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Follow-up on “American Muscle vs. CHP”: What Really Happened – A Mixture of...
I’ve been a bit intrigued about this picture posted on the Bishop, CA DHP’s Facebook page, titled “American Muscle vs. CHP”. It just struck me as a bit too unreal for a genuine roadside assist of a...
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Trackside Classic Video: Willamette & Pacific Short Local With Caboose – The...
The Willamette and Pacific is part of a group of short lines controlled by the Portland and Pacific, operating on various branch lines of the former Class 1 railroads in Oregon. I see it running...
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Book Review: To Caress the Air – Augustus Herring and the Dawn of Flight...
Augustus Herring got screwed, several times over. He was young, ambitious, creative and a superb engineer, and was utterly obsessed with solving the problem of powered flight. And according to him, he...
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CC Outtake: 1982 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale Brougham – The Great Brougham...
CC used to be crawling with post’77 B-Bodies, Broughams, and both together. Not so much anymore. Has Brougham Fever abated? Are B-Bodies passé? Well, they’re getting to be a bit scarce on the ground,...
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Curbside Classic: Volvo 122S – The Cult Of The Amazon
(first posted 3/30/2013) How exactly did the Volvo 122 “Amazon” achieve its mythological stature? Naming it after the eponymous nation of all-female warriors was a good start. Legendary ruggedness...
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Curbside Classic: 1963 Ford F100 – Ford Pulls a Studebaker
This is the most embarrassing F-Series pickup in that long line of fine classic Ford trucks. Maybe to some of you what makes it so embarrassing is not immediately obvious. Let’s just say they resorted...
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Driveway Outtake: Two Red Hybrids
Someone likes hybrids, and in the color red. The Prius is of course one of the most common cars here, but the number of gen1 Insights is becoming rather small, like the car itself. Isn’t it now a...
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CC Outtake: 2001 Honda Prelude – Kombustion
I’ve seen some unique and altered badging on cars, but this one is a bit different. A celebration of the Infernal Kombustion engine? Otherwise, this 2001 Prelude appears to be stock. Well, except for...
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Auto-Biography: A Tiny House for Will – My Most Recent Building Project
It’s a tradition here for me to share with you my various building projects over the years. Last summer my younger son Will was moving back to Eugene, and needed a roof over his head. He really needed...
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CC Caption Contest: Beached
Back in the early years here at CC we used to do Caption Contests. We stopped because Jim Cavanaugh always won (just kidding). But lets see what you all come up with for this one, and that includes...
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Curbside Classic: 1989 Chrysler’s TC By Maserati – The (Deadly) Sin Of...
(first posted in 2011) You got to hand it to Lee Iacocca; he was given an utter basket case of a car company and one new K car. And just like a magician, he kept reaching into his hat for a solid...
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Cohort Outtake: The Long and the Short Of It, One More Time
Yes, a Smart and a Cadillac posing together isn’t exactly original, but with a ’62 Fleetwood 75? Probably not, so were going to add to the cyber collection of the genre, thanks to Nicky D, who shot...
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Cohort Outtake: 1963 Mercury Meteor Custom Wagon – A Genuine Unicorn
Mike Hayes has found what has to be one of the rarest American-brand station wagons of the sixties. The Mercury Meteor, based heavily on the new mid-sized Fairlane, was only built in 1962 and 1963,...
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Cohort Outtake: Packard Series 126 “Single Six” Found Sitting in a Parking Lot
This shot posted at the Cohort by Stephen Pellegrino is a bit different. He found this fine old classic Packard sitting in a parking lot next to a Walmart in Boonton, NJ. He did not identify it. The...
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Cohort Outtake: Plum Crazy Dodge Caravan C/V R/T – Or Something Like That
Dodge’s Plum Crazy purple, which first appeared in 1970, is of course back on the option list. But it never went out of fashion for hard core Dodge Fever guys (the ones in the white hats), as this...
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CC Outtake: Four Elderly Pickups In a Row
Birds of a feather flock together. I’m not so sure they’re all “of a feather” other than being elderly pickup trucks. Well, strictly speaking, the Ford at the end has been turned into a stake bed. But...
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QOTD: What’s Your GM FWD A-Body Story – Doesn’t Everyone Have One?
I walked by a pristine Olds Ciera in a parking lot tonight, and thought to myself it’s been a while since we’ve had an A Body at CC. But then we’ve had oodles of them in the past, and covered every...
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CC Outtake: Four Aging Panthers In A Row
Yesterday it was four elderly pickups in a row; today it’s four aging Panthers in a row. Someone obviously is a Panther magnet. I’m more like a Panther repellent, so I’m going to let some of you...
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Curbside Classic: 1975 Volvo 164 E – The Anglo-Scandinavian
(first posted 4/10/2014) The Volvo 144 was a paragon of modern Scandinavian design: all business, understated, clean, functional. And suddenly out of nowhere appears the 164, wearing the frumpy old...
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The Latest Ultimate Curbside Classic: 1946 Chevrolet Pickup – The Oldest...
(first posted 4/12/2014) The overarching purpose of CC is to document the older vehicles still on the streets. And when they’re in front-line duty, as daily drivers or work trucks, the goal is...
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