Tag: Wagon
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Lotus, Schmotus – Cortina Estate with 302 and 5MT
This is one of the coolest cars we’ve featured! What’s not to love about a small wagon with a V8, 5-speed and massive sleeper potential? The Cortina everyone thinks of is the Lotus variety, which was fitted with a Lotus-designed twin-cam head on Ford’s inline four cylinder. That produced a nimble, high-revving and very successful…
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Greatest Bodystyle of all time?
Are you tired of waiting for Audi to put their 2005 Shooting Brake Concept into production? Having trouble finding room in your budget for a Ferrari FF? Not to worry, you can scratch that “3-door-wagon” itch that we all have by purchasing this 1980 Pinto Squire Wagon! We’re not sure if it is the strange…
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Amish Wagon: You’ve always wanted one. You know it.
I’m not sure if just any Amish person can drive this, or if they have to be a hack. What, exactly constitutes an Amish Hack? Maybe someone who sells out to do a reality TV series about Amish Mafia? Okay, okay, a hack buggy just means it’s made to haul stuff instead of numerous people.…
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Pre-Costanza Mopar Woodgrain: ’78 Town and Country
Unlike the famous-due-to-Seinfeld woodgrain LeBaron, this ’78 Town and Country offers genuine rear-wheel drive and a V8. Okay, it’s a 70s 318 and likely offers frighteningly low horsepower, but probably has decent enough torque and, let’s be honest, this thing isn’t likely going racing, anyway. The seller claims 76K original miles and, despite so-so photos,…
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Extremely Rare Wagon: Corvair Lakewood
Not everyone knows that the Corvair was more than a two-door sedan and convertible. There were vans and pickups, as well as this wagon variant. These don’t come around often, and I can only imagine not many were made. This one’s in good driver condition, though the seller refers to some amateur rust repair…
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Rare, Pre-Maxima Wagon
Before there was the Maxima, there was the 810. This wagon shares an inline six with the 280ZX, which should mean good, smooth fun. 810s don’t come along often, and the wagons are very rarely seen. Yeah, it lacks a clutch pedal, but this would be a cruiser anyway. The seller claims 66K miles and…
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Not Cheap, but Lots of Thrills: E63 Wagon
This is an awfully new vehicle for Oddimotive, but, even at $38K, this offers a lot of fun and weirdness for the dollar. Unlike BMW, Mercedes has, at times, chosen to bring its performance wagons to the US. This best offers all the torque you’ll ever need, plus The seller claims 88K miles and the…
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Bait ‘n Switch Ad Still Yeilds Interesting Car
The headline of this ad reads “2003 Volkswagen Passat 4dr Wgn W8 4MOTION 6-spd Manual – $8999.” I clicked because genuine 6-speed W8 Wagons do exist, but a look at the images in this ad shows it has an automatic. Still, any W8 is an interesting piece, and the wagon is 47% cooler. These were…
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Mixed feelings: Datsun 411 Wagon with rotary
Here we have another Datsun with a rotary swap, but this one’s in one of my favorite models, the 411 Wagon. This looks like it could use some finishing, but it qualifies as a bit of a rat rod, as is. If the claimed mechanical work was done and done well, this isn’t a terrible…
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Volvo 122 + Toyota 4×4 = Win!
There are a lot of example of strange choices involving cars and pickup, or other 4×4, frames and running gear. We once posted a Datsun roadster in this category. Usually, these vehicles are only very strangely appealing and would are posted primarily as jokes. This combination of 1967 Volvo 122 wagon and Toyota 4×4,however, works…