This one will take some work for you to find. But it will be a nearly unique experience as there are so few in the states. A Lancia Stratos. Beautiful little car.

Local Motors Rally Fighter. Yes it's a fair bit above the budget. But you did say Winter Time, and this would be something truly different for you to try out and have fun with:

1984 300zx. The car talked man!

Reminds me of the days of Battlefield 1942 modding. There was an awesome group working on a G.I. Joe mod. It was really excellent with a bunch of the vehicles you know and love from G.I. Joe in the game.

Saw them play live when I was a freshman in high school with They Might Be Giants. Awesome show. The Femmes had everyone standing up in the aisles dancing.

Not really the same at all, but had a few similar type things with my yellow with black stripes 1973 Mustang Mach 1 which I tried to make my daily driver (it would have worked if the frame wasn't rusted to hell).

Quick but somewhat related story. My Aunt was heading home from work one night, and not too far from her office a car was behind her flashing it's headlights at her. She assumed it was a coworker flagging her down about something (before Cell phones were around) and decided to pull over and roll down the window.

I have a few quick and easy ones.

lol, the goofy way it drifts, reminds me of good ol RC Pro Am on the NES:

To the last story, just after reading the first couple sentences had to share an odd one. My mom was shopping for a new home and wanted me to come with her to look at a few. One in particular I found very strange. When you first walked into the door, there was a long hallway with glass display cabinets on both…

The problem here is, the Russian Bear is trying to demand that his lair also encompasses the woods around it, and the hiking trail outside of that, and the entire river that runs past his lair and throughout other parts of the forest. And this Bear thinks that everyone in these surrounding areas should submit to his…

Volvo has only ever made one car I don't find ugly, the wonderful P1800:

That DroneMobile unit looks cool and all, but looks like it requires a unique AT&T cellular plan to function, which at the cheapest is another $50/year, and going up to $120/year if you want all functionality: http://www.dronemobile.com/plans.html

Papa always said, Go Big or Go Home: 1969 Camaro with 454

And now with more color options! (Good ol Photoshop)

They've been doing this for a long time. I remember one of the better heavily armored ones that was made, had one major fault. They forgot to armor the tires, so the cops just shot out the tires and it became more of a immovable bunker than an APC.
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All those times his silly giant yellow cart got flipped over. It's amazing he never thought to install a roll cage.

After trying several backup cameras, I finally settled on this one which I liked alot. Cheaper at $13 and has night vision: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00…

The 1999 Honda Fuya-Jo (/end thread)

Name the movie that has this car :D