As I’ve mentioned before, Colorado is a hotbed of recreational hearse activity. This means that today’s Junkyard Find— spotted at the Brain Melting Colorado Junkyard— might be able to find someone willing to brave the rust and get this super-rare hearse back among the living. (Read More…)
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Tag: 1948
We take our modern, reliable and comfortable cars (and lives) for granted. How would your teenage daughter take to spending a road trip like this? If you’re old enough, you’ll relate to that look of profound boredom: no iPhone, DVD player, not even music of any sort. Not even a window! How did they/we do it (he asks rhetorically, remembering all too well)?
carrosantigos has collected a series of typically superb old LIFE magazine photos shot on Hwy 30 in 1948. It’s a stark reminder of how far we’ve come; well, except those that have been left behind.
via hemmings.com
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RS - Safety and Utility. It’s a win-win. Every vehicle should have a trailer hitch.
doctor olds - You can blame the UAW for a good share of those facts, and the lousy culture they inspired in many of the operations in those cities. I say this...
philipbarrett - It’s the new built in obsolescence. And one not easily fixed by a wrecking yard or creative machine shop.
DownEaster - All this technology in cars makes it so much easier to be a distracted drive. Finding the right button to touch on the correct screen can be a PITA. Also in...
ceipower - Will the GM stigma ever go away? Not for me it won’t. Pontiac took some hits for the plastic cladding , but what else could they do. GM , then...
philipbarrett - which is one of the reasons I’m still driving my ’03
highdesertcat - kericf, maybe they just had a bad batch of 2012s. Something similar happened to the Cruze belonging to a friend of my grand daughter. That...
DenverMike - I guess the issue here is the “low-speed” (bump?) that leads to fiery death. It should take major impact to cause any other (including the...
carguy - +1: The E46 and the E90/92 without iDrive are some of the most intuitive and clean designs in the business.
jmo - “I don’t like the idea of too much of a car’s functionality depending on high-level software which is certain to contain a number of bugs; it’s only a matter...