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I think we're overdue for a thread to post or discuss the wonderful oddities and tragedies from Bring A Trailer .




What are you watching?
What can you reasonably afford?
What are you bidding on?
 
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Thing finally made it home to FL! Over the weekend my dad picked up an NOS bumper exit exhaust to clean up the rear a bit. I'm super jealous and can't wait to drive it on my next visit! Trying to find him a factory Brazil 1600 dual port dual carb setup and some 15x5.5 356 wheels, but otherwise he plans to keep it stock and drive it.
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Thing finally made it home to FL! Over the weekend my dad picked up an NOS bumper exit exhaust to clean up the rear a bit. I'm super jealous and can't wait to drive it on my next visit! Trying to find him a factory Brazil 1600 dual port dual carb setup and some 15x5.5 356 wheels, but otherwise he plans to keep it stock and drive it.
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Love it! And I love that you're putting the correct exhaust on it. :)

On two separate occasions I drove my brother's white Thing and took a few people for a ride. Mom got a kick out of it. :)

Both days I had a friend say "let's put the windshield down!" Of course we didn't have any eye gear, so we got about a half block and were going "Aaaaaah! Stop this! Let's put the windshield up!" The second time was another friend so I told him "you're not going to like it!" He said "aw, c'mon. Let's do it." Needless to say it was a repeat performance, but at least I had some big sunglasses that time!
 
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I love the pic with the seagull!



The R32 was off my radar for a long time because I'm not the biggest fan of AWD hot hatches and thought that they were a little too porky as well.



Although apparently you can diet them down to a figure more better...




R32 is definitely and undeniably a trueblue modern classic,
although finding a good one might require deep pockets.

 
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Heading straight out to buy Lottery tickets after work.





 
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BaT has a '91 BMW M5, mileage is getting up there, but the seller has owned it for twenty years:


 
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It's not the SH trim, but BaT has a 2001 Honda Prelude 5-speed with only 15K miles on the clock, no zeros missing:


You don't want the SH anyway. Proprietary knuckles, super one off drivetrain. W/modern tires I don't think the ~160lb-ft of torque is an issue. Very clean though I must say the Prelude gen to have is the one before it...... particularly with the H22
 
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God I love these cars for some reason.

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I do too.

My biggest regret is not getting one back when they were undervalued and easily obtainable.

Came close on several occasions but never pulled the trigger which turned out to be a sad fate.

One of the most memorable test drives I've ever had was with Paul Spruell's son where I was looking at a '74, such fun and he was egging me on to thrash it harder, was cheap at like $5,700 but had a horrible respray in an ugly color so I passed.

Another shop in town that I always drove by was Auto Delta on Clairmont Rd. --- one day noticed a '67 GTV Jr. for sale there, it was owned by one of the mechanics and talked to me about it but I didn't get to drive it, a beautiful white stepnose example in wonderful condition --- although the asking price was reasonable at $6,500 it was beyond my means at the time.

On a happenstance backroad drive to a relatives house I noticed a derelict '69 1750 GTV sitting at on old closed down gas station that had been converted to a small shop, stopped and talked with the owner and inspected the car, it was a basketcase that would have required reassembly but all the parts were there including those unique one-year-only "flying buttress" seats, it was a bit rusty and had a very sloppy install of GTA flares --- but it could have been mine for $1,500! I'm still kicking myself for not getting it, d'oh!



I went to AROC convention in '95 and as well as looking at all the cars I browsed the marketplace, one guy was a bookseller who had many magazines/books related to Alfa and happened to have a title I could not resist buying:
Alleggerita by Tony Adriaensens which had been released one year prior --- it cost me $100 and the friend that I had brung along thought I was nuts for paying so much for a book! Well, it is a damn glorious book! Much much later noticed that the prices fetched online were quite high so I ended up selling my copy for $650 --- at peak the values were astronomical:


But,
after a deluxe reprint is now available they've settled back down:

 
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Honestly, as a single occupant commuter, I'd love to find a clean SC300/400 instead.
 
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I still think those are beautiful but trying to find one is harder than a hen's tooth.
 
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A tale of two Fords...

On the one hand we have this 1983 Mercury Lynx:



No Reserve: 1983 Mercury Lynx LS 5-Speed

How one of these survived is beyond me and I hope it ends up in some sort of 80's car museum. My dad had one of these, but a stripper with a 4 speed manual, which I got when I turned 16. Wasn't much to drive, but at least it was a stick.

On the other hand we have this RS 200! :whistle:



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I don't know what to say other than... ummmm... WOW! I can't imagine what this would be like to drive on a twisty gravel road... and neither will anyone else as it'll never be driven. ;)
 
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:love:


1987 BMW 535is 5-Speed





 
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I hear if you say “gentleman’s m3” 3 times the admin of zhp mafia appears at your house and installs an M badge on your trunk. If you leave some 5w30 liquimoly out for him he will even clean your alcantara steering wheel.
 
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Let me tell you a story about why I want another Mercury Lynx.

This has long ago expired, but something like this is what I have my eye on for a cheap, fun little Radwood-style ride.


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I know what you're thinking. Why?

I won't even try to convince you that the first gen Escort and Lynx was a good car. They were barely decent in their day, they were treated as disposable cars, and now very few survive.

My very first car was a two tone blue 1982 Mercury Lynx L....about as basic as it got. I have always wanted one of the performance versions, but never got around to owning one. I can't point to a solid reason WHY I want one...the closest I come is that it was my first car and I still love the way they look.

So in 1984 and 1985, Ford offered the Escort GT and Lynx RS in N/A and Turbo variants, and the Turbo models were actually quite potent, being a product of SVO. They put down 120 hp, and in these cars, that's a lot. SVO later became SVT, and they were also responsible for some of Ford's best performance cars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Anyway, the 1984 and 85 Turbo models are STUPID rare....they are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the models produced for that year. And I want one. Bad. I'd take any Turbo Escort or Lynx, but I especially want a Lynx RS Turbo...and I doubt more than a handful were produced. In fact, I can't find a pic of one in the wild...only this press photo exists of an actual Lynx RS Turbo:

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I have hope though. A friend of mine in the Escort groups just stumbled into this. It is a 1985 Escort GT Turbo in an unobtanium color, with (get this) 19K verified miles. It was bought new, and it blew a headgasket just out of warranty and was parked in a building and forgotten about. Fast forward 30 years and my friend found it and bought it.

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I have hope I can get an Escort GT Turbo or Lynx RS Turbo someday.....we will have to see.
 
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I have hope though. A friend of mine in the Escort groups just stumbled into this. It is a 1985 Escort GT Turbo in an unobtanium color, with (get this) 19K verified miles. It was bought new, and it blew a headgasket just out of warranty and was parked in a building and forgotten about. Fast forward 30 years and my friend found it and bought it.

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I have hope I can get an Escort GT Turbo or Lynx RS Turbo someday.....we will have to see.
Your friend seems to have a few escorts sitting around.
 
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BaT has a 405 HP SUV in three pedal form: A 2009 Porsche Cayenne GTS in cherry, arrest me red, with only 55K miles on the clock:


 
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These Evo's look so good. The look of this one is perfect. Slightly lowered, no body kit, excellent wheel/tire sizing.


No Reserve: Modified 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII
 
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These Evo's look so good. The look of this one is perfect. Slightly lowered, no body kit, excellent wheel/tire sizing.


No Reserve: Modified 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII
Yeah that's really sharp. I'd probably not keep the wing, I know it's part of the car's image but I could live without it.
 
#8,256 ·
Has this already been posted? If so, sorry. I think it's super rad.



1978 Saab 99 EMS Rally Tribute


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1983 Audi Ur-Quattro

Man I love this car. Perfect color too.


 
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