM Vans: Bedford-Blitz CF280 and GMC Vandura – Guess Which One Came First")
![Apparently it’s going to take one of our North American Cohorts, like nifticus, for me to be introduced to some of the Japanese domestic cars that I’m interested in and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/50838488651_3ca95ea985_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k)s of the Day: 2002-2008 Honda Mobilio Spike – A Better Box Than My xBox")
![The Mazda MPV is something of an historical oddity. It was created specifically for the US market, which alone was quite unusual, especially for a second-tier Japanese manufacturer. The MPV […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MPV-1.jpg "Vintage Review: 1989 Mazda MPV – The Different Minivan – Or Is It A Crossover?")
![(first posted 1/14/2015) Until fairly recently, when it came to pickups, it wasn’t “The Big Three”, but “The Big Two”, and Dodge (and International). I don’t have ready stats, but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CC-232-121-1200-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1992 Dodge Ram 250 Cummins Diesel – Direct Injected Life Support")
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