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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

Built in Missouri, probably shipped to Colorado by train, then sold new in Greeley, located about 60 miles north of Denver and the site of a famous Utopian community during the late 19th century. It was brought back to life on the 2003-2004 Marauder , a version of the Grand Marquis powered by the Lincoln Mark VIII 's DOHC engine.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

The Truth About Cars

This made it a sales hit in snowy, mountainous Colorado. Just a bit over 150,000 miles on the odometer at the end. The highest-mile junkyard Subaru I've documented so far was a 1993 Impreza with 319,554 miles. Today's Junkyard Find is a second-generation BRAT, found in a self-service yard between Denver and Cheyenne.

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Satellite and GPS Measurements Show Ice Loss from Greenland Ice Sheet Spreading to Northwest Coast

Green Car Congress

A 2006 study by Wahr and Velicogna using the GRACE satellite indicated that Greenland lost roughly 684 cubic kilometers (164 cubic miles) of ice from April 2004 to April 2006—more than the volume of water in Lake Erie. This animation depicts the spread of ice loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE from 2003 through 2009.

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Junkyard Find: 1988 Mazda 323 Base Hatchback

The Truth About Cars

Today's Junkyard Find is a rare example of Mazda's entry in the sub-six-grand field for '88, found in a self-service yard in northeastern Colorado. The final Familias sold here were the 2003 Protegés , after which the Mazda3 took over. In 1988, American car shoppers could choose among a dozen new cars priced below that figure.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

South Coast Air Quality Management District #2 August 2006, by EnergyCS (Los Angeles County) State of Colorado Energy Office by Hybrids-Plus, Sept. 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. by Hymotion, September 2006 (Ajax, Ontario), contact dhillsmilligan@veridian.on.ca Contact Nikki AT aminorjourney DOT COM, [link].

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