Camera car is just adding to the danger by sticking close enough to watch all the fun. In this situation I would slide to the right and slow down enough to put many car lengths between me and whatever might go down.

The thing is the rear fender flares. On the Sport Trac, they’re an even width all around the wheel arch. Here, the flare gets wider toward the rear. Somebody put in a lot of effort.

And on the seventh day, the creator said, “I’m tired, but lemme just push through with these door panels.”

“You are in good hands, comrade. Please to relax while we put you in trunk.”

Covid pricing, blah blah. If you get a year out of it, the price breaks down to a dozen pretty modest car payments, and you’ll be carrying bare-minimum insurance. If you know when to cut your losses, about as cheap to run as you could get.

He only stopped because he had to change the tires, am I right?

More unheralded innovation. The first car to practice introspection.

Wow. It was the black/tan that had me scratching my head. Usually in that era, they went all in with one interior color.

I assume the original seat fabric succumbed to pure entropy or something, because there’s no way that’s the factory upholstery. And for that money–if you accept the premise that a 1980 Pinto is collectable–the car had better be original to the last stitch. ND.

Get your hands on one of these and keep it boxed in your truck.

I never thought about the vocabulary of fake wood paneling. Literal covered wagon vs. metaphorical land yacht. Interesting.

That is the post-Taco Bell configuration.

OK, let’s assume this is actually 197K, not 97K. $5K? No way.

Sadly, at least half the readership here won’t get that reference, but take your star.

I have a hunch that dent is pretty recent, maybe rattlecanned in the factory color, as I don’t see any rust. It won’t be that way for long.

It’s remarkable how people used to pull right up to the tennis court, poolside, steeplechase course, ski jump, parallel bars, archery range, active runway...

Fascinating, lovely, but I imagine restoring it would be a spirit-crushing endeavor. Sad ND.

Having been permanently scarred by one bout of K-car ownership, I couldn’t pay half this amount for anything in that family tree. Radwood fame is only worth so much.

Please tell me that’s some stylish black trim around the doors, not panel gaps. Or maybe it’s a feature. In tight spaces, you can enter the car without opening the door.

I, on the other hand, come from a time when EXPs roamed the Earth. One of the bosses at my first job bought a new EXP to replace his Granada, which was rapidly returning to its base elements.