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    PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
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    Image of LuciferV8 LuciferV8
    01/06/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    Waffle-borghini all the way!
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    01/06/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    Don't let Dan Brown pull the wool over your eyes: "Belgium" isn't a real place at all, it's just a very bad curse word.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    01/06/09

    @discontinuuity: For the semi-obscure Douglas Adams reference, I "heart" you.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    Crack pipe either way.


    The Siata, though, is worthwhile hell - well, it would be, if you could find an English-speaking parts dealer. Or any parts dealer at all, for that matter.


    VW with a plywood body? Easy. Even if they want 900E too much for it.

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    Image of Jim-Bob Jim-Bob
    01/05/09

    @FuzzyPlushroom: Mechanicals are easy to find in the US. It's the body that would be tough.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/05/09

    @Jim-Bob: It's a 40-year-old Italian body, it's got to be made of compressed iron oxide.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    I thought the Sciatica was painful to look at--what is that, a frigging firetruck front clip on an MG?--but the yellow thingie isn't even a car. No way it got 20,000 FEET on it, never mind kilometers. 20 kilos maybe.


    The condition is "gebruikt"--which means, roughly, "clumsily built of wrong ruined trash by a perceptually impaired lunatic whose reach exceeded his grasp--of automobiles, style, design, fabrication, aerodynamics and common sense."

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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    The real fake car beats the fake fake car. Even though I don't want either one.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    wow.


    I mean.

    Just.


    Wow.


    There is NO PCH here because neither car is interesting enough to warrant ANYONE buying it in the first place.

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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    I'm not voting for either one. If I had the money to waste I'd buy the "lambo" just so I could burn it
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    I was thinking that if I could get used to the looks of am AMC, I could deal with the looks of the Fauxborghini. Then I clicked on the rear 3/4 view in the ad. Fortunately my chair is on wheels, and I pushed back fast enough that my lunch went on the floor instead of my keyboard.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/05/09

    @Mike the Dog: There is NOTHING wrong with the looks of an AMC!


    Sigh. Okay, yeah, there is.

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    Image of wafflechocolatbeer wafflechocolatbeer
    01/06/09

    @Mike the Dog: why Mike,i thought you hadn't read my NY's automotive resolution. so i went back and turned out you did :-)
    Did i miss a clickbox somewhere,or how can i get notified if someone replies on a comment?
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    01/06/09

    @wafflechocolatbeer: Nope, you have to go back and look. This is most easily accomplished from your profile page, where your comments are listed.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    01/06/09

    @wafflechocolatbeer: BTW, when do we get to see pics of the Javelin?
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    Image of wafflechocolatbeer wafflechocolatbeer
    01/06/09

    @Mike the Dog:
    do you read minds ,or what?
    i was just about to post a link...
    here's the site from the dutch javelin-friend-thingie ( not really a club)
    [www.amcjavelin.nl]
    go to pictures & movies/AMC owners,then scroll down to 'foreign Javelin owners'
    it's the red body /white top.
    in the background you can see my beater 1988 Suzuki Swift..


    this is my FB javelin album :
    [www.facebook.com]


    btw,i just plowed myself thru your Flickr carpix collection.
    I'm all out of drool :-))

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    01/06/09

    @wafflechocolatbeer: Wow, that's NICE. I've always loved the look of the later Javelins. When I was a kid I always thought the many Camaros and Mustangs and Firebirds around my small town were okay, but the purple Javelin down the street was the coolest car around.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    I'll take the Lambo. So do all pre-schools in Belgium offer auto shop classes and get to build their own cars?


    Surely no one over the age of 6 thought that this car was a good idea.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    It appears to be a particle-board and duct-tape interpretation of a Countach, no doubt built in a Belgian prison from smuggled-in components and based entirely on a verbal description of the original car.


    There is nothing I can say that will trump this description. I can only hope that when the Belgian Ministry of Crime, Punishment and Anti-French Sentiment saw the results of that prisoner's labour, that they added another 25 years to his sentence, sending him back to work until he fixed the mess he'd made.

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    01/05/09

    @Deartháir: a Cruder, Fart-Joke Version of graverobber: Yes, but eventually he will get in a fight with Paul L. Smith and will accidentally knock him against a coat hook on the wall which sticks into his head, makes his eyes go all crossways and killing him.


    Then he takes his uniform and walks out of the prison.


    Later he manages to sneak across the border into France where he catches a steamer to China where he makes a fortune designing faux iPhones and BMW sport utes.

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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    01/05/09

    @graverobber: An older, drunker, less Canadian version of De...: As he is on the Dutch side of Belgium he will leave on a steamer in Antwerpen or Rotterdam. Yes there are still Chinese companies that see this Lambo as an improvement.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    Murilee, PCH should be about interesting cars, this is more like two crackpipes at one time. SKIP, next.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    Whether you can read French or not, "pas de papier" is perfect PCH material.


    Siata may no longer exist, but nor will Belgium in ten years or so:

    [www.iht.com]

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    Although I love how the psuedo Lambo is the yin to the Imhoff car's yang, it would appear it has VW bits vs. Fiat bits for the Siata. So, Siata it is.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    A Siata Spring is more likely a Siberian Winter of ownership agony, but WTF is up with that Yellow thing? Was it built by a blind guy, based on a description from a another blind guy who once accidentally ran his hands over a Lambo in hopes of groping the potentially Adrienne Barbeau-esque driver after hearing Cannonball Run on TV one late night?


    Jebus H Crackers, that thing's like out of that execrable movie Hostel: You must kill someone, and then drive this car in public, that is the contract. Hey man, I already used the floor sander to eviscerate the Coed, but I didn't sign up for that, not the car, no . . .NO!


    Boy, and thanks Murilee; "Go Here if the ad disappears." We should be so lucky. I'm hoping Anthony will wish it into the corn field.


    That thing'll never run, the soul of the donor VW will be too ashamed.

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    01/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Crypto-Italian Kit Cars Edition: Siata Spring or Belgian Backyard Lamborghini?
    huntington beach hmmmmm..
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