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March 11, 2023

Junkyard Gem: 1992 Mazda Protegé sedan

The Toyo Kogyo Company first began importing the Mazda Familia to the United States in 1971. Various names for the US-market Familia were used at first (including 1200, R100, 808 and RX-3), but eventually the company settled on GLC (which stood for Great Little Car and featured a catchy little tune in its TV commercials)

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November 21, 2022

Junkyard Gem: 1987 Mazda 323 DX Wagon

Mazda wasn’t much of a player in the North American subcompact market until the first front-wheel-drive Familias showed up here in 1981 with GLC badges (prior to that, the Great Little Car lived on the earlier rear-wheel-drive Familia platform). The GLC name stuck around through 1985, after which the Familia became the 323 on our

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