Mystery Car
Mystery Car

The Porsche With a 1,200 Horsepower, Mid-Mounted Mercedes-Benz Engine?

The Porsche With a 1,200 Horsepower, Mid-Mounted Mercedes-Benz Engine?

Mystery Car

You say you know your Porsche history? Vintage European vehicle spotter supreme Kim of Copenhagen has a tough one for you! Name the Porsche that came with a 1,200-horse Mercedes-Benz engine right from the factory?

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Crime

Identify This Mystery Getaway Car, Help Bust Package-Swipin' Miscreant!

Identify This Mystery Getaway Car, Help Bust Package-Swipin' Miscreant!

Crime

After getting ripped off in the past, a Ballard, Washington, resident installed a motion-activated camera on the front porch… and caught a woman stealing packages. The getaway car's reflection can be seen in a window. Mazda 323? Toyota Tercel?

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Down On The Street Bonus Edition

Mystery Nightmare Car Plus Bonus NHRA Pace Car Firebird Down On The…

Mystery Nightmare Car Plus Bonus NHRA Pace Car Firebird Down On The…

Down On The Street Bonus Edition

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we see interesting street-parked cars in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Dominick was car shopping in Malaga when he found these two.

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Down On The Street Bonus Edition

San Francisco, 1973: How Many Cars In This Photo Can You Identify?

San Francisco, 1973: How Many Cars In This Photo Can You Identify?

Down On The Street Bonus Edition
Because I've become obsessed with finding at least one semi-focused shot of the pair of Fiat 128s my parents bought in the early 1970s (when the 128 was the cheapest new four-door sold in America), I've been spending a lot of time digging through boxes of hopelessly jumbled family photos. No Fiat photos yet, but I did Read…
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Ennui Countermeasure

Identify These Parts, Win More Little Tree Schwag!

Identify These Parts, Win More Little Tree Schwag!

Ennui Countermeasure

MysteryCar6.jpg Our last Mystery Car/Little Tree Schwag contest had a winner in the first .006 seconds, in spite of only 337 examples of the Toyota 2000GT ever being manufactured. Oh yes, our readers know their cars, no doubt about it. But how about car innards? How about taking a shot at identifying a car using a blurry photograph…

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Ennui Countermeasure

Identify This Mystery Car, Now With Fresh-Smelling Prize Potential!

Identify This Mystery Car, Now With Fresh-Smelling Prize Potential!

Ennui Countermeasure

MysteryCar5.jpg It took a couple long, agonizing days for our loyal readers to identify our last Mystery Car, a '54 Fiat 8V, so this time we're going with something a little less cruel; someone is going to start yelling "Ooh! Ooh!" and jumping up and down pretty soon after seeing this very distinctive component... we think. Better move …

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Pebble Beach Concours

What Was That Mystery Car? 1954 Fiat 8V

What Was That Mystery Car? 1954 Fiat 8V

Pebble Beach Concours

Fiat8V_Rr_LH_Qtr_478.jpg We finally had a Mystery Car contest that lasted more than a few hours, with pauln correctly identifying the car as a 1954 Fiat 8V coupe. As promised, here are the photos of the whole car. See, it's actually in pretty good shape, despite the somewhat battered hood scoop.

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