1980-2000
This next feature comes as a tip from Jeff who writes: Still like the looks of these, especially with the original wheels. Yes, indeed, the E38 generation BMW 7-series has aged supremely — particularly compared to the Banglized beasts that succeeded the clean Claus Luthe & Boyke Boyer design. Over 340,000 examples of the E38 […]
There is something undeniably charming about a classic Japanese kei-car sized firetruck. I’m not sure you could extinguish much more than a small frying pan fire, but a used version converted into something fun is a different story. I’d love to turn one of these into a coffee cart, a waffle station, or maybe a […]
Our next feature is not just a random red W-body with a Petty autograph offered for cheap. Pontiac really did build a ’92 Richard Petty Edition Grand Prix to commemorate The King’s final NASCAR season, and the documented production total was 1,000 cars, offered in red, white or blue. Powering this classic plastic-clad Poncho is […]
Our next feature is an ’85 Mercedes-Benz 300D, the final model year for Mercedes’ legendary W123 sedan in the U.S. By this point, Mercedes had been refining the platform for nearly a decade, and the result was about as thoroughly engineered as an old diesel sedan gets. The car wears Euro headlamps and plus-sized Centra […]
The Toyota Paseo was the sporty smaller two-door cousin of the Tercel. It was the same basic small-car engineering, but wrapped in a low, swoopy coupe body that looked far more ambitious than its actual performance. Today’s example looks remarkably original and appears to have factory wheel covers, factory spoiler, stock ride height, stock trim, […]
The Nissan Be-1 is one of the original Japanese “Pike cars,” a wonderfully odd little design experiment that came out of Nissan’s Pike Factory styling group in the late 1980s. Underneath all that cheerful retro bodywork is much more ordinary hardware from the K10 Nissan March/Micra, which means front-wheel drive, simple mechanicals, and a tiny […]
The L’Automobile Ventura was a interesting piece of Brazilian automotive history built on a Volkswagen chassis — similar in concept, spirit, and styling to the awesome Puma. It technically isn’t a kit car, but it was as close as you can get before being accused. The pretty fiberglass body sits on top of a VW […]
This started life as a Ferrari Mondial 8, Ferrari’s mid-engine 2+2 coupe and the relatively practical member of the family — four seats, decent luggage space, and the same basic transverse V8 layout lineage as the 308. The original Ferrari V8 and transaxle are gone, replaced with a Cadillac Northstar 32-valve V8 and its matching […]
You won’t catch me assigning mythical values to mundane cars simply because of a low odometer reading…but this next MX-5 looks to be in that sweet spot between “great condition, low miles” and “low miles, can’t roll the 4th digit on the odo.” I wouldn’t recommend speculating with used/modern classics, but this is where my […]
This is the Geo Storm Wagonback, the less common squared-off version of the Storm that looks like somebody took the normal fastback and stretched its roofline with a ruler. Like every Storm, it was actually designed and built by Isuzu in Japan, then sold through GM’s Geo brand in the U.S for the 1991 and […]