I'm sure the proximity of doughnuts and coffee factored into siting that police station 

The two oddities that haven’t made the list are both brass era. The 1914 Pungs Finch was a Mercer Raceabout look alike that failed. They only made one and through the 1970s it reided in Henry Austin Clark’s Long Island Auto Museum in the Hamptons. I know because I had a postcard of it and visited the museum as a kid…

The first generation Pontiac Tempest. Made from 1961-63, it was Pontiac’s first compact and an incredibly innovative car for its time. It was the first American production car with a turbocharger, it had a rear mounted-transaxle connected to a weird-o curved drivetrain (known as “rope drive”), and had near 50-50…

1954 Gregory Roadster 1 of 1. A pioneer of front wheel drive vehicles, Ben Gregory built this with a Porsche 356 engine in the front powering the front wheels. It’s a beautiful car, I saw it this summer at the Lame motor Museum.  Only one that ever made it into production.

The Jetway 707

Dodge Rampage!

BMW F32 ZHP. Only 100 made and, sadly, when my wife went through her “Atlanta traffic with a manual is awesome “ phase the only one for sale had an automatic. Basically a 435 with the whole MPerfomance catalog thrown at it, it was the only way to get a narrow body F chassis 3/4 with a limited slip from the factory.

Apparently it’s a 1920 Dodge with a custom copper body. https://thecuriouskiwi.co.nz/blog/2020/southward-car-museum-paraparaumu/

I’ve posted this here 3 or 4 times now. But even I don’t know what this actually is.

My 2010 Mercedes-Benz C300 is rare enough to make the already short list of manual Mercedes models in the USA:

Easy. A good friend of mine has a 1929 Fargo Packet, likely one of maybe 3 in the world that run if not simply exist. You may know about the brand which was acquired by Dodge but I doubt you’ve ever heard of or even seen a Packet.

Let me introduce you to a man named Lance Reventlow. He was born into a very wealthy family, as he was heir to the Woolworth fortune.

So many choices. There are a ton of Canada only models that most of the rest of the world will WTF at. Acura EL? Pontiac Acadian? Meteor? Everyone knows about Bricklin, so not that.

For me, it’s the Volvo 780 Bertone, the coolest brick-era Volvo.

I’ve always had a personal fondness for Austin-Healeys but no one else ever talks about them, and then I got interested in the sort-of relative “Enigma” by Mazda (although I’m not British and don’t have one). Does no one else know or do they just not interest anyone else?

Ford Fairmont Durango - was one persons answer to the discontinuation of the Ranchero. National Coach in California took Fairmont coupes, hacked out the back and inserted a fiberglass “bed” and tailgate. They didnt sell well at all as the conversion made them almost 3 grand more than an El Camino and approximately 212…

Henry Covington’s El Tiburon literally blew my mind when I found out about it a couple years ago. Namely because I am a life long car guy who loves obscure cars. But THIS obscure car was designed and built in my hometown of St. Petersburg, FL, and somehow I was never aware of it over the entirety of the time that I…

Roka pickup. A dominican Datsun-1200-based small pickup from the 80s.

Kids these days never got to meet Joe Isuzu.

Even here in Sweden i would say the 1963 SAAB 92h is quite obscure. I remember reading about it in a classic car magazine as a kid and falling in love with the thing. it is basically a Saab 92 with a caravan body ontop. production numbers are 1. then there is a 1965 SAAB 95h that is the same thing once again but now…