Tag: Shitbox
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Another Festiva Two-Fer
We posted a Festiva Two-Fer back in June, and the rest is history. Well, yet another such ad has appeared! It seems cars like this often come as pairs. This has LeMons potential with a healthy dose of price negotiation. The seller is asking $1,000 for both cars. Two cars for $1K sounds decent, but…
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Sighting: Quad exhaust Prius
Spotted in Foothill Rance (Lake Forest), CA. There’s a lot going on with this one.
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Fun with Fractions
Math was never our strongest subject in school, and working with fractions was particularly challenging. This Craigslist ad reminds us of those frustrating problems: Q: Jim has an old field in Alabama littered with 21 and 1/2 VW Karmann Ghias, how many complete Karman Ghais can Jim build? A: Zero. That’s why Jim Posted his…
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Other cars for scale always make for a great ad!
This Subaru Justy is nothing too special. It lacks the electronic CVT of some models, but its 5-speed likely makes it much more fun to drive. Still, fun to drive in a Justy is relative. What makes this one Oddimotive fodder is not only the relative rarity of a Justy, but the images included in…
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Daihatsu Naked wearing Hummer Attire
Diminutive Japanese “kei cars” seem ridiculously small by US standards, but they make (somewhat) perfect sense when seen on crowded streets and in narrow parking lots of Tokyo. We spotted this Daihatsu Naked (yes, that is the actual model name…) near Atsugi Japan. It is difficult to appreciate the size of this car in the photos.…
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Goes Like Hell or Project from Hell?
Here we have one of the original pocket rockets – the Omni GLH from the mid 1980s. Who wouldn’t love 80s domestic mediocrity in the form of a shitbox hatch, but stuffed with a turbo four yielding impressive straight line performance in this light car? Carroll Shelby himself was involved, and even bought the last…
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Another of our favorites: 1991 Suzuki Swift GT
Here we have the hot rod version of the Geo Metro. Sounds crazy, eh? Well, let’s not forget that the Metro was really a Suzuki Swift/Cultus and let’s also not forget that there was a cool turbocharged version of the prior generation Swift/Chevy Sprint. As we noted in a prior post, this car was initially…
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Forgotten for Many Reasons: Pontiac Lemans by Daewoo
The Pontiac Lemans that most people remember was a 1960s-70s GM intermediate, one version of which was the GTO for quite some time. Most have tried hard to forget the Daewoo-built Pontiac Lemans of the 1980s and early 90s, one of many captive imports designed to help with CAFE. There’s really nothing to love here…
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Quickie: This Festiva is too weird to ever really go away
We featured this Festiva a while back as part of our Two homemade shitboxes story. It appears that it sold and buyer’s remorse set in quickly. This seller actually provides more information and pictures than the last one, even though the last seller was apparently the builder. Odd note: This seller bought this strange beast for his…