Tag: Japanese
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One of those WTF ads
When a seller says “two V8 projects”, one tends to think they’ll be somehow related. This seller, however, has a 1960 Thunderbird and a 1973 Mazda RX4 wagon! The Mazda has some sort of turbocharged V8 and is intriguing, but also pretty rough. The T-Bird looks mostly stock. Click for Craigslist ad North Hills, CA…
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Awesomely Creative ad: 1996 Nissan Maxima GLE
This is a special listing because it’s a video ad for a used car. The seller did an amazing job. The Craigslist ad is pretty awesome, too… Click for YouTube ad Orlando, FL Priceless? Posted by CG, credit to Dan C. Ad text: See the listing at: http://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/424… The time has come for me to sell…
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Other cars for scale always make for a great ad!
This Subaru Justy is nothing too special. It lacks the electronic CVT of some models, but its 5-speed likely makes it much more fun to drive. Still, fun to drive in a Justy is relative. What makes this one Oddimotive fodder is not only the relative rarity of a Justy, but the images included in…
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Daihatsu Naked wearing Hummer Attire
Diminutive Japanese “kei cars” seem ridiculously small by US standards, but they make (somewhat) perfect sense when seen on crowded streets and in narrow parking lots of Tokyo. We spotted this Daihatsu Naked (yes, that is the actual model name…) near Atsugi Japan. It is difficult to appreciate the size of this car in the photos.…
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Port-installed Callaway goodness!
This was the first Mazdaspeed vehicle and had a Callaway turbo kit installed at the port of entry. While 170HP doesn’t set the world alight, period reviews indicated this was very nice, very driveable car. The Protege was already known as a great handler, so we believe it. Great things with this car include the…
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One of the few Datsun 510s with a stock engine
…and it’s a limo! Well, at least it’s a four-speed car, too. We have to wonder how this came about, but we can only guess. As the seller correctly points out, it has an 80s paint job, so that narrows down the timeframe unless it’s had a repaint. Interior shots are almost useless, but what…
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Another fly in/Drive home car?
We love the 411 series Datsun Bluebird, what with its groovy Pininfarina styling and bichin, curved dash. This ’66 is likely a 1.3-liter car. We’d prefer a 1967 with the 1.6L, but none of these is going to be fast. They’re fun in a slow way. These come up fairly often in poor condition, but…
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Long trim name / Great Car
We just don’t see enough first generation (FB) RX-7s on the road anymore. It seems they were quite common when new to lightly used, but disappeared somewhere along the line. This example is the best of the breed: The GSL-SE, which featured the 13B engine that would become standard on the second generation (FC) cars.…
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Another of our favorites: 1991 Suzuki Swift GT
Here we have the hot rod version of the Geo Metro. Sounds crazy, eh? Well, let’s not forget that the Metro was really a Suzuki Swift/Cultus and let’s also not forget that there was a cool turbocharged version of the prior generation Swift/Chevy Sprint. As we noted in a prior post, this car was initially…
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Drug-influenced pricing on a drug-inspired BLACK GOLD 280ZX
We’ve featured one of these before, they come up pretty often and, because they predated the 280ZX turbo by one whole year, the cars aren’t particularly amazing, but we feel compelled to post this one. First off, this one has a completely insane price, despite the claimed 8,700 original miles and apparently great condition. We…