Classically Based: 1984 Knudsen Baroque
Nebraska isn’t exactly known as an automotive mecca, but that didn’t stop a guy named Russell Knudsen from starting to manufacture cars in Omaha back in the late 1970s. Maybe manufacture is an overstatement, but Knudsen did rebody full sized 70s/80s domestics with retro styling that looks like a Mercedes Benz from the 1930s if you coat your sunglasses in vaseline. Regardless, if you didn’t win the charity raffle for Jeremy Clarkson’s Mitsuoka Le-Seyde, then perhaps you could get this thing instead. Find this 1984 Knudsen Baroque offered for $14,000 in Tupelo, MS via craigslist. Tip from Rock On!
From the seller:
1984 Knudsen Baroque
condition: good
cylinders: 8 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 25000
paint color: white
size: full-size
title status: clean
transmission: automatic
type: convertible
1984 Knudsen Baroque. One of only two ever built. One had blue leather interior. Other had brown. Built on 1984 Olds cutlass supreme chassis. Car has 25000 original miles. Repainted in 2022. Runs great. Needs new floor pans, convertible top and overall TLC. Rents for weddings at 300 per hour.
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If you dropped the suspension five inches it would look better, but still awful.
Naaah. Just upsize the tire size diameter. Make ’em whitewalls. It’ll look much more like the 540K it’s supposed to represent:
https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/the-amelia-2019-to-celebrate-mercedes-benz-500k-540k
-Stan (the *other* Stan…)
This puts anything ever shown on Pimp My Ride to shame.
Wonder if they will rent it out for divorces?
If that thing sticking out between the bumper and the trunk lid is what I think it is, it has to be about the worst gas filler location i can think of.