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1991 Volkswagen Golf Country – Don’t Point And Steyr
Posted on October 15, 2025 | 5 CommentsLook Dad! A Golf on stilts! Don’t mock the afflicted, kid. It’s not that poor VW’s fault if it got jacked up like that. Probably some height-obsessed owner’s idea of […] -
Snapshots From The Station Wagon Years – 1960s to 1970s
Posted on October 15, 2025 | 24 CommentsText by Patrick Bell. We have another round of wagons for today, with a good variety of high end, low end, and mid range offerings. They were still quite common […] -
My 1982 Datsun (by Nissan) 280ZX: Rust Never Sleeps (Part 1)
Posted on October 15, 2025 | 9 CommentsLike many of us, my first car was a short-term affair. As I documented in my first COAL, we sold my LTD II at the end of my senior year […] -
1958 Datsun 1000 (210) – Sublime Sexagenarian
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 23 Comments(Updated 10/14/2025) Wandering around Tokyo can lead to pleasant surprises. A hyper-modern city populated by folks who value conformity makes for some colorful contrasts. The conservative culture […] -
1993 Plymouth Laser: Candle In The Water, Drifting Helplessly
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 35 Comments(Updated 10/14/2025) Is there another American automobile brand whose decline and ultimate demise was more painful to watch than Plymouth’s? Once Chrysler Corporation’s volume leader, decades of neglect […] -
A 25 Minute Walk Yields 50 Curbside Finds
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 26 CommentsI had an appointment downtown and decided to walk on this drizzly morning. It wasn’t until I headed home again that it occurred to me to shoot some of the […] -
Tiny Titans: Scale Models Of 1960s Full-Size Power Cars
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 23 CommentsWe’ve looked at Muscle cars, in the sense of big block intermediates. But today I thought we’d take a look at where those powerful big blocks came from, the cars […] -
1947 Lincoln Sedan: “Nothing Could Be Finer,” Except Maybe A Cadillac
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 9 CommentsEdsel Ford was truly a remarkable man. With a personality completely unlike his tempestuous father’s, he was able to assert himself in Ford Motor Company despite his father’s conscious or […] -
Curbside Musings: 1961 And 1962 Plymouth Valiant V200 – The Wrong Toilet Seat
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 54 CommentsWe car people just want to be right. Maybe it’s because of the many hours we had spent reading and re-reading our favorite books, magazines, or sections of automotive encyclopedias about […] -
1977 Datsun F-10: It Got An F In Beauty School
Posted on October 13, 2025 | 22 CommentsThe driver of this Datsun F-10 bought it new in 1977, and she’s still in love with her beautiful baby. Which raises the question: Is ugliness in the eye of […] -
Junkyard Classic: 1997 Eagle Vision TSi – One Of The Last To Be Shoved Out Of The Nest
Posted on October 13, 2025 | 7 CommentsIt may sometimes seem as if this series is predominantly focusing on defunct brands but they do tend to be interesting and sometimes produce oddballs that seem like they should […] -
Golden State Memories: Vintage Roadside Photos Of Southern California – 1970s
Posted on October 13, 2025 | 24 CommentsModel Drive In-Cleaners, 12th and Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach. -
CC Global: From The Files Of Transportbedrijf Schoones – The Kleemann Episode
Posted on October 13, 2025 | 6 CommentsLast month, the Schoones hauling company from the south of the Netherlands celebrated their 35th anniversary with an open house. They specialize in heavy haulage, the top level of on-road […] -
1995 Mercedes-Benz E320 (W124) Wagon – The End Of The Benz As We Knew It
Posted on October 13, 2025 | 15 CommentsIf Mercedes-Benz objectively still has quite a lot of brand equity in 2025, it’s certainly not thanks to the cars they’ve been making over the past quarter century. The story […] -
1962 Mercury Monterey Custom: When A Twenty-Footer Becomes a Thirty-Footer
Posted on October 13, 2025 | 14 CommentsA few years ago, I wrote a series of articles extolling the virtues of the “twenty-footer,” a car that’s presentable but worn-in; in other words, an old car that is […]