THE Place for Automotive Oddities
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The real NX, not the new Lexus thing
We love the Nissan NX2000. Your humble host once owned a 1993 Sentra SE-R – very closely related – and loved it. It’s high on the ‘would love to have another’ list. Here we have an SR20DET swap, which could make it even more fun. Of course, certain details on this car make us wonder…
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Do these jeans make my seats look big?
Here’s one of the all-time best co-brand and special edition cars: The Gremlin Levis edition, complete with full denim seating surfaces and denim asses attached to the lower door panels in the place of map pockets. This one claims to have been a barn find, but isn’t everything a barn find, these days? Either way,…
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Ah…the Harlequin Golf
Here we have one of the strangest ‘special edition’ vehicles in recent history. The story is that Golfs went all the way to paint, then the plant swapped the bolt-on panels to create this beast. Non-removable panels (rockers, roof, etc) give away the first coat on any one Harlequin. This followed a Europe-only VW Polo…
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Recent, unrelated sightings
Spotted in the company parking garage, which also regularly features a Saab 9-7x… Sighted at Home Depot in Lake Forest, CA…
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Quickie: Remember the Stanza wagon?
Here we have a 1986 tall Stanza wagon with 4WD. It seems all the Japanese OEMs offered these small-but-tall compact and midsize car-based wagons in the 80s to early 90s. Along with the earlier AMC Eagle, shall we consider these the real predecessors to modern small crossovers? Unfortunately, this ad has little info and the…
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K-Car retro-rod
We’ve featured more than one 90s Thunderbird retro-rod and recently showed a 90s Camaro-based 57 Chevy wannabe. Finally, we have a Mopar example, this one based on, of all things, a Dodge 600 convertible, which may well be the boxiest of K-cars, possibly of all cars. Of all the weirdo retro-rods we’ve features, this one…
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Custom something-or-other
We featured this car in our coverage of June 8th Irvine Cars and Coffee. It’s not at all surprising to see something parked prominently at that event for sale within weeks. What’s funny here is that we’re still not sure what it is. There’s mention of a Fiat title and Honda power (from what?). There…
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Honda S600 three-fer
Old Hondas tend to come in groups and parts lots. These predecessors to the S2000 are the oldest Honda cars of all and this is quite a lot: three cars in various conditions and some engines, transmissions and other parts. We love these little sports cars for a variety of reasons, including extremely light weight,…
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Quickie: Epic photo
There’s only one photo in this ad, and we love it. What more could you need to know about this truck? It’s brownish and that guy not only owns it, but poses with it. Click for eBay ad Porter, TX $3,100 BIN price
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Too boring to drive?
A Granada Ghia with 63K miles only means one thing – the owner didn’t want to be seen driving this thing. To the seller: Do not despair, as some bearded hipster will come along and overpay for this in order to be more in touch with the 70s and 80s that they never experience ‘live’.…