Murilee Martin

As the 1980s came to an end, it became apparent that trucks would be the future of commuting and family hauling in America. Isuzu was making a real effort to sell its cars here at that time, but the Trooper II was its biggest American sales star. Here's an early first-generation example, now residing in a Denver self-service boneyard. I'd gone to U-Pull-&-Pay that day to shoot a first-gen Mitsubishi Montero that popped up in the yard's online inventory, but it turned out to be pre…

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The Duster name was used on a quartet of Plymouth models from the early 1970s through the middle 1990s. The first remains a beloved icon, the middle two have been largely forgotten and the fourth still shows up in junkyards. Here's one that I spotted in a Denver-area yard last year. The 1988-1994 Plymouth Sundance and its Dodge Shadow twin were members of the extended K-Car family, replacing the Omnirizon cars and in turn being replaced by the Neon. These cars were known as P-Bodie…

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Would you buy a compact pickup with rear-wheel drive, manual transmission, crank windows, two doors, tiny jump seats behind the buckets and a curb weight well below 3,000 pounds … if you could get it for about $25,000? The early-1990s version of that is what we have here, spotted a couple of years back in a Nevada car graveyard.

Would you buy a compact pickup with rear-wheel drive, manual transmission, crank windows, two doors, tiny jump seats behind the buckets and a curb

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What kind of vehicle from the 1940-1955 period is easiest to find in Western Ewe Pullet -style car graveyards? Four-door sedans made by the Chrysler Corp., no doubt about it. Here's one that I spotted in a northeastern Colorado yard a few weeks ago.

What kind of vehicle from the 1940-1955 period is easiest to find in Western Ewe Pullet -style car graveyards? Four-door sedans made by the Chrysler Corp., no doubt about it.

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