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choose your eternity

Project Car Hell: Dangel Peugeot Wagon or V8 Datsun Fairlady?

Wouldn't you know it, the 60s BMW coupe beat the 80s one in our last Choose Your Eternity poll. Sure, the 633CSi is more complicated, but you might be able to find a parts car or three in your local wrecking yard... and where's the Hell there? Today we're going to return to the perennial France-versus-the-world battle for the All Time Global Project Car Hell JiggaChampion Trophy (which leaks rusty water and has to be jump-started), and- just because we love an underdog- we're going to let Japan take on the mightiest of PCH Superpowers!
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5:20 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,675 views, 49 comments

Latest by n/a: France does win! more »

down on the street

1969 Datsun Fairlady

All right, this car wasn't sold as a Fairlady in the US (where it was the Sports 1600) but the home-country-market name is so much more fun than the export one, so I'm using it here. The Volvo Amazon is another example of a car where the home-market name is better than what we got, and the list goes on. Whatever you call it, what we have here is sort of a proto-Miata, a Japanese attempt to make a small British sports car that didn't break every few minutes. More »

9:00 AM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Murilee Martin
2,620 views, 22 comments

Latest by n/a: @R-GTI: Klever them Japs, those carbs were Hitachi's SU-clones. In '72,I bought a '67 1600 for $750, I was too chicken/cheap to buy an Alfa Spider like my buddy Scott had. When I test drove it I didn't know how more »

retro

CRISP LOOK! The Nissan Silvia!

While American youngsters tend to think of the Nissan Silvia as a 180SX-type drift car, if they think of it at all, there was an era, long, long ago — when their fathers were slogging it out in the jungles of the nation formerly known as Indochina — that the Silvia was actually a limited-run Fairlady Roadster-based coupe. However, the corporate masters in Nihon feared that interior-wise, the Silvia was simply too cramped for the typical American frame, so although there were a few LHD examples, they were never exported to our shores. Pity. A few of us would have a torsoectomy to drive such a fine-looking automobile. – Davey G. Johnson More »

1:30 AM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
719 views, 11 comments

Latest by Jonny Lieberman: I also see a little bit o'BMW 633 more »