ishtar rocks and the line ‘that ain’t poverty, baby’ before they’re prepared to go rambo is one of my all-time favorite movie lines.

It is actually. BMW boxer engine, Porsche derived transmission.

This strikes close to home. When I was a child, I saw a wagon rendition of this very car, an Isard 700 Kombi. It was parked in front of my house, and belonged to a plumber working at some neighbor’s.

That was a notable episode. After the test drive segment, Oriana Fallaci described his handling as “pedantic, yet oddly intriguing.”

I have this exact same car:

That’s cute, I can’t say I’m surprised I missed this before, there’s roughly a billion strip malls in the valley and they somehow all have the same businesses in them (the valley is also replete with 7-Elevens that aren’t in strip malls, an insane amount of them).

How about this parking garage at 60 E. Lake St. in downtown Chicago?

Not a car or a flower pot, but a very cool coffee pot in Tacoma WA, that also happens to host Karaoke every night!

Oh no, all the Bunkie Beaks!

It’s amazing how at this time everyone suddenly decided to rip off the recently revived and then killed again Stutz and their neo-classical design sensibilities. And for good measure, everyone threw in some “euro” styling on top of it. “Euro” in this case meaning headlights high up and…

Personal taste, I know, but I always thought the Hornet was a handsome little cars. The drawing looks quite a bit more awkward than the actual car. And might have sold better? The Hornet sold more than 100,000 units most years of its run and spawned the Gremlin (dubious achievement, granted), the Concord and various…

My grandfather always hated galvanizing because of this.

With the Great Recession in 2008, the indigenous tire companies like Goodstop, Milestop, and Firestop were finally forced into bankruptcy, and absorbed into the multinational tire companies. That’s the little known reason why tires got so good in the past 10 or so years. Not R&D, just conglomerates conglomerating…

I love those trunk-embiggenator things on 2CVs. It’s a really clever solution that I don’t really think I ever saw in other car. There’s these weird aftermarket conversions of Volvo 440s done by a dutch company that replaced the hatch with a fibreglass roof-elongator using the factory hinges, and the same thing was…

awww man! how did I miss this. Costco run in my Mini a few years ago. Not visible a case of 32 Coke cans, a bag of 4 liters of milk.

Not to brag but as a kid (probably around 3 years old) I took a road trip in my dad’s Lada 2018 with the rear seats folded down laying beside a refrigerator that we were taking to my grandparents’ farm. The front seat was occupied with my aunt. The car looked EXACTLY like this btw. Steelies and all. Hope I can import…

When buying a classic like this it’s always worth to remember that it’s almost impossible to work on a project car and come out ahead when it comes to value. So always try to purchase the best example you can find, as it will retain its value better or even appreciate in price. Hence, this seems like a wonderful deal.…

I love this car precisely because it’s weird looking, not in spite of it. The only way it could be better is if it were painted British racing green or one of the John Player Specials. As for the panel gaps and general fit of the car, it’s a Lotus. They were not exactly known for that. If that’s something that bothers…

I like it

I always thought that for a small city car the Lancia Y had some amazing interior options. Mine was the top of the line model with fake wood and beige alcantara, but you could also get alcantara in red, blue or green.

How ‘bout my ‘78 Thunderbird t-top?