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CC Open Mike Day – Got Anything You Want To Say, Ask or Suggest?
I know most of you are not exactly shy about commenting at CC. But is there anything else you’d like to say, suggest or ask? Things in general you like or don’t like, or you’d like to see? Or more...
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Curbside Classic: 1987 Chevrolet Turbo Sprint (Suzuki Cultus) – The Fiat 500...
The Fiat 500 Abarth and the MINI Cooper S have brought some welcome relief for those long pining for a little pocket rocket. It had been a pretty long wait since there was something comparable on the...
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Stageway 14-Passenger Stretch Wagons: The “Cattle Wagons” of Milton Hershey...
images courtesy my.net-link.net This is not the typical school parking lot in 1964. Except for that lone Rambler in the front, every vehicle here is a Chevrolet or Pontiac Stageway Coach stretch wagon,...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1982 VW Scirocco Mk II – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’...
Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall. (Pride before the fall). The gen1 Scirocco (CC here) is a gem, one of those rare cars that has always looked good since it first appeared in 1974. It’s crisp, dynamic, and...
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Really Big Loads: Watch Two World Records Being Made; One For 1157 Tons In...
That’s my younger son Will on the day in 1997 when we had four houses moved in a caravan, from the campus area to where they are now our rentals. Housemoving is a common occurrence, especially in the...
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CC Outtake: The Elusive Cutlass Supreme Convertible
It was getting mighty dark (and chilly) as we were walking home, but I just had to stop and peel off a shot of this Cutlass Supreme convertible across the street. I can’t remember the last time I saw...
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The World’s Largest Internal Combustion Engine: A Walk Through The Inside Of...
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, all the way to fourteen. Want...
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Curbside Classic: 1944 GMC CCKW 6×6 – We Take The Famous WW2 “Deuce and a...
Maybe you found your way to CC because you were sick of all those infantile “We Drive The World’s Fastest Cars” 200+ mph shoot-outs or such on endless glossy magazine covers. No, we’re strictly grown...
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Classic Curbside Classic: Travco Motorhome – The Granddaddy Of The Motorhome...
Identifying the origin of species can be a precarious business, as Darwin found out. When it comes to motor homes, it’s easy: one Ray Frank built himself a crude one in 1958, and called it “motor...
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CC Outtake: The Prancing Beetle
Captured near the UO campus. Art car students, perhaps? A close-up, to fully appreciate the details:
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Snow And Ice Outtakes: Can We Just Be Done With Winter Already?
see how easy Minis are to push in the snow. Ok; I know some of you put up with snow and ice for eleven months of the year, and never once complain (What drugs are you on anyway?) When we decided to...
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CC Clue: And It’s Not Going Away
One of the suggestions at the recent Open Mike post was to leave the Clue up after the corresponding CC is posted. Now thta we have 15 posts per page, front page real estate is not precious, and we...
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Curbside Classic: Saab Sonett II V4 – A Noisy Little Footnote To Automotive...
The Saab Sonett’s impact on the automotive world was somewhat similar to my encounter with this one at an intersection. By the time I heard its distinctive arrhythmic exhaust, turned and expressed my...
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Cohort Outtake: 2002-2005 Thunderbird – The Last Flight
The Cohort is overflowing (literally) with lots of fabulous finds. So why did I stop at this neo-Bird, shot by Triborough? I feel guilty, given all the other cars there (and we’ll try to post more...
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Cohort Outtake: Holden HQs – The Ozzie Nova and Camaro; Close But Not Quite...
Bryce has posted a ton of cars, but these two Holden HQs caught my interest. Bryce has repeatedly said that these are essentially re-bodied gen2 Camaros (or 1975+ Novas), and that a Camaro front clip...
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Cohort Outtake: GM In The 60s, 70s and 80s
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this one is going to save me a whole lot of keyboarding. Posted at the Cohort by Triborough.
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The CC Dodge Colt Chronicles, Part 1: 1971-1973 Dodge Colt (Mitsubishi...
1971 Dodge Colt image: BAT.com Over the course of this week or so, we’re going to chronicle the rather complex story of the Dodge Colt. The name “Colt” is much more than just a series of Mitsubishis...
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Cohort Outtake: Too Good To Wait (Updated With Side Shot) It’s Even Better...
click image for full-sized splendor I was perusing the Cohort which is brimming with amazing new finds, but when I ran into this shot by Eric Clem, I just had to grab it and share it immediately. What...
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Cohort Outtake: Good Call On Those Wheels
One of our favorite rants here is the choice of wheels found on so many cars from the sixties (or later) other than stock. Yes, one would expect a mean looking 427 ’66 Impala coupe to be sporting some...
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Cohort Outtake: Two American Independent Start-Ups Sharing An Intimate Moment
I’ve been waiting for just this shot to appear, and here it is, in such a grand setting no less. A Tesla Models S and a DeLorean DMC-12, having a little chat about what it’s like to try to carve out a...
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