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Homemade Trike with Lots of Acronyms
Supposedly, this ad comes from a wife selling her husband’s electric vehicle dream. There is mention of possible production, but it seems the company never got off the ground. The relatively short ad manages to name drop the SEMA, NASCAR and DOT acronyms. The worst thing about this sale is that at least some of…
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Awesomely Brown AMC Spirit
This is the brownest car we’ve seen in a while, which makes it among the best cars we’ve seen recently. This is a claimed very low mileage (73K) car, and the condition backs up the claim. While it’s not perfect, the seller correctly claims this as a survivor. One would hate to refurbish this car…
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Surgically Altered, Topless Cougar
The seller of this car claims this is on of 96 factory convertibles, but Mercury/Ford never produced a convertible Cougar or T-Bird on this platform. In all likelihood, this is a Car Craft conversion, given the year and the location. Regardless, conversions like this were around back in the day and weren’t cheap. This made…
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There’s Subtle, Tasteful Luxury and then There’s This
The 70s featured many an AMC Pierre Cardin and Lincoln Bill Blass edition, among other fancy designers. Cadillac decided to play the game for the 1979 model year by teaming up with Gucci and International Automotive Design. Behold the 1979 Cadillac Seville Gucci Edition! Very little about the 1970s was subtle, or even tasteful, so…
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Manual, 4WD Sentra Wagon!
Yes, this wagon has a selectable transfer case, so it has four-wheel drive, rather than all-wheel drive. At the end of the day, it’s an Oddimotive dream, either way, as it has also been turbocharged! This is an original AWD Sentra wagon, but the engine was swapped for a 1991-1994 GA16DE 1.6L and then a…
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Pinto-Based, Lotus 7-Inspired Kit Car
As the seller points out, Blakely Auto Works made various kit cars for a few decades and operated under the name Bernardi at some point. Today’s feature car is a 1978 model and supposedly is made to be a larger, more street-friendly version of the Blakely Bantam, which was a Lotus 7 replica. It’s a…
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Pontiac T1000 Project
If you absolutely must have a Pontaic T1000, you have serious problems. That being said, here’s one for sale. The T1000 was Pontiac’s twin to the Chevy Chevette, although this came along in about the sixth model year for Chevette. Cooler heads must have left the company or caved to CAFE rules after years of…
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They All Look Alike to Me
A racist comment? Not at all, when applied to boxy SUVs. Apparently, others think they all look the same, as this isn’t the first time we’ve found a Japanese SUV posing as a Mercedes. Almost two years ago, we featured the Gelandejetero, a wanna-be Mercedes-Benz Gelandewagen made out of a Dodge Raider, which was really…
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Hemi Wagon With Manual Trans – Not What You Think
No, it’s not a late model Dodge Magnum, it’s a 1956 DeSoto Wagon. This features the “Firedome” engine, which was DeSoto’s version of the corporate Chrysler Hemi. Given it’s a 1956 model, this should be a 330 CID (5.4L) version with about 230 horsepower and plenty ‘o torque – maybe even enough to move this…
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Rainbow Bright’s 1977 Chevy Scottsdale CK1
I believe Rainbow Bright had a car accessory, but I never knew about the full-sized truck. That seems to be the inspiration behind the customization applied to this 1977 Chevrolet Scottsdale pickup,which sheds the macho image of most full-sized pickups. Disregard the paint choices and this is a desirable 4×4 stepside with a 400 CID…