THE Place for Automotive Oddities
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Quickie: The “H word” never really died
Ad title: Cadillac Coupe DeVille (((( OLD SCHOOL HOOPTIE….LOW MILES )))) – $2500 (St. Louis) Click for Craigslist ad St. Louis, MO $2,500 Ad text: Old School Cadillac Coupe Deville…..LOW LOW MILES…..Rides & Drives Good…..314-922-7459
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Steet legal bumper car?
We’ve featured a few MitsuDodge Colts/Mirages, but none quite like this. Hopefully, there is nothing else quite like this. We could say a lot here, but the only relevant question is whether any owner will find someone else with whom to play. Click for eBay ad St. George, UT $1,000 with ZERO bids and reserve…
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Creepy buggy
This is a cool buggy and the McDonald’s tie in has some potential, even if we don’t really get it. Ultimately, though, the seller’s Ronald McDonald mannequin is creepy as all hell. Click for eBay ad Huntington Beach, CA $4,800 with ZERO bids and $10,200 BIN price Ad text: Up for sale from my personal…
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Take your pick: Two Mark Cross edition LeBaron convertibles (plus a bonus Dodge 600).
Perhaps Chrysler envied AMC’s co-branded special editions of the seventies. That could explain the Chrysler LeBaron Mark Cross edition. One might even suggest that they envied AMC so much that they bought what was left of the company five years later. These early LeBarons offer pure K-car squareness lost in the later models. Interestingly, two…
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Yugo GVX out to pasture
If you’re a driving enthusiast and you want a Yugo, this is the model to get! Ad says automatic, but we see a manual shift lever. That being said, this likely isn’t the car to get. We get the impression they mowed the grass for the first time in 15 years and thus discovered this…
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RARE Cutlass Fastback Sport
It seems every other family had a Cutlass in the late 70s and early 80s, but these fastbacks were a bit unusual. Of course, this one also wears the best possible color. Click for eBay ad Escondido, CA $810 with two bids 05/25/2013 update: SOLD! Someone took this beauty home for $919.69 Sporty!(?) Apparently, this…
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1973 Dodge Colt – anything unusual here?
Here we have a MitsuDodge Colt, one of the first of many 70s imports to be sold in the US under a domestic name. The owner swapped in a Mazda 12A rotary, which is certainly interesting. Some other decisions made in the fix-up process are rather interesting. The Transformers decal is obvious in the photos,…
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Mercury Turbo Wagon – this is what Oddimotive is all about
Here we have a beautifully done custom swap of a Ford/Mercury 2.3 turbo I4 into a Mercury Marquis wagon. This combination was never offered by Mercury, but looks like it would be a lot of fun. The owner even swapped in a T-5 manual. We’re not even sure there was a manual Marquis available. Note…
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Brown Mercury land yacht
People of my generation will recognize this car as the type of thing our grandparents drove. No one in our family had a Merc of this generation that I recall, but the theme was similar. Click for eBay ad Lakeland, FL $5,500 with ZERO bids and reserve not met Measured by the pound, this car…
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TROFEO!
Remember the Trofeo? We do, too, but we still don’t really understand it nor how it was supposed to fit into the Oldsmobile strategy. Wait, did Olds have a strategy? It turns out there was a strategy, and that it had unfortunately dictated the downsizing of the successful Toronado as a late reaction to the…