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That’s a good question, actually: I really love the graceful powerslides a well driven RWD rally car is capable of, but thinking of what followed I must admit I prefer the Group B-era of power and traction o […]

I am pretty sure the original straight six did not possess the potential to be stretched out to that capacity, @niels-v. As you might know there were some issues even when it was enlarged to 2.5 liters and it […]

You have better taste in wheels and wine today, @anders …

@zack, I absolutely share your interest in the custom van movement of the seventies. But somehow – in the same way that you you can’t quite avoid looking at extremely obese people with some strange sort of […]

@tony, :-)!

In fact the only real and proper reason I can see for Anders changing his Scimitar GTE is that is seems strange that two editors have one and the third doesn’t. We should all have one – or only I s […]

Agreed it’s cooler,
@anders , agreed. But it has no rear hatch nor a large load area, and that’s what I feel makes the Scimitar VERY practical. But if course if that aspect is covered by another vehicle it doe […]

For some reason I sometimes confuse myself whether the Bitter is steel bodied or glassfibre – but it IS steel and therefore no better a winter candidate that the Opel Monza / Senator which supplied the driveline […]

From the headline I actually thought it was called a Subaru Scarcity, which would have been some name.

Instead I learned by clicking the link that even the seller himself calls the car a project. At that point […]

Three, @anders and @yrhmblst!

Absolutely agree that there are great cars to be found from that period: I especially like the car in the closing photo, the 800 Coupé. I am slighly biased here, having enjoyed it’s sister car, the brilliant […]

Stop me, @anders!

If you should stay with “Sci” – maybe a VW Scirocco Mk2? They’ll probably come pre-rusted too, so you should be too worried about that :-)

Fab car your old Trueno, @anders – but you’re right, brown beats white hands down! And now you’ve explained about the colour differences it sounds even better: It seems so unlikely that it could be original paint. […]

I did however, @banpei, wonder whether the car has been repainted as the colour under the bonnet as it is of different tone of brown metallic – or whether this was factory specification?

I don’t quite agree with your comment “The car seems to hold little appeal to the collector market either” , @dave: It did generate huge interest up to the sale, even managing to attract a headliner here on […]

Ohh. Ohh, ooh. THAT much loveliness just there for the taking. And in brown. Several tones of it inside and out. Perfection that would make any owner proud at the next classic car show.

And I agree with the […]