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more about #1975 more comments → scroggzilla raids again: The Alfa, once you've dropped $60-70k on it, could be worth up to $20 grand and will be the object of someone's desire. The Lancia, while not as bad ... more » ragtopdodge: Build the Alfa! #beta more » bobdobbs: I've owned several examples of both these vehicles. The Beta is pure over-packed Italian front-wheel-drive engine bay hell. The GTV is a walk in the... more » My X-type is too a real Jaguar: It is times like this I am glad I don't have a tow vehicle, 34 hour round trip to Providence and an Alfa owner I would be. Registration paperwork wou... more » Alfisted: I refuse to choose - both reside on my favorite ring of Hell. #beta more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Both would be great projects. But the Lancia would be the harder project, and fewer people care about Lancias. The Lancia's body isn't near as sexy ... more » wkiernan: Wait a second, am I supposed to vote for the one that's the most Hellish, or the one I'd prefer to attempt to fix myself? I love the Lancia marque, b... more » SeanKHotay: If only the Lancia was a Scorpion, it might have a PCH chance in, uh, PCH against the oil-less, unknown titled, passenger windowless, 20-year-dusted, ... more » Novaload: I'm having trouble voting because I'm intrigued by the Cutlass with the potato for a gas cap. Also, I know nothing about Italian cars, except that the... more » ChazzyD: Wait, so I'm supposed to vote on the kind of project car that I would rather have. That would be the Alfa for sure. If I'm supposed to vote for the on... more » X-Zambian: I have actually owned a GTV from this era, and loved it until it finally oxidised to bits. The engine was still good though. Lovely twin 40's, that ex... more » CaptMatt15 loves the Zoom-Zoom: I voted Alfa - Its exactly the car I want to buy for my own Project Car Hell deal.... I just can't buy this one right now haha #beta more » CptSevere: The Alfa, most definitely. I'm still kicking myself that I didn't buy one when I was stationed in Italy years ago. Nice cars. Yeah, the title issue i... more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: I'll go for the Lancia, because I'm absolutely shocked that any still exist. #beta more » Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness: I know enough people to help me with the Alfa ... gotta go there... #beta more » -
#projectcarhell
PCH, Italian Coupe For About A Grand Edition: Lancia Beta or Alfa Romeo GTV?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! You don't need to be a millionaire to own a classic Italian machine. A thousandaire has enough cash! More » -
#downonthestreet
1975 Datsun 710
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a sight you won't see often: a survivor Datsun 710! More » -
#24hoursoflemons
And The Real LeMons South Fall 2009 Winner Is...
We were a bit shorthanded at LeMons HQ at Carolina Motorsports Park last weekend, so I wasn't able to do the usual Index Of Effluency winner post. Check out the Rusty Bolt Racing E12! More » -
#hoodscoopoftheweek
Every Fiberglass Hood Scoop In The 1975 JC Whitney Catalog!
Hood Scoop Of The Week isn't just about factory scoops. We mustn't overlook the excellent aftermarket hood scoops from the Golden Age Of Fiberglass: the 1970s! More » -
#downonthestreet
1975 MGB
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The street-driven MGB is nearly extinct these days. More » -
#engineswap
Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
Black Metal V8olvo crew chief and mastermind Hellhammer likes stuffing V8s into cars that never came that way from the factory, and now he's learned a few things about Volvos. Let's get another one! More » -
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#1975chevroletnova
1975 Chevrolet Nova Custom
With just one Malaise Nova up until now in this series, it's time to set our thermostats at 66 in winter/78 in summer, lower our expectations of future prosperity, and travel back to the Bicentennial Era... when presidents got impeached, wars got lost, and the base V8 in a new Chevy Nova was a 155-horse 350. Actually, the Nova of this era wasn't a bad car; it was cheap and every component was made by the lowest possible bidder, but it was honestly cheap. More » -
#1975toyotacelicast
1975 Toyota Celica ST
After finding a pair of '77 Celicas parked on the streets of Alameda (this one and this one), I had a first-gen Celica drought that lasted the better part of a year. Had all the rest been crushed? Then I started catching glimpses of this red '75 around town, and I knew it was just a matter of time before I found it parked somewhere. More » -
#chooseyoureternity
Project Car Hell, Co-Prosperity Sphere Edition: Nissan Fairlady Or Mazda Luce?
The low-miles AMC beat the NASA-built Fairmont in the Electrocutioner Edition Choose Your Eternity poll, though the Fairmont did make a respectable showing. Today we're jumping back into a pool of flaming gasoline, because there's no telling how much longer the smell of incompletely burned hydrocarbons will hover around our garages. After seeing a Datsun 610 in the junkyard and then the '78 Toyota brochures over at Japanese Nostalgic Car (thanks, SOS10), we decided to find a couple of Japanese cars built before they'd discovered focus groups (and airtight quality control) over there. More » -
#downonthestreet
1975 Mercury Cougar XR-7
The Mercury Cougar has been reinvented many times, but we've only seen a couple of incarnations in this series. We've seen the lean and mean '68 Cougar and the Bloated Final Year Of The Rebadged Mustang Cougar, but what about the Farrah Fawcett-Approved Cougar? I found this appealingly rough '75 parked across the street from the '82 280ZX Turbo and quite close to one of Alameda's non-Buick Skyhawks. More » -
#downonthestreet
1975 Dodge Dart Swinger
The '65 Barracuda won our Favorite DOTS Chrysler A-Body Poll back in March, but since that time I've found this '75 Dart Swinger. Would the Swinger, with its name conjuring up images of Malaise Era key parties, have triumphed over the Barracuda? Perhaps I'll have another A-body poll, once we've seen a few more of them; until then, we can only speculate. More » -
#chooseyoureternity
PCH, Franco-Prussian War Rematch Edition: Citroen CX 2000 or Porsche 928?
In a stunning upset, the Borgward Hansa wagon handed Germany a one-sided victory over the Peugeot 304 in our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll. With France long reigning as the world's lone HyperGalactic PCH OmniPower, we would be remiss if we didn't give the French a shot at prying the oil-leaking, stripped-fastener-thread PCH CryptoChampion trophy from the Germans, in order to prove that the Borgward's victory wasn't just some one-shot fluke. That's why we're rolling out some Hell Project heavy artillery today, with a pair of undeniably cool- yet just as undeniably nightmarish- machines vying for long-term residency in your Garage Of Torture. More » -
#downonthestreet
1975 Chevrolet El Camino
Even though Alameda is home to numerous street-parked Chevy El Caminos, I've been guilty of overlooking examples of GM's truckcars so far in this series, with just this '72 so far. That's probably because I consider the 1959-60 and 1964-67 models to be the only "true" El Caminos, for reasons that don't stand up under any serious scrutiny. So, with Maximum El Camino Day as inspiration, I'm going to make sure that we see more of the island's Elcos in the future, starting today! More »
