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Junkyard Find: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

The 1960 model year saw a trio of brand-new compact Detroit cars ( the Corvair , Valiant and Falcon ) appear to do battle with increasingly popular small imports. Sales were strong, and the Detroit Big Three plus the Kenosha One got busy preparing midsize cars to slide between the compacts and the full - sizers. The 289 is long gone.

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Junkyard Find: 1959 Studebaker Lark VIII Deluxe 4-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

I have documented a half-dozen Studes during my junkyard travels, but none of them were examples of the compact that bought the venerable South Bend company a few more years of survival: the Lark. The first Studebaker car was an EV that went into production in South Bend in 1902. The Lark VIII received this 259-cubic-inch (4.2-liter)

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