Wow, I had forgotten how pretty these were. A sad sight.

It needed a little push when it was on that ferry.

I picked up an '86 for $400 out of desperation once; it had about 115K on the clock. I quickly learned it had tranny issues, a busted power steering pump, a rotted exhaust and a leaking fuel line. I muddled through with it for a while, and to be fair, I don't think it had been treated kindly. But this was the only car…

You have to consider the objective (distance from actual market value) and the subjective (desirable enough to someone, somewhere, that it might negate rational thought?). That leads me to the completely unremarkable Sunbird.

@silver63c10: Very true. I got home in my Chevette 20+ years ago in similar conditions, and momentum was everything. The one time I lost it, the only thing that saved me was a gentle push from the vehicle behind me.

These are cool bridges. There are many simple truss bridges sprinkled across Northwest NJ, including one a few hundred feet from where I sit—standing since 1865.

@UDMan: Yep, that seals it. Compare the relection off the adjoining bodywork near the top. Scary that so many people are so familiar with early '60s IH pickups. I would have spent the rest of my life trying to solve this one.

The M6 on NPOCP last week.

Ford Galaxie?

And here I was ready to read about a REAL jet car. Isn't this one of those things your kid can ride for a quarter outside the WalMart?

@Novaload: "Fun styling"...yeah...

As the former owner of a Chevette, an Escort, a Cavalier, a Reliant, a Volvo 244 and an Olds Calais, and the current owner of a 4-banger '98 626, I also approve this message.

@Pixel: I think there may have been even more versions, but I've never been able to find one to match the picture in my head. It haunts my memories of watching the Mets on Channel 9 in the '70s. I keep thinking there was a 1st-gen Chrysler A-body at the core, which was hallucinogenic in itself.

I don't have the skills to drop a picture in here, but if anyone can find the "Anycar" once used by Manufacturers Hanover Bank to advertise auto loans—well, just try not to look directly at it.

Maybe they'll sell a kind of Volvo wrapper to Brilliance owners to, you know, protect them.

This looks pretty good, but perhaps what it does best is capture the bloat that has overcome these so-called pony cars in their reincarnated forms.

It was like watching one of those CFC videos, but with the hood closed.

@buick61: Six people in the trunk I can see, but adding two Christmas trees—that's over the top.

When I was younger and stupider, I thought it would be feasible to tie down a sheet of drwall to the roof of my Taurus wagon. Of course, wind + the breakability of the stuff = a drywall pie in the middle of the road, within a mile or two of the Home Depot.

Given the railroad tracks, this could have ended very badly. Oh, wait, the trains were stuck, too.