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If you're paying 2½ times the price of a Rolls you certainly have serfs to do that wax on wax off.
Somebody turned a '55 Jeep station wagon or panel truck into a damn pretty pickup.
Much nicer than the factory stepsides and stake bodys.
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I like that very much
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Much nicer to look at than the current four-doored-abomination-to-the-eye...
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Easily the ugliest thing on the road right now.
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In January of 1944 a MN farmer managed to buy a new jeep that had been built by Ford but rejected by the military at final inspection. He immediately named it Smiley and proceeded to drive it 170 miles home. A reporter and photographer decided to ride along for the story... in a military Jeep... with no doors, windows, roof, actually just a windshield between them and MN in January. The thing that got me is children (probably adults too) had heard of a Jeep but never seen one in person. Duh, Jeep didn’t exist before 1941 and weren’t in civilian hands until after the war... I just hadn't thought about it.
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cool story!
1 -- a 65 degree incline? not without a f*ckin rollbar thank you very much.
2 -- why was Smiley graded "I. C."?
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Nice ride!
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They never said why it failed, by the end of '43 they were cranking out jeeps so fast if there's a problem it was probably not worth fixing as there's a steady stream right behind it... several streams at several plants.
Now Griffins were fancier...
But some things shouldn't be allowed to exist...
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This is a real bargain, some seat covers and wide whitewalls, would make this a driver and mobile den of iniquity.
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I think it says it comes with a driver, just not how much of the price is based on that.
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I think he said it is a driver. It's cheap for an 81 year old car that hasn't been bent or rotted out.
Ronnie Rayguns baby brother...
A CA pileup of the same series which about ended it.
They were running out of Model Ts.
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Tiger Woods was driving a Genesis G80 for his crash,
A what? you say.
A fancy Hyundai that I had to look up.
Now there is a fight over its "black boxes."
But what I wanted to ask is what you think of its logo. Look familiar?
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Or take the Limo...
If that's too spendy take the Chevy...
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The title when I found it was, corvettecorvairGMcalendar. I don't think is was more than an artists rendering.
It says Chevrolet on the front fender, but I can't make out what it says across the back.
Sure is pretty though, I can't help wondering if it was a Corvair proposal, rear engined with corvette-ish styling.
I don't think GM would have allowed that, anymore than building anything with a bigger motor or faster than the Corvette.
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Ralph Nader would love it...
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You don't suppose Smokey did any rule bending do you...
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Now that $12,500 in 1965 is $104,371 today, but that car is worth millions.
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How much would that Cobra go for today?
$12,500 in 1965, $5.5 million in 2002, $5.1 million in 2015, and last week it went for $5.5 million.
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You could have this pick-up for $9,000, but you have to go live in China...
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I wonder if I can "Grey Market" that truck?
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I would like to see it side by side with a typical US pickup. I wonder if I could fit in it at 6'2" tall? It looks big in the pictures above, but I think they are using one of those real estate cameras.
I was checking out other offerings by the same company in China and they are tiny.