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Mopar Archive
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Dodge D100 Pickup Truck – New Old Stock?
Posted on September 3, 2025 | 16 CommentsSome time ago, I took a spin in my imaginary time machine to go back to a Packard dealer of 1958. Today we do not need the time machine because […] -
Curbside Classic: 1980 Dodge Aspen – Rock Bottom And Loving It
Posted on March 11, 2025 | 60 Comments(first posted 3/4/2014) This custard colored station wagon has got to be one of my favorite daily drivers in Bloomington. I’ve seen it shamble around my neighborhood and though I […] -
Curbside Classics: A Pair of 1971 Fury III’s Up Close – A Furious Fuselage Duo
Posted on February 10, 2025 | 39 CommentsThe snow has melted around these parts and we can again see the hulks of relics and other fantastic curbside gems in the yards, lots, streets, and driveways of the […] -
CC Road Trip: 1962 Valiant V-200 Station Wagon – An October Drive With The Family
Posted on October 24, 2024 | 45 CommentsRecently, on a warm Saturday in October, I took the family for an afternoon jaunt in the ‘ol Valiant Wagon. We took a ~ 250-mile trip up into the mountains […] -
My 1979 Dodge Aspen SE Station Wagon – Part 4: Vacation Time to VA and WV; Mountains Not Optional.
Posted on August 29, 2024 | 11 CommentsFor Part 4, I am again sharing a family trip in my 1979 Dodge Aspen Special Edition Station Wagon. The year was 2018, and for that summer’s vacation, we decided […] -
My 1979 Dodge Aspen SE Station Wagon – Part 3: Vacation Time to the Poconos
Posted on July 20, 2024 | 14 CommentsFor this installment, I am again sharing a family trip in my 1979 Dodge Aspen Special Edition Station Wagon. The year 2016, and for that summer’s vacation, we decided to […] -
Curbside Classic: 1971 Chrysler New Yorker – Living Large
Posted on June 1, 2024 | 135 Comments(first posted 7/30/2013) One of the reasons I love 1970s luxury cars is because not many have survived to the present day–and Mopars in particular. Why, you ask? Simple. From […] -
Curbside Classic: 1966 Dodge Coronet 500 – This B-Body Earns an ‘A’
Posted on May 6, 2024 | 68 Comments(first posted 4/2/2013) The year 1966 was an exciting time in the American intermediate-car market, with each of the Big Three serving up a fresh, new model. At the time, […] -
Curbside Classic: 1968 Chrysler Newport – My Fountain Of Youth
Posted on March 26, 2024 | 67 Comments(first posted 3/26/2018) Most of us have fond memories of the cars of our youth. Didn’t you just love the stuff that was in showrooms before you reached, say, […] -
Car Show Classic: 1964 Dodge Custom 880 – The Forward Look Goes Out With A Whimper
Posted on September 4, 2023 | 115 Comments(first posted 9/4/2017) When Virgil Exner’s Forward Look burst onto the scene at dowdy, conservative old Chrysler Corporation in 1955, it marked a new era for the company […] -
Curbside Classic: 1992 Chrysler Fifth Avenue – The End Of Mopar’s Broughamance
Posted on August 14, 2022 | 87 Comments(first posted 5/24/2012) The Chrysler New Yorker was a very long lived model for Chrysler. Between the late 1930s and the early 1980s, it was the biggest, fanciest model Chrysler […] -
COAL: 1959 Plymouth Fury – Chapter 5, A Backwards Look At The Forward Look
Posted on August 14, 2022 | 53 CommentsThough I didn’t realize it at the time, my life was perfect in October of 1979. I was a sophomore in college and I had an excellent specimen of […] -
The Ultimate Daily Driver Curbside Classic #2: 1965 Plymouth Valiant With Well Over 400k (500k?) Miles
Posted on August 8, 2022 | 81 Comments(first posted at the other site in 2010, and here in 2012 and most recently on 8 August 2016. In many ways, this is the pretty much the Ultimate CC, […] -
Curbside Classic: 1976 Plymouth Valiant Brougham – Least Likely Brougham
Posted on May 13, 2022 | 103 Comments(First posted 5/28/2012) Jason Shafer recently had a post on a 1975-76 Plymouth Valiant, the sturdy, stalwart compact Ma Mopar wisely produced for most of the ’70s, then sadly replaced […] -
Curbside Classic: 1967 Plymouth VIP – Very Important Plymouth Or Footnote To The Great Brougham Epoch?
Posted on March 17, 2022 | 94 Comments(first posted 2/11/2013) I think it is safe to say that most of us here at CC are familiar with the origins of the Great Brougham Epoch. In a nutshell, […]
![Curbside Classic: 1966 Dodge D100 Pickup Truck – New Old Stock? Some time ago, I took a spin in my imaginary time machine to go back to a Packard dealer of 1958. Today we do not need the time machine because […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1966-Dodge-D100-01-Small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1980 Dodge Aspen – Rock Bottom And Loving It (first posted 3/4/2014) This custard colored station wagon has got to be one of my favorite daily drivers in Bloomington. I’ve seen it shamble around my neighborhood and though I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ygg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classics: A Pair of 1971 Fury III’s Up Close – A Furious Fuselage Duo The snow has melted around these parts and we can again see the hulks of relics and other fantastic curbside gems in the yards, lots, streets, and driveways of the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250202_103756_54301815062_o-e1738882078688.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Road Trip: 1962 Valiant V-200 Station Wagon – An October Drive With The Family Recently, on a warm Saturday in October, I took the family for an afternoon jaunt in the ‘ol Valiant Wagon. We took a ~ 250-mile trip up into the mountains […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/54083042443_5cba72c2dc_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![My 1979 Dodge Aspen SE Station Wagon – Part 4: Vacation Time to VA and WV; Mountains Not Optional. For Part 4, I am again sharing a family trip in my 1979 Dodge Aspen Special Edition Station Wagon. The year was 2018, and for that summer’s vacation, we decided […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/DSCN8721-e1723655282626.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![My 1979 Dodge Aspen SE Station Wagon – Part 3: Vacation Time to the Poconos For this installment, I am again sharing a family trip in my 1979 Dodge Aspen Special Edition Station Wagon. The year 2016, and for that summer’s vacation, we decided to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/dscn6643_53384941841_o-e1719965995897.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1971 Chrysler New Yorker – Living Large (first posted 7/30/2013) One of the reasons I love 1970s luxury cars is because not many have survived to the present day–and Mopars in particular. Why, you ask? Simple. From […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/aa-5-01-2013-009.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1966 Dodge Coronet 500 – This B-Body Earns an ‘A’ (first posted 4/2/2013) The year 1966 was an exciting time in the American intermediate-car market, with each of the Big Three serving up a fresh, new model. At the time, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1966DodgeCoronet02.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1968 Chrysler Newport – My Fountain Of Youth (first posted 3/26/2018) Most of us have fond memories of the cars of our youth. Didn’t you just love the stuff that was in showrooms before you reached, say, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1968ChryslerNewport07.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classic: 1964 Dodge Custom 880 – The Forward Look Goes Out With A Whimper (first posted 9/4/2017) When Virgil Exner’s Forward Look burst onto the scene at dowdy, conservative old Chrysler Corporation in 1955, it marked a new era for the company […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1964Dodge880-01-crop.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1992 Chrysler Fifth Avenue – The End Of Mopar’s Broughamance (first posted 5/24/2012) The Chrysler New Yorker was a very long lived model for Chrysler. Between the late 1930s and the early 1980s, it was the biggest, fanciest model Chrysler […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2-10-2012-001-e1337551180204.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![COAL: 1959 Plymouth Fury – Chapter 5, A Backwards Look At The Forward Look Though I didn’t realize it at the time, my life was perfect in October of 1979. I was a sophomore in college and I had an excellent specimen of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1959-Plymouth-Futy-04a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![The Ultimate Daily Driver Curbside Classic #2: 1965 Plymouth Valiant With Well Over 400k (500k?) Miles (first posted at the other site in 2010, and here in 2012 and most recently on 8 August 2016. In many ways, this is the pretty much the Ultimate CC, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CC-71-027-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1976 Plymouth Valiant Brougham – Least Likely Brougham (First posted 5/28/2012) Jason Shafer recently had a post on a 1975-76 Plymouth Valiant, the sturdy, stalwart compact Ma Mopar wisely produced for most of the ’70s, then sadly replaced […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ytfbnn.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1967 Plymouth VIP – Very Important Plymouth Or Footnote To The Great Brougham Epoch? (first posted 2/11/2013) I think it is safe to say that most of us here at CC are familiar with the origins of the Great Brougham Epoch. In a nutshell, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/12-18-2012-002.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


