I bought one of these for $100 (an '81 Bertone) when I was 16 because it was awesome. My dad told me what a horrible car it was, but I didn't care. I needed an X1/9. Because... it was awesome. Hell, it had a mirrored tach and speedo! What 16 year old has a mid engined Italian sports car? I had to have it!

Or "Blue eyes".

This:

Just check the junction triangle area of Toronto. That little car is almost a daily sight.

I'm gonna say it's at that exact intersection with the "railpath" bridge crossing. Just because I lived there for 2 years recently, and that exact Pao lived just up the street.

I have much love for the Pony. Probably the absolute worst car I ever owned. And I wish I could find another. I rolled it. And drove it for another year after that.

If you were male and alive in the 80s, regardless of age, you had a Countach poster. It probably had an "Alpine" logo on it somewhere, too.

Yeah, they didn't almost go bankrupt because they built the best cars in the world, that's for sure.

I've worked for both GM and VW as a tech... and I was doing literally a tenth of the electrical repairs at VW than I was at GM. About 1/100th of the wheel bearings, 1/1000th of internal engine repairs...

I don't like replacing my front wheel bearings at every oil change. Sorry.

When I started my apprenticeship as a mechanic, our shop truck (at a Canadian Tire store) was an '86 Jeep Commanche. 2WD, 5 speed, 4.0. It'd do 170 km/h in 4th gear (didn't have a tach, but the shift light was on for about 25 seconds at this point), and I learned to drift in that thing before I even knew what…

The Juke makes the Aztec look almost attractive.

Hands down, Mitsubishi. I worked for their motorsport division for a few years. We were immensely successful. Then Mitsubishi vanished on us seemingly overnight.

I did that on a Hyundai Pony in high school. It sounded like an angry forklift.

Right on the money.

Although I kinda have a digital dash fetish, everything about the C4 just plain sucked.

NSU Ro80... how was this not a Citroen dash?

This is awesome... so glad you got your beloved car back. I lie in bed at night worrying about my '69 Beetle that's parked somewhat outside, which some morons have already tried to break into (and hilariously enough, failed).

That's brilliant. Gonna do this on my '69 Bug this week. (I'm afraid of those 44 year old butts)