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Continue reading Junkyard Gem: 1971 Ford LTD Brougham 2-Door Hardtop
Junkyard Gem: 1971 Ford LTD Brougham 2-Door Hardtop originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Leone is the car that turned Subaru from the butt of jokes into a respected brand in the United States, and it was available here from 1972 all the way through the very last 1994 Loyales. As the 1980s went on, the four-wheel-drive wagon versions became most popular among American Subaru shoppers, but hatchbacks,
Mercedes-Benz didn’t start using the C-Class designation until the 1994 model year, when the first W202-platform cars arrived in showrooms. The W202’s C-Class-in-all-but-name predecessor was the very successful W201, sold here for the 1984 through 1993 model years. In this series, we’ve seen an example of the most common early variety of U.S.-market W201, the
Once Toyota began selling enlarged Celicas with six-cylinder engines and Supra badges here in 1979, the Supra kept getting more powerful and more expensive and the regular four-banger Celica seemed less exciting with each passing year. For the 1986 model year, the Celica went to a brand-new front-wheel-drive platform and became a true slick-looking commuter
Just about every U.S.-market Mercury model ever made was an obvious Ford- and/or Lincoln-badged sibling (though some of those siblings originated in other countries). The members of the 1957 Mercury lineup were mechanically similar to their Ford Empire brethren, but got wild styling that looked like nothing else on the road. Today’s Junkyard Gem is
When it came time to replace the original Ford Maverick compact, which had sold well but was based on the increasingly antiquated chassis design first used under the 1960 Falcon, Ford turned to its brand-new Fox platform and created the Fairmont (and its Mercury-badged sibling, the Zephyr) for the 1978 model year. There were Fairmont
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Continue reading Junkyard Gem: 1956 Buick Special 4-Door Sedan
Junkyard Gem: 1956 Buick Special 4-Door Sedan originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 6 Aug 2023 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The second generation of the Volkswagen Transporter (sold in the United States from the 1968 through 1979 model years) have been too valuable for genuinely broke hippies to own for at least the last quarter-century, which means that not-so-broke Transporter enthusiasts have driven up their prices enough to keep nearly all rough examples from ending
GM’s Oldsmobile Division was one of the most important station wagon players during the 1960s and 1970s, and car shoppers in the United States could still choose from three sizes of new Olds wagon as late as the middle 1980s. The smallest was the Firenza, sibling to the Chevy Cavalier. The biggest was the Custom
Lee Iacocca’s main motivation to have Chrysler buy the American Motors Corporation in 1987 was to grab the Jeep brand, but it turned out that getting all the chassis engineering that went into the Eagle Premier paid off handsomely as well. The Premier’s ancestry was Wisconsin-tinged Renault, a mashup of Renault 25 and 21 chassis
