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![I believe it was longtime CC commenter geozinger who first introduced the term “Cockroach Of The Road” (COTR) here. And it’s been applied mostly to those generally unloved older GM […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CC-417-068.jpg "Driveway Outtake: Chevrolet Celebrity and Volkswagen – A Cockroach and a Beetle")
![Update: first posted 6/12/2014. This generated a lot of controversy then, and it still is. A number of new comments added since then claim to have seen fleets of these […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/65-wagon-1-1200.jpg "1965 Chevy II Two-Door Station Wagon: Factory COPO Original or Fake? The Verdict: It’s A Fake – But Recent Commenters Are Still Claiming Otherwise")
![Perusing the many old carrier pictures at Dick Copello’s Flickr pages, certain ones stand out, like these, where the loads match the carrier truck. Here’s some ’55 Studebakers heading out. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5121483010_e9b8724242_k-1.jpg "Vintage Car Carriers: When The Load Looks Like The Truck Hauling Them")
![The best thing about my old ’66 F100 is that it hardly ever breaks, and when it does, it’s almost invariably easy to fix. I got in it the other […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CC-417-023-flip.jpg "Curbside Mechanix: The Easiest No-Start Repair; And A More Difficult One")
![Things are opening up again here, in phases. And that includes the parking lot on top, which was closed due to being a city park. And so when we hiked […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CC-415-055.jpg "Skinner Butte Outtakes: Open Again, Including the Hoods")
![The Curbside Newsstand is opening up again, after a mandated Covid-19 shut down. And we have some pretty good news this morning: an all-new Toyota Sienna van (I refuse to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Toyota-2021-Sienna-XSE-11.jpg "Curbside Newsstand: New 2021 Toyota Sienna and Venza – Hybrid Only")
![The CCI “Skyscraper” wasn’t the only home-brew tall-boy car carrier tractor. Portland, OR based Convoy, a major player in the West and a very innovative one, not only had their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/4498778416_0af0be9b23_k.jpg "Vintage Car Carrier: Convoy Home-Built Ford COE With a Load of Thunderbirds")
![I’ve shown you the old Chevy house bus and I’ve shown you the three story house. But finding them together made for a terrific combination; old and new, but plenty […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CC-415-011-fixed.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1946 Chevy House Bus and Three Story House Pose Together – Similarities and Contrasts")
![A little while back I showed you a FWD car carrier with stylistic elements by Brooks Stevens that was rather unusual. Its FWD and other elements were specifically designed to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5378136764_70ee72a128_k.jpg "Car Carrier Classics: CCI “Skyscraper” Carrier, Prototype and Production Versions – The Craziest Car Carrier Ever?")
![I just posted the initial review of the new 1977 VW Rabbit Diesel as well as a 24,000 mile long term test. But I had forgotten that R&T kept their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/100k0001-1.jpg "R&T 100,000 Mile Long Term Test: 1978 VW Rabbit Diesel – The Downsides of Being An Early Adopter, But Bailed Out By Fuel Economy and High Resale Value"){kind=small}
![I was cruising through Dean Edwards’ endless downloads at the Cohort when this stopped me in my tracks. An Exner vintage car with a genuine spare tire on the trunk, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/49877922286_6fba230bfc_k.jpg "Cohort Outtake: 1960 DeSoto Imitating a Chrysler 300F – No Fake Spare Tire Bulges For Me")
![This vintage car carrier shot from 1962 looks like it could well have been a 1962 Chevy promotional shot. The full range of Chevys is accounted for: a full size […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/4393979884_eba2d50aed_k.jpg "Vintage Car Carriers: Every 1962 Chevrolet Is Accounted For")
![Since we’re on a bit of a diesel-fueled jag here, how about we take a listen (and look, although that’s secondary) to the two extreme ends of the 71 family. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "CC Video: Detroit Diesel 1-71 and 12V-71 – The Smallest “Screaming Jimmy” and The Biggest")
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