The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Here's one of those first-generation Fairlanes, found in a self-service boneyard just south of Denver, Colorado. It was painted in Vintage Burgundy with beige interior, had a two-barrel 289-cubic-inch V8 bolted to a three-speed Cruise-o-Matic automatic transmission and was sold through the Denver sales office.
Teslarati
JULY 30, 2021
A Rivian engineer accompanied the Amazon driver behind the wheel of the electric delivery van. The engineer told Automotive News that Amazon delivery vans undergoing testing in Detroit were assembled at Rivian’s engineering and design center in Plymouth, Michigan. I love these!” he noted in the picture.
The Truth About Cars
OCTOBER 10, 2023
I discovered a Mexican-market '06 Peugeot 407 in a Denver boneyard, earlier this year, and thought years would pass before the next time I'd hear the ghosts of André Citroën , Louis Renault , and Armand Peugeot singing La Marseillaise over a car graveyard. In 1959, a new Renault Dauphine cost $1,645 (about $17,416 in 2023 dollars).
The Truth About Cars
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Remember that 1985 W123 with 411,448 miles we saw in a Denver car graveyard a few years back? Here's the legendary OM617 five-cylinder turbodiesel engine that got the job done so well. Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 17, 2023
Today, it's the turn of the third member of the 2000-2002 Daweoo triumvirate: The compact Nubira, an example of which I found in a Denver self-service yard last week. The engine is a 2.0-liter We continued to buy new Daewoos after 2002, but they bore the badges of other brands. liter DOHC four-banger rated at 129 horsepower.
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 4, 2024
Today's Junkyard Find is an example of the sporty coupe version of the first-generation Saturn S , found in a Denver-area boneyard recently. This being a top-trim-level SC2, it has a twin-cam engine and a nicer interior than the SC1. liter DOHC engine and its 124 horsepower/122 pound-foot engine was still there.
The Truth About Cars
DECEMBER 11, 2023
But my favorite Junkyard Finds are obscure examples of what-could-they-have-been-thinking badge engineering , and today's truck has lived atop my wish list for nearly 15 years. The Suzuki Equator seems to be the most puzzling of them all , though, and now my decade-long search has unearthed one in a Denver-area car graveyard.
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