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  • Can Am? Yes We Can!

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    Imagine you’re a ’70s lothario, and you’re looking for the car that fits your personality. You check out the Trans Am, but it’s a little too small for your disco moves, what are you going to do? Enter the Can Am, a Collonnade with cojones!

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  • Streetwalker- The Peace Maker Does Not Respect Your Ridgeline

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    Well, once again our favorite road-side used car lot has something of interest for us. This 1999 Honda Passport has been re-imagined as a melding of Chevy Avalanche and John Rambo – I didn’t start the Honda, they started the Honda! – creating a tasty melange with a tinge of agent orange.

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  • Ohhhhh…. Baracuda

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    For the past few Saturdays I have been taking my rescue dog (Beans) to a local outdoor class. The goal is not for him to learn obedience or tricks, but to make him feel more comfortable around new people and in different places. The class lasts for an hour and it is typically my wife…

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  • Streetwalking- Mercedes 190SL

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    While it’s not located at my favorite road-side used car lot, this buttercup-yellow Mercedes Benz 190SL does sport a For Sale sign in its plastic back window. The car was parked in front of the neighborhood Land Rover repair business, and as most everything around there was closed for the day, I assumed it had…

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  • Streetwalker: Separated at Birth Edition

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    It’s easy to loathe badge engineering and derivative styling, but the indisputable fact is such endeavors provide an interesting study into how simple tweaks change the appearance of otherwise identical cars, and seek to satisfy individual whims.   On the bad end of badge engineering lives the infamous GM J-car with a Cadillac suit woefully inadequate…

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  • 1965 Galaxie 500 in Mint Condition — or "Mint Condition"

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    We spotted this lovely Galaxie 500 for sale recently, and it’s a perfect case of an unmotivated seller. From the description, to the price, to the simple fact that reality doesn’t quite seem to tie in with the seller’s description, one can safely assume you’re not going to get a great deal on this car.

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  • Streetwalker: Charger With A Landau Roof

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    Here’s a helpful hint for anyone trying to sell a car. We all know that providing plenty of information to a potential buyer is helpful, but perhaps writing all of that information on a giant poster that gets displayed in the window is not the best idea.

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  • Streetwalking: Willys Jeep Pickup!

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    This little beauty was parked outside my hotel recently, and I caught a few photos with my iPhone. I liked it so much, I went back with my good camera to get more shots.

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  • ’65 Fleetwood Brougham Drops Anchor on Route 66, Needs a New Home

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    Remember when Cadillac built a vehicle that was taken just as seriously by this continent’s rich and famous as its foreign competition but wasn’t called Escalade? Me neither. However, Tomsk the Elder and I spotted this three-owner, large-and-in-charge barge Thursday while walking along the town’s northerly east-west artery (less than a mile west of the…

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  • Streetwalking: A Fistful of Minis Edition

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    Every year, my current hometown of Camrose, AB hosts an event that puts an interesting spin on your standard-fare car show. I attended for the first time last summer, and I have a huge backlog of photos that I think I should share out, if only as a bit of sunny-weather-and-shiny-objects eye-candy to help us…

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