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Cohort Sighting: Carhenge – High Plains Junkers
Posted on January 19, 2014 | 20 CommentsSome things attract greater attention than anyone might initially expect. Among these is Carhenge, the curiosity which, upon its completion, angered the few people who lived nearby while acquiring fame […] -
Miniature Storage Yard Classic: Matchbox Ford Zephyr Mark II
Posted on December 25, 2013 | 33 CommentsWhen I saw this old toy car in a display case at a second-hand store, I knew I had to have it. -
Merry Christmas To All!
Posted on December 24, 2013 | 48 CommentsFrom 1959. May your Christmas be wonderful! Richard beat me to the punch, but please accept our best wishes from myself and the whole CC family. PN -
Chasing Pancho: US Army Trucks Roll Into Action For The First Time
Posted on July 23, 2013 | 31 CommentsOn March 9, 1916, a group of around 1500 Mexican rebels angered by the changing winds of American support for the various factions in their country’s civil war crossed the […] -
Shorpy Outtakes: 1949 GE Parking Lot and 1962 Dr. Kildare
Posted on July 7, 2013 | 37 CommentsI’ve been too busy to hang out much at Shorpy, but CC reader Craig pointed me to this new shot just posted there. It’s a a big GE plant, and […] -
Cars For the Proletariat: Soviet Car Building In The 1930s
Posted on June 4, 2013 | 11 CommentsThe best thing about the world wide web is the opportunity to share one’s interests with others and to help bring disparate bits of information from one field of interest […] -
The Making Of A Man
Posted on May 30, 2013 | 36 CommentsIt always begins the same way. The seed of an idea finds its way into my skull where, carefully nurtured, it grows and blossoms into a fully fledged daydream. In […] -
Museum Classics: The Pioneer Auto Show in Murdo, South Dakota
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 27 CommentsOne needs to make the best of a situation. During a recent bout of insomnia, I was thumbing through some old pictures and stumbled upon these. While heading for Oregon […] -
Railroad and Automobile Museum Classics: A Tour of The St. Louis Museum of Transportation
Posted on March 25, 2013 | 45 CommentsAs part of an engineering convention this past week, I had the opportunity to either take a tour of the St. Louis Museum of Transportation or spend three hours listening […] -
My Curbside Christmas Classic: 1967 Consolidated Novelty Scotch Pine – Decking the Halls for Fifty Years
Posted on December 25, 2012 | 49 Comments(First posted 12/25/2012. Updated for its 50th year) Some families are more traditional than others; I suppose mine is more traditional than most, something that is really brought out during […] -
It’s 1956: Which Would You Pick?
Posted on December 13, 2012 | 24 CommentsDid you really think your work was over? We’ve still got a lot to do here in 1956. A while back, you might have enjoyed a CC piece about a […] -
CC Outtake: 1959 – Powerful…That’s for Sure!
Posted on December 7, 2012 | 19 CommentsIt’s an overcast winter day in Portland, Oregon, the corner of NE Union Ave. and Hancock St., 1959. I’d sure like to meet the proprietor of this humble little lot, […]