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Curbside Classic: 1974-1981 VW Dasher (Passat B1) VW Finally Enters The FWD Era
(First Posted December 30, 2014) Procrastination is an evolutionary trait; why expend energy now when the wolf isn’t yet at the door? From the mid-50s on, VW knew it needed to eventually find a true...
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Curbside Classic: 1963 IH Scout 80 – The Advance (SUV) Scout
(First Posted July 11, 2014) The precise evolution of the SUV, like all car genres is debatable, but there’s no question that the International Scout is the critical link between the military Jeep...
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Time For a Change at CC: I’m Retiring and Handing Over the Keys to Jim Klein...
This will be post #4,699 for me since starting CC in 2011. And it may be a while before post #4,700 goes up, as I’m retiring from CC. This has been a long time coming, and it finally arrived. And I’m...
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Curbside Classic: 1970 Chevrolet Impala – The Best Big Car Of Its Time
(First Posted August 8, 2013) We’ve spent a massive amount of time on these pages praising the 1977-up B-Body Impala and Caprice. But given that today we’re considering whether the new 2014 Impala is...
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The Ultimate Curbside Classic: 1956 Ford F-350 Still Hard At Work Six Days A...
(First Posted September 2, 2013) Back in the eighties, living in tony Los Gatos, I used to gaze longingly at photos of old American cars and trucks still hard at work in Cuba. But within days of...
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Dumpside Outtake: 1980 Datsun (Neo)510 Wagon – A Recycled Name Hauling...
(First Posted September 7, 2013) As odd as it may seem, sometimes I almost rather enjoy dump runs, especially when I’ve been cooped up in my office way more than normal. Of course, that does rather...
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Cohort Outtake: A GM Lover Lives Here
(First Posted September 5, 2013) Prolific CC Cohort poster William Rubano found a nice cache of big Generalmobiles. That very clean ’84 Coupe deVille really shows of its boxy, straight lines to best...
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Kerbside Classic: Austin FX4 London Taxi – 6th And Charnelton In Eugene,...
(First Posted September 21, 2013) After yesterday’s Checker post, it seems only fitting to take a look at at the legendary London Taxi, the ultimate living dinosaur. The Austin FX4/Fairway design was...
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CC Global: 1981 Brazilian VW Gol – A Shortened Audi 80 With An Aircooled...
(First Posted September 25, 2013) Brazil is to VW what Australia is to the Big Three: an alternate universe where things look both familiar and yet quite surreal. Take this 1981 Gol, for example;...
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Curbside Classic: 1973-1979 Honda Civic – The Second Little Revolutionary
(First Posted October 1, 2013) How often does a truly revolutionary car appear? Let’s disqualify uranium powered flying cars on the cover of Popular Science and other quirky eccentrics from...
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Curbside Classic: 1977 Datsun F-10 – It Got An F In Beauty School
(First Posted October 3, 2013) The driver of this Datsun F-10 bought it new in 1977, and she’s still in love with her beautiful baby. Which raises the question: is ugliness in the eye of the...
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Curbside Classic: 1964 Dodge Dart 270 – The Valiant Brougham
(First Posted October 22, 2013) What really separates the hard core car freaks from the semi-pros is in what mental image they conjure up when you say “early Dodge Dart”. Even those of us who were...
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COAL Update/QOTD: 2005 Scion xB @100,000 Miles and 15 Years With No Repairs –...
missed it by one mile Back in the good old days, when everything was so much better and greater, a 15 year-old car with 100k miles on it still on the road was…rolling junk, unless the owner was...
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Curbside Classics: Plymouth Horizon And Dodge Omni – Detroit Finally Builds A...
(First Posted October 24, 2013) Is time slowing down? Just fifteen years separate this 1960 Imperial and the Horizon’s birth. Or was it just that Detroit was terribly slow to embrace the...
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Curbside Classic: 1984 BMW 528e – The Low Rev Modest Driving Machine
(First Posted October 26, 2013) The early eighties were likely the single most challenging time for car manufacturers ever. In 1980, average oil prices hit a record high of $99 (adjusted) per barrel....
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Curbside Classic: 1960 Imperial Crown Southampton – The Frankenstein Of Cars
(First Posted October 25, 2013) Calling a car from this period a monster is not exactly uncommon or uncalled for. But what if its own daddy called it that? Virgil Exner, the father of the definitive...
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Curbside Classic: 1993 Alfa Romeo 164 – Alfa’s American Farewell Present
(First Posted November 4, 2013) With Alfa’s return to our shores delayed once again (to mid 2014), its easy to forget that it seems like just yesterday (to us oldsters) that Alfa was selling its...
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CC Outtake: Dodge Wide-Body Van
(First Posted November 12, 2013) One of the odder van conversions was this wide-body Dodge. I can’t remember who exactly did these, but they essentially cut them down in half, lengthwise, and...
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Curbside Classic: Mercedes-Benz 207D (T1) And Other Vintage MBZ Vans
(First Posted November 13, 2013) Needless to say, I’m a lover of vans, especially those suitable for camping. Few things beat hopping into a vehicle with all the basic necessities of life and hitting...
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Tesla’s Cybertruck: Did I Just Dream That?
I have vivid dreams. I woke up this morning just an instant before I hit the water, having been pushed or jumped out of an airplane hundreds of feet above the ocean. And I have recurring vivid dreams...
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