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Junkyard Find: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Ford's entry was the Fairlane, which debuted as a 1962 model. 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. This dusty sticker on the dash is a piece of obscure 1990s Denver history.

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Ford prices Auto Start-Stop system in non-hybrid 2013 Fusion 1.6L EcoBoost model at $295

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Ford is offering the Auto Start-Stop system on its new non-hybrid 2013 Fusion equipped with a 1.6-liter Auto Start-Stop saves fuel use when the car is standing and running at idle. On average, Auto Start-Stop improves fuel efficiency by about 3.5%. The Ford Auto Start-Stop system includes a 12V battery designed for long.

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Lithia unloads Toyota, Ford and Bentley-Lotus dealerships

Baua Electric

Lithia mentioned it offered Bentley of Denver-Lotus of Denver, in the past housed in its Ferrari of Denver dealership in Highlands Ranch, Colo., Maul stayed on with AutoNation and was once that auto store’s west area president till 2008. to John Elway Dealerships on June 8. and expanded from there.

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Auto retail tech startup Stella Automobile AI hires unutilized CEO

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auto retail era startup funded partly through dealership teams Maroone USA and Pohanka Automobile Workforce, has leased auto trade advisor Affluent prosperous Sands as its unutilized CEO. Energy and was once a knowledge era supervisor at Ford Motor Co., Stella Automobile AI, a Tampa, Fla., consistent with his LinkedIn profile.

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Junkyard Find: 1971 MG MGB-GT

The Truth About Cars

Here's one of those cars, found at a family-owned yard just south of Denver. Colorado Auto & Parts recently placed well over 100 vintage machines from the 1940s through 1970s in the regular self-service inventory, including today's Junkyard Find.

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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Chrysler managed the feat for the 1949 model year; we admired a Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan from that year in a Colorado car graveyard last summer, and today we're going to take a look at an example of one of the last of the stopgap postwar Chrysler products : this '48 Dodge in a yard just south of Denver.

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

The Truth About Cars

Last week, a first-model-year Lark sedan showed up at a self-service yard just south of Denver , and I was there to document it in its final parking spot. By the 1950s, however, small manufacturers were being crushed by GM, Ford and Chrysler. The first Studebaker car was an EV that went into production in South Bend in 1902.

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