Tag: “Special” edition
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1974 Opel Manta Luxus
Any Opel Manta is an oddball these days, but the Luxus luxury edition gets bonus points. The downside is that this one lacks a clutch pedal.
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Renault Alliance Coupe 2-Fer Avec Special Editions
We have featured Renault Alliances before, but never two as part of one sale. Today’s feature includes a Motor Trend Car of the Year Edition and a GTA parts car. Why is the more desirable car the parts car? One word: rust.
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1978 Jeep J10 Honcho with Levi’s Interior and Four-Speed
This is easily the best-looking pickup ever made, and the Honcho package added 70s decals, roll bar and Levi’s interior to the mix. We love it, especially in these colors.
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Clapped Out Renault Alliance Convertible
We’re not sure what happened here, but we’re glad this didn’t start life as the relatively desirable GTA version of this car. What we have here is a basic four cylinder, automatic Alliance painted in some sort of bass boat paint and equipped with a cheesy hood and a “racing edition” badge. Ugh. The seller…
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Great Ad and Cool Car: ’76 Datsun Honey Bee
We admit it, we love the Honey Bee. Sure, Nissan/Datsun shipped too many base B210s and someone in Gardena simply decided to slap decals on them to make them a “special”, but there’s something oddly appealing about this little car. The seller provides lots of good photos, including every issue noted. The car apparently has…
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Rare Callaway Turbo Scirocco
Callaway modified much more than Corvettes in the past, with their Alfa Romeo GTV fairly well-known; but they also got into a few Volkswagens over the years. Their “Stage I” Sciroccos boosted output from about 74HP to 117HP, which is a huge increase. The seller claims this car is one if a few “Stage III”…
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Obscure DeTomaso Dodge Omni 024
You might be excused if you don’t remember the “sporty” 024 variant of the Dodge Omni or its Plymouth Turismo TC3 sibling. You’ll absolutely be excused if you never knew that there was a DeTomaso-badged special edition. While the DeTomaso didn’t have its own performance upgrades, this 1981 model at least has the upgraded 2.2-liter…
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1972 Ford Sprint Three-Fer: Mustang, Maverick and Pinto!
Mustang fans are generally aware of the 1972 Sprint edition; but not everyone realizes the Maverick and Pinto offered similar Olympic tributes at the time. Yes, someone collected the whole set and, yes, they’re for sale! These all would have had similar paint with flag decals; but the Mustang has been repainted plain white. Obviously,…
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Highly Original 1988 Yugo GVX
We’ll assume that most of our readers know that the Yugo was a short-lived (in the US), Zastava-built variant of the Fiat 127 built in what is now Serbia and imported by none other than Malcom Bricklin for US consumption. The idea was to have the lowest-priced car in the US, but it faced competition…
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Is Barcelona known for Velveteen Crush?
AMC had a great many special editions, some with ties to 70s designers; but this Barcelona Edition may take the cake – at least in terms of brownness. And, really, shouldn’t we always measure that way? This example appears to be in amazingly original shape. It’s not perfect, but it’s damn close, considering nearly 40…