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Cohort Sighting: Aston Martin Lagonda Series II – In Vivid Color
It’s already past bed time, but as I took a quick last cruise through the Cohort—which is chock-full of fantastic cars—this picture stopped me in my tracks, and had a very anti-soporific effect. Wow;...
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Classic Milestones In Automotive History: 1971 – The Year Booth Babes Took It...
In the noble pursuit of my research on another subject, I stumbled upon this reminder of that era forty-some years ago, when so many boundaries were being broken, or removed. I’d forgotten all about...
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CC Design Shoot-Out: 1977 Chevrolet B-Body vs. 1979 Ford LTD – The Boxing Match
There’s been a long-simmering debate here about the respective designs of the all-new downsized Chevy/GM 1977 B-Bodies and Ford’s response-imitation in 1979. It’s time to settle the question once and...
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Classic Ad Classic : The Cars Of The Soviet Union – Nyet
The real reason the Soviet Union imploded? No good advertising agencies! OK, these cute twins in the ZAZ 966 are fetching, but not exactly up to Western standards for the times. And the one tv ad I...
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CC Outtake: Opposites Attract, Despite The Similarities. Or Because Of Them
When I saw these two wagons side-by-side, I was struck initially by the obvious contrast between them. But then I noticed the similarity of their rear-most side windows, in their general shape and...
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CC Outtake: Star Quest
I’ve noticed that minivans are among the most preferred canvases for artistic expression. I suspect that the intrinsic dullness of their boxy shape may have something to do with that, or perhaps...
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Cohort Sighting: 1964 Pontiac Laurentian – The Un-Wide Track Pontiac
Anyone who’s hung around here for a while and still has a few active brain cells knows the Canadian Pontiac story by now: They look like real Pontiacs, but they’re really Chevys under the skin,...
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CC Outtake: Another Oval On The Go, But Neither Original Nor Under Its Own Power
Having just caught an original oval-window VW on the go recently, here goes another, but not under its own power. The tow rig is a nice vintage GMC too. Now this oval window is hardly original; it’s a...
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Cohort Classics: Twin 1957 Corvettes – Seeing Double, Except For One Key...
My name is Paul. I’m a ’57 Corvette junkie, and although I’ve been clean for some decades, I still quaver a bit when I see one. But seeing two, side-by-side? Well, I should just have passed when I saw...
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Vintage Ad: I ‘Built’ My Chevy To Handle Like A Sports Car…For Five! Another...
That little blond kid staring up at his dad in admiration should have been me. This is exactly the kind of dad I would have preferred to have, and yes, this would have been the perfect car for the...
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CC Outtake: Someone Is About To Have Their Triumph TR7 Forcibly Removed
Folks have often expressed surprise about some of the cars I’ve shown here in Eugene that have obviously been parked in the same spot on the street for years, if not decades. Seriously, I know of one...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1992 – 1994 Acura Vigor – The Closest Thing To A...
A little while back, we took a hard look at hardtops, including the last affordable genuine hardtop sold in the US. And we touched on how the Japanese adopted the four door hardtop as the orphan that...
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Cohort Sighting: Isuzu Vehicross – Has It Mellowed With Age?
The thing about cars that were considered very ugly when new is that they often tend to mellow with age, like the perpetually-maligned Pontiac Aztek; it doesn’t really look so bad anymore. It was just...
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Auto-Biography: In Search of….The East Glows – And Actual Chinese Curbside...
In 1971, I committed a crime, the repercussions of which still affect me today. I was a bored eighteen-year-old whose overdeveloped but under-used automotive memory banks craved stimulus. In those...
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Classic CC Capsule: 1969 Chevelle Nomad Wagon – More Name Debasement, And...
In 1955, the Nomad Wagon was the most expensive Chevrolet by a healthy margin, and marked the beginning of Chevy’s expansion into the mid-priced market. By 1968, that storied name was recycled on the...
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China Outtake: Hualiu BHL6350 – Toyota Previa “Inspired”
In researching my other post on The East Glows, I came across carnewschina.com’s China Car History section. No mention of the 1965 Beijing sedan that was somehow mistakenly given that lyrical name,...
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Curbside Classic: 1989-2004 Geo Metro XFi – The Pre-Prius Mileage Champ
There’s nothing like stable or slightly declining fuel prices to induce Metro-amnesia, like the now-forgotten fact that someone bid up the price of a sixteen-year-old 1992 Metro XFi on an Ebay auction...
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Vintage Photographs: New Orleans, 1959
image source: etsy.com I stumbled into this on one of my many searches, and it made me stop. It’s not just a great snapshot generally, but obviously, I couldn’t miss the little study in automotive...
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CC Outtake: Eclectic Driveway – Or Representative Driveway
The other night found me in a part of town I haven’t been to for some time, and I snapped a few driveway scenes as long as the light held out. This one has quite the collection of cars. And there’s...
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Classic Car Show Capsule: 1955 Chevrolet Nomad – Stealing The Thunder From...
(expanded and revised) As if Chevy wasn’t generous enough in gracing the autosphere with its superb new 1955s, it topped it with an unexpected boon, the Nomad. Not nearly as practical as the...
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