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End of the Line For This ’70 Olds Delta 88
After my X-themed rant the other day, you’ve gotta figure I’ll be looking for more excuses to quote X songs. That’s right, there’s an X song entitled “Delta 88.” Let’s just make this perfectly clear:...
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Could There Be Any Vintage Wagon Greater Than This?
Well, yes, there are a few wagons greater than this, but not many. An Intermeccanica Murena 429 GT, maybe, or perhaps a 9-second Buick Sport Wagon. The important thing to understand here is that this...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Ford Falcon Futura Sedan
We often forget that Ford made the Falcon until 1970. That’s in North America; you could buy a new Falcon— based on the original 1960 version— in Argentina until 1991, and Australians can still buy...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 IHC Scout
While the large numbers of Scouts on the extremely urban and snow-free Island That Time Forgot never made sense to me, it’s no surprise that the tough little International Harvester trucks still roam...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Chevrolet C10
There’s really no reason for an old Detroit pickup to die, but The Crusher’s blind hunger for steel makes no distinction between a Mercury Tracer with fire damage and a solid ’70 Chevy with...
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Piston Slap: The Shroud of Torino?
Jeramy writes: Here’s my dilemma: Bought a 1983 5.0 Cougar for my wife as her “weekend” car, but the TBI was problematic and the seats were terribly uncomfortable. Dumped the Cougar, and bought a...
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And the Real Winner Is…
Working in the 24 Hours of LeMons Penalty Box, the constant refrain of “Four wheels off” over the radio from the corner workers reporting miscreant drivers gets a little tedious. Hearing “Six wheels...
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Car of the Year Revisionism, 1970 Edition: If Not the Torino, What?
Having just spent a weekend officiating at a race with one of the perpetrators of the latest Motor Trend Car of the Year choice, I got to thinking about past controversial COTY choices… and what...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Convertible
I must admit I’ve lost track of the variations on the DeVille name used by Cadillac over the decades; according to the 1970 sales brochure, this car— which I found at the same Denver yard that gave us...
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GM Down Under, 1970: And the Rollin’ Wheels Are Holden!
To Americans, there’s a weird mirror-world aspect to cars made by Detroit car companies in Australia; you can tell you’re looking at a GM product when you see an old Holden, for example, because you...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Toyota Corona Coupe
The Corona was the first Toyota car to appear in large numbers on American streets, starting in the mid-to-late 1960s. By the middle of the 1980s, just about all the boxy early Coronas were gone; they...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Toyota Corona Sedan
I visited my old stomping grounds in California over the weekend, which means I hit a bunch of self-service junkyards in the East Bay. I was thinking about some of the cars I used to drive during the...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III
We’re going to take a break from the Turbo Era Junkyard Finds and take a look at the kind of car that our resident lover of Ford personal luxury coupes really appreciates: a down-but-not-out (yet) 1970...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Ford Econoline Van
Dodge stuck with the forward-control/mid-engine van design through the 1970 model year (at which point their Tradesman gained a hood), but Ford moved the Econoline’s engine forward starting with the...
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Vellum Venom Vignette: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Like Dizzy Gillespie’s cheeks playing trumpet vs. at rest, cars are bigger in every direction compared to their predecessors. Perhaps you’ve seen a 1980s Honda Accord in front of the latest platform....
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Adventures In Marketing: 1970 Toyota Corona Beats Green Monster Jet Car In...
Since my first car was a 1969 Toyota Corona sedan, I always look for these cars in junkyards. I toy with the idea of getting another first-gen Corona sedan someday, into which I will swap a 1UZ-FE...
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Junkyard Find: 1970 Ford Fairlane 500 Station Wagon
We haven’t seen a Ford Fairlane in this series since this ’65 sedan, way back in 2010. We see station wagons here all the time, of course, the last couple being this ’66 Toyota crown and this ’86...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1970 Ford Econoline Custom 200 Van
The second-generation Ford Econoline van abandoned the forward-control layout of its mid-engined predecessor and was a big sales success. I still see these vans in junkyards (in fact, I found one in...
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The Ford Econoline went from having a forward-control/mid-engine layout to sporting a stubby hood with the engine moved a bit forward for the 1968 through 1974 model years. Every time I see one of...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1970 Alvis Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked)
From 1962 through 2016, one of the continent’s most amazing junkyards operated in the Sun Valley neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles: Aadlen Brothers Auto Wrecking, also known as...
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