#Malaise

The American Honda Motor Company sold the first-generation Accord in the United States from 1976 through 1981, and that car brought Honda success here far beyond that achieved by motorcycles and Civics. Today's Junkyard Find is one of those early Accords, found last year in a Colorado car graveyard.

1975 was a wonderful year for Detroit ( and Kenosha) personal luxury coupes, whose heraldic crest badges and crypto-velour upholstery made it clear to those damn commies that a life queuing up for sawdust sausages and— if you were lucky— a shot at a new Zaporozhets wasn't much of a life at all. Today's Junkyard Find is an example of the Chevy Monte Carlo's more affordable brother, found in a car graveyard in Carson City, Nevada.

The first-generation Toyota Celica was sold in the United States from the 1971 through 1977 model years, and this Mustang-influenced coupe became a frequent sight on American roads. The second-generation Celica debuted here as a 1978 model, and I've found one of those first-year cars in an extremely hot Northern California car graveyard.

The last time we saw a Detroit station wagon in this series was nearly a year ago, when we admired a Chevy Vega Kammback. How about properly imposing American wagons with rear-wheel-drive and V8 engines? Would you believe our most recent one was an LTD Country Squire in 2016?

We took a look at a Mitsubishi small pickup with Dodge badges last month, and now it's the turn of a Mazda small pickup with Ford badges. I spotted this Courier at a self-service boneyard in Carson City, Nevada, last month.

The third-generation GM G-Series van was introduced as a 1971 model, and it stayed in production in essentially the same form through 1996. Early examples of this long-lived design are tough to find these days, so I was happy to find this '76 in a North Carolina self-service yard a couple of months back.