Tool of the Week: Mitsubishi ECI Checker
One of the great laments of the mothballs-in-their-pants set of the vintage car world is the demise of carburetors. These newfangled kids don’t know how to adjust a carburetor with a shoelace, crumpled...
View ArticleThe Forward Look Motors On
That any 1961 Plymouth Belvedere survived is incredible by itself, but a New England car that still drives on is that much more impressive. Promotional materials from the period introduced the Plymouth...
View ArticleTool of the Week: Mechanic Stool
Sitting on a stool is a famously popular activity the world over. Add some slakey beverages, put the stool at a bar, and folks will part with substantial sums of money and time. If you’re reading this...
View ArticleParking Lot Saab 96
Walking through the parking lot of a prestigious car show or auction always reveals an array of vintage drivers tucked in between towering modern automobiles. The lots at the 2015 Greenwich Concours d’...
View ArticleOne-Dollar Taco Bailout Plan
While the junkyard floor may serve as great inspiration for engine swaps, or trigger a fresh want for a car or truck which had up to that moment been long since forgotten, it is not a source for fresh...
View ArticleHorn Switch Repair
Daily driving classic cars and trucks comes with benefits and pitfalls. 200,000 miles combined with 25 years can have deleterious effects on the materials originally used to build even the finest...
View ArticleUsing Lean Burn Technology
Back in the late ’70s the big three were in the soup. Increasingly stringent emissions regulations in conjunction with some long in the tooth designs made for some interesting attempts at fuel and...
View ArticleFall Foliage 40-Ouncer
Beneath the layers of foliage captured over several seasons under a yard full of trees is an early version of the Honda Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion or CVCC engine. The engineers at Honda...
View ArticleIt’s Not a Trooper!
As soon-to-be Governor of California once famously said about a headache in the Nineties movie classic Kindergarten Cop, it’s not a toomer, uhm – tumor, which has everything to do with the apparent...
View ArticleSpanning the Globe for the Constant Variety of Vans
The last time that custom vans were the big deal in America coincided nicely into an American automotive industry that had slightly lost course with even the muscle car tapped on power. The van trend...
View ArticleThe Chevette Continuum
As odd as many of the occurrences that present themselves at the junkyard may be, there has been no greater moment of duality to date than stumbling onto not one, but two Chevrolet Chevettes in close...
View ArticleForgotten Datsun
The two-tone paint scheme and space age styling of this Datsun 810 saloon would stun any junkyarder into full stop. While the Datsun might look something like a regular Japanese car of the time, the...
View ArticleFranco-American Turbowagon
From the well and truly forgotten department of Junkyard Chronicle comes this once mighty Peugeot 505 turbo station wagon. It is a mystery now why French turbocharged station wagons never quite caught...
View ArticleDelica Starwagon of the Commonwealth
The Mitsubishi Delica made its debut in 1968, and is now in its fifth generation. The Delica moniker was coined from the contraction the English words delivery and car. The Delica was sold in light...
View Article39th Annual Citroën Rendezvous
Once each year the greater Saratoga, New York area plays host to the gathering of all things Franco-Automotive known as the Citroën Rendezvous brought to you by Drive She Said! This year marked the...
View ArticleTool of the Week: Heat Gun
The heat gun is one of those tools like the five pound sledgehammer which reveals its many uses as time passes. The idea is simple if not slightly dangerous. Like a hopped up hair dryer, the heat gun...
View ArticleMazda GLC Gone
From our rear-wheel drive hatchback division of junkyards past comes the Mazda GLC, or great little car. Like its Chevrolet Chevette and Toyota Starlet hatchback subcompact market mates, the GLC...
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