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Björn Stunner:1984 Thunderbird Fila Edition
This car will make you want to put on your fresh Filas. The 70s brought us a great many ‘designer’ edition luxury cars, but this 80s personal luxury coupe comes with a tie-in to the then-hot, European sportswear company. Perhaps this car was good enough for Björn Borg, who pitched Fila back in the day. We…
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Big Potential: Cheap 1974 Datsun B210GX
These little hatchbacks pop up from time to time – some are ‘too nice’ and some are basket cases, but this car lies right in the middle. The bidding just passed the LeMons $500 mark and this will be a cool project if it doesn’t go much higher and the reserve is met. Thirty years…
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This Town Car Ain’t No Lincoln
What’s an Urba Town Car, you ask? It seems Mechanix Illustrated (yes people abbreviated that way long before Hip Hop) published plans for this car at some point, and is thus to blame. This one of a great many odd, high MPG “build from plan” cars that sprung up in the 70s and 80s, alongside…
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Dodge Ramcharger Macho Power Wagon
Outside of serious Mopar fans and people in Mexico, where a later generation was sold, it seems that few remember that Chrysler offered a competitor to the Bronco and Blazer back in the day. In the very rare category is the Plymouth Trailduster, which was a twin to today’s feature vehicle, the Dodge Ramcharger. This…
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1978 Mustang II Sleeper
The poor, pinto-based Mustang II is the butt of many jokes inside and outside the Mustang community, given its radical departure from the late 60s/early 70s muscle Mustang formula, but it was right for its time, which is to say the Mustang was a victim of the Malaise Era. Interest in a few of the…
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Buy a Failed Attempt at Keeping Five Changan Tiger Star Pickups Running
Someone thought keeping a fleet of Chinese-built Chang’an Tiger Trucks running was a good idea. It turns out it wasn’t for that owner; but now’s your chance to try! Here’s what you get, per the seller (who appears to be in the salvage business): (2) Automatics with bad transmissions (removed and laying in truck bed)…
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Fox Mercury with Four-Speed and Needs
Fans of the Ford Fox body – best known for underpinning Mustangs for way too long – may recall that it was sometimes called the Fairmont/Zephyr platform. The Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr were thoroughly boring and mediocre mid-sized offerings in the late 70s. They’re so generic that they have sleeper potential now. Today’s feature…
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Another Oddimotive Grail Find: Ex-Red Bull Suzuki X90!
Who doesn’t want a Suzuki X90 with Red Bull provenance? That was a rhetorical question, as we know everyone wants one. The good news today is that this is one of only so many surviving examples and that it still has a trunk converted to a big cooler. The bad news is it seems these…
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Not One, But Two Zagato Zeles
Zagato, known for much more aggressive designs, produced this fiberglass-bodied EV in the mid-1970s it was the Zele in some markets and the Elcar in the US. Only an estimated 500 units were built; so this sale includes 0.4% of all production! While these were originally built the same, these two are very different. The…
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Sun-Baked, FWD, German Psuedo-Luxury: 1969 Audi 100LS
No, sun-baked doesn’t indicate a convertible today, it means this poor car has been baked in the sun for far too many years. What is it? Volkswagen group’s first front-engine, front-wheel-drive, water-cooled sedan, the Audi 100LS. We confess to previously having been only barely aware of this car’s existence, but a quick interwebs search revealed…