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1973 Plymouth Fury Sport Suburban: Family Truckster

I don’t know about you, but I have always loved woody station wagons. And with the advent of tippy-toed, ill-handling crossovers, three-quarters of which are ugly enough to scare a bulldog off of a meat wagon, I love them more than ever. Like this top of the line, Di-Noc clad, bechromed Plymouth from The Year…

1980 Oldsmobile 98 Regency Diesel – I Also Like To Live Dangerously

What can I say about the GM diesel V8 of the late 70s and early 80s that hasn’t been said by countless others? Many people hate them, some love them, but most either want to forget them, or already have. But tonight I saw this on a Facebook group I’m in which is called Finding…

1986-87 Volvo 760 Turbo: Boxy But Good

The Volvo 760, the first totally new ‘Ovlov’ in years, came on the scene in the early ’80s to replace the then-current top of the line sedan, the 264 GLE. While the 760 GLE and its less expensive sibling the 740 were meant to replace the 240/260 series, both would be built concurrently for several…

1990 Lincoln Mark VII SE: Not Your Uncle Max’s Mark

The 1984 to 1992 Lincoln Mark VII was not your typical floaty, land yacht Lincoln. The new LSC (for Luxury Sport Coupe) model was the first Lincoln marketed as a driver’s car (well, at least since the ’50s ‘Road Race’ Lincolns, anyway), and could hold its own with much more expensive European coupes like the…

British Car Boneyard Tour: Kilroy, Uh, I Mean, Lucas Was Here!

Note: I originally wrote this when I scored full time employment at Illinois Casualty back in June 2012, as a kinda-sorta farewell to Cantankerous Coot. But I did keep writing, as the Coot wasn’t in full bore loony mode yet. But hey, why not share a revised version with you fine folks? So here you…

1978 Cadillac Sedan de Ville d’Elegance: Broughamtastic In Brown

I’ve always loved the 1977-79 Cadillacs. They were prominent during my formative years watching Magnum, P.I. and Knight Rider. Of course the bad guys were usually driving them. Sure I liked the red Ferrari and black Trans Am just fine but I liked the Cadillacs more.

It’s only been about two weeks since the Clark County Schools closed here in the great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and I’m already prepared to never send my kids back—to either public or private school. I’ve been unfortunate/blessed to have been unemployed since January 22nd (have no fear, I’ve accepted a new job—more on that in…

  So perhaps you live somewhere (like, say, NEW YORK) where people have lost their minds and turned into caged rats, hoarding every last bit of toilet paper, paper towels, and cleaning products, and all you want is to make sure that your hands are sanitized. Alas, the hoarders have bought enough hand sanitizer to…

Polar Opposites in Polo, Illinois…

Back during the summer of 2012, July, I took a few days off to go up to my folks’ cabin for a little R & R. No internet up there, then, because it was before I had a smart phone. That was actually one of it’s pluses. On my way back home, I decided to…

UPDATE: You Could Have Seen The Ark in Person at World of Wheels…

UPDATE: Well, the event has been cancelled to to all the germy germs and stuff. But what the heck I decided to let this run anyway. Laurie took some nice pictures! March 20th through the 22nd would have been when the World of Wheels car show in Boston would have been held, but is now…