Ok, 8k is too much, but I don't care. My college roommate had one of these, same year, bought it new. He let me drive it sometimes. It made me very happy.

A green 1972 Karmann Ghia. It was only 2500 bucks, and it had only 60k on the clock. I tried hard to scrape together the cash but it just wasn't happening. The story: [jimgrey.wordpress.com]

A Jalopnik.com sticker. Oh wait, those don't exist.

C'mon, arent there any of these left unmodded? CP.

My grandmother was 4' 11" tall. She drank like a fish, swore like a sailor, and drove a white-over-orange 1971 Chevrolet K/5 Blazer 4x4. To get in, she had to grab the steering wheel and pull herself up. You did not mess with my grandmother.

Dad had a thing for coupes and two-doors. In this order:

The Sebring, now with slightly less suck. Of course, I still need to see whether the acreage of plastic in the interior has been reduced.

Reich mir mal das Crack-Pipe.

@mobilene: Overheard at the highway maintenance barn: "I know! Let's get drunk and then go stripe some road!"

Are you kidding me? That was CP even when new.

I've long held a secret desire to write for Jalopnik. But I've always felt somehow not quite up to snuff. Certainly I love, love, love cars. I can spot the make, model, and year of anything made between 1945 and 1980 (for after that, the product cycles extended). I am usually in the ballpark about what V-8 is under…

That's my hometown! Which is neither short nor curly.

I can't get over how clean this van is! I'm jealous, but also content to live vicariously through your restoration. BTW, I think it would be a shame to lose the automatically-extending step.

I'm pretty sure I was born this way.

@The Stig's American Cousin: Yeah, let's hope Ford doesn't complicate those matters as it did in earlier Foci, with the lift-up-the-back-seat-bottom-first nonsense.

I don't want to dis the megaFocus, but why when I look at it do I think of a hungry goldfish?

I love these boxy little cars. One of these days, I'll run across one in good nick and buy it. But not for 6 large, sorry, not even if GLH is stickered on the side somewhere.

"A light, squirrelly feeling while cornering." Sounds like fun!