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PCH, Red, White, And Blue Flames Edition: Austin America Or Rambler American?

For the first time, a single car part beat an entire car in a Project Car Hell matchup, according to the results of our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're going to celebrate the Fourth of July, but not by getting all liquored up and firing large-caliber handguns into the sky. No, we're going to celebrate our freedoms by sentencing ourselves to years of thankless labor in the garage, on vehicles so patriotic that they're literally named after America.
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5:20 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,357 views, 50 comments

Latest by n/a: Nice to believe that us Brits had any imagination back then. Over here, these cars were inventively called the Austin 1100 and 1300. We even had a 1300GT but that may have been pushing the concept of grand touring a more »

found on ebay

How To Sell Your Morris Minor Hell Project

We can just hear the conversation that took place prior to shooting these photos:

"Look, just sit on the hood and look sexy- this thing's as good as sold, baby! We'll be able to buy something that runs every day!"
"But... the hood is all icky! And why is there smoke pouring out from under the dash?"

Doing the pinup thing in a desert setting, maybe throw a little sepia on some of the shots- hey, the car is getting bids, so there's no arguing with success! Some of the shots may be mildly NSFW (if you work in an extremely prudish office). [eBay Motors]

8:00 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Murilee Martin
5,802 views, 65 comments

Latest by n/a: Just speculating, but I'm thinking that she possibly made a deal with the owners (probably brothers and cousins) to pose for these pictures for the off-chance that they'll release her. more »

classic ad watch

Patrick Mower Has The Antidote To British Malaise: Value For Money!

After yet another shuffling of gut-shot British Leyland brands produced the Austin Rover Group, the ARG marketers decided to get serious about moving some iron off the lots. No more Triumph TR7s or MGBs- now they'd have television actor Patrick Mower pitching the Morris Ital, Rover SD1, Mini Mayfair, and other early-80s British Machinery offering Value For Money, otherwise known by the awe-inspiring acronym VFM.

12:00 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Murilee Martin
864 views, 13 comments

project car hell poster child

Does Xerxes5's MGC-GT Put Him In The Pantheon Of PCH Poster Children?


Back in February, Mad_Science failed to attain the dubious honor of Project Car Hell Poster Child, because the voters felt his 1967 Ford Country Sedan was insufficiently hellish. Today I'm putting up Xerxes5 for PCHPC status, even though that's not what he had in mind when he emailed me in the first place (when I mentioned in the Rue Brittania Edition PCH that I was considering an MGC for my personal Hell Project, he emailed me about his '69 MGB-GT). [xerxes5]

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4:00 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,110 views, 52 comments

Latest by Mark F.: @Well, I wouldn't say "hermetically sealed chamber" The car...: more »

choose your eternity

PCH, Mysterious But Cheap Edition: 1919 Dodge or 1948 Morris?


The Itchy Fiberglass Hell that is the '57 Devin managed to beat out the Dodgy Deal Hell of the Hemi Bantam in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll. Of course, we all want basket-case old race car projects against which to dash our hopes and empty our bank accounts, but there's a lot to be said for cheap projects that you can't even identify in their ads. See, there's the "how bad can it be?" lure that suckers you in when the gatekeeper to Hell only charges you a few hundred bucks... but those few hundred bucks are like the few hundred "advisers" Eisenhower sent into French Indochina. Thanks to Jonee (who already has a PCH Tipster T-shirt) for sending the tips on these fine automobiles!
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5:15 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,522 views, 39 comments

Latest by n/a: [static.diary.ru] RUST! more »

down on the street

Morris Minor 1000 Convertible

We've seen a few British cars in this series, including a'59 Morris Minor, a '62 Mini, a '69 MGC-GT, and a '78 Jaguar XJ-6, but it's been months since the last one. That's why I'm going with this very clean Morris 1000 convertible for today's DOTS machine. You British-car experts should feel free to put on your anoraks and make with the exact year identification on this thing, because I can't narrow it down any closer than the 1956-62 range.
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9:00 AM on Thu Jan 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,017 views, 34 comments

Latest by whatwouldjessedo: I think those are Rover Sportpack wheels, from a '90s Mini, not Minilites. That's just some car nerd talk though. They do look great on that car, and were probably a bargain. The copper Plymouth across the street from this Morris more »

choose your eternity

PCH, British One-Two Punch Edition: Travellers or MGB-GTs?

Well, we can all go ahead and change our names to Ettore now, because the 'Bugatti' triumphed over the 'MG TD' in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll by a pretty healthy margin. Perhaps the faux MG wasn't really British enough, what with its German underpinnings (and the Fauxgatti, lacking any underpinnings, was undeniably the more hellish of the two choices). Still, the phony MG TD reminded us that there's just no Project Car Hell quite like British Project Car Hell; as William Gibson puts it in Pattern Recognition, you're dealing with the Mirror World when you start tearing up your knuckles on a car from the UK. A Mirror World in which electrons ignore the laws of physics and prefer insulators to conductors, every component containing iron manages to find a source of pure superheated oxygen for more rapid oxidation, and you develop an inexplicable craving for mushy peas after tearing all the skin from your knuckles out in the garage.
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5:30 PM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,752 views, 40 comments

Latest by FЯeeMan: It's a dead heat - 128 to 128. I don't have enough skin on my knuckles to break the tie. more »

commenter of the day

Commenter of the Day: Hell Edition

That saucy tomato Murilee tends to run her his Project Car Hell so late in the day that the comments are never around to be considered for COTD status. We find that a shame since some of the best comments tend to come from the minds of people trying to pick between a Fuego and a Bitiurbo. However, we found a loophole! More »

6:45 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
757 views, 10 comments

choose your eternity

PCH, Aussie Edition: Humber Hawk or Morris Major?

It's been a while since we last took a look at the Hell Projects available outside of the United States, but Project Car Hell is something we all have in common. Yes, whether you're beating your skull against a ZAZ in Mongolia or a Simca in Monrovia, you know the agony of having this seriously cool car that you can't possibly get working! And now that we've indulged our love for gratuitous italicization, let's take a look at some wonderful cars down Australia way, suggested by Aussie tipster and hellmobile connoisseur BillStewartX. We're working on cooking up some sort of prize for PCH tipsters whose stuff we actually use, so keep 'em coming!
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5:30 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,558 views, 23 comments

Latest by earlofhalflight: Humber for sure. Much classier and it shares its engine with the Sunbeam rally cars of Messrs Moss, Hawthorn, Collins, et al. more »

retro

The Morris Minor Family Tree

After photographing the '59 Morris Minor for the Down On The Street series, I became curious about the history of the Minor family of cars; we don't see many of them here in North America, but they seem to occupy a place in Britain's heart akin to the Dodge Dart's over here. Fortunately, the Morris Minor Owner's Club has a handy family tree diagram that will sort it all out for you. Yes, it all started with a side-valve 918cc engine! [MMOC.org]

1:30 PM on Tue Oct 9 2007
By Murilee Martin
2,197 views, 16 comments

Latest by brandegee: @billstewartx: A: The Minors turned to dust instantly in a corrosion-friendly environment. B: The VWs had torque. The Minor had none. more »

down on the street

Morris 850

Here's another one of those cars that makes it a real challenge to pinpoint an exact model year. The license plate is a '65 or '66 issue, but the Mini was only sold as a "Morris 850" in the US until 1962. This means it's either a 1959-62 model that was first registered in California in the mid-60s, or it's a Frankensteined Mini assembled from 27 other cars... in which case the whole question becomes sort of a meaningless angels-on-head-of-pin debate, anyway. What we do know is that ass is kicked in copious quantities by this little English machine. More »

9:30 AM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Murilee Martin
4,302 views, 34 comments

Latest by NoneMoreBlack: test [farm2.static.flickr.com] more »

1959 Morris Minor 1000
We can all respect the guy who drives a beater '73 Caprice Estate wagon, but how about a man who depends on a 1959 Morris Minor 1000 to carry him to work each day?

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retro

Get a Rotary Morris Minor, You Wankel!

Tiny British saloons with V8s and flashy paint jobs are lots of fun, but you've seen one, you've seen 'em all; ownership generally means weekends at local car shows and the occasional overheating drive around town. This car- currently up for sale on eBay- is an interesting variation on the theme: a '59 Morris Minor 1000 with a built Mazda B12 rotary under the hood, some custom chassis fabrication, and plenty of well-executed-yet-restrained body/paint work. The whole package looks pretty good and ought to be quite streetworthy (plus the seller gets some bonus points for the unusually coherent description). The auction ends tonight. – Murilee Martin More »

11:10 AM on Tue Mar 27 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,291 views, 2 comments

Latest by Turboner: Either that or they say, "Modern" on the center cap! more »