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Earlier this year, Ben Savage played a Young Mandy Patinkin in the penultimate episode of Criminal Minds. Two months later, he played a Young Mandy Patinkin in the penultimate episode of Homeland. His casting on the Showtime thriller, as you can imagine, was no coincidence. For the purpose of flashbacks to East Berlin circa 1986, […]
The second-generation Volkswagen Passat went by the Quantum name in North America (the first-generation Passat was known as the Dasher on these shores) and sold to a small but devoted cadre of American buyers. Here’s one in a Colorado self-serve wrecking yard after a 31-year career in or near the Rocky Mountains. All Quantum Syncros […]
Chrysler was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy in the late 1970s, but a government bailout kept the company on life support long enough for the new K platform to hit the marketplace in 1981 and turn things around. The Reliant was Plymouth’s K-Car, available in coupe, sedan, convertible, and wagon form and built all […]
Chrysler imported quite a few Mitsubishis and sold them as Dodge and Plymouth Colts, but the Colts of the 1980s had to compete with the Plymouth Horizon and its Dodge Omni sibling. Based on a Chrysler Europe design, production of the Plymouth Horizon ran in virtually unchanged form from the 1979 through 1990 model years. […]
Toyota’s LiteAce van was sold in the United States as, simply, the Toyota Van. It was a small forward-control van with a sturdy-but-low-powered four-cylinder pushrod engine, and most American van/wagon shoppers didn’t quite know what to make of it. This one, unusually, has been given the conversion-van treatment; I photographed it in a Phoenix wrecking […]
The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte landed in Poland on Monday for a five day state visit. While Duchess Kate impressed onlookers in her white power suit, it was Princess Charlotte style choice that grabbed people’s attention. The two-year-old was pictured landing in Warsaw wearing a red […]
Before the advent of the Lexus brand, the top-of-the-line Toyota car in the United States was the Cressida. Not many were sold here, possibly because most American buyers associated Toyota with rugged trucks and stingy Corollas back then, but Cressidas do show up in wrecking yards from time to time. Here’s an extremely rare Cressida […]
Enlarge (credit: Chris Wilkinson) Limited to an anachronistic 1200 bits per second, it took several moments for the green-phosphor ASCII art to scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen. A login prompt and a blinking cursor invited me to continue deeper: Enter GUEST for a quick look around.) Enter your ID#, HANDLE, […]
AP Photo/Bob Dougherty WASHINGTON (AP) — The fundamentals of tax overhaul were strong some 30 years ago. A popular president, Republican Ronald Reagan, pushed the landmark 1986 measure. Powerful and experienced congressional leaders shepherded the legislation with bipartisan support. Key players had established, trusting relationships. The situation facing President Donald Trump features none of those […]
Back in the 1980s and a bit into the 1990s, most of the Japanese car manufacturers offered funky little four-wheel-drive cars for the American marketplace. Honda had the Civic Wagovan, Nissan had the Stanza 4WD wagon, Subaru had “the Subaru” and the Justy 4WD, Mitsubishi had the Dodge/Plymouth Colt and Eagle Summit – and Toyota […]
