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1929 Auburn Trackless Train Conversion
Have we found a Hemmings mystery car? This seller is offering his friend’s 1929 Auburn-based trackless train, which is very cool in an of itself. When looking for info, however, we found two Hemmings articles (one here and one here) with images of what is likely the same vehicle and with a call for…
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Redonkulous, Oversized Ford Pickup
Does your neighbor’s new one-ton dually make your 3/4-ton pickup look puny? Maybe you need this Ford F800 with a custom, 14.5-foot bed. We all know there are full-size truck buyers who actually use trucks and then there are the 85% of the private truck market for whom these are all about masculinity defined by…
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WTT means What The Truck?!
It seems someone has decided it makes sense to combine a 1985 Dodge shortbed pickup with a 2003 Mercedes Benz ML320 frame, powertrain and drivetrain. Not surprisingly, they didn’t get far, and now the seller wants you to bail him (or her?) out of this madness. The seller does describe this pretty well, so we…
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Semi-Famous Oddity: 1960 Electric Micro-Car
This car is something of a mystery, even though it was featured on the TV show American Restoration. It was referred to as an Electric Mini-Car, but that seems to be a generic descriptor. Regardless, about $18K was spent restoring it and the original fiberglass body sits on a new frame with new motor, batteries,…
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Turbo, Manual, Orphaned Brand Wagon: Saab 9-3 Sportcombi
Maybe you’ve never seen one, but Saab did indeed offer a wagon er- SportCombi variant of the last generation 9-3. This example has a manual transmission mated to its tw-liter, turbocharged I4. This is a Saab, so the front wheels are driven – perhaps the only strike against this car. A turbo V6 was also available, but…
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Celebrate the Failure of Socialism in Style!
The Trabi – does it really need an introduction. If you lived in East Germany and were lucky enough to be chosen to get a car; but not lucky enough to be of the ruling class, who didn’t follow their own rules, this was your car – either in sedan or wagon form. This example…
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Pontiac What?? Yes, it’s a Laurentian!
The Laurentian was Pontiac’s full-size car in Canada for decades and usually based on a large Chevrolet platform, although the sheet metal made it look like US Pontiacs. Why all the work to create something so similar? We don’t know. Presumably, plant capacity played a role. This 1970 Laurentian is essentially an Impala in Pontiac…
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1976 Monte Royce
Okay, it’s not called a Monte Royce, but this is a “Custom Cloud”, which is a Rolls Royce wanna-be based on a 1976 Chevy Monte Carlo – convertible, in this case. The Custom Cloud was a strange project in the 70s, with the owner supposedly patenting Rolls’ grill design in the US, as Rolls had…
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Interesting Car, Strange Choices: Custom Triumph TR8
The TR8 was a short-lived, V8-powered version of the famously wedgy TR7 sports car. Being British and having eight cylinders in the 70s/80s, you know the Buick-engineered, Rover-purchased 215 CID (3.5L, if you must) all-aluminum V8. These are highly-regarded sports cars, but this owner decided that wasn’t enough. The seller says this done in the…
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70s Peugeot Flagship Sedan
The Peugeot 504 was to top of the Peugeot range for many years and, like so many unusual European products, was in production – in one form or another – for over 30 years and on various continents. Of course, it wasn’t in the US for long, as the entire brand pulled out in the…