I’ve been shooting CC actively only since 2009, but it’s getting to where my older files are looking like something from a different era. I stumbled into these by accident, shot in the summer of 2013, less than seven years ago.
This also has a poignant story: I caught this Zephyr Z-7 just as it was being unloaded form a flatbed in front of the house where this couple lives. She looks a bit distraught, as if it might have been her fault.
Given the front end damage, that’s almost certain.
Looks a bit nasty. But there’s a nice box Chevy down the street as a potential replacement. And is that another Toyota van in the driveway?
As I’m shooting it, one CC photobombs and a couple more can be seen on the adjacent street.
Another CC photbomb. When’s the last time you saw one of these AWD Voyagers?
Aw, honey; don’t be so glum; we’ll find you another one….
It seems like his attempt at sympathy didn’t work as well as hoped for. There’s more cars the other direction though…
A slightly worse for wear RS Camaro, a Toyota Van, a Ford Courier, and is that a Beretta/Corsica up there in the next block? All are gone now; the Courier the last, when its owner sold house house a couple of years ago.
PS: I ran these shots in a post before, but rather than re-running that post, I though it might be fun to look at it through the eyes of 2020.
Wow, a lot can change in seven years. I have noticed the same thing when looking back at old shots, but the results are less dramatic because of the longer lives of cars up your way.
Last pic, gray car on the right just past the intersection is a Mitsu Galant.
That minivan’s blue paint must’ve been redone under warranty back in the day, the clear coat’s burned off the hood but the color seems to be holding to the primer almost perfectly. By the turn of the millennium, most silver or blue early ’90s domestics had almost no paint left (at least in the northeast).
That minivan looks about right for a vehicle that has lived in Eugene the past 25 years. My Poppy red Plymouth Voyager looked about the same after 17 years in New York.
Hey Paul, you should drive from Eugene to Tualatin on Oregon 99W some time. On Memorial Day 2020 I drove from Tualatin to Corvallis on 99W and saw a bunch of 1990s cars including some 1980s & 1970s cars. Even I-5 from Albany to Tualatin had some good finds. I drove down to Corvallis to get fingerprinted for a potential 2020 US Census job.
I don’t have a dashcam so I couldn’t photograph the numerous 1990s Dodge Rams, Chevy Silverados, Nissan Hardbodies, and other older Detroit vehicles.
It’s hard to believe those two vehicles could be only 3 model years apart.
They could be the same model year since the Dodge was made until 93 and the Camry from 92-96
A trip to a wrecking yard and a few hours with hammers dollies and spanners would have that car back in regular service, its not that bad Ive fixed worse.
This likelihood of finding parts for that car in a wrecking yard are somewhere between slim and nil. It could take a year of searching to find a donor. And that presumes the owner is willing to spend 3-5 times the market value of the car to fix it.