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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

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Though the extended Chrysler K Family had many members (including minivans and Maseratis ) and stayed in production deep into the 1990s, there were just five true K models sold in the United States: the Plymouth Reliant, Dodge Aries, Dodge 400, Dodge 600 and Chrysler LeBaron (though not all the LeBarons and 600s were genuine Ks).

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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

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Chrysler managed the feat for the 1949 model year; we admired a Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan from that year in a Colorado car graveyard last summer, and today we're going to take a look at an example of one of the last of the stopgap postwar Chrysler products : this '48 Dodge in a yard just south of Denver.

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Junkyard Find: 1971 MG MGB-GT

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Here's one of those cars, found at a family-owned yard just south of Denver. While the B was underpowered and unreliable even by the forgiving standards of the late 1980s, I had great affection for it at the time. The original engine in the '71 MGB (which might even be this one) was a 1.8-liter By the middle 1970s, the MGB's 1.8

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Junkyard Find: 1983 Datsun 200SX Coupe

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Today's Junkyard Find , found in a yard just south of Denver , is a nicely preserved example of the final year of the S110 Silvia , as well as of the Datsun name. This car sure looks a lot like the 1978-1983 Mitsubishi Galant Lambda hardtop , sold in North America as the Dodge Challenger and Plymouth Sapporo.

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