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Volvo Duett plus parts car(s)
It’s a little difficult to figure out exactly what one is looking at in this ad, but it seems the buyer gets the stripped Duett plus a couple parts cars, some recovered seats and a windshield. What could go wrong? Duetts are beyond cool, but this is a project for a brave soul. Click for…
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All the best Loti are FWD (?)
Back in its GM days, Lotus produced this FWD Elan and all US cars came with an Isuzu I4 turbo. By most accounts, this is the best-handling front wheel drive car ever made. Most say it’s incredibly fun, as weight is minimal and the turbo four moves it with authority. 0-60 MPH times were in…
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Quickie: This is among the best special editions ever
Our friends across the street had one of these in the late 80s. I’m not sure where it is now, but the Fila Thunderbird lives on as one of e strangest American cobrands. I say American because Europeans will slap an unrelated brand on any car.
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Wheeler Dealers fans unite!
Your humble host first heard of the Mini Moke when traveling – some island still offer them as rentals. Somewhat sadly, our rental ended up being a VW Dune Buggy (RHD manual), as they were out of Mokes. Years later, I saw the Wheeler Dealers episode featuring a Moke and fell in love all over…
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Quickie: Because a stock Pulsar Sportbak isn’t strange enough
Sportbaks are, well, awesome. Sportbaks with hideous custom paint…priceless. At $500, this would be incredibly tempting. Click for Craigslist ad North Hills, CA $1,999 This is the money shot in any Sportbak post. We don’t know the story behind the SS sticker, but we know the NISMO sticker is worth 17.3 horsepower. Ad text: VERY…
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The real NX, not the new Lexus thing
We love the Nissan NX2000. Your humble host once owned a 1993 Sentra SE-R – very closely related – and loved it. It’s high on the ‘would love to have another’ list. Here we have an SR20DET swap, which could make it even more fun. Of course, certain details on this car make us wonder…
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Do these jeans make my seats look big?
Here’s one of the all-time best co-brand and special edition cars: The Gremlin Levis edition, complete with full denim seating surfaces and denim asses attached to the lower door panels in the place of map pockets. This one claims to have been a barn find, but isn’t everything a barn find, these days? Either way,…
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Ah…the Harlequin Golf
Here we have one of the strangest ‘special edition’ vehicles in recent history. The story is that Golfs went all the way to paint, then the plant swapped the bolt-on panels to create this beast. Non-removable panels (rockers, roof, etc) give away the first coat on any one Harlequin. This followed a Europe-only VW Polo…
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Recent, unrelated sightings
Spotted in the company parking garage, which also regularly features a Saab 9-7x… Sighted at Home Depot in Lake Forest, CA…
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Quickie: Remember the Stanza wagon?
Here we have a 1986 tall Stanza wagon with 4WD. It seems all the Japanese OEMs offered these small-but-tall compact and midsize car-based wagons in the 80s to early 90s. Along with the earlier AMC Eagle, shall we consider these the real predecessors to modern small crossovers? Unfortunately, this ad has little info and the…