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The interest (and results) of yesterday’s streets-side shot was gratifying. So let’s do another, this one shot just a few blocks away from the other (Eugene’s Whiteaker District is an official CC historic zone, with no cars younger than twenty years old allowed).
eight I think from the subaru to the what I think is a golf MK1
I’m thinking that’s an early Cabriolet, the B pillar doesn’t appear to be body color like it would be on 2 door Golf, and the roof looks a little bit lumpy.
Oh my god where do you start feel like I am looking at a picture of the panama canal digging!
maybe 9 if you look beyond the vw van there is another Nissan pu same 80s vintage as the white one.
Wow, we just don’t get that range of interesting cars in most parts of FL. I bet keeping CV joints in that lifted scoobyroo is tough unless the owner has adapted some that have more range of motion. I think I would take the late model 240 wagon.
Lifting a Subaru? Yikes! Only in Oregon.
There’s several around like that.
Yikes! I’d say ‘Only in Eugene’ but for all I know there’s somebody in Boring or Drain who lifts poor suffering Subies.
It also possible that the suspension from a later Outback was retrofitted. Given the DIY angle iron roof rack I’d lay odds on the owner just said screw it and permanently lifted it.
I’ll second Jasons comment on the CV joints having a projected lifespan similar to the unnamed red ensign beaming down with Kirk, Spock and Bones. My stock 1990 ate them every 12-18 months never leaving pavement.
Subaru advertised at the time that the suspension ride height was adjustable.
No, this one appears to be permanently lifted. The adjustable suspension offered in the first generation of Legacy wagons was troublesome, and I can’t imagine that a functioning system exists 20 years later. We inherited an 8-year-old 1990 Legacy LS AWD wagon so equipped from my dad (who’d purchased it new), and during the 5 years we had it, we needed to replace two of the air shocks at $400-500 each. Although the ride height of the pictured wagon is about the same as our 1990 was when fully lifted, clearly this one has tires with much bigger diameter than the originals.
I also see 9, but I don’t think the last pick-up is a Nissan. The Econoline has one of the most amusing stories I’ve read at CC: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/auto-biography/van-of-a-lifetime-1971-ford-econoline-e100-what-might-have-been/
Agreed, the second pickup one car behind the VW van is definitely a Colorado/Canyon. I can’t for the life of me identify the green blob behind the bus. The last one I’m leaning current Corolla, but can’t be sure.
I gotta stick with Nissan, hood is sloped down and small grill. Colorado/Canyon had that big GM grill. Car behind VW I think is another Honda civic. Looks too small to be a corolla. I would definitely take the Mercedes 300 wagon.
It’s hard to say, you could be right. I zoomed in again on it, where you’re seeing as the hood sloping, I’m seeing those goofy amber signal lights on top of the headlights, but it really could be either. It also looks like the bed has too much shape to be a hardbody, the Colorado/Canyon have a little flair out to their beds.
I obviously am not sure about any of this, any of those last 3 are pretty blurry zoomed in. Maybe Paul will post some answers for us 🙂
I knew I wouldn’t be the only one to notice the Subaru wagon with more ground clearance than the Econoline van. I suspect it’s a testament to the truly amazing number of fascinating backroads that infest the state of Oregon.
Remember a couple of years ago when some Internet guru managed to get himself and his family irretrievably lost on the backroad that goes through the mountains from Grants Pass (well, Merlin) to Gold Beach? We’d made that crossing on that same road the summer before, and I can easily see how someone who didn’t know backroads could get lost up there in the wintertime. I’ve explored a lot of forest service roads in the area around Newport too. But I’m not so adventurous that I’ve gone anyplace I couldn’t navigate in whatever Honda Accord I was driving at the time. If I were, a lifted Subie would seem like a really good choice of vehicle.
I still want to drive the Steens Mountain loop, dust and all….
I’m only seeing 8.
Legacy, Econoline, 240, Benz, Nissan Hardbody, Civic hatch, VW cabriolet and the Bus.
The last 3 appear to be newer
Teal blob-this could be something moderately interesting, like a first gen Elantra, but I really can’t ID it at all, saying 50/50 its a CC…
The truck is Colorado/Canyon-not CC
Last one is pretty generic new compact, but knowing locale, and since its fits with what I can see, I’m thinking a newer Subaru Impreza -not CC.
I gotta stick with it being another Nissan the Colardo/canyon had the big GM grill if you look real close this has the same Nissan low grill and hood drop no big grill. And the blob behind the vw I think is another Honda.
Paul, I remember the 71 Econoline from a CC earlier this year that you wrote, right?
You know you’re from Oregon when you’ve got a collection like this in front of your house! I’ll take the 240 and the 300TD!
I see shots like these every day around Eugene. Especially the Whit. I even rode by your shot from yesterday to ID that purple car but it wasn’t there.