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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

The Truth About Cars

The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s. Just wear warmer clothes for that drive across North Dakota in January! Some of its parts are in good enough condition to live on in other cars.

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Junkyard Find: 1993 Nissan Sentra with 320,165 miles

The Truth About Cars

However, I do make an effort to shoot inmates of car graveyards in other states (including Minnesota , Wisconsin , Illinois , Nevada , North Carolina , Arizona , North Dakota , Washington and Wyoming ) and other countries ( Sweden , England ). That turned out to be the New Orleans West Pull-a-Part.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUVs instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota.

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