Kitdy: truly a North American. He is only at ease with and interested in cars with awkwardly-placed sealed beams.
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Kitdy: truly a North American. He is only at ease with and interested in cars with awkwardly-placed sealed beams.
The slot mags, Beetle pan, and haphazard fiberglass put me in mind of an aesthetically much-less-successful Brubaker Box; there's something very '70s "vanning" about it. There doesn't seem to be much...
This is lovely! I had no idea there was a connection between Facel and Ford, though seeing Simca in the mix hints at their future use of Chrysler engines, perhaps...
Nice combination! Does the Miata have fangs for Halloween?
The VdP is great! It reminds me of Cheech's Beetle from "Up In Smoke".
This is a big, big loss. Anyone who's been to the Mullin has surely been staggered by his collection. I really hope it persists despite his death.
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They're pretty bulky: if you imagine a car's engine simplified into a rectangular prism (with the extremes of the engine defining those edges), you want to reduce the surface area of that prism to...
It's a shame they didn't get more creative with the badging; I spent some time in Seoul in June and was tickled by all the Renaults and Nissans with Samsung badges. That said, Hyundai ownership seems...
I was going to remark that those three-spoke alloys would be quite popular among the Radwood set, until I noticed the French reverting to type and using three-lug wheels. By this point in the '80s, I...
Thanks, MoS! What a fantastically-weird thing this is. I think I searched without the cedilla, so thank you again for pointing me in the correct direction.
Bumpity bump... NSX, save the S2000 and R272 F1 car, which picture's combination of vehicles is your pick? Let me guess: the NSX? :)
It's a shame the City Turbo is shown with a Goldwing and not a...
MoS, your recent Brazilian oddity sparked my memory: Does anyone have any high-resolution pictures of the Giustang a.k.a. the FNM Onca? In case a 105 and a pony car wasn't confused enough, "Onca"...
Interesting! I never knew there was a two-door sedan in addition to the Consul Capri's coupe. It's always fun when European cars of this era followed the American model of one nameplate with a...
That's a LaForza! They're rare as hen's teeth. So yeah, low-volume, boutique, 1980s Italian SUV; janky is about right. I think all the ones that came here had Ford V8s; maybe a 302 or 351.
I think it was 180 cents du nord for 87 last time I was in Montreal in September; maybe 20c more for the 91 that my Infiniti Q50 demanded. The Canadian dollar is weak right now and Canada is a...
Nissan just released a huge archive of press photos. I don't have the time to upload them to the Hide-Out, but they're there for everyone to view, Especially you, NSX...
That said I thought I...
Nah, most all automotive flywheels are ferrous; I was thinking of the electromechanical hybrid that Porsche made a few years ago that spun up a flywheel (not connected to the engine) rather than...
Make your mechanical flywheels while tungsten is still cheap!
Was this when pickups jumped the shark and went from working vehicles to "cowboy Cadillacs"? I think its aerodynamic car-ness and the branching of the phylogenetic tree away from the so-called Super...
I got excited thinking that I saw a Nissan Leopard (the early one) in Western Massachusetts of all places... Turns out it was a Dodge Mirada; a very interesting and unexpected doppelganger.
Yeah, I went to the LA show this year and it was a pretty pathetic affair... Even compared to the very lackluster NYIAS I went to in '19. Even just two years before that, NY seemed to have a decent...
I agree that filling up is a chore and I suspect that many others feel similarly. Though as someone with a small bladder, many gas stations have been godsent on long roadtrips... Filling up in LA was...
The inscrutable, ineffable world of midcentury press shots is not for us to understand, Duell!
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These "Rope Drive" Tempests are part of my favorite cohort of GM compacts; their stablemates include the (in)famous Corvair (though I prefer the second generation), the later-turbocharged Olds F-85...
That ad in the final post is fantastic! Back when "wing" mirrors were actually on the wings (fenders)! It's interesting how enthusiastically the Japanese took to them; I'd imagine the primary...