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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

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For a few years after the end of World War II, Detroit's automakers sold mildly facelifted prewar designs while they made the switch back to peacetime production. The 1946-1948 Dodges and Plymouths (and DeSotos ) were mechanically nearly identical, but it was easy to tell them apart at a glance. liter) version with 95 horses.

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Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

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After various high-end Imperials got LeBaron branding over the decades, Chrysler decided to turn the Dodge Diplomat into a swanky luxury machine and revive the storied LeBaron name in the process. Here's one of those cars, found in a Denver boneyard recently. The front-wheel-drive LeBarons stayed in production all the way through 1995.