THE Place for Automotive Oddities
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Give the Gift of Deviled Ham this Holiday Season!
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Expanding Automotive Brain
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Need gift ideas? We have ’em!
First and foremost, you should be shopping at the Oddimotive stores! We have two stores with lots of goodies, mostly focused on shirts and car decals/magnets: Zazzle CafePress Further, we can recommend some interesting choices for car lovers.
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Open-Top S10 Blazer with SBC Swap!
Anyone who knows 80s cars knows Chevy never made a convertible S10 Blazer, so this is a custom job, but it does look like it was meant to be. The V8 swap solves the extreme slowness problem these had, but we worry that the lack of a proper top means you’re screwed if you take…
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More Fun than its Name? SCAT Hovercraft
I remember these from infomercials or ads in the 80s, and possibly from the State Fair, but I never really understood the choice of the SCAT name. If this comes with a VHS tape, don’t watch it – especially it there’s any German writing on it!
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Not the Lane’s Example: Acoma Super Comtesse Microcar
This is the sort of thing one finds at Nashville’s amazing Lane Motor Museum, but this isn’t their example. The seller did, however, copy the ad text from their site!
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Zoe Zipper Three Wheeler
From the microcar files, we have this Zoe Zipper, which was a rebadged Mitsuoka Motors BUBU 501. This little three-wheeler was supposedly capably of 45 miles per hour, but we imagine that’s terrifying. Regardless, we love it!
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1969 Simca 1204 Factory Rally Car Project
Here we have what is claimed to be a factory racer built upon a highly unusual vehicle: The Simca 1204.
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“Fun Ride” Custom Buggy with Miata bits and GM V6 Power
This little beast was first built in 2000, and the owner supposedly COMPLETELY (his or her caps, not mine) rebuilt it in 2013. Per the seller, the suspension, steering, brakes, differential & axles all came from a Mazda Miata originally, but the seller reworked the suspension; so it’s not clear how much Miata is left.…
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DKW F94U Sonderklasse Universal
Here we have a very rare (in the US, especially) little wagon, which once served as a sensible family car in postwar Germany and was part of the group that would eventually become Audi.