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Curbside Classic: Simca 1000 – The Franco-Italian Baby Corvair
(pictures posted at the Cohort by Bryce) (first posted 6/12/2014) Bryce, why are you showing me these pictures of a Simca 1000 at bed time? This is a car I’ve long wanted to write up here, but if I...
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Late 1930s Fageol Ice Cream Delivery Truck: The Future First Peterbilt – A...
Fageol is an endlessly fascinating company. The company was founded by Rollie, William, Frank and Claude Fageol in 1916 to manufacture trucks, tractors, and automobiles in Oakland, CA. The Fageol...
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Curbside Classic: 1983 Buick Skylark –“Plz Do Not Tow!”– A GM Deadly Sin or...
There it was, on the pull out on Seavey Loop Road, with a plaintive note in the windshield, as we were heading out to Mt. Pisgah for our semi-daily nature immersion: An X-Body Buick Skylark, a car...
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Vintage Car Carrier: Convoy Home-Built Ford COE With a Load of Thunderbirds
The CCI “Skyscraper” wasn’t the only home-brew tall-boy car carrier tractor. Portland, OR based Convoy, a major player in the West and a very innovative one, not only had their own in-house trailer...
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Curbside Newsstand: New 2021 Toyota Sienna and Venza – Hybrid Only
The Curbside Newsstand is opening up again, after a mandated Covid-19 shut down. And we have some pretty good news this morning: an all-new Toyota Sienna van (I refuse to call the current vans...
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Skinner Butte Outtakes: Open Again, Including the Hoods
Things are opening up again here, in phases. And that includes the parking lot on top, which was closed due to being a city park. And so when we hiked up the other day, instead of having the place to...
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R&T Vintage Review: 1977 Datsun 810 – A Four Door 240Z – Under the Skin, That Is
The 810 had pretty iffy styling. Not just the typical mid-70s Nissan weirdness, which actually was toned down by this time. It was its proportions, with a long nose to make room for the inline six...
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Curbside Classic: 2000 Lexus RX 300; The First True CUV –“There, My Son, Is...
(first posted 4/17/2012) My son has made a career out of writing about the car industry, and most of what he’s learned is through his own efforts, but there were a few paternal teaching moments...
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Curbside Mechanix: The Easiest No-Start Repair; And A More Difficult One
The best thing about my old ’66 F100 is that it hardly ever breaks, and when it does, it’s almost invariably easy to fix. I got in it the other day to haul some yard debris, pulled the choke, turned...
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Vintage Car Carriers: When The Load Looks Like The Truck Hauling Them
Perusing the many old carrier pictures at Dick Copello’s Flickr pages, certain ones stand out, like these, where the loads match the carrier truck. Here’s some ’55 Studebakers heading out. Admittedly,...
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1965 Chevy II Two-Door Station Wagon: Factory COPO Original or Fake Custom?...
Update: first posted 6/12/2014. This generated a lot of controversy then, and it still is. A number of new comments added since then claim to have seen fleets of these at a phone company and the Air...
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Driveway Outtake: Chevrolet Celebrity and Volkswagen – A Cockroach and a Beetle
I believe it was longtime CC commenter geozinger who first introduced the term “Cockroach Of The Road” (COTR) here. And it’s been applied mostly to those generally unloved older GM FWD cars that seem...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: “Looking For A Used Cadillac? We’ve Got One Out In...
Another shot posted by Dean Edwards
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Curbside Sidegate: My Solution To High Pickup Beds
Ever tried to load or unload a big tool box, a full cooler, a generator, pavers or other heavy cargo in the front of a modern pickup bed? Extract that folding chair or cooking kit buried somewhere...
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Curbside Outtake: An Eclectic Air-Cooled VW Lover Lives Here
Shot in Portland by Ed Niedermeyer
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Cohort Pic(k)s of the Day: 1967 Chrysler 300 and 1966 Barracuda – A Mopar...
posted at the Cohort by nifticus
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Curbside Classic: 1952 REO F-22 – I Can Dig It
(first posted 6/14/2014) Yes, I like dump trucks, especially of about this vintage and size. Just the thing to haul some gravel or a really big load of compost, or with which to pull a rented...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: The Frankenvette
Posted at the Cohrt by alancurto. That’s all I can tell you.
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Cohort Capsule: 1957 Ford F100 – Paint It Purple
I just couldn’t pass up this 1957 Ford F100 posted at the Cohort by Fred Oliver. First off, it’s a vintage of the F series we’ve never done before. And it’s a six, which are instant points here at CC....
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Cohort Pic(k) of The Day: 1938 Barnes Auto Co. Tow Truck – The Streamlined...
The only information that ACB ACB left with this exceptionally fine looking tow truck is that it was from 1938 and the chassis was a Dodge. During the mid-late 30s, aerodynamic styling was the vogue,...
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