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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. Army staff car , a 1965 Dodge D-200 U.S. This car had a snow-encrusted oil painting by Stone, resting on the trunk lid when I arrived. This dusty sticker on the dash is a piece of obscure 1990s Denver history.

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Junkyard Find: 1972 Chevrolet Vega Kammback

The Truth About Cars

The Vega has been a junkyard rarity for decades now, but I just found six early Vegas all within a couple of rows of one another in a Denver self-service yard. What did help, though, was the Yom Kippur War and resulting OPEC oil embargo in the fall of 1973. Today, we'll look at the only wagon of that group. Why do Vegas smile?

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. David Taylor, 2005 Dodge Ram Pickup by David Taylor ( Taylor Automotive ), June, 2008 (Sanford, NC), contact David Taylor. James Morrison, 2009 Toyota Prius by Hymotion/Green Car Company (Bellevue WA) October 2008contact Peak Oil Garage. or (800) 262-1984 x211.

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