Car Wants (maybe once, but now just anything Jim can find on the internet. 🙄)

Fun pub quiz fact; the first collaboration between the two companies was the Chrysler Norseman;

As beginnings go, it could have gone better. The completed car was needed in a hurry for a motor show in the US so it was added to the cargo manifest of a liner rather than a slower cargo ship. Unfortunately, that ship was the Andrea Doria.

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Looks like the boys in Detroit liked that rear end . . .

1967 Plymouth Barracuda.
Another bit of trivia, the Barracuda is the car the Ghia was based on. The earliest 450SS’ sold included a Barracuda owners manual with the non pertinent pages crossed out with pencil.

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:warning: CAUTION! :warning:

This post contains images that will make you puke:

:nauseated_face::face_vomiting:

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Not my cup of tea, but at least it’s well done.

What hearing “body kit” usually brings to my mind . . .

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Body kits are usually fucking awful, and £20K on a £3K shopping trolley is just retarded - but wannabes made-up to look like something they are not are fucking TRAGIC!

MR2s got-up as 355s are pretty common - or were: probably/hopefully rotted-away by now.

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“Published by: Brian Potter”

Did he run Phoenix Nights?

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This side of the pond it was Pontiac Fieros done up as 308s . . .

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Wasn’t a body kit you could purchase. They were sold (without GMs approval) through some Pontiac dealers. Customer had to purchase a brand new Fiero, and a company called Corporate Concepts did the conversion.
Perversely, they are now considered collectible due to scarcity (Ferrari sued Corporate Concepts, production was stopped and the moulds were destroyed).
Sound was a dead giveaway :rofl:

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Gawd 'elp me I actually preferred the looks of Fiero! :laughing:

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Shit ! You and me ? We’re the same :pleading_face:

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ImOKwiththis

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LOL the Emira is pushing £90k, suddenly?

Just buy an Alpine.

Beauty is in the eye etc., but that is one ugly mutha.

It’s kind of grown on me.

The one realistic, sidegrade, rather than upgrade, I guess, that I’ve been thinking about is an Alfa 4c.

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Saw one in town the other day and had the insta lust :heart_eyes:

The best thing about owning an Alpine is that you don’t have to see the back of it.

Vroom vroom, parp parp.

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8C is where it’s at… This is a fucking beautiful machine… :heart_eyes::star_struck::heart_eyes::star_struck::heart_eyes::star_struck:

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I know, I know. The above might not be exclusive enough for some fellow Meatmen. Here’s a solution:

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Well, yes, except the 4C I can actually afford, unlike that.

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