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At this point, it is only a matter of time. They jointly developed a little coupe with Subaru that is due in a couple years. Toyota's, which will be a RWD platform, is dubbed the FT-86.
Not Scion cheap, but certainly affordable.
He needs to check out the competition: This Looks Way Bettter
In the summer that poor old thing is probably full of spiders and scorpions too...no thanks.
Basically, if he can get someone to pay enough so that he gets it moved out of there for FREE, and breaks even or makes lunch money, that's about the best he could hope for.
Remeber we were talking about how cool it would be to have a shell of a Rolls Royce or a Benz to play in when we were kids?
The downside would be that the nooks and crannies would get infested with spiders, beehives, wasps and other potentially lethal bugs. :sick: That is unless you kept the windows intact and closed the doors after playing in it. :shades:
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Nah, they'd still find ways to get into it. Mice got into my '57 DeSoto when it was over at my grandmother's. Luckily the damage wasn't too bad...mainly they just built two nests in the back seat backrest, at each corner. One thing I noticed about that backrest too, now that the mechanic has it out and I can see in it, is that it has coil springs. Aren't coil springs in the seats a sign of higher quality than that other type, which is kind of a zig-zag?
I also had mice get into my '79 5th Ave. I found evidence of them in the passenger cabin, even with the windows all the way up. The smallest nook or cranny, and they'll get in. I remember one morning, backing it out of the garage, and a mouse hopped out from under the hood and tried to climb up the windshield!
And, let's not forget wasps. I don't drive my other New Yorker, the blue one, much. A couple months ago, I was under the hood, messing with the battery, when I felt something on my hand, looked down, and saw a wasp crawling across it! Never did find the nest, if there was one, but I'm sure the cold has killed them by now.
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At one point, there were also two dump beds that were taken off of some dumptrucks, and stacked one on top of the other. Us kids used to get a kick out of climbing that stack.
And finally, there was another dump bed off a smaller truck, maybe a 6-wheeler, that had a 1957 Ford sitting in it, upside down, with the rear-end in the bed and the front leaning upward, precariously against a tree.
Looking back, all that stuff was a lawsuit just waiting to happen, but I don't think most people thought about that back then. I think about the worst that happened to me was getting stung by a bee or getting poison ivy. I don't think tetanus had been invented yet. :P
What, that the Toyota would be available with AWD? :P
Won't the AWD minimize all the character this car is supposed to have? Guess we'll have to wait and see when the early drives and reviews start to get published.
The green 1967 Ford Galaxie has been back there since at least early 1982 which was when I first came across it. This area used to be a farm that was ultimately abandoned. At the time it was parked next to a barn. I think the barn got taken down around 1991, when the fire house was built. We kids used to play on that car, but then started getting destructive. I have to confess that I'm partially responsible for some of the damage to that car. One thing I remember doing was pulling the odometer out. I'm impressed though, at how rust-free that car still appears after all these years. I mean, look at the rear quarter panel! When you figure it's been sitting back there for at least 25 years, in the woods and that close to the ground, I think it held up pretty well!
I'm not sure when the Camaro ended up back there...I want to say I first saw it in the summer of '86 or '87, but it might've been back there longer. The Nova and Satellite got dumped sometime later, maybe late 80's or early 90's. And the '82-83 Cavalier is a relatively recent addition...when I did this photo shoot was when I first discovered it.
I remember there was also a brown 1974 or so Mercury Montego 4-door inside the barn, with its roof chopped off. That probably got towed away when the barn was taken down. And out in front of the barn was a brown Pinto that was sitting upside-down with its roof caved in. I think it got towed away when the barn was taken down, too. I'm kinda glad they left the '67 Galaxie, though, so some fragment of my childhood is still intact!
Hahah; no, you know what I meant!
Regarding the minimization of character, I would say 'no.' It will certainly be a different car from the RWD counterpart, but given that it will be turbo (versus the Toyota's NA), very light, and AWD, it will make for one helluva fun car.
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Which makes it different from a WRX or and STi how?
Seems like it might cannibalize existing sales.
The one that really breaks my heart though, is that '67 Ford. I know it was an abandoned junked car by the time us kids first saw it in 1982, but I still feel bad for the way we beat up on it. I guess if we hadn't though, someone else would have. And it had bullet holes and broken windows by the time we found it, so we just sort of accelerated the damage.
Oh, I also know where there's a '57 or '58 Plymouth 4-door hardtop back in the woods, near the railroad tracks. I have no idea how long it's been back there, but I remember that you could only see it from the road at the right time of day in the wintertime. In the early morning the sun would reflect off the chrome, and in the evening it would seem to reflect off the trunk. I had been seeing it for years, having no idea what it was, until a few years ago I stopped and went back in the woods to see it. Now that that car's on my mind, I feel I need to go get some pics of it!
1960
1961
big 1965 coupe
is this a photoshop job?
1971 Hornet
65 Pontiac 2+2 - price is fair enough
1950 Ford Recreation -- horrifying
71 Hornet 360 Coupe -- if nice, should sell $10K-$20K range.
help me out here shifty; what is the deal with this thing?
the front end is i don't know what, the back end is '90 Thunderbird, what is "1950" about this except maybe the retail value?
-Mathias
Even I can tell that this is no #2 car. It'[s funny how owner's always overvalue and overrate their own cars.
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(Relax, we're talking cantaloupe here)
http://www.allclassicsllc.com/home/2010-russo-and-steele-damages
So much damage it's incredible. I'm not familiar with classic car reproduction parts but I figure all the broken glass is hard to find, especially if it was original. Same for all the chrome trim. Were you there Shifty?
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Some of the damage, like a crushed windshield pillar and roof, are tough fixes. It's especially hard on cars that were more or less 'virgin".
Initial reports from the auction company stated "slight damage--just some scratches"
a lot of mad ex boyfriend antenna's there.
I heard from one guy who is there that Hagerty actually ran out of checks to write while on site in AZ
I wonder if Hagerty and the other insurers are going to raise their collector car premiums to cover their losses on this little debacle?