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Forgotten Engines: 1964-1965 Pontiac 215 Six – Built by Pontiac or Chevrolet?
One of the more forgotten engines is the Pontiac 215 six, available on the Tempest and LeMans in 1964 and 1965. It has of course been greatly overshadowed by the OHC six that replaced it in 1966. The...
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Cohort Outtake: Peugeot 403 Pickup – Le Truck
How’s this for a splendid shot? And of a Peugeot 403 pickup, no less. Benoît shot it at Embres-et-Castelmaure, in the south of France. Now that’s a pickup I’d like to have. I’m not going to do an...
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Bus Stop QOTD: Can You ID All These Buses?
After all of those bus stop classics by Jim Brophy, you should be able to ID all of them. Should.
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Cohort Outtake: The Three Facial Types of The Big Three
posted at the Cohort by stephenpellegrino1 It’s dangerous to generalize, but these three rather epitomize the three main types of front ends in the sixties to mid-seventies era: horizontal look,...
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Cohort Outtake: Can’t Decide Between a 510 Sedan and a Wagon – And A Trove of...
I just cruised by the CC Cohort, and canadiancatgreen has just uploaded a trove of vintage Japanese cars shot at a…vintage Japanese car show. It’s Labor Day, so I’m not going to labor and copy and...
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Vintage Photo Outtake: What Folks Were Trading In At the Chrysler Dealer For...
Chrysler’s 1955 Forward Look cars were a huge step forward from their boxy predecessors. This shot, from Dave Galinas’ collection of vintage Kodachromes, shows what they were trading in.
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Cohort Outtake: 1964 Ford Custom 500 Two Door Sedan – Change Is Not Always An...
Two door sedans are always popular fare here, so this ’64 Custom 500 sedan posted at the Cohort by chrisjcieslak gets its 15 minutes of fame today. And I don’t think we’ve ever had one here before....
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Truck Of A Lifetime: 1966 Ford F100 – Thirty Years of Hauling Shit, Cheaply
shoveling a load of “black gold” (well-aged manure) in 2008 I bought my ’66 F100 in the summer of 1987 for one main purpose: to haul stuff. Back then, it was mostly well-aged manure for the garden and...
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Bad Dream Outtake: 1985 Chrysler Limousine
CC reader Dan Minick sent me this, which is from an expired for sale listing at Hemmings. So this is the only shot available, but maybe that’s just as well. What can I say, other than someone has a...
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Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots: Gas Stations of the 50s and 60s
click on images for larger size Time to go back and pay another visit to Dave Gelina’s Flickr page of his collection of vintage Kodachorme (mostly) slides. This time I visited his gas stations and...
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Auto-Biography: Moving On, To Moving Houses
This is a companion piece to the Truck Of A Lifetime tribute to my 1966 Ford F-100. This chapter is mostly autobiographical, and picks up from the previous one that covered the Telemundo years. It...
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Cohort Outtake: Babich Leningrad – Homebuilt Russian Sports Car from the...
walnohg posted this picture at the Cohort, whic he says he found at vintag.es, a source of some previous old snapshots shown at CC. He didn’t identify it, so I did a bit of Googling. It turns out to...
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Curtis Perry Outtake: 1973 Chrysler Newport –“Reasonable Grounds To Believe...
Curtis Perry has uploaded some more great photos of his at the Cohort, including these of a 1973 Chrysler Newport he found by the side of the road near Petrolia, CA. I’ve been to Petrolia a few times,...
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CC Outtake: The Last Early Caravan In This Part of Town Goes Up In Smoke
We took a different route on a walk the other day, and were a bit shocked when we came by this. We know the folks that live there; she used to teach Spanish at the Waldorf School. And they were...
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Curtis Perry Outtake: Packard Motor Home – Ask The Man Who Sleeps In One
I know quite a few old Cadillacs and such were cut up to be converted to motorhomes, thanks to their sturdy underpinnings. But this is the first time (I think) I’ve seen an old Packard be sacrificed...
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QOTD: Got Any Relics Of Your Early Cars?
I had to charge the dead battery on my riding mower today, so I grabbed a very familiar device. And then I remembered that I had bought it for my very first car, a 1963 Corvair Monza. My brother had...
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Cohort Outake: 1966 Dodge Dart GT and Dart 270 Hardtop Coupes – The Last...
(posted at the Cohort by Curtis Perry) Jim Cavanaugh’s recent CC on a 1964 Dodge Custom 880 pointed out that the 880 was the last relic of Chrysler Design Chief Virgil Exner’s “Forward Look”. By 1965,...
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CC Outtake: Ford Pickup With Roadster Door
Roadsters in the old days had low-cut doors with no roll up windows. As does this Ford pickup, for one reason or another. But since it’s still sporting its roof, it’s only half-way there to being a...
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CC Capsule: 1993 Toyota T-100 Regular Cab – The Only Truck I Would Consider...
(first posted 8/21/2013) I’ve given it some thought over the years, and there’s only one truck that I’ve seriously considered as a replacement for my ’66 F-100, and this is it. In fact, it’s...
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Autobiography: 1972 Toyota Corona Coupe – Fortieth High School Reunion
(first posted 8/22/2013) High school: some say it was the best years of their life. Maybe for the prom queen. Intense and confusing, but the memories certainly are indelible. Finding this 1972...
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