Cars of Coolhaven

I can appreciate a nice Pony on the streets, but whoah! This rusty old horse could use some good old-fashioned TLC… The Mach 1 designation makes this the performance version of the Ford Mustang, but if this is still the case remains to be seen… I know little of the Mach 1 versus the ‘normal’ [...]

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How about a nice big boat of a Ford to get things started here again? And two door convertibles don’t easily become much bigger than this white whale… What can I say about a big gassguzzling V8 monster like this? Well,very little, I don’t know these cars at all! Wikipedia has a nice page about [...]

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There seems to be an abundance of wedding cars, lately! Granted, this car is not in use as a wedding car when I spot it, but I seriously think it is rented out as one every now and then. It is a whale of a car, creamy white, in perfect condition, a Landau vinyl roof, [...]

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Back in Leiden, I continue my lucky streak of wedding cars with this perfectly restored Ford Model A. The successfull successor of the legendary Ford T, nearly five million of these little cars were produced. And none of them in black! Some Wikipedia facts, since I know little about the car: The Model A came [...]

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Normally, I really like the old ‘Stangs, but this pony is not worth getting excited about… Brrr! Granted, it weren’t the best of times for a car to be born, but still. This is a sad derivative from the original Mustang! I am probably offending quite some hardcore Mustang lovers, but I can’t help it. [...]

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Now this is what I call a long car! At first, I did not even recognize it, since the traditional wooden side paneling is missing. But it is hard to mistake this car for something else It isn’t a rare find, being built in large numbers (no pun intended), but they aren’t that common in [...]

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They moved the Rotterdam War Resistance Museum to the Coolhaven recently, and to celebrate that, they brought in an assorti of US army vehicles. Anything ranging from the well-known Willys jeep to half-track armoured trucks and all sorts of interesting stuff. According to de Motoring department, we can recognize vehicles like the Dodge Beep (WC [...]

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In the booming city of Delft, I spot myself one of the worst looking Mustangs I have even had the misfortune of running into. Surely, this is a badly pimped Escort or something like that? Nope, this really is a Mustang, a direct descendant of works of art like this and this… Incredible! The eighties [...]

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