Modern automakers get flak for changing their numerology (I’m looking at you, BMW) and confusing everybody. Is it a greater sin to change major driveline and layout characteristics and keep the same name? Find this rear-drive 1982 Mazda 626 coupe with 40,000 miles for $2,800 in San Antonio, Texas. Words and tip from DT commenter […]
Picture this: You’ve just chopped down a tree on your palatial estate using nothing but an axe and your bare hands. Even the log splitting was done by hand because your Harbor Freight log splitter broke the first time you used it. Now you need to transport the timber a few miles away and you […]
The Porsche 924 came out during the era of front-engined watercooled Porsche coupes and was an entry level offering for a few years. Today they are cheap, fun to drive, but expensive to repair…so they are great candidates for crazy engine swaps. Find this 1980 Porsche 924 Turbo converted to electric power for sale in […]
The Acura Integra was introduced in 1986 as one of two models available at Honda’s newly unveiled Acura luxury dealerships, an attempt by the Japanese economy car builder to reach a new demographic. The Integra was actually very inexpensive for the time and offered all sorts of luxury features typically reserved for more expensive automobiles […]
We aren’t in Kansas anymore Dorothy…except that today’s crazy feature comes from the Sunflower State yet is more at home in the border towns of California. The Volkswagen Beetle has been customized in more ways than All Saint’s Eve has been desecrated by scantily clad women…so we are just going to slip this in as […]
The Mazda Familia was a little family-oriented compact that was sold variously under the GLC, 323 and Protegé nameplates in North America. Here in the states we officially got the little hot rod GTX version during the 5th generation of the Familia/323, which combined the hatchback body style with all wheel drive, a 5-spd manual trans, […]
The first generation Celica isn’t a fast car in stock form, but it is an excellent chassis for a good restomod (restoration/modification). Don’t do all the work yourself, instead pick up something like this 1973 Toyota Celica ST offered with a fresh coat of blue paint, fender flares, some “fat” wheels, a rebuilt 20R engine […]
The GC generation Mazda Capella was a mid-sized sedan built in Japan for world wide distribution. It was released in 1982 and in a departure from previous rear-drive versions, it was front-engine, front-wheel-drive. As much as this may make purists throw small tantrums it was, arguably, a better car in every way from the previous […]
The Datsun 510 Bluebird was produced from 1968-1973 and sold in the US market as the poor man’s BMW 2002. Prices for running/driving 510s are certainly less than the $30k price tags we’ve seen on unimpressive 2002s. The idea of a $30k 510 is mostly preposterous (ditto on the 2002…) but sometimes a seller puts […]
What’s a list of 50 cheap, desirable, entertaining cars without a first-gen Toyota Celica? These little 2-doors were a Japanese take on the early American pony car, and while the late ’70s Liftback Celicas look a whole lot like Mustang Fastbacks, the early coupes more closely resemble scaled-down Camaros. It is fairly easy to find […]