If you missed your opportunity to buy that $150k collection of 20 grey-market JDM cars that had been impounded by the kind folks at US Customs & Border Protection, then perhaps you can drive a car that won’t make them chase you down like you just paddled across the Rio Grande on a piñata filled […]
You won’t see this next car on the road very often, but it isn’t some rare one-off oddball that you’ll swoon for one first sight. It also isn’t a car that you’ll talk about the good times you had in your high school year or the romanticized stories of how your mom and dad met. […]
The Toyota Starlet KP61 generation was the first and only Starlet sold in the US Market and in 1985 it was replaced by the Toyota Corolla FX-16. Unfortunately, the FX-16 that replaced it was a front drive un-fun box, but the Starlet was setup with proper rear wheel drive…not that you could tell with the 3 […]
The Toyota Starlet KP61 generation was the first and only Starlet sold in the US Market and in 1985 it was replaced by the Toyota Corolla FX-16. It is a shame because the Starlet was setup with proper rear wheel drive and the FX was front wheel drive. It probably didn’t matter because both cars […]
The Toyota Starlet was a small sub-Corolla/Tercel pint sized jelly bean that was produced starting in 1973 and ending in 1999 when it was replaced by the Vitz. The Starlet was sold new in the USA, but this next one comes as a JDM import (YO!) complete with right hand drive and a clean federalized […]
Let’s face it, the stock market has been a roller coaster of booms and busts for the past 20 years and frankly if you plan on retiring without perfectly timing the peak of the 7 year cycle, you’ll need to put your money elsewhere. I suggest you keep it under your mattress in rare/exotic plant […]
What better way to keep up today’s string of Toyotas than with a classic Starlet? The KP61 generation Toyota Starlet was the first and only generation of its model sold new for the North American Market. In 1985, the little rear wheel drive compact was replaced by the front wheel drive Toyota Corolla FX-16, a […]
By 1987, the Toyota Starlet was long gone from the US shores, being replaced with the FX-16 Corolla here in North America, but you could still get a Starlet in the land of the rising sun. This next car is a 4th generation Starlet that was originally sold in Japan but has made a trip […]
If you paid attention at the beginning of the classic 1984 film The Last Starfighter, you might have noticed that the trailer park was called StarLight StarBright. It was a reference to the late 19th century nursery rhyme that goes: Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I […]
Update 9/16/14: The seller (Andres) sent us a note saying he found the write up and has dropped the price to $7,500, plus more pictures here. Original post 9/7/14: Every once in awhile, someone builds a car with such meticulous craftsmanship that you lose an afternoon in its build thread. Sometimes those cars are listed […]