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Junkyard Find: 2000 Daewoo Nubira Station Wagon
Remember the Daewoo Nubira? No? Did you know that there was a wagon version? Even though production of the Nubira stopped just ten years ago, this car has all but disappeared from our consciousness....
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Junkyard Find: 1985 Chevrolet Celebrity Eurosport Wagon
The midsize Celebrity came between the rear-drive Malibu and the Lumina, went through only one generation, and has been largely forgotten by now. Most examples got crushed before the turn of the...
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Junkyard Find: 1988 Volkswagen Quantum Syncro Wagon
Because I have some friends who race a Quantum Syncro, I’ve been keeping my eyes open for junkyard parts sources. After several years (including two of them in a state that has more weird...
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Junkyard Find: 1975 Ford LTD Country Squire
The big Fords of the Malaise Era don’t show up in the wrecking yards much these days, after several decades of being commonplace. The Taurus has replaced the LTD as the most common Ford product in...
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Junkyard Find: 1978 Datsun 810 Wagon
The Datsun 810 became the Nissan Maxima a couple of years into the 1980s, and you rarely see the 810 nameplate these days. Every once in a while, however, an 810 shows up in The Crusher’s waiting room....
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Review: 2013 Audi allroad
If you haven’t been paying attention to my life story (discretely woven into my reviews), I’ll spell it out clearly: I live in what is considered to be a temperate rainforest on the California coast,...
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Junkyard Find: 1991 Honda Accord Wagon
Honda stood in a seemingly unassailable position in the American marketplace, with customers willing to pay whatever it took to get a Civic or Accord… until the 1990s dawned. The asset-price bubble...
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Junkyard Find: 1988 Dodge Aries LE Station Wagon
Given that just about everything Chrysler built for much of the 1980s and 1990s had some connection to the original K Platform, I don’t pay much attention to Ks when I see them in the junkyard. In...
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Junkyard Find: 1989 Toyota Corolla All-Trac Wagon
I now believe that at least half the Toyota All-Tracs ever sold ended up in Colorado, based on the quantities I see in junkyards around Denver. We saw the only Camry All-Trac I’ve ever found anywhere...
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Doug’s Review: 2007 Mercedes E63 AMG Wagon
Last spring, I sold my Porsche to buy a station wagon. Car guys understand this, because it’s outlined in our unspoken creed: eventually we all trade in our beloved sports cars for a practical family...
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Junkyard Find: 1983 Honda Civic Wagon
The 1973-79 Civic was a very good car for its time (mostly because just about all the other subcompacts of the era were so bad and/or boring), but the second-generation Civic was the one that gave...
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Junkyard Find: 1976 Ford LTD Country Squire
The perceived usefulness of full-sized station wagons of the Malaise Era dropped down to about zero when minivans and SUVs became mainstream family-hauler options in the late 1980s. You see a few wagon...
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Junkyard Find: 1977 Ford LTD Country Squire
We saw a 1976 Country Squire Junkyard Find yesterday, after going seven months since seeing this ’75 Country Squire, but this Denver yard has given us back-to-back (actually, tailgate-to-tailgate)...
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Junkyard Find: 1986 Ford LTD Country Squire LX
Since we’re on a Country Squire Junkyard Find roll, with a ’76 Squire on Wednesday and a ’77 Squire yesterday, let’s take a look at a Panther Squire today. Yes, Panther Love even extends to Reagan-era...
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Junkyard Find: 1987 Ford LTD Country Squire
Will the faux-woodgrain Country Squire Junkyard Finds never stop? Not if I can keep finding them! We started this sequence with this ’76, then followed up with this ’77 and this ’86. Today’s Squire is...
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Junkyard Find: 1975 Volvo 245 DL
In a Northern California self-service wrecking yard not far from the one in which I found the Volvo 262C Bertone Coupe, I found an example of a first-year Volvo 240 wagon. The 240 didn’t change much...
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Volvo Station Wagon Delights Derek’s Parents, Gives CAFE The Middle Finger
What you’re looking at here is A big “F U” to CAFE regulations Very likely the next vehicle my parents buy When Volvo killed off the V70 wagon in 2010, it marked a turning point for the brand; how...
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Junkyard Find: 1985 Buick Skyhawk Wagon
The Buick Skyhawk started out as a badge-engineered upscale version of the wretched Chevy Monza, took 1981 off, then returned as a front-wheel-drive J-body in 1982. This car is largely forgotten today,...
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Vellum Venom: 2012 Honda Crosstour
Here are a few books I consider required reading for Transportation Design students: The Reckoning, Rude Awakening, All Corvettes are Red and Car: A Drama of the American Workplace. These show what...
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Junkyard Find: 1977 Plymouth Volaré Premier Station Wagon
The successor to the incredibly successful Dodge Dart/Plymouth Valiant was the Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volaré. These simple rear-wheel-drive cars sold fairly well, but for every Aspen or Volaré I see in...
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