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1954 Chevy abandoned in Quinault garage 6.8.23
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An automotive time machine with an open door

June 8, 2023 Steve 9

Since I began visiting Lake Quinault in the mid-1980s, I have noticed this 1953 Chevrolet sitting in a garage. The garage’s door has always been open and the Chevy has not appeared to have been […]

1937 Cord 812 headlight
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A sleepy-eyed 1937 Cord 812

November 11, 2021 Steve 0

(UPDATED 10/17/2017) One of the retractable headlights on this is a 1937 Cord 812 Westchester four-door was half open when I last photographed the car at the LeMay Collections at Marymount. Go here for background […]

A motor home and a race car
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Competing priorities: Which vehicle should win?

March 12, 2021 Steve 0
Olympia, Washington homeless park on side of road
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Homeless campers forced to go somewhere else

December 4, 2020 Steve 0

The growth in homelessness in the Pacific Northwest has resulted in increasingly large numbers of people living in their cars, campers and trailers. The above photograph from a year ago shows an encampment along a […]

Communism graffiti
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Dirty car windows: Vanguard of the revolution

November 13, 2020 Steve 0
Olympia park at night
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Cuddling on a park bench (with someone’s car radio blasting)

November 6, 2020 Steve 0
And God bless German engineering?
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And God bless German engineering?

October 30, 2020 Steve 0
Handicapped parking sign shot up
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Sign of the times: A few cheap shots

October 2, 2020 Steve 0
A message from your Dept. of Happy Traveling
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A message from your Dept. of Happy Traveling

September 4, 2020 Steve 0
Quite the party
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The birds had quite the party on that car

August 28, 2020 Steve 0

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    Was the 1966 Olds Cutlass Supreme the first mid-sized brougham model?
    March 5, 2026 21
  • 1976 Plymouth Volare 2-door coupe
    Splashy new cars often were the biggest disasters during the postwar period
    March 3, 2026 1
  • Reader questions Chrysler’s future as it passes 100th anniversary
    March 2, 2026 12
  • 1968 Chevrolet C10 pickup
    Was the 1967-68 Chevrolet C10 the ‘first modern pickup’?
    February 27, 2026 7
  • 1941 Studebaker Commander 2-door coupe
    1941 Studebaker Commander: Ending its big cars on a high note
    February 26, 2026 11
  • 1961 De Soto
    Video histories of DeSoto and American Motors aren’t as good as books
    February 24, 2026 3
  • 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk front with hood open
    Four lingering questions about Aaron Severson’s take on the 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk
    February 20, 2026 6
  • Thank yous, power outages and format changes
    October 31, 2025 0
  • 1956 Buick hood scoop
    Readers brainstorm ideas for future Indie Auto stories
    October 14, 2022 134
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