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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Dodge Mowag 300 – Swiss Built 4×4 Fire Truck
by mncarspoter The Swiss have had the most enduring love for American cars in Europe, along with the Swedes. MOWAG, a Swiss firm that specialized in all sorts of limited-production trucks, military...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Foxy Continental – Where Have They All Gone?
I was just beginning to forget about these, which is not all that hard to do. But here’s one sitting in the weeds found and shot by pbell5600, and of course, it’s sitting on its empty air bags. I...
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Vintage Car Carrier of the Day/QOTD: Unidentified Cars Being Hauled by an...
This load on a knocked-down carrier is intriguing. It’s a pair of cars from the early ’50s, and unidentified. They look very much like custom one-offs, which was a big thing at the time. Or so I...
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Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Austin-Healey 100-6 – The Big Healey Gets a Six
Although most commonly known as the Austin-Healey 3000, that version of the “Big Healey” (to differentiate it from the Sprite) was the third major variant of the series, built from 1959 to 1967....
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Where’s That Last Beer?
by Ralf K (Don Kincl) More details below: Don says: 1954 VW with sunroof I owned from 1977 till 1978. This is somewhere near Monte Cristo, in the Cascades.
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Vintage Car Carrier of the Day: 112 HP To Pull 1,000 Idle HP
Does this ’54 Chevy car carrier hauling ’56 Oldsmobiles look like it’s maybe moving a bit leisurely? Well, it does have all of 112 hp under its tall hood, in the form of a 235 Chevy six (or maybe the...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: I Stop For All Chevy Fleetlines
posted at the Cohort pbell5600 It’s one of my unfulfilled desires: A ’49-’52 Chevy fastback. 261 six out of a truck. Three on the tree. This condition is just about right. More patina is even...
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Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Plymouth Fury – The Best All-Round Performance Car...
Chrysler pioneered the big American performance car. By that, I mean the complete package, not just a hot engine option on a marshmallow-suspended sedan or coupe. It started with the superb Chrysler...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: We Buy Ugly Mustangs; and Falcons Too
posted at the Cohort by pbell5600 The difference between a base Mustang and a high-trim fastback was pretty minimal in its original incarnation (’65-’66). But that gap widened with new iteration. And...
View ArticleCurbside Cinema: A Three Minute Walk Down NYC’s W 8th Street (1971) – Car...
[W 8TH Street Heading West] from Anthology Film Archives on Vimeo. Having spent six weeks walking the sidewalks of NYC in 1973, this little film resonated with me; a walk back in time. The only...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: The Truly Loaded ’56 Bel Air –“Factory Air, Orig....
pbbell found this fine old ’56 Bel Air sedan for sale somewhere in Texas, and it is really loaded. Take a look: “with 3 Speed And Auto.” Wow; my dream V8 Chevy; I can shift it manually when I’m in the...
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Vintage Car Carrier of the Day Caption Contest
Here’s the keys to all these cars and trucks. The last convoy driver lost his box. Don’t let me and Studebaker down, my son. Your turn:
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Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Mercedes 190SL –“A Sense of Security and Perfection”
The Mercedes 190SL is the unfortunate victim of my stupidity. No, actually it’s the other way around; given that I passed on the opportunity to buy one for relative peanuts in the late ’70s. As much...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1968 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special – Hot Rod...
Mike Hayes posted this new find with the following comment: The proud new owner of this car came over to talk to me when he saw me taking photos. Social Distancing be damned! He said he’d just...
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Vintage Car Carrier of the Day: The Biggest Ford V8 Ever Hauling a Load of...
Unlike the other day where we had a 112hp Chevy six pulling a load of big Olds V8s, here we have a husky Super Duty Ford V8 with up to 534 cubic inches hauling a load of six cylinder Ford taxis. My...
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Vintage R&T Review: 1978 Volvo 262C –“There Simply Is Not Enough Headroom”
Given today’s high beltlines and gunslit windows, the Volvo 262C doesn’t look all that odd. It was just forty years ahead of its time. But it raised eyebrows pretty consistently back in the day: what...
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Second Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Volvo TP21 – Plenty Of Headroom in the The...
How about a bit of contrast to today’s headroom-challenged 262C? RJ found this Volvo TP21 in Vilnius, Estonia Lithuania maybe doing a bit of work for the company whose logo it so proudly displays. The...
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QOTD: Which Car Did You Wish Your Parents Would Buy?
CC reader Brad A. asked if I’d ask you all this question. He really wanted his folks to buy a Camaro Z28 in the early ’80s, as a replacement for the family ’78 Impala sedan. Me? Depends which...
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