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1954 Chrysler Windsor

Much of the old Detroit iron in the eastern half of the continent has oxidized into nothingness by now, but that doesn't mean it's all gone. Virginia-based Jagvar has been kind enough to shoot some quality photos of a very clean '54 Chrysler that parks in his neighborhood. The Windsor was the least expensive Chrysler for '54, and it came with a 265-cubic-inch flathead six engine. Make the jump to read Jagvar's description.

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4:40 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Murilee Martin
608 views, 19 comments

Latest by Ben Simons: @HUMONGUS: i agree but it is so cool as is. i think the next hot-rod suspension trend will be the 2003-07 crown vic front suspension - it looks way easy to adapt and you can bag it much easier than the torsion more »

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Definitely Not Jeffrey Lebowski's Torino: Welcome To Chile!

This DOTS Bonus Edition thing has really taken off, with photos coming in faster than I can post them (be patient- my jumble of files rigorously organized system will result in everyone's shots appearing sooner or later). We've seen North American cars and a few in Europe, and now it's South America's turn. Chilean reader Felipe sees this '74 Torino parked in his neighborhood (I forgot to ask which city), and he's gone out and interviewed the owner for us. ¡Gracias, Felipe! Make the jump for the car's story... but before that, let's look at a Malaise Torino that's not quite as nice as this one!

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2:00 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,121 views, 27 comments

Latest by CptSevere: @Novaload: I'm ten years or so behind you. This is weak compared to the sixties boats that were being made in your day. When I was a kid this is what we were riding in with Mom driving, at least more »

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1976 Audi Fox Wagon: Choice Of Discerning Pit Crew Members!

The cars driven by the team members and audience at the 24 Hours of LeMons race tended to be more interesting than what you'd see in your typical East Bay parking lot. I saw an AMC Hornet with a trunk-mounted computer, a small-block XJ6 with a wicked-looking hood scoop, and this very clean Fox wagon... which turned out to be owned by Shawn, a helluva good mechanic who showed up as a last-minute crew addition and proved incredibly useful in the Black Metal V8olvo pit action. That's Shawn fueling our car in the gallery below. I can't recall the last time I saw an Audi Fox in any condition, much less one this nice.

4:20 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Murilee Martin
984 views, 35 comments

Latest by Lightning-Lazz: Thanks for the mention of my 1969 XJ-6. Yes, the hood scoop is funtional. Car runs with a 400 ci Chevy. Big juice can, highrise, Holley and Pete Jackson gear drive give it a serious sound. What can you expect more »

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Oslo Traction-Avant... Or Denver SM?

After seeing some old Citröens down on the Oslo street yesterday, Denver's Kitt ran right out and shot a Citröen in her neighborhood. And not just a garden-variety DS or 2CV- this here is a genuine JFG-worthy SM! Looks like this one may be paying one of its all-too-common visits to the shop, but it's still alive and on the street!

4:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,316 views, 41 comments

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Welcome To Oslo, Where Ancient Citroens Roam Free!

We've been getting some great Down On The Street Bonus Edition photos from our readers (so many, in fact, that it's getting tough to post them as fast as they come in- which is a good problem to have). However, when you find and photograph a daily-driven Citröen Traction-Avant on the streets of your city, you get jumped to the head of the line. Such is the case with Warpig, who has gone on an unprecedented DOTSBE binge in his hometown of Oslo, Norway. He's sent in literally hundreds of photos of interesting old cars found on Oslo's streets, and today we're going to look at some of the Citröens he's shot. Good work, Warpig, and we'll be showing more of your photos in the near future!

2:00 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,018 views, 37 comments

Latest by aesthari: Citroenporn, I like! Dang, Oslo must be heaven! more »

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Volvo Bertone Flashes Italo-Swedish Style On Denver's Boulevards

There's a Volvo 262C parked in a driveway scant blocks from my house; it would be a super-cool DOTS car, but it's off-limits. Not so for the Bertone in ejacobs' neighborhood, which is on the street and set up for easy photography with no other vehicles nearby. These things sold for 15 grand back in the day, well over twice the price of a regular 242; this one has some rust, but looks pretty complete.

4:00 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Murilee Martin
920 views, 40 comments

Latest by GTBruiser: My brother bought a black over silver Bertone Volvo to match his black/silver '75 Jaguar XJC. He even added matching K.H. wire wheels and leaping cat hood ornament. more »

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Tesla Spotted In Palo Alto, Price Of Electrons Climbs


A few months before I started writing for El Jalop, one of the few Mercedes-Benz F-Cell fuel cell cars parked on my block for while, and I'm still kicking myself for not photographing it. The anonymous tipster who sent in the shots of a Tesla Roadster he found parked in Palo Alto, on the other hand, had his camera primed and ready when the moment of truth arrived. Good work, anonymous tipster!

7:30 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,751 views, 31 comments

Latest by mr.chöppèrs: @DeadFlorist: "As long as gas remains over $4 a gallon, manufacturers will have lots of incentive to develop alternative fuel technology." Mmmmm... mayyybe. European fuel is consistently twice as high, so the US manufacturers have a comparative disadvantage. I believe that more »

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Absinthe, Darkness Cannot Deter Franzouse From Capturing Paris DAF

When you're stumbling down a Paris street at 2:00 AM with a head full of absinthe and you spot a '73 DAF with its owner- an Armenian priest- nearby, what do you do? If you're a certified Jalopnik Project Car Hell Poster Child, you whip out your iPhone and start shooting (perhaps taking an additional swig of the wormwood first, to steady your camera hand). Make the jump to read Franzouse's description. [Classic DAF]

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3:00 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Murilee Martin
708 views, 26 comments

Latest by SOOKE: It looks like a Fiat 128. My mother rented a Daf when we went to Holland in 1962. She couldn't drive a standard, and it was the only rental car with an automatic transmission. more »

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British Steel Screaming For Vengeance In Denver

We need more Judas Priest references here, and Denver's EJacops has given us the opportunity to drop a couple by finding and photographing these three British machines in his neighborhood. We've got a shockingly rust-free TR6, a Land Rover that seems ready to claw its way straight up the nearest 14,000-foot mountain, and when was the last time you saw a TR3 parked on the street in a manner that suggests it actually runs regularly? Good work, EJacobs! Make the jump for a second gallery.

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3:00 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Murilee Martin
900 views, 29 comments

Latest by DucatiChuck: the guy across the street from me has a TR6, and he pulled it out for the first time this year yesterday. it's old, it's battered, the interior is a mess, it's got not top and it takes four or more »

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1967 Olds Delta 88 Berths At San Francisco Handicapped Space

Many of you have been sending in great DOTSBE photos (and I'll get to all of them, sooner or later), but today I just had to share this daily-driven big Olds that I often see parked near my office in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. Parking is a swirling, sanity-eradicating nightmare in this part of town, with its big office buildings all around and the Giants' ballpark a couple blocks away, but this 41-year-old Delta 88 sedan has the special handicapped placard that enables it to ease right into a nice fat blue space right in the heart of everything. It's a beater, but it drives every day!

3:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Murilee Martin
849 views, 25 comments

Latest by mytdawg: Depending on the engine, the MPG may not be that bad. With a big block and a 4 barrel (if you can stay out of it) a big Olds can idle at 70MPH so they can get mid-teens. Our 455 more »

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Welcome To Burnaby, Where The Europas And Beats Roam Free

We saw the Chuck D-centric Olds 98 in Toronto a couple weeks back, and now the Canadian contingent is back with a whole bunch of seriously rare machines for our enjoyment. Donkeyassman has spotted a Lotus Europa, Lotus Elan, Chevy Chevelle, Mazda Eunos, and a pair of Honda Beats in the city of Burnaby, B.C. So put on your tuques and make the jump for many more photos and Donkeyassman's description.

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3:00 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,806 views, 40 comments

Latest by v8corvairpickup: What we need is to see fuel prices rise (I didn't say that!) so we can have easy access to the low mileage (kms) kei cars being dumped from the JDM. I'd love to have cheap gas so I can more »

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Bay Area Train Commuters Prefer Vintage Iron

When you're having a quinto-Belvedere tailgate party at the Oakland Coliseum, you pay to park in the official stadium lot, but when you're swilling cheap beer and wolfing chile verde burritos prior to sneaking into the good seats with your bleacher tickets watching a ballgame from the bleachers, you don't want to pay to park your car. That's why me and my cheapskate friends park in the free Coliseum BART station parking lot for most games, where we often have the opportunity to admire vintage machinery driven by commuters. Some of you may remember the Menacing Bee Van from last year, and here we have a quintet of other interesting rides spotted in the same lot. Apologies for crappy phone-camera image quality.

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4:00 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,045 views, 34 comments

Latest by GTBruiser: @beercheck: My 75 was a dark green metallic, plaid seat(ed), vinyl roofed, hatchback, with 8-track, CB radio and a Sears Tower sized spring mounted antenna bolted to the hatch. more »

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1976 AMC Matador Brings A Taste Of Kenosha Malaise To Denver's Streets

We're being buried under a deluge of car photos from Kitt and EJacobs, our dog-walking, camera-wielding friends in Denver, so we'd better keep 'em coming if we're ever going to get caught up. Today we're going to look at a battered but proud Malaise Matador, courtesy of Kitt. We can't be sure that this car is equipped with today's Engine of the Day, but there's a good chance a torquey AMC 258 motivates this survivor; otherwise it has a 304, 360, or 401.

2:00 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Murilee Martin
819 views, 25 comments

Latest by altdude: I actually really love the look of these. Actually pretty elegant for a 70's American car. more »

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Star-Spangled Scout Lurks Behind The Orange Curtain

Normally we like to show street-parked cars in this series, but we're making an exception for this International Harvester Scout that parks in the driveway at БЯд╒╒ ®'s place in Orange County's lovely Huntington Beach. The fading on the stars-and-stripes motif suggests that the custom paint job was laid down around the time of the US Bicentennial. I'm going to say this is a '66, but I could be off by a year or two. БЯд╒╒ ® has spotted several other quality DOTSBE cars in his neighborhood, so we'll be sure to share his photos.

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3:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Murilee Martin
476 views, 13 comments

Latest by sketchthedog: Few cars are as cool as an IH Scout; there are even fewer cars that rust as quickly and completely (including 80s eras CJs). I'd love to have one of these, but living in the Northeast, I realize it is more »

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The Denver Iron Keeps Coming: Early Datsun 240Z

Now that we've got two photographers out shooting Denver DOTSBE cars while out walking their respective dogs, we can expect to see plenty of vintage machinery from the streets of the Mile High City. Today we're going to look at a solid-looking 1970 or 1971 Datsun 240Z (Z experts, please help out on the exact year here) shot by Ejacobs, who brought us the late-40s International Harvester KB-3 last week.

12:30 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Murilee Martin
955 views, 32 comments

Latest by Turboner: Needs a SBC. J/K. more »

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Suckers To The Side, Ontario Hates My 98!

Yo, we got to dust these boys off! Whenever I hear the Public Enemy song, I always picture a car pretty much exactly like the Malaise Olds 98 that Schweppes Maymar has very kindly captured for us on the mean streets of Windsor Toronto, Ontario. Make the jump to read what Schweppes Maymar has to say about this fine automobile.

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2:00 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,792 views, 48 comments

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Ponton Drinks Colorado Kool-Ade, Thrives On Golden Roads

Even though Coloradans get the occasional dose of road salt, it appears that their dry climate does a pretty good job of preserving old street-driven iron. Golden-based Discontinuuity sent us a whole bunch of photos of interesting old vehicles parked in Coors City a while back, and now he's returned with some shots of a friend's daily-driven Benz Ponton. Make the jump for more photos and Discontinuuity's description.

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3:40 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Murilee Martin
913 views, 25 comments

Latest by CptSevere: Just the level of technology I'm used to. Never had anything newer than 1974, probably never will. There's nothing on this car that is mystifying, confusing, or uses technological black magic that the average wrench like me couldn't figure out. more »

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The Forgotten Charger Thrives In The Mile High City

You hear a lot about the late-60s Chargers, the Malaise Era Chargers, and the current crop, but what about the forgotten '66 and '67 models? Some think they're homely (and suspiciously similar in design to the AMC Marlin), but 40+ years sit pretty well on this '66 that the unstoppable Kitt found in her Denver neighborhood. In this case, the car's proud owner was present and happy to open hood and doors to facilitate photography of his Dodge (which, sadly, lacks the optional 426 Hemi).

4:40 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,464 views, 39 comments

Latest by nosirrahg: Back in the '80s my barber who sold cars on the side had a dark blue '67 Charger with black interior on his little lot. I took it for a test drive of maybe half a mile; it had more »