Murilee Martin is a freelance journalist who specializes in automotive writing. His work has been featured in publications such as Hagerty, Yahoo Sports, The Truth About Cars, Autoweek, Autoblog, and Auto Jobs Now. Murilee's articles often focus on vintage cars, junkyard finds, and unique automotive stories.
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Murilee Martin's coverage primarily focuses on the automotive industry, specifically classic cars, junkyards, car models, and car history. His articles often feature reviews and investments analysis related to these topics. If you're looking to reach out effectively, consider providing unique insights or stories related to classic cars or valuable information about specific car models that align with his area of interest. Additionally, offering access to exclusive interviews with experts in the field could be a compelling pitch for him.
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Murilee Martin · 1 min read If you work at a car graveyard and want to put up Christmas decorations from items on hand, you
This series is all about automotive history as seen in the car graveyards of the land, and today we’re going to look at an early example of one of the best-selling car platforms General Motors—in fact, any vehicle manufacturer—ever designed: the J Platform. J-Cars were sold throughout the far-flung global GM Empire, and the most-produced of them all was the Chevrolet Cavalier. Here’s a bread-and-butter Cavalier sedan, found in a wrecking yard in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Ford built better than three million Pintos from the 1971 through 1980 model years, which means that examples still show up in the Ewe Pullets of the land. Here is a 1974 Pinto wagon, found a few months back in a Denver self-service car graveyard.
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was an interesting model year for the cars built by the Chrysler Corporation. They still looked old-fashioned compared to their GM and Ford rivals, but powerful overhead-valve V-8 engines were available for every marque except Plymouth. Even more important, Chrysler’s first true automatic transmission finally hit streets that model year. Here’s a 1954 Dodge sedan that incorporates both: It was built with a Red Ram Hemi engine and Powerflite automatic transmission, and I found it in a Colorado self-service wrecking yard recently.
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Thanks to the long reach of the mighty GM empire, it was possible for car shoppers in Latin America to buy an Indian-made third-generation Daewoo Matiz with Chevrolet badges. This was the Chevrolet Beat, and I've managed to find an example in a Denver self-service car graveyard
A magazine advertisement for the 1979 Dodge Tradesman and Sportsman vans.
By: Murilee Martin
Who says Fox-body Fords got to have all the fun? This 1980 Mercury Zephyr Z7 was a one-year-only turbocharged personal sports coupe.
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