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Classic Cars I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today!
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...the first of the four-door Land Cruisers (pre-91), other than 'ugly'? I saw TWO of them within three minutes early this morning on the way home from work. Hopefully this will be among the last post(s) on these, but I can attest to the existence of both diesel Escorts (a friend in HS and my grandpa had one, AND a diesel Chevette) and diesel Tempos, I've seen plenty. |
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Replying to: jrosasmc (Feb 15, 2005 2:23 pm) They're famous all over the world for their ruggedness and their offroad capability, they're the real deal. |
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Don't forget the AWD Tempos!!! LOL! I saw one of those xA 1.0 today. Even tho it's new, they're only making 2K of them, or less, so is obscure.  Looked better than the original model.
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| FJ40s are very macho---simple, rugged...it's cowboy coffee rather than a Starbuck's latte. | |
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A buddy of mine used off-road an old 'cruiser and chuckle about all the times he pulled big V8 SUV's out of holes. It was quite a truck. Came out in '48 didn't it? |
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Across the street from my place, at a small private repair shop, is a 1975 Buick LeSabre convertible. The car is pale yellow, with the Buick mag-style wheels. It has a nasty dent in the passenger side rear fender. Coming home from work I saw a 1976-77 AMC Matador sedan, in very good shape (green, with a black vinyl roof), pulling into a local gas station. It was driven by a young lady. Boy, were those final Matadors UGLY... |
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I recall reading that AMC sold the Matador in some spanish speaking countries where (so they said) "matador" translates as "killer". Cool name for a car, no? WVK |
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| Older model with the big "Jeep" logo on the tailgate. I didn't see any Gladiator nameplate on the sides. Must have been from the 70s, nice two-tone dark red (probably a respray). Chrome vertical bar grille with two round headlights. Still had the very unaerodynamic lip over the windshield that was smoothed off in later years. | |
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a '76 model. I think it was called "Honcho" by that time. Even though they tried to make it look more modern for the 70's, and it did have a good looking, rugged look to it IMO, if you looked behind the grille you could still see the old cutout for the slimmer grille, with the widely spaced headlights and turn signal/parking lights, that looked vaguely like a crib from Jaguar. I think my uncle paid about $600 for his. It was 4wd and had an AMC 360 mated to a 4-speed manual. The bed on it rusted out so badly that he just pulled it off and built a new one out of wood! The cab and front-end clip weren't too bad though, except for some rust around the holes where somebody had put trailer mirrors on it at one time. My uncle ended up selling it to one of his buddies down in Appalachia a few years after he bought it, and I think that guy still uses it to go hunting and such. |
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