THE Place for Automotive Oddities
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Camvettle: Beetle with Camaro and Vette Bits
What happens when one combines a VW Beetle with kit car mid-section, 1971 Camaro front end and 1971 Corvette rear? Apparently, this is it.
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Rare in US: 1971 Toyota Corona Wagon
Long before most ‘Mericans had heard of the beer, there was the Toyota Corona. Today’s feature is the awesomely rare and quirky wagon variant.
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Best Mazda Protege5 Ad Ever!
The Protege5 was the wagon (5 = five door) version of the Mazda Protege, a small car known for fantastic handling and only okay power. This is a good car, but the ad is the reason it’s here.
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Hotbox? 1990 Mazda Bongo 4WD Van
Here was have a delightful JDM van with arguably the best collection of typical late 80s/early 90s factory decals ever applied! If you’ve never seen a Mazda Bong – er – Bongo, yet this seems familar, that could be because it was also sold as the Nissan Vannette (related to the fire-prone, US market C22…
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6-Wheel Jeep CJ
Jeep made and sold a CJ6, but this isn’t it. The CJ6 was a long-wheelbase CJ, offered with two or four doors. Today’s feature is a CJ8 with six wheels and the option of two-, four- or six-wheel drive!
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Commie Crawler: 1990 Lada Niva
Here we have arguably the best Soviet car ever made – one so good that it’s still in production. Its the Lada Niva, the ultimate off-road hatchback! As a 1990 model, this is still Soviet, too, not only Russian.
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Rough Morris Dormobile
We’ve vaguely heard of the Morris J2 and J4 commercial vans, but confess never having seen nor heard of the Dormobile variant. Today’s example is very rough, but complete enough to largely serve as its own template for restoration.
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Internet Sighting: Renault Le Van
This was posted at Brown Car Appreciation Society on Facebook, which, needless to say, is one of our favorite places. We don’t know anything about it yet, but we’ve asked… Remember to send your sightings to oddimobiles@oddimotive.com!
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Article find: Autoweek coverage of the Gyro-X
This oddball will be at Pebble Beach. We’ll look forward to the coverage! Click for Autoweek article. Hats off for this covering this awesome find!.
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1964 Auto Union (DKW) F1000 Diesel
Among oddball European van fans (all six of us), the DKW Schnellaster is fairly well known. What isn’t widely known in the US is that a lot were produced in Spain and the Spanish DKW subsidiary went on to produce a successor. That successor is today’s feature.