The Porsche 914 might be the black sheep of the aircooled Porsche community, but it isn’t a bad car to drive around. Today’s 914 has the 2.0 liter flat-4 (instead of the lower powered 1.7 and 1.8), is covered in a nice shade of sky blue and sits on a set of great looking wheels. […]
I’ve been a fan of the Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ since it hit the streets for the 2012 model year and they have maintained a shocking amount of residual value as the years and miles have added up. However, today I think we’ve finally gotten the answer to “what do you need to do to a Scion FR-S (Toyota sold the 86 as the Scion FR-S from 2012-2016) to get it down to $5k?” The answer is some pretty wicked cosmetic damage and an airbag covered in duct tape — don’t believe the carfax if it doesn’t show an accident. Find this 2013 Scion FR-S offered for $5000 in SF Bay Area, CA via craigslis
The Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle is a famously cheap car to drive around…mostly because the engineering is simple, parts are cheap, and everything is fixable by a DIY mechanic. Throw that all away with this next Beetle because it is powered by a watercooled Subaru 4-banger. Find this 1974 Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle offered for $7,500 […]
The Subaru Legacy was a wild all-wheel-drive family car available with a twin-turbocharged setup in Japan, but pre-2005, US customers had to live with anemic flat-4 power. That all changed in 2005 with the introduction of the 4th generation model that added a de-tuned version of Subaru’s STI 2.5 liter turbo-4 under the hood. With […]
Manta was a custom car company based out of Southern California (run by brothers Brad and Tim LoVette) in the 1970s/1980s that built speedy looking fiberglass superkits using donor parts from Vettes and Beetles. The Montage was one of their later offerings and used a Volkswagen Type 1 donor engine/transmission to underpin a fancy looking […]
This next car jumped out of the page when I first saw the listing, and not because it is a crazy red car from bizarro world with a tatted up model sitting on the clamshell…but because I’d seen this car before. Oh yes. Everything old is new again. Find this 1974 Fiberfab Aztec II offered […]
Find this 1974 Fiberfab Aztec GT With Subaru Power here on eBay offered for $28,500 buy-it-now located in Chicago, IL. From eBay listing: Item specifics Condition: Used Year: 1974 VIN (Vehicle Identification Number): 1142096702 Mileage: 565 Vehicle Title: Clear Very Modern, high tech build on a NOSTALGIC 1968 AZTEC GT., it took 5years to complete, […]
In 2015 Ford announced that they were returning to the 24 Hrs of LeMans in 2016 with an EcoBoost V6 powered racer to compete in the LM GTE Pro class. Early races were marked by the typical issues you’d expect from a brand new race car, but Chip Ganassi Racing scored their first win last […]
Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Twister — a free-for-all quiz where we ask the question and you guys give the answers. Today’s subject is flat engine powered cars…they are engines that use horizontally-opposed pistons and are sometimes called boxer engines (if each piston has its own crankpin), but regardless – let’s collect the […]
The Porsche 914 was originally conceived as a dual purpose range topping Volkswagen and low-end Porsche, to replace the Karmann-Ghia and 912 respectively. The initial plan of marketing the 6-cylinder version as Porsche and the 4-cylinder as VW was eventually canned and lowly 4-banger version got a Porsche crest too — and today, the easiest […]