I’m not sure if we’ve ever featured a car before where the seller doesn’t mention the make or model of the vehicle, but I can say for certain this is the first time we’ve featured a car with a tow hitch on the front. You could assume that an owner towed this car behind a […]
I love back-breaking labor as much as the next guy…but building a LaForza from an abandoned chassis without a set of instructions is going to be difficult at best. But, the seller of this LaForza has 3 or 5 additional LaForza vehicles (and some extra parts) strewn about in his/her yard, so you might get some good tips from the guy/gal who abandoned this project for hopeless, which sounds like taking parenting advice for your newly adopted son from the parents who abandoned him in the first place, but free advice is free. Find this 1989ish LaForza offered for $1000 in Whitmore Lake, MI via craigslist. Tip from Zach.
Consumers are strange folks. Particularly car buyers. And major manufacturers are strange folks too…but they know a thing or two about selling junk to people. Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if what you are selling is horrible, as long as you give people the opportunity to accidentally stumble into your store — just look at how […]
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to the average car guy. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as maintenance on an Italian car. It is in the middle ground between stock MX-5 and Donk’d F-350, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of […]
Obscurity exists in many forms, and today I found out it can come in a SUV package. A military bred, Italian penned, American powered beast hand built in small quantities. Never heard of it? Don’t worry, hardly anyone else has either. Find this 1989 Laforza Magnum GT for sale in Washington, DC for $10,900 via craigslist. […]
When you think Tom Tjaarda, Ford V8, Italian, the Pantera may come to mind. But add the words “Iveco chassis” and “4×4” and the allure turns to confusion. Why pay nearly $2,000 for just any SUV when you could have the Maserati Biturbo for the PTA crowd? Find this 1989 LaForza for sale in Miami, FL […]
Few things are as American as the luxury SUV — where else would manufacturers be able to sell a car that looks like it can off-road but really is purchased because it accommodates wide bottoms and gives an authoritative view of the road ahead. Never mind that they change directions about as well as a […]
If you were a well-to-do stock broker in the late 1980s and wanted a car for picking up a few lady friends, a two-seat Lambo or Ferrari just won’t do. You need something with a back seat that offers safety from immobile objects during one of your weekly coke and Quaalude fueled benders. You could […]
The LaForza was a luxury-performance 4X4 with an Italio-American background. The chassis started out in Italy as an Iveco built military vehicle with a Tom Tjaarda (Ferrari 365, DeTomaso Pantera, etc) designed body and was then shipped to Hayward, CA for fitting of either a Ford 5.0 or GM’s 6.0 Vortec V8. The final vehicle […]
In act 3 of Guiseppe Verde’s opera Rigeletto, the main character sings a canzone that starts with the arguably sexist line: “La donna è mobile” which translates literally to “the woman is flighty.” We think that the adjective flighty is better applied to an Italian 4X4 SUV that isn’t a Rambo/Lambo LM02. This 1989 LaForza 4X4 is for […]