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I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today! (Archived)
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a Mercury Maurader X100. Looked like this one, but in a decidedly non-OEM electric blue (at least, I really doubt it was).
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The NYPD did use a smattering of other makes but they were mostly Plymouths for most of the 60s and the prowl cars all had the tri-tone green/black/white
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Yeah, Speedsters have become so rare and valuable that they're like Cobras, if you see one on the street it's probably a replica. I'm old enough to remember a guy in college driving one that was a heap: torn top, dents, scrapes, rust, a real beater. Back in the early 60s it wouldn't have been worth $500 in that condition.
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Spotted a W126 300SD in a kind of bright gold, not the champagne color. Looked to be in very good condition.
IMHO, the dramatic rise in prices for unrestored cars or cars with patina is a joke. Somehow I think some major collectors got together with Bonhams, Christies, et al and said "We're tired of spending $100K to restore a car just to sell it for $80K. How can we market these wrecks as they are for even more money? Ha - I've got it!! Let's compare them to art, textiles and furniture - patina makes them worth more."
Also, a custom whale Caprice done up like a tri 9 Impala SS.
Looked nicely done, but I didn't like the eggplant color paint.
And then you get the rat rod types who fake patina - let it sit outside and rust, chemically treat the metal, etc.
I don't mind it, lowers any pressure to restore my own old car. Old car, old paint, old interior, old chrome, etc - it can be something for pride.
And I like the idea of having an driving a somewhat weathered example of a valuable car. An unrestored kind of worn gullwing or 540K or something, cooler than a concours example.
These have to be pretty rare today.
I actually do remember seeing an F10 in one of the parking lots at the University of MD back when I was in college. I guess that's an indication right there of how rare those things are, if I can actually remember seeing one 20+ years ago! Don't think I've seen one, since.
I also remember a '77 LeMans Safari wagon in that same parking lot, in sort of a caramel brown with a buckskin vinyl interior.
I remember the F10, been ages since I have seen one. When I was in grade school in the mid-late 80s, I knew a kid who's mother had an early 200SX, the weird fastback thing Like this - these are virtually extinct now.
Speaking of period Pontiacs, I noticed this survivor in a free car rag
And this Poncho barge linked to local CL might appeal to Andre or Lemko
Time moves on, now 80s vintage street scenes can be interesting.
I'm sure it doesn't make it any more desireable, especially in that color! But, kinda neat that someone thought to order one of the stronger engines. Most of them probably just had Buick 231 V-6es, and the V-8 option was usually a Chevy 305-2bbl, or Pontiac 301-2bbl.
That Parisienne is a really nice car. Not so crazy about the fender skirts, but the two-tone burgundy is nice, and I like the fact that it doesn't have a vinyl roof.
I vaguely remember seeing a few of the 200SX of that bodystyle when new. Looked waaay futuristic compared to the domestic offerings of the time.
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When I was a kid, some friends of the family had one of those early 200SX'es, and a Maverick. However, this was in the early 80's, and by that time, to me at least, that 200SX just looked weird and alien. I don't know how long they kept it though. My grandparents sold them their 1972 Impala for $600, and that replaced the Maverick, I remember that much.
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If it was a corresponding US model, which would have been the Bonneville, it would've had a 231 Buick V-6, 301-2bbl Pontiac V-8, or a 350 Buick V-8, which I think was a 4-bbl, but still choked down to around 155 hp. I think California/high altitude US cars got the Chevy 305 in place of the 301, or the Olds 350 in place of the Buick unit.
Next I commented on the number of rich and famous people who were proud to own Avantis in 1963 by directing them here http://www.theavanti.net/celebrity.html
I also believe his Aztek number was only the last model year, but he leaves that out. As anyone who reads me here on Edmunds knows, I hate when folks leave largely-relevant stuff out of a discussion.
At this time in Canada GM was putting Pontiac through a transition, offering the Catalina and Bonneville model alongside traditional GM Canada models like the Laurentian and Parisienne. A friend of mine had a '79 Catalina as a company car that was fairly plain jane, resembling a '79 Impala in terms of interior trim level.
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1984 model (build date 12/83), second owner, 65K miles. Always garaged. Chatty old man was fond of it, but was moving into a retirement home and couldn't keep it. Said he would take "no less than $2500" for it. It needed a good paint restoration and interior detail, but it seemed genuinely nice. He claimed he had all records for the car. Didn't seem to be the most loaded model, but it did have digital dash, tape player, climate control, etc.
I am certain I could have the paint looking near-new, but it would take a full day of elbow grease. It hadn't been waxed in a long time, and that dark color showed every little flaw.
No doubt the owner would change his tune if you produced a small roll of $100 bills.
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She loved that car. T-boned by a stop-sign runner in 1992. Replaced it with an Acura Legend.
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