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Cohort Sighting: Audi 5000 (100-C2): The Anti-W123
I can show you parking lots full of Mercedes W123s, but a C2 Audi 5000? Not one to be found anywhere, yet their lifespans corresponded almost exactly. And the 5000 was quite popular in the US, at...
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Mercedes Purgatory: Where W123s Awaited Their Bio-Diesel Reincarnation
The height of the W123 Bio-Diesel boom here was a few years back; it’s subsided since then, undoubtedly for the very reasons that Perry has laid out in his CC today: these cars weren’t quite the...
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Cohort Outtake: Unidentified Step Van Safeguarding Its Vital Bodily Fluids
You all know by now that I have a thing for step vans, despite them being very hard to identify. There were/are quite a few manufacturers of these boxes, which sat on the chassis of the usual Big...
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QOTD: How Many Toronado Hack And Weld Pics Can You Find?
Thanks to its front wheel drive, the Toronado unleashed a wave of creativity, since it was so (relatively) easy to connect its front end to almost anything else that would then happily trail along...
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Cohort Sighting: Chrysler Valiant VG –“Hemi” Six Power
In our quest to eventually cover all of the many generations of Chrysler’s Australian Valiants, Bryce has shot and posted a VG model four door sedan, looking like it’s still very much a “runner,” in...
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Cohort Sighting: Dodge L700 Tilt Cab – The Big-Boy A100
Triborough has found a truck I’ve been keeping an eye out for way too long: A Dodge L700 tilt cab medium duty with the cab borrowed from the A100 van/pickup. Ford had their immensely popular C-Series,...
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CC Capsule: 1989 Toyota Land Cruiser HJ75 With Chevy 6.5 L Diesel V8 – How’s...
As soon as I saw this rig in a parking lot yesterday, I knew it was a bit far away from home. Toyota never imported these HJ Series Land Cruisers to the US, so I started walking towards it, pulling my...
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Cohort Outtake: Purple Hyundai – How Else To Notice Such A Bland Car?
Maybe its owner got tired of not being able to find their Sonata in the parking lot. These cars do look rather generic. Posted at the Cohort by Triborough
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Skinner Butte Outtake: Celebrate The Celebrity
Spring is in full bloom, and on Sunday it was time to celebrate the warmth and sun with another trek to Skinner Butte. I always pull out my camera as I approach the summit, because inevitably there...
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CC Capsule: 1967 Ford F 250 With Wide Oval Spare Tire
I’m rather excited to catch this truck, because it used to live here for many years, then disappeared for quite a few more years, only to return again. It’s a fine old classic F250, but what really...
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Cohort Sighting: There’s A Tiger On My Tacoma
The intrepid CC Cohort generally focuses on older cars, given our primary mission here. But I would have stopped to shoot this Tacoma just as Eric Clem did; how could one not. And a continental spare...
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Cohort Capsule: Volvo C202 “Laplander”– The Swedish Pinzgauer
It only stands to reason that Sweden would have its own military 4×4 vehicle, and that Volvo would be the one to build it. S. Forrest found this in Ontario, and posted two pictures at the Cohort. It’s...
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CC Outtake: Go Ahead, Ride My Ass…
It was a beautiful Sunday morning, so we headed for the coast. I noticed a Volare sedan ahead of me heading out W. 18th Ave; well, in Eugene, that’s hardly unusual, as there’s quite a number of...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre – Maybe It Should...
The sixties, that golden decade of American performance cars, had two very distinct eras. The first half was dominated by the full-size bombers with their ever-larger big block V8s sporting dual quad...
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Cohort Sighting: International Travelall 4×4 – Six Door Edition
Travelalls of this generation have such a no-nonsense attitude to start with, but this one really takes that to the limits, or beyond. Between the stretch and having four-wheel drive, this rig just...
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CC For Sale: 1958 Continental Mark III – $3500 Will Save It From The...
I promised the owners of this ’58 Continental Mark III that I would post it at CC, in their efforts to find a buyer to keep this from being turned into a demolition derby monster. But looking at what...
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Curbside Classic: 1970 Mercury Montego Brougham – Mixed Messages
Every car has a story, but some are a lot more obvious than others to divine. What is this Montego Brougham trying to tell us? Do we even want to know? I’m almost afraid to ask, because it’s not...
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CL Find: 1984 Mitsubishi Tredia Turbo –“$600 CLASSIC AND RARE CAR!!!”
I’m not sure about the “classic” part, but it’s certainly rare. These Tredias and Cordias, the first Mitsubishis sold in the US under their own brand, have become might scarce. I asked “Last Cordia...
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Cohort Sighting: Unidentified Woody Wagon in Havana
Flat-Black66 (Bowen Stead) has posted many shots from Cuba here, and new ones continue to show up. This one caught my attention, as its wood body looks to have been redone, locally. And lengthened, in...
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