Random fact of the day: The 1990 Subaru Justy was the last car sold in the US to have a carburetor…but this is a 1991 Justy so it should have some kinda fancified fuel injection setup feeding the 3-cylinder lump under the hood (which conflicts with the seller’s statement that the car needs a CA […]
Chevy’s Chevette was a lightweight pipsqueak with two-digit horsepower and a big chip on its shoulder due to all the abuse it got in Jr High school. Chevette owners will say “just wait till the bad ones are gone and the good ones will be worth a fortune” but I’m not holding my breath on […]
This next car comes as a tip from Jeff who writes: For a first car or daily beater, this one is hard to beat…. unless you’re over 6 ft. tall. I agree on the daily driver or kids first car, and the ad is good…but my only question is — who would put synthetic oil in […]
I’m not ashamed of my love of the Buick Skylark. It is such a piece of automotive history — from the beginning when it shared a platform with the Pontiac Tempest and Olds F-85, and then when it was another piece of the GM A-body arsenal — it has always been such a badass piece […]
Have you ever worn an outfit where you’ve simultaneously attempted to blend into the background, but be the best dressed person at the party? What you are trying to do is to be ignored by the masses, but get major respect from the few people “in-the-know” and this next car is the automotive equivalent because […]
I like racing, and tried to watch a Formula 1 race the other day, but fell asleep once the first turn was sorted out. There is something called NASCAR that some folks enjoy, but my own personal preference is for vintage racing, which is really great because you can buy the cars and race them […]
You know you’ve found something special when you can’t even pronounce it’s name correctly. And you might be tempted to call this next beast by its ‘Mericanized name, but it is a Hafei Zhongyi that was penned by Pininfarina and built by Hafei Motor Co in Heilongjiang province of China. Find this 2007 Mag International C-Mag […]
You probably remember the Pontiac Sunbird as a terrible front drive subcompact econobox from the 80s, but there was a time when it was a terrible rear-drive subcompact econobox in the 70s…with a Buick V6 engine up front over Chevy Vega running gear. Find this 1976 Pontiac Sunbird offered for $5000 in Deer Valley, AZ via […]
The Chevrolet Monza was a small 2+2 built on Chevrolet’s H-body, which was also the basis for such piles of crap like the Vega, Skylark and Starfire. It was the last of GM’s rear-wheel-drive subcompacts and the end of an era for GM’s rear drive crap boxes, BUT today’s example has a meaty V8 under […]
The Geo Metro was the product of a joint venture between GM and Suzuki from back in the 1990s. It wasn’t the worst car ever built (cough cough L31 Nissan Altima…) but driving one isn’t a good experience unless you are an automotive masochist (ahem…cough Kaibeezy…cough) so this next one has been modified to make […]