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Post-COAL: 2014 Mazda 6 – Leveraging the CC Effect
Posted on August 25, 2023 | 60 CommentsBut first, the end of the Accord. Someone else at the studio had got a similar car, so scenes like this were common in the Autumn of 2022 into early […] -
CC’s Best of 2023: 1968 Volkswagen Beetle With Roof Rack – Speaking of Chewing Gum…
Posted on June 13, 2023 | 80 CommentsA sanitary Beetle—a real Beetle, parked up at the curb, just as regular as you please: a sight that was so common as to be invisible, all round the world, […] -
Checker Times Two: A Marathon Runner Lives Here
Posted on June 8, 2023 | 28 CommentsI don’t know a whole lot about Checkers, but I think the silver one’s a Marathon. The green one appears to have done service as a taxicab. Stainless -
Vintage Ad Two-Fer: 1956 Cadillac and Lincoln
Posted on June 8, 2023 | 38 CommentsThis ad is from the June 1956 issue of Sunset Magazine (the magazine of western living!). And -
1953 Hudson Hornet – Hubba Hubba!
Posted on June 7, 2023 | 42 CommentsDonno about you, but I consider it a good omen when I find an old car at a shop I’m about to patronise. Not just any old car(s), mind; one […] -
MG Midget — Have Three; They’re Small!
Posted on June 6, 2023 | 30 CommentsI’d no idea what kind of an MG this was, except it was tiny. Standing next to it felt as though it came only up to my knees, and -
Vintage Photo & QOTD: One Night in Buenos Aires – What Do You See?
Posted on June 5, 2023 | 21 CommentsThis is bustling Buenos Aires, Argentina, sometime in the 1960s. There’s a Valiant II (what North Americans would call a ’62 Valiant) just to the right of the centre, and…what […] -
CC Sunday Paper: New Cars, 60.7 Years Ago
Posted on June 4, 2023 | 34 CommentsThis didn’t start out as the Sunday paper, it started out as the Thursday paper. It’s the Hanna (Alberta) Herald for Thursday, 4 October 1962, to be exact, and it’s […] -
1980-’83 Continental Mark VI: Laid-Up Lincoln
Posted on June 3, 2023 | 31 CommentsThis panther looks like it’s sleepin’ it off after getting its jaw busted and its ear boxed in a fight. The rest of it looks to be in tidy shape, […] -
CC Clipping: Illegal Mufflers and Lights in 1952
Posted on May 31, 2023 | 48 CommentsThe thoughtless; the selfish, and the attention-starved tampered with their vehicles in unsafe, antisocial ways seventy-one years ago, as they still do now. In that foreign country known as The […] -
1999-2005 Mitsuoka Galue II – Alien Craft
Posted on May 31, 2023 | 42 CommentsI was having an evening walk round the block, as one does, when I saw this Mitsuoka, as one doesn’t. -
1963 Studebaker Lark Daytona – Awake From Hibernation
Posted on May 29, 2023 | 38 CommentsThe CC Effect™ is real! I saw this ’63 Lark Daytona two days after -
Vintage Photo: Swedish Saab-Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge Dealer
Posted on May 28, 2023 | 20 CommentsWell, Mercedeses were handled by Studebaker dealerships in the U.S. for awhile, so why not this in Sweden! Closest -
CC Commercial: I Can’t Stand Acclaim…
Posted on May 25, 2023 | 49 Comments(First posted 7 February, 2017. Reposting today in honour of Tina Turner, who died yesterday.) The American half of yesterday’s Chrysler/Dodge Spirit CCC raised eyebrows with its yeah-no-that-didn’t-happen factor. Plymouth, […] -
In-Motion Classic: Hippie Bus, As Interpreted From Afar
Posted on May 6, 2023 | 9 CommentsI was almost too late—but not quite!—to snag a pic of this fab VW Bus and its well-matched driver on a June afternoon in 2018.