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Curbside Classic: 1987 Ford Escort – Do It Right The First Time
What was the single greatest Deadly Sin that all of the formerly-Big Three committed over and over and over and over…? Releasing new cars that were half baked. Here’s just a few of the worst sinners:...
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Curbside Outtake: Little Toyota Pickup With Big Tiny House Trailer
A little while back I showed you a Cohort shot of a Mazda pickup with a big Silver Streak trailer. Many of you were very impressed. But that’s nothing compared to what I found on my neighborhood walk...
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Curbside Classic: 1967 Chevelle Malibu Sedan – The American Big Opel
(first posted 1/18/2014) Ok, that headline is not what one would usually expect to see associated with a sixties Malibu. But Malibus of that vintage have been stereotyped to death: coupes with big...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: This 1967 Ford Galaxie Looks A Bit Too Nice For The...
posted at the Cohort by Dean Edwards
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Wordless Outtake: If Rambler Had Survived Into the 21st Century
CC reader ptfour sent me this shot he took in Cuba a few years back. It deserves a second showing
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On The Go Outtake: 1976-1978 Chrysler New Yorker – Daily Driver
I suddenly regularly started seeing this big caramel-colored Chrysler burbling around town, but it always kept its distance. Then one rainy afternoon, as I was about to cross the street to the Y, I...
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Design History: Solaris (1961) – One Of The Most Influential GM Advance...
Images of rakish and even outlandish roadsters and sleek coupes come to mind thinking of concept cars from GM’s Advance Design Studios in its golden era. These were exercises to stimulate the creative...
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Shorpy Vintage Photograph: Union Stockyards, July 1941 – Can You ID Them All?
Shorpy; how could I forget about Shorpy? Too busy, that’s probably why. But CC reader Craig D. reminded me that I initially turned him on to that repository of old photos some years ago. And he sent...
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Vintage Photograph: Bachelor Mother, 1967 and Two Foreign Car Buff Dads
Here’s a few more from Shorpy, a bit more recent. The captions says: Divorcée Kay Biocini of Redwood City, Calif., chauffeuring some of her five children, John, George, Peter, Rodney and Ann.” 35mm...
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Curbside Outtake: 1963 Chevrolet Pickup With Home Made Camper – Woodsy
In the gray, cold wet days of winter, my thoughts naturally go back to last summer, which was the best one in many years. Not only was the weather superb, but we took full advantage of it, getting in...
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Neighborhood Driveway Outake: Saab 900 Turbo Convertible and Unibog XS
This driveway in my ‘hood is off an alley, and a bit hidden. It was the Saab 900 Turbo Convertible that attracted me to it. But that long line of letters on the back of the ML caught my eye. Hmm… Aha!...
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Bus Stop Classics: Vintage Electric Trolleybuses of Chile and Innsbruck
(first posted 2/3/2014) Visiting the CC Cohort is like stepping into a transportation book store: so many enticing titles and covers vying for one’s attention. The problem is which one to pick up,...
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Future CCs: The Dawn Of Self-Charging Solar EVs Is Here – Up To 21 Miles Of...
The direct solar-powered car is something of a Holy Grail. A car that can charge itself by just being out in the sun would solve several key objections to EVs: They could potentially never use...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Yugo – When Was The Last Time You Saw One?
posted at the Cohort by Curtis Perry I can’t remember how long it’s been since I saw a Yugo. Obviously it was before I started curbsiding in 2009, and given Eugene being what it is, there must have...
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The World’s Largest Internal Combustion Engine: A Walk Through The Inside Of...
(first posted 2/6/2014) How’s that for a truck with a big engine? Actually, that’s just an eight-cylinder version of the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C; they also come in bigger multiples of cylinders,...
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The Airbnb (Virtual) Experience: Explore the Curbsides of Eugene – Friendly...
I just had a brilliant idea. We have an Airbnb studio over the garage, which is highly rated, very popular, and a good little earner. I’ve noticed that Airbnb has been pushing “Experiences” lately....
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: They Don’t Crush Corvettes, Do They?
posted at the Cohort by Dean Edwards
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Classic Sticker Shock: My 1986 Mercedes 300E Cost $87,045 in 2019 Dollars!
If the $83,655 sticker price of yesterday’s reviewed 2020 Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 shocks you, it comes across like an absolute bargain compared to what my 1986 W124 300E cost: $87,045, adjusted to 2019...
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Comment Outtake: Dallas Hop-A-Bus – Bunny-Eared GM New Look Bus
(I read all the comments; the good, the bad and the ugly (some of mine have fallen in that category recently). And every so often a comment and its attached picture is worth a separate posting. This...
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
From an owner’s Audi e-tron that was just about to hit 10,000 miles. No wonder Volkswagen is desperately hiring as many software engineers as possible. Or are they trying to protect their dealers’...
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