THE Place for Automotive Oddities
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Neighborhood sightings from July 19, 2013
Finally, the GTX was out and uncovered. It’s a ’71, as this was the only year in this body. The 440 has the cool “air grabber” hood. This gem is around pretty often, always with its borderline gaudy V12 badges. It’s interesting to think how expensive this once was…
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Land Rover 101FC
These beasts don’t come up for sale often, but they’re awfully cool. This could be just right for an eccentric collector. This one has apparently been re-engined with a modern Rover 3.9L V8. The seller goes out of his or her way to point out how fast this vehicle is, which is a bit odd,…
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Good, honest Turbo Brick
We love Volvo Bricks and,of course, love Turbo Bricks even more. The seller gives a good amount of info here and this seems like a great, original car. With one of these, the teacher’s car story fits perfectly. The only downside is it’s severely lacking in clutch pedal. Would you keep it as-is and hope…
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stRanger
Where to begin here? We’ll just put comments with each photo. Click for eBay ad Hillsdale, MI $500 with ZERO bids and reserve not met 07/22/2013 update: Ended at $810 with 6 bids and reserve not met. 09/02/2013 update: This popped up again and ended at $1,204 with seven bids and reserve NOT met (now…
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Hen’s tooth: XJS with manual trans
The XJS unjustly gets a bad rap. Anything following the E-Type was likely to be considered ugly. It is also much more a Grand Tourer vs. the Series I and II E-Types, which were trues sports cars. Finally, the V12 also got a justified bad reputation for complexity and poor reliability through the smog-controlled 70s.…
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Random sightings Volume 2,345
There’s been no Oddimotive presence at CNC lately, but there have been some interesting sightings out and about… 1) At the condos across the street from HQ, we saw the first ever (?) Kia RondTow. 2) This van was captured from a distance, but has a high creepy factor, despite surprisingly good paint. 3) Two…
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NSU Sport Prinz
Here’s a rare little beast from NSU, one of a few brands bought by Volkswagen and rolled into what we now know as Audi. The ad text below gives plenty of info which we won’t repeat, but suffice it to say this is a cool little Italian-designed sportster. This is likely to be awesomely slow,…
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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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Frbidden Fruit: Volvo 480 Turbo in the US!
We recently search all the way to Europe to find one of these, as they’re true favorites. The question here is whether anyone can drive it in the US, especially CA…hmm. If it was a 1988 model, we know EPA would be okay, but 1989? Click for eBay ad SLO, CA $9,500 starting with ZERO…
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Tasty Suzuki Swift GT
Along with the Chevy Sprint Turbo (also a Suzuki Swift), we love the Swift GTI and GT. They’re effectively the same car, but it seems VW wasn’t happy about the GTI name, so it only lasted about one year. Instead of the usual three cylinder or SOHC four, these featured a DOHC 1.3 liter four…