The Chevrolet Fleetline bowed in 1941 … just in time for Chevy executives to shelve the automaker’s family-car-for-all and turn their attention to making tanks. Plans for a roomy, inline-6-powered car with three speeds on the column languished until the end of World War II. By 1947, Chevrolet was going full-tilt making an array ofContinue reading “No. 143: A Fleeting Moment Before the War”
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No. 130: Tapped Out, Mined Out, Abandoned
Senior Junkyard Correspondent Harold Colson — “Tex” to his intimates — recently took a blue highway* tour of parts of California and Nevada. As always, he brought along his camera. His patient wife, Deborah, said nothing – Tex didn’t mention anything in his dispatches, anyway – as her husband pulled off the road to photograph another wreck. AndContinue reading “No. 130: Tapped Out, Mined Out, Abandoned”
No. 123: The Surprise Around the Next Curve
A 1954 Chevrolet half-ton, a proud representative of the 3100 series of trucks,* thrusts an inquisitive nose into the fall air on a Georgia highway just beyond Atlanta’s outer ‘burbs. Harbins, 33 miles northeast of Atlanta. (Photo by Junkyard Correspondent Intern Sam Davis) *The Greatest Pickup Of All Time
No. 104: Isn’t That Special?
No. 103: See the USA, in Your Chevroleeeet…
Mystery Edition
This orange behemoth once pushed snow for the Alpine Motel. It looks sort of Jeepish, but I don’t know. Gearheads, what say you? It awaits another blizzard in West Yellowstone, Mont., 1,930 miles northwest of Atlanta. (Photo by Junkyard Correspondent Jordan Shenefield)
It Was Running When I Parked It 