This next car comes as a tip from Jeff who writes: Love this car. Bang for the buck it’s hard to beat and how can you not love the Knight Rider dash. Pricing is a little brisk, but looks nice. If I didn’t have an ankle replacement I would jump on this. Find this 1986 […]
Under that enormous hood is a gnarly aluminum intake manifold that feeds a 6.0-liter twin-turbo W12, making roughly 550 hp and 480 lb-ft, driving all four wheels through a 6-speed automatic. Performance was absurd for a 5,400-pound luxury sedan: about 0–60 mph in ~5 seconds and a top speed around 190+ mph. When new this […]
The Ford Maverick is an interesting car because it had most of the ingredients of an early Mustang, only packaged in the car Ford originally marketed to people who thought Mustangs had become too expensive. Today’s example is powered by the 302 V8, and has an interesting hood scoop setup which was part of the […]
I’ve gotten obsessed with 80s/90s Mercedes-Benz product in the last few years — partly because they were amazingly engineered machines, but also because they are dirt cheap on the market today. Don’t expect Japanese car reliability or American car used part prices, but availability of replacement parts (OEM or aftermarket) is strong and diagnostics isn’t […]
Most of the cars we feature around here are photographed by folks with potato phones in settings such as rotting in a barn (that’s a barn find), parked at the gas station at night (no low balls), or parked on a flatbed (bring a trailer). So it is with some degree of fanfare that we […]
We featured an ugly SRT-4 powered Dodge Caravan a few days ago and this next car looks like the perfect alternative if your prefer sushi instead of mac n cheese. It started life as a basic family hauler Isuzu Oasis, which in case you didn’t know is a rebadged Honda Odyssey sold in the US […]
Here we’ve got an E30 generation BMW that is missing its original inline-6 and instead is powered by something wonderfully low-tech: carburetor, distributor, SBC, TH350. No CAN bus, no immobilizer, no VANOS, no arguments with a laptop. Troubleshooting mostly involves fuel, spark, vacuum, and profanity. Find this 1985 BMW 325i Sedan offered for $5500 in […]
This isn’t a car you expect to pop the hood and find a 2JZ. It’s just not something that happens that often. The El Camino already has one of the most commonly modified engines on the planet — the Chevy 350…so why would you swap in the most commonly pimped out Japanese engines? Why not! […]
Toyota sold their wedge shaped TownAce/MasterAce R20/R30 van with the names Toyota Space Cruiser in parts of Europe, but because Americans love American cheese and ketchup on fries, they called the Toyota Van for the US Market. The repercussions of this decision reverberates across the automotive landscape to this day. Find this 1987 Toyota Van […]
A 1976 model year Beetle in California isn’t the easiest car to keep on the road — the smog laws are strict, requiring original style equipment even when the upgrade might make the car safer, cleaner, and better. Mid 70s and 80s cars are getting harder to maintain and keep on the road in sunny […]