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Cohort Sighting: GAZ-24 Volga – Pushing The Limits of Immortality
We don’t get a a lot of curbside shots from Russia, so let’s give this tired old GAZ-24 Volga a little CC love. LDeren posted it, noting that it was shot in May 2014. Robert Kim did an in-depth...
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CC Outtake: A Four-Fer; Only One Of Them Is A New CC Find
Well, that’s hardly the first time four CCs have made it into one shot of mine. And three of these cars have been featured here before. Can you guess which one was the real catch? The Isuzu I-Mark...
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QOTD: How Did You Learn, Or How Do You Teach Someone To Use A Clutch and...
Today’s Pontiac GP post got a discussion going about clutches and parking brakes, for starting off in a stick shift car. Let’s open the discussion a bit more. How did you learn to use a clutch (and...
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Curbside Classic: Simca 1000 – The Franco-Italian Baby Corvair
(pictures posted at the Cohort by Bryce) 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 get into the story in great...
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1965 Chevy II Two-Door Station Wagon: Factory COPO Original or Fake Custom?
Randy Thompson is the proud owner of this 1965 two-door Chevy II wagon. He posted a picture of it at “The Short and Odd Life of the Two Door Station Wagon” article, with this comment: I have recently...
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Book Review: “The Man Who Saved The V8″
Once I got past the hyperbolic title (at the very least, it should be: “The Man Who Saved The Ford V8″; better yet would be “The Man Who Saved The Ford V8, Temporarily”) and the first chapter, in...
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Curbside Classic: 1952 REO F-22 – I Can Dig It
Yes, I like dump trucks, especially of about this vintage and size. Just the ting to haul some gravel or a really big load of compost, or with which to pull a rented excavator. And they look so good,...
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The Niedermeyer Family 1965 Dodge Coronet 440 Wagon Rediscovered, They Way I...
One of my hopes in starting CC was to be able to find the cars of my childhood and youth (yes, I have a strong nostalgic streak), to use the pictures in my Auto-Biography series and really bring it to...
View ArticleCC Time Warp Theater: “Ingenuity In Action”– The Road to the 1959 NHRA...
Maybe drag racing isn’t your thing. But this professionally made movie from 1959 that chronicles one team’s efforts to build the winning dragster, and haul it from California to Detroit behind a ’51...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1965 Ford Fairlane Sports Coupe – The Failane
I assume Ford just plain ran out of A-team stylists when it came around to giving the quite nice-looking ’64 Fairlane a re-skin. It’s the only way I know how to possibly explain one of; no, the worst...
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CC Capsule: 1966 Ford Fairlane 500 Sedan – A Fresh New Face In The Neighborhood
If the front end of the ’65 Fairlane was its weakest element, the front end of the ’66 is undoubtedly its best. Note that I didn’t use the word “original”, as Ford was obviously channeling Pontiac...
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CC Clue: Seeing Red
Mr. Ate Up With Motor won the Dodge Steatlh clue, his first appearance on the winner’s list, IIRC. Now it’s your turn.
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Curbside Classic: 1961 Buick LeSabre Two-Door Hardtop – Harley Earl’s...
Where does design inspiration come from? In the case of Harley Earl, GM’s legendary design chief from 1927 through 1958, after WW2 it most often came from aviation. The jet age had arrived, starting...
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1961 Buick Convertible Tops In Designer Fabrics
No, that’s not Megan Draper modeling these designer convertible tops for 1961 Buicks. For that matter, these (sadly) never got past the concept stage. But someone found these pics from a GM Design...
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Cohort Sighting: Ferrari 400 GT – A Pininfarina Classic, Built For 18 Years
posted at the Cohort by ostwestphal How’s this for an eclectic lineup, fronted by one of the most brilliant and enduring Pininfarina designs ever, a Ferrari 400. I’m going to stick to the 400, as it’s...
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CC Outtake: Volvo Parking Only
Seen in Eugene’s Whitaker District, where old Volvos are very prolific. So what was parked in front of it? Well, it was a CC… Better call the tow truck.
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The CC Complete Cutlass Chronicles (“CCCCC”): Part 1 (1961-1963) Unfulfilled...
1962 Cutlass by William Rubano (We’re going to re-run this whole series, which has been revised and updated, but we’ll leave the original comments intact. But there’s always room for more…) How did the...
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Curbside Caption: Veiled In Smoke and Mystery
Even though I lived through the late sixties-early seventies, I can’t readily explain this Datsun publicity shot. Can you?
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1970 Fiat Dino GT Coupe – A Delectable Fastback
The Great Fastback Epoch swept across America like so many sudden feverish automotive (and food) fads, unleashed by the 1963 Sting Ray. Some were good, like the Corvette; others middling. But way too...
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Cohort Sighting: The Smart Spare
Why carry a spare tire on the back of one’s RV when a spare car fits almost as well? Posted at the Cohort by Johnh875.
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