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Salvage Yard Classics: A Trip To Kansas City
Posted on May 5, 2023 | 36 CommentsWhat’s a guy to do when he has a short but indeterminate amount of time to kill when in Kansas City? Why, you drop off the wife at her destination […] -
Salvage Yard Classic & Automotive History: 1987 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Landaulet – Roger Wanted To Bury The Hatchet
Posted on April 1, 2023 | 32 CommentsMuch has been written over the years about former General Motors CEO Roger Smith. His various and diverse foibles in attempting to better position the company to face a rapidly […] -
Curbside Classic: 1966 Chevrolet Caprice – Chevy Joins The Great Brougham Epoch
Posted on February 16, 2023 | 109 Comments(first posted 4/18/2012) Since 1958, the Impala had been Chevrolet’s top of the line model. When Ford added the luxurious LTD package to the Galaxie 500 for the 1965 model […] -
Curbside Classic: 1994 Chevrolet Caprice Classic LS – Last Of The Best
Posted on February 11, 2023 | 105 Comments(first posted 4/26/2012) Ah, Caprice. The pride of GM’s big car line, darling of police departments and taxi companies everywhere; you were taken from us too soon. Yes, the GM […] -
Curbside Classic: 1967 Chevrolet Caprice Estate – Nice, But Not Nice Enough
Posted on October 9, 2022 | 102 Comments(first posted 7/23/2012) I have always been fascinated by the Chevrolet-Ford rivalry. As Henry Ford’s bare-bones Model T hit its stride, the Ford Motor Company had a kind of market […] -
Curbside Classic – 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic – GM Knocks One Out Of The Park
Posted on September 4, 2022 | 98 Comments(first posted 5/6/2013) This is it: The 1978 Caprice Classic. The remarkably right-for-the-times full-sizer that proved GM could still do a car right, when they weren’t preoccupied with badge engineering […] -
Curbside Classic: 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Brougham LS – Embarrassing FWD Cadillacs Since 1987
Posted on July 4, 2022 | 178 Comments(first posted 7/4/2012) Today is the Fourth of July, so let’s celebrate one of the most American cars – Chevrolet – and one of the most American car types – […] -
Curbside Classic: 1965 Ford LTD – It Launched The Great Brougham Epoch
Posted on December 11, 2021 | 115 Comments(first posted 3/16/2011). Headline superlatives are a slippery slope, but I’m standing on pretty solid ground here: This is the car that completely changed the marketplace, the car that […] -
CC For Sale: 1991 Ford Crown Victoria LX Station Wagon – Last Hurrah for the Wagonmaster
Posted on July 31, 2020 | 57 CommentsFor many years, Ford called themselves the “Wagonmaster” and perhaps it was deservedly so. Even though most years Chevrolet lead the overall sales race, examining wagon sales alone, Ford wagons […] -
Curbside Classic: 1995 Chevrolet Caprice Classic – Engineers’ Choice
Posted on May 2, 2020 | 77 Comments(first posted 6/7/2014) If I wasn’t sure whether this Caprice was CC-worthy at first, my opinion changed the stickers in the rear window; the owner of the car was apparently […] -
Ebay Find: 1975 Chevrolet Bel Air Wagon – Economy-Sized Economy
Posted on April 21, 2020 | 140 Comments(first posted 5/22/2014) For those of you who associate the traditional American car of the 1970s with tinsel and filigree, I present this Chevrolet Bel Air wagon. It is both […] -
Roadtrip Classic: 1967 Chevrolet Caprice- A California Survivor In Albuquerque, NM
Posted on November 7, 2019 | 30 CommentsLast week, the road from Dallas delivered more than pavement. On my return trip along I-40, I found this 1967 Caprice hardtop in a McDonalds parking lot on the west […] -
Junkyard Classic: 1983 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Wagon – Goodbye, Jumbo
Posted on October 20, 2019 | 38 CommentsIf the GM B-Body in general is hallowed chassis here at CC, then the B-Body wagon must be even more sacred. After all, what vehicle was ever made worse by […] -
Cohort Outtake: A GM Lover Lives Here
Posted on October 1, 2019 | 32 Comments(First Posted September 5, 2013) Prolific CC Cohort poster William Rubano found a nice cache of big Generalmobiles. That very clean ’84 Coupe deVille really shows of its boxy, straight […]