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CC Outtake: 2005-2006 Corolla XRS – 8200 RPM Boy Racer In A Pink Tutu – Who...
What caught my eye way across the intersection was this Corolla’s pink paint job. Given how some here have been lamenting the lack of pink cars, I thought it worth a quick shot, since otherwise...
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CC For Sale: This 1984 Lincoln Town Car Is Going Begging For $700 – I’m Going...
We’ve been walking past this boxadelic Town Car for a few years now, on our most common route into the big city center. I’ve never given it a second glance, as there are all-too many of these littered...
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CC Outtake: Delivery Vans, Then and Now
Who could have guessed forty years ago that Mercedes vans would one day be plying our streets? Of course, that goes for a whole lot of things that have changed that would have been hard to anticipate,...
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Cohort Sighting: 1965 Ford Country Sedan – Why Not “Country Wagon”?
Wikipedia’s definition of a sedan: A sedan /sɨˈdæn/ (American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English) or saloon (British and Irish English) is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with...
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Welcome To 1978 Mid-Size Day
The CC time machine somehow got stuck in 1978. We had the 1978 Grand Am yesterday, and the Olds Cutlass scheduled for this morning. And to keep the disco party rolling, we’re going to re-run some...
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CCCCC Part 10: 1978 Cutlass Supreme Brougham: Supremely Popular, With Certain...
The Complete Cutlass Chronicles are about the rise and fall of the house of Cutlass. And here we are, at the very zenith of the Cutlass Supreme Coupe’s arc. Well, strictly speaking, the almost...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1978 Ford Fairmont – That Very Rare Honest Car
Let’s face it, honesty is not necessarily the best policy in the car business (or any business, including Wall Street, politics, food processing, and…). GM proved that in the late twenties when they...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1981 AMC Concord – The Underdog Learns One More New...
Everybody loves the underdog, so how can we not love this Concord? Or everything else that AMC kept coming up with in its increasingly desperate attempts to forestall its inevitable demise as...
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QOTD: What Domestic “Mid-Size” Car Would You Buy In 1978?
It’s 1978, and you’re a Baby Boomer with a wife and a little kid or two, and you just got a promotion. Time to dump that hulk of a Pinto or rusty Nova, and buy a nice, new car. Specifically, a...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1958 DKW Sonderklasse 3=6 (F94) – The Proto-Audi
Seeing that it’s a DKW and not a B-Body, some of you might be tempted to skip this CC. If you must, but know that this is a very significant historical car, and one I’d pretty much given up on finding...
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Classic History Outtake: Let’s Go Hunting, In My Porsche
There was once a time when folks used their Porsches for the every-day sort of affairs, like boar hunting. That’s why many had a luggage rack over the engine compartment: to bring home the bacon.
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The First Wheeled Hummer (And My Only One): Harley Davidson’s Little (DKW)...
This is what happens when you fail to stay on task: I was researching the transition of DKW to Audi, and got distracted with the fact that DKW was the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer in the...
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More Details on The CC Meet-Up in Auburn and Baltimore
Baltimore’s famous Bromo Setzer tower Organizing social events is not one of my strengths, but here’s what seems to be the plan for the CC Meet-ups in Auburn, Indiana and the Baltimore area: Please...
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CC Capsule: 2002-2006 Suzuki Aerio – Adios Aerios
On of my neighbors seems to rather like Aerios. And what’s not to like, if you like tall, narrow roomy boxes on little wheels? Right up my alley; or down the street, actually. I could see myself in...
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CC Effect Capsule: 1967 Jeep Gladiator J2000 – With Some Additional Graphic...
At 8:45 AM this morning, I left a comment at JPC’s 1965 Gladiator CC, referring to my previous Gladiator CC: Now if only one of us had had the guts to pop the hood and gotten a shot of the 327....
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Two-Door Day Classic: 1965 Ford Custom – The End Of The Stripper Tudor Era
Let’s celebrate Two-Door Sedan Day with this 1965 Ford Custom two-door (“Tudor” in old-time Ford-speak). It’s the perfect bookend to the ground-breaking 1965 Ford LTD too; not only is it the very...
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Curbside Classic: 1972 Datsun 1200 – Two Door Sedan, Size XS
Once upon a time, the two-door sedan was essentially the default body style in much of the world. It was a bit cheaper, and cars were often very small, and they looked better, although I doubt that...
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Curbside Classic: 1941 Cadillac – The First Modern Cadillac, With A Bit Of...
In the twenties and thirties, Cadillac was a true world-class luxury car, with cylinder counts as lofty as its prices. But the Depression and rising income taxes changed everything. So for 1941, a...
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CCCCC #11: 1980-1987 Cutlass Supreme Sedan – The Oldsmobile Seville
There were benefits to being GM. Rush out on stage in a bold new outfit, and get laughed right off it? No problem, just run back to the costume department, where they’ll find you a tried and proven...
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CC Outtake: Oval On The Go
Here’s a sight through my windshield that brought a smile to my face: an unrestored oval-window VW, flaunting its patina for all to see. And a sunroof, no less. I’d like to be behind its wheel right...
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