Tag: 80s
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Early Fox Capri Turbo
We’ve featured several Fox body Capris in the past, but never an early turbocharged version. These had nowhere near the output of the later Mustang SVOs, but were entertaining in their day when you could keep them running. Also, by 1980, Ford had temporarily killed off the beloved 302 V8 and replaced it with the…
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NASA’s Motor Home?
Sometimes, amazing things, like SEAL team boats, appear on government auction sites. Other times, we get something similarly cool, but road-going. This is a NASA motor home. The question is, what does NASA do with motor homes? Sadly, this 1989 model wasn’t around to support Apollo missions, but anyone who decides to buy can make…
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Start You Own Mobile Sauna Service!
With a six cylinder, full-size van, you won’t be going anywhere in a hurry (despite the short wheelbase); so you might as well make money with it while sitting still or cruising. I hereby propose a mobile sauna. The good news is that this van already has the appropriate wood paneling inside. You’ll just need…
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Sale Forced by HOA?
When I see not one, not two, but three Thunderbird Turbo Coupes for sale as a group and the pictures also reveal outdoor storage of an engine hoist, I have to assume this is a forced sale of some sort. Forced by a spouse? Forced by HOA? I don’t know, but Fox T-Bird hoarders don’t…
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Quickie: One of the Last Breaths of the 70s. In 1981.
The 70s didn’t give up easily. While Ford drastically shrunk its Thunderbird and Cougar personal luxury cars in time for the 1980 model year, Chrysler rolled out this bad boy which, believe it or not, was also significantly smaller than previous iterations. This one’s been ‘upgraded’ with a continental kit! There isn’t much else we…
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Sleeper from Hell, Volume 3.0
We’ve featured some interesting sleeper before, but this might take the cake in plainness. How about a 1981 Ford Fairmont – arguably among the most boring cars ever made – with a turbocharged 5.3 liter GM LS-series V8? This car needs some tuning, but it’s currently cheap and has no reserve – could be interesting……
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Fiat 124 Spider Turbo – Run Away!
In great shape, these are appealing cars. The Fiat already had fun to drive going for it, in terms of handling, but the turbo was a way to try to keep the engine competitive late in its long lifecycle. We’re fans of these cars here at Oddimotive, but there might be some subtle red flags…
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AMC Body on a Mercedes Chassis? Why not?
Here you get not one, but two titles! Yes, the seller decided to take body panels from an AMC Javelin and put them onto a Mercedes “SD”, which, we assume, means a 300SD. Given neither is of body on frame construction, it seems this means the body panels were grafted onto the Mercedes unibody, but…
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Pixilated Girl Car?
It’s not clear to me whether these images are just shitty or if the pixilated, whacky paint just throws off the camera like a witnesses’ plaid shirt on the evening news. The seller here claims the car has been restored from the ground up. Yet again, I think I differ with a Craigslist seller on…
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A Cosworth Two-Fer!
Here we have not one, but two Mercedes 190E 2.3-16V cars in one deal. One was rear-ended and is a parts car for the other. The seller, it seems, didn’t want to take this on. Will you? The seller claims the wrecked car was in perfect condition before the accident. Given the massive oxidation, I…