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Curbside Classic/Autobiography: 1972 Toyota Corona Coupe – Fortieth High...
(while I generate some fresh Toyota content, here’s another from the vaults) High school: some say it was the best years of their life. Maybe for the prom queen. Intense and confusing, but the...
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Curbside Classic: 1979 – 1982 Toyota Tercel – Toyota Nails Another One
How exactly did Toyota come to be so dominant, mostly at GM’s expense? One little well-built coffin nail at a time. We will forever hear explanations as to why GM stumbled and flubbed so many new car,...
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CC Outtake: 1979 Toyota Mega-Cab Pickup
Back in the dark ages, when most pickups only came in regular cabs, a substantial little industry developed around extending them with “sleeper cabs”, so called because they resembled the ones on big...
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CC Outtake: The Well-Insulated Toyota Chinook Camper
The Toyota Chinook pop-up camper had a huge if brief surge of popularity in the mid-late seventies. It was compact, affordable, and readily usable as both a daily driver as well as a camper on the...
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Curbside Classic Review: 1990 Toyota Camry LE V6 – Dripping With Fat
The gen2 and gen3 Camrys are from the heart Toyota’s “fat” years, when seemingly no expense was spared to make them tower over the competition in terms of build and material quality. A while back, a...
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CC Outtake: Not All Camrys Are Beige Or Silver
Let’s just say I’ve been saving this one for Toyota Week….
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Post Toyota Week Outtake: MGM In Flat Black
Now that we’ve all survived Toyota Week, it’s time to unleash all that big American iron shot in the past week or two. Yes, flat black is way too common. I can be a real idiot when it comes to popular...
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Post Toyota Week Outtake #2: ’69 Chevy Wagon Also In White Over Flat Black
I shot this just a few blocks from the white over flat black MGM. So is the color combo of 2013?
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Brochure Classic: 1971 Plymouth Fury I Coupe – The Rarest Of All The Fuselages?
Three cheers for oldcarbrochures! I was looking for a shot of the 1971 Fury III 2-door Formal Sedan to add to a comment I left on today’s CC, when I stumbled into a car I never knew existed, and...
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CC Capsule: 1967 Pontiac Le Mans 389 – This Un-GTO-Clone Deserves A Thumbs Up
Originality is getting hard to find, most of all when it comes to muscle and pony cars from the classic era. Almost every ’69 Camaro left has been turned into a rumbling Z-28, or at least an SS. And...
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CC Outtake: El Camino On The Mainline
We were picking some late-season blackberries by the railroad crossing, when I saw what appeared to be an El Camino heading for the tracks a ways down. And when I say tracks, these are the Union...
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Curbside Classic: 1968 Oldmobile 442 – It’s All In The Numbers
The Pontiac GTO generally gets bragging rights as the first of its kind: the classic intermediate-sized Detroit muscle car. The GTO first appeared in 1964, and pretty much defined the category. But...
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No Wonder There Are So Many Curbside Classics In Oregon – It’s The Cheapest...
Ok, that headline might be a bit confusing. According to bankrate.com, Oregon is the cheapest state in the US to operate a vehicle, with an average cost of $2,204 per year (the highest is Georgia,...
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Railside Outtake: Baby On The Mainline Tracks
Some of you got a bit worked up over the guys shooting a video a bit close to the tracks yesterday. So here’s a chance to keep the party going . Someone (rightfully) asked about what that has to do...
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CC Outtake: T-Tails
The transition from the W123 Mercedes to the W124 was huge, in just about every way possible. The W124 was a clean sheet car, and its chrome-less soap-bar styling was the biggest break from MBZ...
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CC At 2.5 Years: Over Two Million Unique Visitors So Far – Care To Address...
two million on the mall Starting a web site is a bit like throwing a permanent party; you open the front door, put up a few balloons on the porch rail, and hope someone shows up. Well, the CC party...
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CC Clue
Some unexpected showers today gave me the excuse I was looking for to play hooky, and throw myself into a CC I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. Who knows what it is? My apologies, but I can’t...
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Curbside Classic: 1963 Studebaker Avanti – Flawed Brilliance
curbside Avanti images posted at the CC Cohort by Foden Alpha Every car has a story, but some are a hell of a lot more compelling than others. The Avanti’s may well take the cake; it’s the absolute...
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CC Flat Paint Outtake: Mercedes CLK Coupe – A Flat Out Lie
I wouldn’t have broken my stride to shoot even the one shot I took of this CLK, if it hadn’t been for our new flat paint series. These blobby and dull little cars, sent out by Mercedes on an utterly...
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Cohort Sighting: Ford Falcon XP Wagon – Shorter Than The American Version,...
Bryce, our intrepid man in New Zealand, has uploaded a raft of shots at the CC Cohort. So many to chose from, so little time… But this Falcon XP wagon caught my eye, as Australian Falcons usually do,...
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