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more about #1958 more comments → jaymcminn: I want to comment on Mr.Thwaite's brilliant essay, but I find myself captivated by that widebody Yugo. So sexy... so crappy... more » Novaload: I read those in the Lemons email announcement. This one was greenhouse, roof, and luggage rack above the rest. The proverbial shoo-in. more » joneez wants the clunkers he paid for: Mr. Thwaite is certainly a good politician. First, he opens right away by kissing ass. Then he says he's not like other politicians and states how h... more » Turboner: Just make sure it's mid-engine AND FWD. more » Jim Thwaite: And so important it deserves a separate comment. Thank you to Mrs. Misfit, my beautiful wife Kelley who puts up with this crap year after year. more » Jim Thwaite: Wow, thanks for the overwhelming responses and good wishes. I shall do my best to not disappoint. I also want to take a moment to acknowledge and th... more » MadcowsDiseased: This certainly sounds like it was meant to be. Mr. Thwaite, I bid you good luck on this project, and can't wait to read about it in GRM's $2009 challe... more » MushyHeirloom: Can we call it a "Warteburger"? more » alexander_the_car_salamander: Wow, I think I have found a new role-model. more » GeeHalen: How about this Wartburg project with a V8 engine installed from fellow Hungarian mechanics? more » DrLemming: Very nicely written. This is better than C/D in its glory years. more » NiceNurseRatched: Jim Thwaite and this Wartburg have found each other in this crazy, mixed-up world because the forces of an unfair universe could not keep them apart. ... more » MarywithanM™: I'm getting a t-shirt, woo hoo! And, I don't have to haul that home from Ohio, double woo hoo! Are there plans for a formal awarding of the Wartbur... more » skaycog was here: Heck, I would have entered the contest if it were "Win-A-Wertburg. more » Murilee Martin: The '58 Wartburg 311 sold for $1,686 in the US, according to the Standard Catalog. That was $141 more than a '58 Beetle, but $113 less than a '58 Dats... more » -
#contests
Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
Remember the Win-A-Wartburg contest put on by the 24 Hours Of LeMons perpetrators, in which the winning "Why I Want A Wartburg" essayist gets a '58 Wartburg 311 and free LeMons registration? Here's the winner! More » -
#contests
Win A '58 Wartburg, Race It For Free At The 24 Hours Of LeMons!
How would you like to get your very own Warsaw Pact-built, proletariat-grade machine, equipped with a 3-cylinder/2-stroke engine with just seven moving parts… for free? More » -
#modelhell
Crazed Modelmaker Makes Tiny-Scale Model Of Murilee's First-Ever Hell Project
Not long ago, I dug up some old photos of the 1958 Volkswagen Beetle that launched me on the primer-and-junkyards automotive path I've taken to get to this point. Now look what's happened! More » -
#dragracing
Ya Don't Drive, Ya Aim! Motor City Drag Racing, 1958
It's like threading the needle at a quarter of a mile… but it's really livin'! Hot Rod Magazine put together this great drag racing documentary for the 1958 Nationals, and it's well worth watching. More » -
#rant
The Car That Started Murilee On His Vehicular Downward Spiral: Hubert The Hatred Bug
Here's a story I've been meaning to tell since I started writing for Jalopnik: how it came to be that I love junkyard-built, low-budget, primered-out heaps so much. You can blame this '58 Volkswagen! More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
¡Abajo En La Calle De Cuba!
The ghost of Fulgencio Batista won't allow Americans to visit Cuba, but those commie-lovin' Canadians are free to doff their tuques and enjoy the presence of the world's largest concentration of pre-1960 Detroit iron. More » -
#racing
56 Teams Battle For The 1958 Alpine Cup: Coupe Des Alpes!
An Alfa Giuletta duking it out with a Volvo 544 on a 2,450-mile race across the Alps in 1958? Well, sometimes there are more important things than slaving for The Man on a Monday afternoon! More » -
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#chooseyoureternity
PCH, High Cost Of Admission Edition: Mercedes-Benz 190SL or Jaguar XK140?
We had another close one yesterday, but the '69 Crown managed to edge out the '59 Datsun in the race to the Lake Of Fire in the Choose Your Eternity poll. We've seen some pretty affordable cars lately (well, affordable to start with, before you start buying parts), but what about Hell Projects that raise the pressure in the boiler by starting out with gut-punch price tags? You must finish a project that you spent 30 or 50 grand just acquiring, right? And if you need to spend $5,000 on a windshield or crankshaft... well, what choice do you have? Can't give up now! We've picked a couple of cars that, if restored, would bring tears to the eyes of vintage racers and eagle-eyed concours worshipers alike, and would fetch vast sums from the same crowd. If restored. More » -
#chooseyoureternity
Project Car Hell: Porsche 928 or '58 Lincoln Continental?
What with all the racin' madness lately, I haven't had a chance to descend into the lake of burning 90-weight that is Project Car Hell for a few days. In our last matchup, we almost had an upset for the ages, with a Japanese car nearly beating a French car in the Dangel Peugeot Wagon versus V8 Fairlady poll. And that Peugeot was a tough one, too! You fans of Japanese Car Hell can feel proud... or ashamed, depending on how you look at it. Today we're getting away from the PCH Superpowers and mixing it up a bit, with a perennial German Choose Your Eternity favorite going up against a proud Detroit native. More » -
#chooseyoureternity
PCH, Double The Hell Edition: Pair-O-Willys or Benz-Pontiac Combo Platter?
With the '69 Citröen ID19 carrying the French to victory over their British rivals in the PCH Superpower Rematch, I can see we'll need to have some more elimination rounds to see whether France or Britain shallbe crushed beneath the weight ofproudly display the oil-spraying, parts-shedding PCH Superpower Trophy. Today's challenge, however, is a return to a fine PCH tradition with no nationalistic overtones: Two-For-One Hell Projects! More » -
#jalopnikfantasygarage
Cadillac Eldorado Brougham
Well, you've done it again - voted into the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage another glass-and-steel piece of history which some, but not all, agree would make for a great addition: the Lotus Eleven. Last week saw no progress towards filling the garage due to Geneva Motor Show shenanigans, but that just gave us some extra time to think about what to offer up this week. Sometimes it's hard to be objective when selecting nominees, this week's pick is a personal favorite from a bygone era of high rollers, big egos, and uncompromising style - the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. More »
