Nice piece - personally, I like noting down the toy cars that have stuff that opens in the wrong direction. For example, the Hot Wheels Redline Mercedes SL and Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow both have hoods hinged at the wrong end, as does the Matchbox Speedkings Datsun 240Z.

Fully agreed. Save for the Range Rover (which doesn't really count because it didn't suck) there is not one single product of 1970's BL on here. There is nothing more quintessentially British than a poorly-engineered, probably lime-coloured, rampantly unreliable mid-seventies car, technologically and ergonomically 10…

My 19-year-old daily driver Scirocco also laughs in the face of Jalopniks VW-hate.

Musta gotten tired of her always leaving her pickaxe and shovel lying around everywhere.

FuckYeahRed

$5K is a bit on the crack pipe side, depending on how rusty they are, but Imps aren't particularly rare in the UK, and have a decent parts supply here.

iPad SchmiPad. I want to know there will be a Swinger!

Surely in the 1600s, the only Mustangs getting flung round were the four-legged kind...

There absolutely HAS to be a Swinger! Grooviest. Car. Name. Ever.

Definitely NP if as rust free as claimed - this is a 2000, which is the biggest/best Beta engine. And that wiring tape is probably original... You do need to check the underneath on these though - I looked at one once with a view to buying that was immaculate, until we looked under it and found there was almost no…

Also frightening are the plaid pants worn by the guy pulling the Pinto doors open.

Pantera...

Articles that start with sentences like "If you aren't lucky enough to live around fields full of rusting vintage cars" are why I read Jalopnik.

Weren't these super-limited-production, mega-expensive, one-off coachbuilt cars by Chapron? As such, a production run of 8 isn't really a failure or a success, it's just the number that got built. The Avantime was a full-on production car, so a whole different ball game.

This depends entirely on whether it has any (or excessive) rust, how it runs, etc. It looks like crap, but if all this stuff will come off easy and the car underneath is in good shape, then definite NP.

These are actually cool.

Agree x1000. Current-gen corporate face Peugeots look awful.

I am informed that the second generation of something called a "Toyota Prius" is a vast improvement over the first.

So did this fit into the Mustang model range between the Mustang Tall and the Mustang Venti?