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Hammer Time: Buying Ugly, Selling Happy
Today I bought an Astro with a garbage bag for a driver’s window. Three very ugly Cavaliers. A Dodge Ram with a vinyl interior. A brown Chrysler Concorde with a deformed trunk lid. A Ford F150 with...
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Studebaker Champion or Peugeot 404? Vast Colorado Junkyard’s Inventory...
When I heard from a certain Renault 4CV racer that the inventory of the ancient Seven Sons Auto Salvage wrecking yard in Brighton, Colorado, would be up for auction today, I headed up there in full...
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My Introduction To Panther Love: Inaugural Police Interceptor Road Trip!
Back in 2004, I was doing a typical East Bay highway commute to my job writing software documentation. Ten miles each way in a Tercel (I had my choice of an ’85 wagon or a ’90 hatch), and the...
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Monday Mileage Champion: 2001 Ford Expedition XLT
True Miles Unknown. For some folks these three words conjure up the fear of a car with more miles on it than the Grateful Dead. Others simply head on off to Carfax and try to approximate the mileage...
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Looking For an Engine Donor For Your ’53 Ford? Police Impound Auction!
Rich, the mastermind behind the Rocket Surgery Racing mid-VW-engined Renault 4CV, just got hired to install a daily-driver-suitable modern drivetrain in a ’53 Ford coupe. The owner wanted to keep it...
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Monday Mileage Champion: Discovering A Lost Dynasty
Sometimes the cheapest vehicle you can buy is one that strongly discourages you from ever becoming a life-long auto enthusiast. Few cars do a better job with this than the Dodge Dynasty. The one you...
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Paging Dr. Ferraristein: Wrecked exotic goes up for salvage auction in...
It’s amazing what having a ton of cash can buy you these days. For example, if you have a tween daughter with big dreams to be on stage singing about her favorite Asian foods, up to $4,000 can buy her...
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Should You Sell Your Car At Carmax?
100,000 miles? 200,000 miles? 300,000 miles? Everyone has a certain point with their daily driver when they would rather see money back in their pocket, instead of seeing more money fall out of their...
View ArticleThe True Cost Of Owning A Rebuilt Salvage Car
The prospect of buying a salvage titled car for almost half the price of one of its clean titled counterparts is tempting for many potential car buyers, but increasingly it’s becoming a losing...
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