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    Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor

    Slapstick Japanese Duo Pays Homage To '86 Toyota Tercel 4WD, We Think

    ...And Here's Your CRX Replacement!

    The 1990 Honda CRX: Great For Endless Drives Past Cows!

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    12/07/09

    In reply to ...And Here's Your CRX Replacement!
    Needs more AWD. Swapping in a CRV motor helps too.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    12/07/09

    In reply to Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor
    I discovered TOCMP a couple of years back and it's a great resource. The only gripe is that the site is somewhat on the slow side. There's a sister site called Free Car Brochures ([storm.oldcarmanualproject.com]) that has lots of international brochures.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/07/09

    In reply to Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor
    Hard to beat a Ford Falcon Futura hardtop. The fordor is alright, too. But the cartoon helps put you in the right frame of mind for considering its ownership and beauty.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    12/06/09

    In reply to Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor
    LOL! I had that exact car, same year, in that exact same color once - except I don't recall it having a differently-tagged rear lower panel like that one shows.
    Two-speed auto on the tree, as I recall. Low and Drive... that's all you need, right?
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    12/06/09

    In reply to Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor
    I assume the Japanese attributed the Falcon's success to being sold by cartoons, because they did it 30 years later, by getting the Simpsons to shill the '92 Corolla.
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    12/06/09

    In reply to Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor
    This one time I saw a Peanuts cartoon on a webstie that, well, err, hmm, sigh lets just say that Charlie Brown wasn't so shy when it came to the fairer sex. I didn't know Schultz had it in him!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/06/09

    In reply to Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor
    Wow, like I need another site to get lost in! But that one's just lethal looking!
    Thanks (I think!), Murilee!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/06/09

    In reply to Charles Schultz Helps Move '62 Falcons Off The Showroom Floor
    "With every passing year those Falcons get prettier and prettier."

    "Birds, Charlie Brown?"
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    12/06/09

    In reply to Slapstick Japanese Duo Pays Homage To '86 Toyota Tercel 4WD, We Think
    It's a Sprinter Carib, not a Caribbean. Just another thing I learned from playing with Tomica cars as a kid.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/06/09

    In reply to The 1990 Honda CRX: Great For Endless Drives Past Cows!
    You know, if we kept building small cars like this, it may actually cause more people to go on diets and lose some weight.
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    Image of veronykah veronykah
    12/06/09

    In reply to ...And Here's Your CRX Replacement!
    Being a "chick" I always liked these, that is until I drove one. Talk about SLOOOW...
    My friend had one and we raced from a stop sign once...me in an '87 Celica ST, him in a Del Sol [guessing the bottom of the line version, not sure of the year, both stick shifts] in any event, the Celica killed it.
    That Celica was not fast in ANY way...
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    12/06/09

    In reply to Slapstick Japanese Duo Pays Homage To '86 Toyota Tercel 4WD, We Think
    Ah manzai, you'll never make sense but you'll always amuse me.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/06/09

    In reply to Slapstick Japanese Duo Pays Homage To '86 Toyota Tercel 4WD, We Think
    The wagon for cutups. Normal operation includes random openings of the hood and tendency to roll over.

    It was a nice wagon, almost indistinguishable from the Honda version. I thought they'd sold enough to keep producing them, but you have to get a CUV these days if you want a tall wagon.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    12/06/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: The original Tercel wagon lasted until 1987, but it was getting old by then. For 1988, a new tall wagon was introduced in the US as a Corolla. For some reason it didn't sell and it was dropped after a year or two. Maybe it's because Toyota already had a regular, low-profile wagon in the Corolla line. The Honda wagon sales also faded in the late '80s despite updates and the addition of 4WD. Perhaps it was a style whose time had come and gone - it's a shame, too.
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    12/06/09

    In reply to ...And Here's Your CRX Replacement!
    Neighbor of mine had the Del Sol with the 160hp engine, and it really was a "VTEC JUST KICKED IN YO!" kind of car. Like the worst turbo lag in the world. But still, it could scoot. And my uncle-in-law had a base-model one in Seattle as a beater that he loaned me to run around from Seattle to Everett in one Thanksgiving. It wasn't horrid...I had to rev the piss out of it, but that made for some excitement.
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    Image of slackinfux slackinfux
    12/06/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: I acutally owned a del Sol VTEC for a few years...stepping on it anywhere under 5000 RPM was lackluster, but the sweet spot betwen 6K and the 8200 RPM redline was damn near magical! Even better with the roof off and all the windows rolled down. Just thinking about it almost makes me want to buy an S2000.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    12/05/09

    In reply to ...And Here's Your CRX Replacement!
    Part of me wishes I could summon up some grandiose hatred for the Del Sol, but I really can't. It looks fun.
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