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St. Vinnie’s Donation Car Sales Lot, Part 2: The Back Lot, Where The Really...
The vibe changes palpably when one walks through the gates into the side and back storage lot at St. Vinnie’s. This is where the cars that didn’t sell end up, or more likely the ones that were...
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Curbside Classic: 1961-1965 Jeep FJ-3 Fleetvan – Delivered To Your Door
(first posted 7/24/2018) The Jeep FJ-3 Fleetvan used to deliver the mail, but now it’s being delivered. But since this is as close as I’m likely to get to one of these, we’ll use this hulk as a...
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1940 Marmon-Herrington Ford 4×4 Woodie Wagon – The Jeep Grand Wagoneer Prequel
(first posted 10/2/2012) The grand Marmon Sixteen may have died in the depths of the Depression, but Walter Marmon certainly didn’t go down with it. Instead, he joined forces with Arthur...
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Vintage R&T Intro: 1976 Lancia Beta HPE and Scorpion – Now Federalized
(first posted 7/26/2018) Lancia’s renewed effort in the US market with its new Fiat-based cars was a mixed blessing. They were stylish, and had lovely interiors. And they had some very good...
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So Why Didn’t They Show The 1960 Starliner With A Starfighter?
(first posted 10/1/2012) Not to beat the poor 1960 Ford brochure to death, but I couldn’t help but stop at this fine rendering of an Orchid Gray Starliner with a Convair F-106 Delta Dart...
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Curbside Find: 1965 Plymouth Valiant V100 – The Car My Father Should Have...
I’ve often mentioned my father’s 1968 Dart, and written up the whole story in depth here. In 1965, needing a second car to drive to his new job at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he bought a new Opel Kadett....
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Will There Be Curbside Classics? A Survey Of All The Cars On Five Random...
(first posted 10/1/2012) While out on a bike ride in a neighborhood I normally never ride through, an idea suddenly popped in my head: Why not photograph every car on the next five blocks and see...
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Vintage Review: 1968 Corvette 427 –“All Of The Virtues And Vices Of American...
If anyone had even dreamed in 1968 that the new C3 Corvette would be built for fifteen years, they would have been dismissed as an LSD-addled nut job. At the end of the sixties, America was on a roll,...
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CC For Sale: 1981 Oldsmobile Sport Omega – 1 of 700 Made; Here’s Your Chance...
(first posted 7/30/2018) CC reader Chris M. sent me the link to this extremely rare 1981 Sport Omega for sale in Buffalo, NY. The ad says “Less than 700 made”. I’m inclined to believe it, as...
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Curbside Classic: 1984 Chrysler Laser Turbo – The Most Eighties Car Of Them All?
I’m very hard pressed to come up with a better example of a car that best represents the 1980s. This one has it all: FWD, a four cylinder engine, tight, clean, flashy and sleek sports coupe styling,...
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Museum Classics: “The Shape of Speed”– A Sublime Collection of Streamlined Cars
(first posted 8/1/2018) “The Shape of Speed” may well be a personal high watermark as regards automotive exhibits. I have been utterly fascinated with the streamlined era since I was a child. The...
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1976 Vintage R&T Comparison: Porsche 924 vs Datsun 280Z vs Alfetta GT
(first posted 7/28/2018) Time to crack open the next Road and Track of my huge stack that a reader sent me a couple of years ago. We’re now into July 1976, and the main article is a comparison of...
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Curbside Find: 1995 VW Passat GLC VR6 (B4) – Room To Spare
If this were a ’95 Corolla wagon, I wouldn’t have stopped. And I would know with a great degree of likelihood that it would still be around in a few years, or more. But not so with this Passat wagon;...
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1976 Vintage R&T Review: Buick Opel by Isuzu – Once You Get Past the Name...
(first posted 8/2/2018) When the weakening dollar made the German Opel 1900/Manta too expensive to import anymore, GM looked to its affiliate in Japan for the replacement. The Isuzu Gemini was...
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1976 Vintage R&T Review: Datsun F10 –“Overstyled” or Just Ahead of Its Time?
(first posted 8/3/2018) “Overstyled” is a bit of an understatement, but ironically enough, the F-10’s styling was actually just some three or four decades ahead of the curve. High belt line:...
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Cohort Classic/Auto-Biography: 1967 Pontiac Bonneville – I Almost Forgot I...
(first posted 9/30/2012) Nothing like seeing a car to jog the old memory banks. c5karl posted this ’67 Bonnie at the Cohort, and the lights flashed on: I “had” one of these. Not exactly owned, but...
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Vintage Review: 1969 AMC-Hurst SC/Rambler – AMC Pulls A Fast One On Us
Folks often tend to remember Car & Driver as cynical and anti-Detroit; actually that was all-too often not the case. Case in point: the AMC-Hurst SC/Rambler: they were a lot more positive than I...
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CC Outtake: 1976 (or so) Toyota Corolla (E30) Wagon – And a Toyota Pickup in...
(first posted 7/5/2018) Third generation Corollas have become a bit scarce, but since they are Corollas, there will undoubtedly always be a few around, forever. Could life in Eugene exist...
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Curbside Find: 1951 Chevrolet – How Do You Feel About Patina?
Patina is a controversial subject; folks either like it or hate it. And of course it’s become a big fad, and fake patina is now commonly “applied” to old cars and trucks. Well, I was into patina long...
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Curbside Classic: 1992 Mazda MX-3 GS – Smallest Production V6 Engine Ever?
(first posted 9/29/2012) Leave it to Mazda to enter the highly-contested compact sporty coupe market with something quite out of the ordinary. Mazda’s timing was a bit curious too, as the fwd MX-3...
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