THE Place for Automotive Oddities
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1963 Econoline Mystery Machine Replica
Are you a serious Scooby fan? If so, you need this. Buy it and I’ll give you a scooby snack. Articles have been written attempting to identify the Mystery Machine’s roots, but, if I recall correctly, the cartoon van had traits from several 60s vans, all, of course, mid-engine. This 1963 Econoline is as good…
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Former Lane Motor Museum Push-Me-Pull-You 1979 Honda Civic!
How do we know this came from the Lane? We’ve seen it in the basement! Also, anything this weird in Nashville probably has something to do with Lane. So, what is it? It’s two front halves of 1979 Honda Civics grafted together, resulting in two driver’s seats, side-by-side and facing opposite directions. As clearly noted…
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Get to Know this Homemade Geo Metro Pickup
That’s right, folks, 1997 represented the end of a glorious run for GM’s often-confused, import-based Geo brand. Does that make this a collectible? Probably not – especially considering the continuation of the Metro as a Chevrolet product for several more years. Today’s feature, however, isn’t really about brand heritage, it’s about yet another tiny hatch…
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Pre-Volvo Dual Forced Induction:1989 Nissan March Super Turbo
Several years after the original March/Micra launched, it seems Nissan wanted its own race series for these little buggers; so the March Super Turbo was born. What that means is 110 HP out of 0.93 liters. This was achieved using both a turbo and a supercharger! This example was apparently imported to the US by…
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Modified 1988 Suzuki Samurai with VW TDI Power
First, this is an older TDI engine; so don’t assume VW will buy it back! With that out of the way, we think this is a great swap idea. Anyone worth his or her weight in compost knows that the often-disrespected Samurai is an amazingly capable off-roader. Adding torque via a turbo-diesel is, we think,…
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Rear-Wheel Drive, Manual and T-Tops: Suzuki X90
We’ve featured a few X90s in the past because, frankly, we can’t pass them up. The X90 is perhaps the least likely vehicle to have made some level of mass production in the last twenty years (give or take). While we’d love to have one in the Oddimotive stable, we have to confess that the…
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Quickie: 1993 Centurion Ford Bronco Dually
Talk about a tease! Here we have one of the rare Centurion four-door Bronco conversions, apparently set up as a dually. Sadly, that’s about all we know about it… The ad does indicate that the truck has an automatic trans (no surprise) and gas engine. To get any more info, you have to call Charlie.…
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Isuzu Bellel Three-Fer: 60s Japanese Diesel Sedan Goodness
The Isuzu Bellel (which, the interwebs state, references fifty bells – the meaning of Isuzu) was Isuzu’s first in-house design, but was inspired by the Hillman/Sunbeam Imp Minx, which Isuzu previously built under license. These are rear-wheel drive sedans and were originally offered with diesel or gasoline engines. Today’s feature includes not one, not two,…
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Bond Minicar 250 G
No, the infamous Reliant Robin was not the only three-wheeled, British microcar. About 25 years before the Robin, there was the Bond Minicar. Today’s feature car is the best of that breed – at least in terms of being a complete car – the Mark G. It also represents the end of a nearly twenty-year…
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Panther Motors Scoot Coupe P150 Trike
The Panther Motors Scoot Coupe is pitched as a side-by-side scooter and is allegedly street legal, at least somewhere. We think it looks pretty damned fun. This is a trike, but it at least has the twin wheels in the front. One can hope this means it goes around corners. Despite the three-wheeled nature of…