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CC Outtake: Bubble Wagon For Sale
it was getting dark, but this sinister Chevy wagon caught my eye. And it’s for sale. What’s an old bubble wagon without a rear side window worth anyway? Hmm. Not a lot to go on, but it “runs great”....
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Museum Classic/Automotive History: 1903 Premier – The First OHC Hemi Head...
This 1903 Premier racing car was the first automobile to utilize a hemi head engine, and with an overhead cam at that. Although its actual racing career was truncated due to a misunderstanding of the...
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Cohort Sighting: 1970 Mustang – Stripper Edition
Since we’re on the theme of stripper Fords, dressed up or not, LeSabrethoothTiger posted this bare-bones 1970 Mustang at the Cohort, and it reminded me just how relatively common these were back in...
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Reader Ride: Dodge Mowag 4×4 B350 Van – Rare Swiss Mopar Mowagen
CC reader Kartner G. sent me this picture of his rather rare Dodge Mowag 4×4 B350 van, formerly used by the Swiss Fire Department as a brigade transport. Kartner says the van was built in Canada and...
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1954 Sorrell-Manning: Hot Six-Carb GMC Straight Six Under Sexy Early Fifities...
(first posted 12/18/11) This Sorrell-Manning Roadster from 1954 is utterly stunning, and if someone had told me it was a special-bodied Aston from Italy, I’d have been convinced. Bob Sorrell was an...
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Kurbside Klassic: 1972 Bugazzi – Worth 15 Pintos Or 1500 Pinto Steering Wheels?
images posted at the Cohort by LeSabretoothTiger It’s a rhetorical question, for sure. Undoubtedly those folks with a highly refined taste for the finer things in life that bought a Bugazzi undoubtedly...
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Automotive History: Horch P240 Sachsenring and Sachsenring Repräsentant –...
images via Wikipedia Ending up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain…um, sucked. Especially so for both the builders and lovers of fine cars. A number of Germany’s premier automakers were based or had...
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Cohort Classic: Steyr 380 – Austria’s Favorite Truck
posted at the Cohort by T-Minor This face brings a flood of memories. It’s so deeply imprinted in my memory from my childhood, it might as well be my mother’s face. And its sound is just as deeply...
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CC Capsule: 1970 Dodge Double Cab Pickup, 2012 GMC Single Cab Pickup – Role...
This is a shot I’ve been hoping to take for a long time. How many times have we seen (or shown) little old single cab pickups next to a great big giant high-riding MegaCab 4×4? How about the reverse?...
View ArticleRide In The Locomotive Cab On A 7.5 Hour Scenic Trip Over The Mountains...
(originally posted 12/28/11) The joys of modern technology and You Tube! I’ve always wanted to ride in the cab of a train, and what better ride to do it (virtually) on than the famous Norwegian...
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CC Outtake: Bulgemobile
At certain angles and with the light just so, a gen2 Monte Carlo can look downright bizarre, like the victim of a botched breast and hip augmentation. From another angle, the problem is, well, not...
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CC Outtake: The Greenbrier Not Stopped For
Jim Cavanaugh scored a coup in finding that quite rare gen2 Corvair 500 four door. I’ve pretty much given up on one myself; I’m still hoping to just find a genuine curbside Corvair Greenbrier van....
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Turkey Day Automotive History: Anadol – Back When Turkey Built Its Own Cars,...
There was a time when every country still fervently wanted its own domestic automobile. For Turkey, that took two tries; the first one, the ill-fated Devrim of 1961, was a disaster from the get-go,...
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Curbside Classic: 1987 Nissan Van – How Did This Turkey Escape The Crusher...
(first published 11/21/2011) You want to talk turkey? Let’s start with the only vehicle where the manufacturer tried to buy back every single one that had been sold, to be sent to the crusher,...
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Thanksgiving Day Outtake: I’m Thankful For Many Things, Including This
Well, most of all, I’m just thankful to be alive and healthy. And for my family and friends. But when I encounter curbside scenes like this, I am thankful to be able to live in a place where old cars...
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CC Outtake: New Horizons
Every time I see one of these cars, so clean and tight and sharp-edged and European, I pinch myself: this is really an American car, from the 1970s? Well, of course it’s not a true American car, given...
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CC Global: Ford Argentina Fairlane With 292 V8 – The Y-Block Gets A...
curbside shots posted at the Cohort by LDeren The story of Detroit’s alter-universe overseas operations is full of surprises. We’ve been unraveling the Australian story here for years, and it’s far...
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Cohort Outtake: Which Is The Real Porsche?
Posted at the Cohort by NickyD I’ve just finished reading “Genesis of Genius”, Karl Ludvigsen’s splendid book of Ferdinand Porsche’s early professional decades (1900 – 1935), which puts a slightly...
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CC Outtake: Rear-Engine People Movers
Recently I did a post of Eugene’s new Car2go service, and each one I shot included a CC. But none were as good as this pairing I just saw; I just had to share it too, given that they both have rear...
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