![Ah, the Escort. Player on the world stage. Ready for anything. But at the end of the night, left alone here in the yard. Ford made a splash with the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_5364.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1984 Ford Escort GL Wagon – Alone In A Crowd")
![The other evening I was reading Paul’s post about the 1983 Dodge Rampage he ran across and the apparent rebirth of the small truck market. In that post he mentioned […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_5343.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1983 Plymouth Scamp GT – Challenge Met!")
![If there is one constant in the automotive world it is that the Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volaré are the biggest pieces of junk ever foisted on the American public. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a-vol.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1977 Plymouth Volaré Coupe – How Did This Survive 42 Years In the Wild?")
![(updated September 21, 2025) This morning as I was pulling into the local Wal-Mart parking lot in search of some items for the household, I was greeted by this sight! […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Jeep6-e1377989432336.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1957 Jeep FC-150 Forward Control")
![(Updated 9/17/2019) At one point in the very early 1990’s, I tried to convince my father that a Dodge Shadow or Plymouth Sundance would be a very […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_4366.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1994 Plymouth Sundance – Come On Down!")
![At this point I am beginning to believe that it is no coincidence that vehicles with red interiors are the ones in the best condition as they hit the junkyard. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_4740.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1990 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight Royale – No Cheese With This Royale")
![(first posted 9/8/2019) Forty years is a long time, but curiously many of us see a forty year old car and for some reason that span of time doesn’t […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_5044.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1979 Mercedes 280SE – Across An Ocean, Up A Mile, And Forty Years Of Stories")
![(first posted 9/8/2019) I spotted this newcomer to our town the other morning while dropping something off at the USPS’s outpost at my local market and decided […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_5268.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 2010 Saab 9-5 Aero Turbo6 XWD – Well Hello There, You Must Be New In Town!")
![I don’t know if it’s the constant exposure over the last almost-decade to CC or the recent binge-watching of Mindhunter but somehow I’ve come 180 degrees on the Fairmont. While […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_5036.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1980 Ford Fairmont Wagon – Business Outside, Party Inside")
![(first posted 8/29/2018) Ask the average person on the street what a Daewoo is and the answer will be a blank stare and the response “Day Who?” Yet […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_5065.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 2001 Daewoo Leganza CDX – Battling Uphill All The Way")
![(first posted 8/24/2019) Justice – If such a concept really existed, then any of the total beaters of the world that we see every day would be […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_4457.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1989 Subaru Justy GL ECVT – There Just Isn’t Any Justice")
![(first posted 8/16/2019) If Darth Vader was a real person and inhabited this planet in the 1980’s would this in fact be Darth’s choice of ride to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_4436.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1990 Saab 900 Turbo SPG – Darth Vader’s Ride?")
![(first posted 8/9/2019) It’s been a while since we’ve featured anything with a landau top and I’m sure some of you are suffering from serious withdrawal symptoms. Well, suffer […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_4383.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1984 Dodge 600 Coupe – Marooned For Good")
![Here’s a little secret: Back when I was in my second year of college, I wanted one of these and tried (in vain) to figure out a way to afford […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_4405.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1988 Toyota Tercel Coupe – Oh, What A Feeling (Seeing This Here)!")
![As I was once again in Laramie, this time working on my other rental house that looks like it is finally rented after I spent way too much time refurbishing […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_4190.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1974 (?) Jensen-Healey – Parked, Now Trying To Run")
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