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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

The Truth About Cars

Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. I'd found several discarded gray-market W126s in Colorado car graveyards before spotting this one, including a 1980 280 SEL , a 1980 500 SE and a 1983 500 SEC. The price tag on that car was $44,298, or about $157,037 in 2024 dollars.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Here's one of those first-generation Fairlanes, found in a self-service boneyard just south of Denver, Colorado. There's a lot of great vintage stuff at Colorado Auto & Parts right now. The build tag tells us that this car was assembled at Ford's Kansas City plant on July 14, 1964 (the day Jaxques Anquetil won the Tour de France ).

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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

The Truth About Cars

There was a time when Mitsubishi dealers in North America offered just about every kind of car and light truck for sale. It appears that its final owner left it parked with missing or expired registration in an apartment parking lot or on the street in an HOA-oppressed neighborhood and the car got red-tagged and towed. Was it a runner?

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Cash for Clunkers Buoys US Auto Sales; Hybrid Sales Up 31.8% for Monthly New Vehicle Share of 3.55%

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GM dealers delivered 189,443 total vehicles in July, a 19.4% Chevrolet truck sales increased 27%, led by increases by Silverado, Suburban, Avalanche, Colorado, HHR and Equinox. Tags: Hybrids Sales. Monthly sales of hybrids. Click to enlarge. General Motors. decline year-on-year by volume. from a year ago with 6,770 units.