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Murilee Martin

STORY ANGLES - Focus on Nostalgia: Highlights rare or forgotten vehicles, often with historical or cultural significance. - Uncommon Finds: Emphasizes the rarity or unique features of vehicles discovered in junkyards.

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Murilee Martin

    Junkyard Find: 2013 Subaru Outback with Manual Transmission (opens the original)

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    If you walk into a North American Subaru showroom today, you'll find that their only new vehicles available with three pedals are the BRZ and the WRX. In the not-so-distant past, though, the U.S.-market Outback could be purchased with a six-speed manual. I found one of the final examples of that powertrain rig in a Denver-area car graveyard last spring. The fourth-generation Outback, sold in North America for the 2010 through 2014 model years was quite a bit bigger and more SUV-like than its pre

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Murilee Martin

    Junkyard Find: 1992 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (opens the original)

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    The General's Cadillac Division built Coupes de Ville for the 1949 through 1993 model years, after which the De Ville name became sedan-only until the end came in 2005. Today's Junkyard Find, spotted last year in a Denver-area yard, is one of the last two-door De Villes ever built. I just wrote about a junked 1971 Coupe de Ville for the publication that stole our beloved Sajeev Mehta from here, which means endless promotional materials from the De Ville's glory days (highlighting affluent middle

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Murilee Martin

    Junkyard Find: 1985 Nissan Sentra Deluxe Wagon (opens the original)

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    Sometimes a person buys one of the cheapest vehicles available from a manufacturer, loads it up with options, and then drives it for decades while keeping it in near-perfect condition. That's what we've got for today's Junkyard Find, spotted at a yard just south of Denver. This is a Sentra Deluxe, the least expensive wagon offered by Nissan for the 1985 model year (and one of the cheapest wagons available in the USA that year, period). The driver's seat and door panel are a little bit dirty, but

  4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Murilee Martin

    Junkyard Find: 1985 Nissan Sentra Deluxe Wagon (opens the original)

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    Sometimes a person buys one of the cheapest vehicles available from a manufacturer, loads it up with options, and then drives it for decades while keeping it in near-perfect condition. That's what we've got for today's Junkyard Find, spotted at a yard just south of Denver. This is a Sentra Deluxe, the least expensive wagon offered by Nissan for the 1985 model year (and one of the cheapest wagons available in the USA that year, period). The driver's seat and door panel are a little bit dirty, but

  5. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Murilee Martin

    Junkyard Find: 1948 Plymouth Special De Luxe Four-Door Sedan (opens the original)

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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. Since I started documenting junkyard vehicles with stories to tell in 2007, I've written about the following discarded 1940-1955 Mopar sedans: 1941 Plymouth, 1941 Plymouth, 1942 Plymouth, 1947 Dodge, 1948 Dodge, 1948 Plymouth, 1949 Dodge, 1949 Dodge,

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