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  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    It jacked itself up providing the hydraulics were working!

    Ever see the brake pedel on one of those? It wasn't a pedel. It looked like a volleyball cut in half that you stepped on.

    Talk about STRANGE cars but oh so comfortable seats!
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I had a Citroen deja vu the first time I drove a Prius.
  • scanman1scanman1 Member Posts: 11
    I had a renault LeCar , It never ran but it had fold down front seats, Oh so many days I would just sit in the drivers seat thinking of the day I would get to drive. Laying back in that seat, that was the coolest thing I thought anyway. I traded a working stero for a car that never worked. Don't remember what ever happened to that car. Think I traded it for a Jeep (willys) It never ran either but it had bullet holes in it from the war don't know which one so don,t ask. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. By the way I was 13 or 14 at the time, that was a long time ago, shish.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    The French copy nobody and nobody copies the French!
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    I was born in the late 1960s but inspired two well-known 1980s cars with my rounded aerodynamic styling. Who am I and who are they?
  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    NSU Ro80, Audi 100, Ford Taurus. From rare to rental fleet in 2 decades.
    A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Correct!

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  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    I'm a domestic that was available with a choice of a 4 cyl, 6 cyl or a V-8 engine.

    What am I?
  • m6vxm6vx Member Posts: 142
    Cadillac with the 8-6-4 engine? ;-)
  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    Nope. That one year only (1981) was a V-8 engine that could disable cylinders. The car I'm talking about could be ordered with a 4, a 6 or a V-8.
  • m6vxm6vx Member Posts: 142
    OK, how about a Jeep CJ.

    You could get an I4, I6, and V8 -- just not sure if it was all in one model year though.
  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    Well, that's not the one I was thinking of but I did think there could be others.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    1968-70ish Novas could be had with all 3, I think
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,107
    How about Fairmonts and Mustangs, including both the Mustang II and the early Fox-bodied Mustangs?
  • hpmctorquehpmctorque Member Posts: 4,600
    edited April 2011
    Camaros, I believe, were available with the Iron Duke/Tech-4, a V6, and the small block V8.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,347
    I was going to guess fairmont.

    Does it have to be at the same time? the fox stang never did (it was 4/8 or 6/8, but never all 3 together).

    The Pinto stang (75ish) you could get all 3 at the same time.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Now that I think of it, E/5er/A6 have a long history of concurrent 4/6/8 cylinder engine offerings too.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,612
    Mustang II, definitely....

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,597
    edited April 2011
    The Fairmont around '80 or so certainly qualifies. So does the T'Bird of the middle '80s What I'm not sure of is if there was any one model of the Fairmont (like the Futura) at offered all three. In the Bird you could only get the four in one model, the Turbo Coupe.

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  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    Ford Pinto or Chevy Monza? '80s Mustangs and Camaros would also count, thought I don't know if both the 4 and 6 were offered in those at the same time.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,347
    pinto never had an 8, at least not from factory! Monza did.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I was one of the cutest little import sedans you could buy in America. One year, I was so popular I outsold the VW Beetle even though I was a new kid on the block. I was faster, more agile, roomier, got better gas mileage, and my heater actually worked.

    Who Am I?
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,347
    renault daphaine? I know I spelled that wrong!

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Well okay, spelling is forgiven. Yes you're right. Renault Dauphine (Princess).
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    With a town and country horn no less!
  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    edited April 2011
    I was thinking of the mid sixties Chevy II's but I had forgotten about the Mustangs and Fairmounts!

    One of the oddest cars I ever saw was a 1965 Chevy II Station Wagon. It was pretty plain jane. White with red interior. Black wall tires, small hubcaps etc. It had been ordered by someone who backed out so the store made a deal to move it. It had a 300 horse 327 with a three speed on the tree.

    A gal in my high school's dad bought it and she used it often. MAN, what a sleeper it was!
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,107
    edited April 2011
    Actually, wiki says the fox Mustang had 4/6/8 available many of the years from '78 to '86:

    Hmmm - I'm not having any luck posting the link - wonder why?
    You can find the info in the "Ford Mustang (third generation)" article on wiki.

    :confuse: :confuse:
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    I remember those old Monzas with an 8. It was wedged in there so tight that in order to change the, I believe, #7 spark plug you had to drop the engine!
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,347
    I almost bought one in HS. A silver fastback, about a '75, V8 4 speed. Hot stuff back in 1979!

    had the local garage look it over, and one thing I remember him telling me is that if it ever needed plugs (probably any engine work), don't bring it back to him!

    did not end up buying, but probably had more to do with money than common sense!

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  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    Oh, those were nasty! Really nothing more than a Vega with a V-8. As I recall it was an oddball engine. A 262 or something like that?

    The shops hated them!
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,612
    You could get the Mustang II with a 302 V-8.... And, a tiny 2-bbl carb...

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,107
    Oh, the shame....
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,347
    well, that model was more in the spirit of the original mustang than the previous generation barges were. Just a little on the underpowered side, but hey, it was the mid 70s.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,612
    That's my first new car!

    Only.. green stripes... no front spoiler... and, I had factory "styled steel wheels".

    302 V-8, 4-speed.. no A/C...

    Actually, pretty quick off the line, but a top-speed of about 108 mph.. and, a total piece of crap, reliability-wise... totally worn out by 48K miles..

    Of course, it had an 18-yr-old driver.. ;)

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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    It's actually not a BAD looking car, but build quality and anemic performance doomed this car to automotive perdition. The Mustang was pretty porky by 1971 and it looked like a short wheelbase Gran Torino so downsizing it wasn't a bad idea. A lot of Mustangers want to pretend this car never existed and I've seen Mustang books where the entire 1974-78 generation is ommitted.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Ford almost repeated their mistake a 2nd time with the Probe - which was originally supposed to replace the Mustang. FWD, no less.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    The Probe was an OK car - but hardly a Mustang replacement.

    Those Mustang IIs were kind of nasty little things. If you look at them as a necessary step back from the porkers they are OK I suppose.
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    It's like fat Elvis:

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  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Oh, dig that color! And the lovely vinyl roof... :sick:
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  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    Funny, just the other day in a parking lot I walked by a Mustang II that appeared to be in near perfect condition. It was the Ghia model. silver with a very plush maroon interior.

    A glorified Pinto really and nothing more.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,612
    edited April 2011
    I'm not going to defend the Mustang II.. but, the original Mustang was just a glorified Falcon...

    So.. in that sense... it's closer to the original than the "Fat Elvis" version... lol..

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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
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    Eleanor from the original "Gone in 60 Seconds."
  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    edited April 2011
    Glorified Falcon?

    Absoultly true! A brilliant idea from Iacocca that knocked the ball over the fence.

    Took a Falcon, changed the sheet metal a bit, put in bucket seats and a floor shifter, made some nice option packages available and scored a Home Run as never seen before.

    Of course, it HAD to evolve and it did.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    don't forget the most important part of the Mustang formula----CHEAP TO BUY.

    It really was quite the bargain at the time.
  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    edited April 2011
    I think the base Mustangs sold for something like 2495.00 at the time for a stripper six cylinder with a stick.

    Even when nicely equipped they were in the low to mid 3000.00 range.

    Of course, shop labor was something like 7.50 and hour in the mid sixties and people were lucky to make 700.00 a month.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    True but you couldn't buy anything as good-looking and sporty for that money.
  • isellhondasisellhondas Member Posts: 20,342
    Good point!

    It was certainly the right car at the exact right time. A bullseye that has yet to be repeated.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I started my career as a structural engineer, but I was also a pilot and a race car driver. My ambition was to conquer brute power by "adding lightness" to my designs, and I eventually built automobiles that changed the face of auto racing forever.

    Who Am I?
  • oregonboyoregonboy Member Posts: 1,650
    Sounds like Colin Chapman! :shades:
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    When my parents were first married, they were considering buying one of the first new Mustangs.
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