Tag: 80s
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SOLD! Fuego Turbo
This was in the watch list long enough to end, but it worth sharing. Here we have a Fuego Turbo manual with 50K miles. This is basically the Holy Grail of Fuegos (which is saying so much!), and gives us a new idea of how high the prices can go. Keep in mind this car…
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Seville Opera Coupe
Here we have another early 80s “upgrade” to a domestic luxury car. Your humble host’s grandmother had a Seville of this generation, but without the ‘mods’. This is hideous, but we’re not sure if it’s really any better or worse than stock. Click for eBay ad Alexander, NC $15,500 with ZERO bids and $20,500 BIN…
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Gelandejetero
Here we have a seller with a sense of humor,or at least we hope so. Some of you may remember that the Dodge Raider was a two-door Mitsubishi Montero (Pajero to the rest of the world), but when’s the last time you saw one, or even thought of one? The seller of this beauty provides…
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Two home-modified shitboxes (or is that shitboxen?)
Here we have two domestic-branded shitboxes, each originally built by a different company and each pretty heavily modified. Here at Oddimotive, shitbox is a term of endearment, as regular here know that we love both the Festiva and the Chevy Sprint Turbo. We’re still not sure about the Daihatsu Charade, but even that now has…
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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…
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K-Car retro-rod
We’ve featured more than one 90s Thunderbird retro-rod and recently showed a 90s Camaro-based 57 Chevy wannabe. Finally, we have a Mopar example, this one based on, of all things, a Dodge 600 convertible, which may well be the boxiest of K-cars, possibly of all cars. Of all the weirdo retro-rods we’ve features, this one…
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Too boring to drive?
A Granada Ghia with 63K miles only means one thing – the owner didn’t want to be seen driving this thing. To the seller: Do not despair, as some bearded hipster will come along and overpay for this in order to be more in touch with the 70s and 80s that they never experience ‘live’.…
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Starlet from hell (no, it’s not Lindsay Lohan)
Thanks to Dan for this reader submission! We love this ad for a number of reasons: The car itself is awesomely strange, The owner lives in a tent next to it, The car is parked under a useless structure, Other cars in the images display a wide variety of tastes, and The tent dweller apparently…
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Rare, one-year beast: Grand Prix Turbo
These don’t come up very often, as only 2,000 were built. A good friend of Oddimotive worked on this vehicle at GM back in the day and seemed to remember it fondly, for the most part. Unfortunately, this didn’t out perform its direct competitors, the supercharged Thunderbird SC and Cougar XR7, which also offered manual…
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Oddimotive mobile HQ shines again
Mobile HQ got a wash, polish and wax, including a good top scrubbing. It had been too long…