Saw a few oddballs today....an Allard (but I doubt its authenticity), a mint 65 Buick Wildcat convert, a Triumph TR3, a c.1979 Pontiac Lemans coupe (I call it a Malibu with a grafted on beak), a Porsche 356, a 65 Galaxie hardtop...
And This thing. I even had my camera with me, and snapped a couple:
A Vega Nomad? What the heck is this?
It's for sale...condition unknown apart from the pics...owner wants $400 for it.
Pretty obvious set of fake panels on the B-pillar and door to give a (lousy) replica of the Nomads B-pillar. I wonder if it was factory or an aftermarket abberration. I rather like the style of those little Kammback wagons, pity about the execution.
Was in SW Michigan early this week and saw a few different vehicles. Right off I-196 I saw a whole nest of old VW air cooled pickups including split windsheild models. I also saw a TR-3 in Bangor, MI. There was a Merkur Scorpio by the TR-3 and an XR4Ti a few miles further along, an odd double for the day. Was a day for doubles, saw a yellow VW thing (running!) in Minnesota (and a very dead Edsel) on the way to the airport and saw another Thing, also yellow, in South Haven, MI. There was a tired 240Z in that area also. Also saw a yellow (big day for yellow) '55 Chevy 4-door wagon in Grand Rapids MI. Looked pretty good. That's the only year of '50's Chevy I really like. Looks like I will see a bit more of SW Michigan, I was there for a job interview...and I nailed it! Pretty excited, looks like a good opportunity in every way. There's Gingerman Raceway in SOuth Haven too, may have to watch some events or get the Miata out for a track lap night. :-)
Yep certainly a Kammback. Probably done aftermarket by some cheesy company, like the place who made the laughably corny Custom Cloud. That car isn't far from me, first I have noticed it. Someone must have dug it out of somewhere.
it's pretty cool the way they even made those rear quarter windows roll down!
As for those '78-80 LeMans coupes, I always thought those would have been beautiful looking cars if it weren't for that ugly front-end! Looked like a Cutlass with a beak. I liked the way the beltline had a bit of a kick-up at the rear-quarter window, and the integrated, plastic-covered bumpers were ahead of their time, although that plastic would warp and distort with age, and a bump or two! I thought they looked really good in 1981 though, when the front end was slicked back a bit, and looked kind of like a '77-78 Trans Am.
On the subject of the LeMans, did Pontiac use that name in Canda for a few more years than they did in the U.S.? I found this link, to what they call an '83 Grand LeMans...http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/418572
Here in the U.S., that would have been called a Bonneville Brougham. For 1982, in the U.S., Pontiac dropped their big cars, and also ditched the LeMans and Catalina names, affixing the Bonneville moniker to what had been the LeMans sedan and wagon (coupes were dropped).
In Canada though, Pontiac kept a fuller lineup, than the U.S. did. In fact, around '77-79 they were running a Laurentian, Parisienne, Catalina, and Bonneville lineup, all concurrently! I know they kept building big cars up there after they did down here, which was how we got the Parisienne in mid-1983, as interest in big cars started to return in the U.S. I wonder if Canada continued to use "Bonneville", "Catalina", and "Laurentian" for a few more years, too?
I am not sure what Pontiac did in Canada with big cars during those times...nowadays most cars from that time are off the road, and I don't think they sold well to begin with. I swear I recall that LeMans style car being made as late as 1986, but I don't know what it was called. I looked on google quickly, and did see reference of the Laurentian being around through 85 at least, as well as the Catalina.
I do know there was a rebadged Corsica sold as a Pontiac Tempest.
the Parisienne was sold through 1986, and that was also the final year for the small, LeMans-based Bonneville sedan (wagon was dropped after 1983, as the Celebrity, 6000, and other A-bodies got a wagon for '84). So I'm guessing Canadian timelines were similar?
Looks like in '76, the lineup ran Laurentian/Catalina/Parisienne Brougham/Bonneville/Bonneville Brougham. Sounds kinda confusing to me, as I'd think the Parisienne Brougham and the Bonneville Brougham would compete too much with each other. Except that the Bonneville could be had with a 455 and the Parisienne couldn't, and the Bonneville 4-door was a hardtop.
In the '78 brochure, it looks like the lineup went Laurentian/Catalina/Parisienne/Parisienne Brougham. So I guess a Canadian Bonneville was considered a rare and special treat?
Also kinda interesting that they felt a need to have two low-line cars...both the Laurentian and the Catalina. I guess it's not too different than with Chevy, which kept the cheap Biscayne and Bel Air around for awhile, even though the Impala was really enough to fill that market, and from '76-85 it did, finally getting replaced by a base Caprice.
I guess the times are similar on that LeMans. I remember even back in the day I was surprised such an old looking design was made so late. I remember more than once my grandmother commented she liked that design, along with its Olds twin...that says it all.
I think for a long time Pontiac had a lineup of different model names for Canada, which finally stopped in the late 80s. There was also the Pontiac Acadian, which started out as a Canadian style Nova, also offered as an Acadian Beaumont, which was a Canadian Chevelle, and ended up as the Canadian version of the Pontiac 1000 (?)/Chevette. Kind of a sad end, as the earlier cars were far superior.
What is with domestics killing the brand quality of their model names? It's something very liked by GM and Ford especially. I look at Honda and Toyota...their model names end up with equal or even better positions in the market over time. But the domestics don't do it. Look at Taurus...relegated to the bargain bin. Look what happened to Impala, Fairlane, Galaxie, etc. Stupid brand management IMO, kills long term image.
Today I saw a nice 68-69 Nova, a 58 Ford retractable, and a c.65 T-Bird convert with sequential signals...those are very cool.
re: Adenauer---now there's a car that will suck you into a money pit where daylight will never shine.
re: Jensen-Healey: the 70s sportscar that can't get no respect. Still cheap, still unloved, and really, once you get the engine squared away by modern machining and lubricants, not a bad car. Pretty quick, too. I think it's the styling and the sterling Lotus reputation for reliability (turn on sarcasm detector NOW) that is holding this car back.
re: Rolls -- a chandelier bid if I ever saw one.
re: 110 wagon -- he's nearing retail. the car isn't that sharp.
re: Lloyd---oh, it's a Lloyd ALEXANDER--now that makes all the difference--LOL! Still, kinda cute. I'd bid on it if it were local. I need to round out my Lloyd collection.
I actually had an opportunity to drive a Jensen Healey once. Quite quick in the steering as I remember, sneezed and nearly changed lanes! Definately a "couldabeen" car. I think you hit the problems Shifty. Particularly the styling as real Loti seem to do alright in spite of their exquisite ownership experience. Of course one wonders what an Elan Sprint would command on the market if they were sturdy and easy to maintain.
Saw a remarkably clean AMC Pacer today, a runner at that, with little or no rust (in Minnesota!). I realize it is hearasy but I actually do not mind the style of the first ones. Kinda' fresh and cute at the time. The later grill was nasty. Feel free to toss veggies!
Off to Michigan for a house hunting trip tomorrow, should see something of note.
a mini-ute from the (guessing) late 70s (?). I had to lift tailgate to ID. It was hitched up to a boat ski trailer, so is still hauling. Slotted backslant grille looks compatible w/ same era as Nomad/Vega/Kammback offering. Reading some of the above posts is making me nostalgic: should I install sequential turn signals on my '86 Eurosport?
My sister had a Rampage, from 1983, which I believe was the last year of production. She really liked it, it was a low miles estate car, but it wasn't exactly trouble free, and she only had it about a year. They remind me of an old Omni/Horizon coupe that has been chopped, but that could be wrong.
I wonder how hard it would be to do a sequential signal conversion.
Early '60s.. I've seen it a couple times, on the way to my son's school... Kind of a faded seafoam green, but looks great. And TODAY, it had a for sale sign in the window!! Didn't get a good look, though. I'm interested in how much they want.
but the Rampage I saw last night seemed wider and more low to the ground than Omni/ Horizons...
Oddly I can't envision what it might have looked like in car form, nor can I resurrect what it may have been called as a U.S. car, so possibly kydfx is correct. Unless it was sold as a Sapporo. Just guessing at this point.
Remember the Omni O24 and the Horizon TC3? They were the sporty versions with completely different bodies. Now that my memory has been jogged, I'm pretty sure this is what the Rampage was based off of.
At first, I was thinking the Arrow, because it was rear-wheel drive. I think the Sapporo would have been much too expensive a car to work from. If I recall, they were in Honda Prelude territory, pricewise.
...this is one of those times when a side by side comparison would help, 'cause impressions can be inaccurate. Now that I think back, yes I do remember those TC3s. Yep, you are right, they had totally different bods, based on what I don't know.
It runs great for most part. It's an '86. Just put in new fuel and brake lines. There is a hesitation issue where engine will nearly kill, but not quite, esp when going up a slope in stop & go traffic. It doesn't die, but would scare someone not familiar w/ its idiosyncracies. There are a few others in town...they go forever.
was based on the Plymouth Horizon TC-3/Dodge Omni 0-24, which, in later years, were renamed Plymouth Turismo (I think there was a Turismo Duster as well) and Dodge *cough* Charger. These, in turn, were based on the L-body Omni/Horizon.
I'm not sure what wheelbase the Rampage rode, but Omni-Rizons were on something like a 99.1" wb, and the TC-3/0-24 were on a shorter 96.6" wb. They didn't have any Mitsubishi input, but they did have some VW and Peugeot input! The first models had an enlarged VW SOHC 4-cyl that was 104.7 CID (1.7L?). later models used a smaller 97 CID engine that came from Puegeot, and eventually, they just gave up and made the 2.2 standard across the board. By that time though, the 2-door models may have been dropped.
A guy near me owns a 1993 Mercedes 500E, and I noticed yesterday it was all crunched in the front (fortunately, not on the model-specific flared fenders, just the bumper was pulled out and the lights and grille damaged). Wondering what he got himself into....
Andre added more facts than anyone should have a right to know, but they were the OnmiRizon counterpart to the VW Rabbit PickUp. I remember the Tourismo Duster, and now the jingle is running through my head.
I see a demon relation occasionally. Someone took a gen 1 Voyager, and chopped the roof (behind the seats) off to form a pick up truck. They even fabricated a plywood bulkhead behind to front seats to sorta finish it off. Pretty nasty loking, but unique, and definitely homemade.
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I saw a metallic green Dodge Prospector parked locally; and in a downstairs, well-windowed garage near my work is a mint Chrysler Seville which I'm guessing is around a '59. It may be a DeSoto?
in '59, DeSoto did use the name Seville on some of its Firedome models. It was one of those "Spring Special" models. I'm not sure, but there may have been a few Firesweep Sevilles, as well. IIRC, it was an option only available on 2- and 4-door hardtops.
DeSoto also used the Seville nameplate in 1956, on the Firedome 2- and 4-door hardtops, but that time, it was on a value-line of stripper models that were a rung or two below a regular Firedome.
In '57-58, it was really easy to spot the Firesweeps, versus the "real" DeSotos like the Firedome and Adventurer, as the Firesweeps used Dodge fenders, chrome "browed" headlights, and grilles that jutted out a bit too far. In '59 though, they look much more closely related. The Firesweep is 4" shorter between the front wheel and front door than the bigger DeSotos, but with a car that big, it's still not that obvious!
I saw the old movie "Midnight Run" last night...and although it is from 1988, it had a ton of old St Regis/Gran Fury police cars from the 79-81 body style. It seemed most ended up being crashed.
unfortunately those R-bodies lent themselves really well to doing stunt work, so they were crashed quite often in movies. Since they were really rebodied 70's intermediates, and not "all-new" downsized full-sized cars like their GM and Ford counterparts, they were a lot tougher and harder to destroy.
The suspension components were also supposed to be very easy to upgrade for stunt work, compared to Ford and GM cars. I don't know why, exactly, but have been told this by several different people. Maybe it has something to do with the leaf springs and longitudinal torsion bars?
R-bodies were also popular as police cars during their run, anyway, so maybe there were just more of them around to smash up than police Chevies or Fords from that era? As I recall, the Chevy Impala did so poorly in testing for 1980 that the CHP disqualified it, on the spot!
I remember catching an episode of "The Golden Girls" once, where there was an exterior shot of a police station. It had both an R-body and a '79 Catalina police cruiser parked out in front! I wonder what jurisdiction the picture was taken in? I know they made them, but the only time I've seen a Pontiac police car was in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies. Well, okay, a few years back, our county got some '94 or so Grand Prixes with 3.1's, but those don't count! ;-)
...the NYPD used Catalinas in 1962. The only two other non-Mopar years were 1966 when they use Chevrolet Biscaynes and 1969 when they used Ford Customs. Philadelphia used Chevrolet Impalas in 1978.
by the looks of the tail lights, I think it's a gray market car. two door with a soft top and a massive row bar. wonder how much it costs. The paint job is very very impressive.
'58 Olds Dynamic 88 2door hardtop (phew!). The chrome practically blinded me. No power steering, the guy says. I wondered why he had such big biceps. I was hoping it was a J2 with 3-carbs (wasn't it 3?). I always like to listen to the gasoline flowing into them, like a burbling brook.
I don't think a 2 door G wagen has ever been officially sold in NA, so it was grey market, yeah. There's a 280GE in my area, with the old engine that dates it pre-86. You can get a nice one for under 20 I am sure.
2 Merc G-wagens 2 Alfa (164?) sedans! Ferrari 308 GTS (Tom Selleck wannabe?) Whole nest of Corvairs, both series, Converts., sedans, couple of vans, a wagon. In other rear engined, air cooled mania, a pack of older VW's on the Ryan expressway in Chicago. Two older bugs with cloth sunroofs, a Karmann Ghia convert and an early "beak nosed" microbus.
On the nausea front a Maxima with a pimpy vinyl roof and two minutes later a CTS with the same. Also a first series Seville in Pepto-abysmal pink with collosal gold wires (Ooooooh!), straight from the mothership. Oh, almost forgot, a nasty racerized Sebring convertible.
Sure I'm missing some but those were some highlights. Oh, a 2004 Viper (first I'd seen) and a CTS-V.
are mostly Pontiacs, at least the unmarked cars the detectives ride in. Oddly enough the shows protagonists (Dets Flint & Arcaro) ride around in what appears to be a '62 Catalina 4dr HT (I'd expect cops to use the cheaper B-pillar sedans).
Various episodes of Naked City from '61-'62 are now available on DVD. They are a treasure trove of old car sightings from Volvo 544s to RR Phantom Vs, not to mention great slices of the nitty-gritty side of New York before it became Glitz City.
The car may not be rare, but the color was a first-- I can only describe it as the exact shade of primer grey in a gloss coat. Really stands out on the road...nothing else like it.
Someone on a MB mailing list I subscribe to just found this extremely rare W111 fintail wagon, by Binz in a junkyard. It's been neglected (although pics of the nose and rockers don't make it look too rusty compared to many fintails I have seen), but it only cost the guy $500. It will be restored.
Fintail, were those produced primarily for commercial purposes (like, ambulances)? I'm asking because it appears to have a raised roof like an ambulance would have from that era.
Yes, the basic design was as an ambulance or delivery vehicle, but were also sold to non-commercial buyers. The "Universal" fintail wagon, made a little later, didn't have a raised roof.
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And This thing. I even had my camera with me, and snapped a couple:
A Vega Nomad? What the heck is this?
It's for sale...condition unknown apart from the pics...owner wants $400 for it.
I rather like the style of those little Kammback wagons, pity about the execution.
Was in SW Michigan early this week and saw a few different vehicles. Right off I-196 I saw a whole nest of old VW air cooled pickups including split windsheild models. I also saw a TR-3 in Bangor, MI. There was a Merkur Scorpio by the TR-3 and an XR4Ti a few miles further along, an odd double for the day. Was a day for doubles, saw a yellow VW thing (running!) in Minnesota (and a very dead Edsel) on the way to the airport and saw another Thing, also yellow, in South Haven, MI. There was a tired 240Z in that area also.
Also saw a yellow (big day for yellow) '55 Chevy 4-door wagon in Grand Rapids MI. Looked pretty good. That's the only year of '50's Chevy I really like.
Looks like I will see a bit more of SW Michigan, I was there for a job interview...and I nailed it!
Pretty excited, looks like a good opportunity in every way. There's Gingerman Raceway in SOuth Haven too, may have to watch some events or get the Miata out for a track lap night. :-)
Neat resto-rod. I like these, that look totally stock but have more practical mechanicals
Unusual Isetta, with a bit of demand
Really 70s Jensen Healey. There is a normal coupe one of these in my area, can't recall when I last saw this style
Another one for Shifty
Hmmm price seems a bit steep for the zero info present, and the photo which could be from a book. Fake bidder too, for sure
Peugeot 405 wagon has to be rare
110 fintail wagon, appears to be a Binz body. Super rare, pretty cool, and it will get bids
I wish this was in nicer shape. The velour is indeed extremely rare, and from what I know costs a fortune to replace
If a Universal is too common a fintail variant for you, try a hearse
Not really obscure per se...but this design is aging well...not bad for a 24 year old car
An EMW, which is what the Commies did with the old BMW works at Eisenach. Essentially a 1938 car built in 1955
This car is an unknown entity even at home...has to be a tad rarer in Switzerland. Looks to be in beautiful condition
Pretty and pricey little Alfa sedan
As for those '78-80 LeMans coupes, I always thought those would have been beautiful looking cars if it weren't for that ugly front-end! Looked like a Cutlass with a beak. I liked the way the beltline had a bit of a kick-up at the rear-quarter window, and the integrated, plastic-covered bumpers were ahead of their time, although that plastic would warp and distort with age, and a bump or two! I thought they looked really good in 1981 though, when the front end was slicked back a bit, and looked kind of like a '77-78 Trans Am.
On the subject of the LeMans, did Pontiac use that name in Canda for a few more years than they did in the U.S.? I found this link, to what they call an '83 Grand LeMans...http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/418572
Here in the U.S., that would have been called a Bonneville Brougham. For 1982, in the U.S., Pontiac dropped their big cars, and also ditched the LeMans and Catalina names, affixing the Bonneville moniker to what had been the LeMans sedan and wagon (coupes were dropped).
In Canada though, Pontiac kept a fuller lineup, than the U.S. did. In fact, around '77-79 they were running a Laurentian, Parisienne, Catalina, and Bonneville lineup, all concurrently! I know they kept building big cars up there after they did down here, which was how we got the Parisienne in mid-1983, as interest in big cars started to return in the U.S. I wonder if Canada continued to use "Bonneville", "Catalina", and "Laurentian" for a few more years, too?
I do know there was a rebadged Corsica sold as a Pontiac Tempest.
Also, I think I goofed, as far as Pontiac's lineup in the late 70's. I found a few old brochures online, one from '76 and one from '78. Here's the '76 main page: http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/1976Pontiac/index.html
and the '78: http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/Pontiac/1978/Canada/index.html
Looks like in '76, the lineup ran Laurentian/Catalina/Parisienne Brougham/Bonneville/Bonneville Brougham. Sounds kinda confusing to me, as I'd think the Parisienne Brougham and the Bonneville Brougham would compete too much with each other. Except that the Bonneville could be had with a 455 and the Parisienne couldn't, and the Bonneville 4-door was a hardtop.
In the '78 brochure, it looks like the lineup went Laurentian/Catalina/Parisienne/Parisienne Brougham. So I guess a Canadian Bonneville was considered a rare and special treat?
Also kinda interesting that they felt a need to have two low-line cars...both the Laurentian and the Catalina. I guess it's not too different than with Chevy, which kept the cheap Biscayne and Bel Air around for awhile, even though the Impala was really enough to fill that market, and from '76-85 it did, finally getting replaced by a base Caprice.
I think for a long time Pontiac had a lineup of different model names for Canada, which finally stopped in the late 80s. There was also the Pontiac Acadian, which started out as a Canadian style Nova, also offered as an Acadian Beaumont, which was a Canadian Chevelle, and ended up as the Canadian version of the Pontiac 1000 (?)/Chevette. Kind of a sad end, as the earlier cars were far superior.
What is with domestics killing the brand quality of their model names? It's something very liked by GM and Ford especially. I look at Honda and Toyota...their model names end up with equal or even better positions in the market over time. But the domestics don't do it. Look at Taurus...relegated to the bargain bin. Look what happened to Impala, Fairlane, Galaxie, etc. Stupid brand management IMO, kills long term image.
Today I saw a nice 68-69 Nova, a 58 Ford retractable, and a c.65 T-Bird convert with sequential signals...those are very cool.
re: Jensen-Healey: the 70s sportscar that can't get no respect. Still cheap, still unloved, and really, once you get the engine squared away by modern machining and lubricants, not a bad car. Pretty quick, too. I think it's the styling and the sterling Lotus reputation for reliability (turn on sarcasm detector NOW) that is holding this car back.
re: Rolls -- a chandelier bid if I ever saw one.
re: 110 wagon -- he's nearing retail. the car isn't that sharp.
re: Lloyd---oh, it's a Lloyd ALEXANDER--now that makes all the difference--LOL! Still, kinda cute. I'd bid on it if it were local. I need to round out my Lloyd collection.
Definately a "couldabeen" car. I think you hit the problems Shifty. Particularly the styling as real Loti seem to do alright in spite of their exquisite ownership experience. Of course one wonders what an Elan Sprint would command on the market if they were sturdy and easy to maintain.
Saw a remarkably clean AMC Pacer today, a runner at that, with little or no rust (in Minnesota!).
I realize it is hearasy but I actually do not mind the style of the first ones. Kinda' fresh and cute at the time. The later grill was nasty.
Feel free to toss veggies!
Off to Michigan for a house hunting trip tomorrow, should see something of note.
Also saw 4 BIG people in a little Nissan Platina at a rest stop on I-8. That one had Sonora plates on it...
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I wonder how hard it would be to do a sequential signal conversion.
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Oddly I can't envision what it might have looked like in car form, nor can I resurrect what it may have been called as a U.S. car, so possibly kydfx is correct. Unless it was sold as a Sapporo. Just guessing at this point.
Remember the Omni O24 and the Horizon TC3? They were the sporty versions with completely different bodies. Now that my memory has been jogged, I'm pretty sure this is what the Rampage was based off of.
At first, I was thinking the Arrow, because it was rear-wheel drive. I think the Sapporo would have been much too expensive a car to work from. If I recall, they were in Honda Prelude territory, pricewise.
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I'm not sure what wheelbase the Rampage rode, but Omni-Rizons were on something like a 99.1" wb, and the TC-3/0-24 were on a shorter 96.6" wb. They didn't have any Mitsubishi input, but they did have some VW and Peugeot input! The first models had an enlarged VW SOHC 4-cyl that was 104.7 CID (1.7L?). later models used a smaller 97 CID engine that came from Puegeot, and eventually, they just gave up and made the 2.2 standard across the board. By that time though, the 2-door models may have been dropped.
One should buy it back and fix it themselves, if it is a total.
I see a demon relation occasionally. Someone took a gen 1 Voyager, and chopped the roof (behind the seats) off to form a pick up truck. They even fabricated a plywood bulkhead behind to front seats to sorta finish it off. Pretty nasty loking, but unique, and definitely homemade.
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DeSoto also used the Seville nameplate in 1956, on the Firedome 2- and 4-door hardtops, but that time, it was on a value-line of stripper models that were a rung or two below a regular Firedome.
In '57-58, it was really easy to spot the Firesweeps, versus the "real" DeSotos like the Firedome and Adventurer, as the Firesweeps used Dodge fenders, chrome "browed" headlights, and grilles that jutted out a bit too far. In '59 though, they look much more closely related. The Firesweep is 4" shorter between the front wheel and front door than the bigger DeSotos, but with a car that big, it's still not that obvious!
The suspension components were also supposed to be very easy to upgrade for stunt work, compared to Ford and GM cars. I don't know why, exactly, but have been told this by several different people. Maybe it has something to do with the leaf springs and longitudinal torsion bars?
R-bodies were also popular as police cars during their run, anyway, so maybe there were just more of them around to smash up than police Chevies or Fords from that era? As I recall, the Chevy Impala did so poorly in testing for 1980 that the CHP disqualified it, on the spot!
I remember catching an episode of "The Golden Girls" once, where there was an exterior shot of a police station. It had both an R-body and a '79 Catalina police cruiser parked out in front! I wonder what jurisdiction the picture was taken in? I know they made them, but the only time I've seen a Pontiac police car was in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies. Well, okay, a few years back, our county got some '94 or so Grand Prixes with 3.1's, but those don't count! ;-)
2 Alfa (164?) sedans!
Ferrari 308 GTS (Tom Selleck wannabe?)
Whole nest of Corvairs, both series, Converts., sedans, couple of vans, a wagon.
In other rear engined, air cooled mania, a pack of older VW's on the Ryan expressway in Chicago. Two older bugs with cloth sunroofs, a Karmann Ghia convert and an early "beak nosed" microbus.
On the nausea front a Maxima with a pimpy vinyl roof and two minutes later a CTS with the same. Also a first series Seville in Pepto-abysmal pink with collosal gold wires (Ooooooh!), straight from the mothership. Oh, almost forgot, a nasty racerized Sebring convertible.
Sure I'm missing some but those were some highlights.
Oh, a 2004 Viper (first I'd seen) and a CTS-V.
Various episodes of Naked City from '61-'62 are now available on DVD. They are a treasure trove of old car sightings from Volvo 544s to RR Phantom Vs, not to mention great slices of the nitty-gritty side of New York before it became Glitz City.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Weirdo time again:
Sadly neglected fintail isn't really rare per se, but the strange AC unit in the thing is odd
OLD OLD Hudson that looks like it just came off the assembly line
I can see the "micro" but I can't see the "car"
I posted a Simca like this before. This one is far superior, looks very cool
Dual Ghia
I could see Shifty in this. Appears to have Dutch (?) plates...who knows
But maybe this is better for him
Now this Adenauer is nice
I think this is neat and should be saved
Bond Equipe...strange proportioning
Brits got the Chevette too
Export model Chevy can't be common