1980-2000
I saw a Toyota Sera parked on the street the other day and I started instantly raving to the “normal” person next to me “Hey, that’s a Japanese market Sera, it’s got gull-wing or scissors or butterfly doors and was never sold here…”. The poor unsuspecting family member (or perhaps it was a stranger, I […]
This next car is classic from the era of shuttle shaped Japanese vans. It is the 5-door Honda Civic Wagovan that competed with Toyota’s Tercel Wagon and the various Subaru Wagons from yesteryear. And it is banana yellow. Find this 1989 Honda Civic Wagon offered for $3,000 in Richmond, VA via frazecook smarggggplace. Tip from […]
This next car is a strange one. It started life as a second generation Ford Ranger — the compact pickup from Ford that strangely went out of production in 2012 and everybody agreed they wanted a compact pickup, so Ford created the Maverick…whut? Anyway, today’s Ranger isn’t equipped with the original OHC inline-4 or V6 […]
This next classic piece of JDM metal comes as a seller submission from Adam who noticed that we’d featured his car when he had created a “crappy” ad. The new revised advertisement is better and DT is happy to feature this thing Pike group car again. Find this 1990 Nissan S-Cargo offered for $5,000 in […]
I’ve been beating this drum for a while…but my hands aren’t blistered yet. With the ridiculous state of classic Porsche 911 and 912 prices being what they are…I can’t imagine that the watercooled Porsche 924/944/928/968 will continue to go up in price (and they’ve seen significant increases in the past decades for the good condition […]
Oh man, I missed it!! Yesterday was 9/28…which is 928 day. HOW COULD I HAVED MISSED 9-28? The Porsche that nobody loved when new…hated when used…but they are finally coming around as a classic. Yes, them, they, their…you know. The popup headlights and curvaceous rear end (ohh yeah) has aged well and the 928 is […]
If you get easily confused by Audi’s model nomenclature in the 80s/90s, you are not alone. I get lost when Audiphiles start talking about the 80, 90, 100, 200, 4000, 5000, Coupe, Quattro, Fox, 5+5…for a company that only made 3 or 4 models at a time, it is complete nomenclature chaos. Today’s…errr…Audi…is advertised as […]
Whoa! Did you say I can get a Nissan S-Cargo for less than the price of a new CA complaint tankless hot water heater? Yeah, my kids can take cold showers, because we are going to own a piece of Nissan history. The Nissan Pike cars (Pao, S-Cargo, Figaro, Be-1, and K10-Micra) were retro-styled econoboxes […]
Someone described this Lumina APV as a vehicle designed in the 80s to look like it came from 2020. I can’t say that I could come up with a better description of the Pontiac Trans Sport concept vehicle and the Lumina APV’s that came as production version. Personally, I’d rather look at the front end […]
It feels wrong to feature cars that are above DT’s self imposed price cap of $25k…particularly when that car isn’t truly worth much more than that…but you know, supply/demand. And supply of one-off custom factory approved Saab prototypes is exceeded by the demand for strange looking chopped-roof things. So that’s the lesson in Supply-chopped-side economics […]