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more about #1979 more comments → that ain't the way to have fun, son: I liked, and still do like, the later version of this car with a four-headlight treatment. Gotta love a 2-door car with not only the requisite A- and... more » Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: They called it 200-SX so we Americans would think of sex... Had they kept it Silvia, we'd have pictured Sylvia Miles from "Midnight Cowboy"... #1979 more » DrLemming: GM's legendary but rather old-school styling chief Bill Mitchell hated small cars. He once said that styling them was like tailoring a midget. The J... more » 62imperialcrown: OK, Toyota was looking at the Mustang when they designed the Celica in the next post - what was Datsun looking at when they designed this, the Avanti?... more » Novaload: Imagine pitching a car to the general public today with "5 forward gears." Of course, back in the day, a 4 or 5 speed = "sporty," no matter how tiny t... more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: It was a hard time for cars of all kinds. This was a fairly good attempt for the era. #1979 more » Paul Y. don't drive too fast.: 97hp + 2300lb is positively driveable by today's standards, really (not fast, but in real-world driving, you'd never notice). A bit more compression a... more » skaycog was here: A turtle with bad knees? Weird. A hyphen does not make me think about sex. But it probably will from now on. #1979 more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: A friend of mine has one of these, as a convertible. That top is the biggest POS imaginable, and it's a total wrestling match to get it up. The stay... more » MushyHeirloom: You say "Scout II", I say "Scout II"... #internationalharvester more » Zeusnemesis: Murilee: I love your taste in the esoteric and otherwise-unloved machinery. I've got two Internationals in the garage, right next to the Stag: a fu... more » Ford Tempo Fanatic: Man, I don't think I've ever seen an IH Scout in real life. #internationalharvester more » Scoutch: You guys just WOULD choose the Scout for DOTS on the very day I'm supposed to R&R the T-90 threespeed in my '63! I know a few things about Scouts;... more » ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.: Wow, this brings back memories. Most of them were already off New England roads back in the 80's and were relegated to "yard trucks." Most of them n... more » DrLemming: The Scout did die young. International-Harvester's fatal mistake was made back in the late-60s, when it decided to completely redesign both its full-... more » -
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Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
Did you notice the hyphen in the name of this car? That's because Datsun's marketers wanted you to think about SEX when you thought about the North American version of the Nissan Silvia. More » -
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1979 International Harvester Scout II
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Lots of Scouts on the island! More » -
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1979 Offered Tough Choices: Cutlass Supreme, Cutlass Calais, or Cutlass Brougham?
Oldsmobile got whacked by The General earlier in the decade, but there was once a time when Olds had the best-selling midsize car in the country: Cutlass! More » -
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It's 1979, And You Must Choose Between The Chevette And The AMC Spirit
That's sort of how the mid-Malaise Era went; you could opt to swap your rapidly-eroding dollars for the already obsolete Chevrolet Chevette, or for a much larger car made by an obviously doomed manufacturer. More » -
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Put Your Money In The Bank, Not In The Tank: 1979 Datsun 210 Hatchback
35 MPG city, 47 MPG highway! Compare that to the numbers on the '09 Nissan Versa FE, which manages just 28/34 MPG. More » -
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Saturday DOTS-O-Rama, Tomsk Edition: The Sun Rises Over Orange County
Welcome to Down On The Street Bonus Edition! We're back with more Tomsk photos from behind the Orange Curtain. More » -
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DOTS-O-Rama Saturday, Tomsk Edition: Malaise Yank Tanks Of Orange County
Even with most of the weekend's posts focused on 24 Hours Of LeMons South coverage, we still need to keep up with Down On The Street Bonus Edition. Tomsk has sent in many, many photos. More » -
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PCH, Fiat-Chrysler Global Strategic Alliance Edition: Fiat Brava or Chrysler TC?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Since Fiat and Chrysler are now henchmen, PCH must honor their alliance!
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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Brain-Meltingly Awesome Custom Van For $15,000?
The 30 grand 1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT was sent packing to Booth Number Two by the voice of the mob, but what will the voters make of this 1979 Dodge Shag Van? -
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15 Inches Of Snow Can't Stop The 1979 Jeep Cherokee!
Imagine a time when four-wheel-drive trucks were sold for their ability to slog through snow and mud, not their ability to repel urban criminals and perform minivan tasks without minivan stigma. -
#downonthestreet
1979 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Cadillacs sold pretty well, even after most of a decade of Malaise-y gas prices and general sense of diminished expectations, so you could still buy a great big angular slab of rear-wheel-drive Fleetwood as late as 1984. Here we've got a raggedy '79 Fleetwood that's been sitting on a major commercial strip for a couple of weeks now.
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PCH, V8 Imports You Should Totally Run At LeMons Edition: Porsche 928 or Lexus LS400?
Not very shockingly, the Mercedes-Benz 450SEL beat up on the Pontiac Bonneville in our 6.9 Liters Of Misery Choose Your Eternity poll on Friday, no doubt because voters were counting camshafts or dollars in the original purchase price or something. Today we're going to have the traditional post-24 Hours Of LeMons PCH, only instead of letting you choose between the cars that finished #1 and #2 (in this case, a Supra and a Jetta) we're going to choose between two cars we really, really want to see someone bring to a LeMons race. They were expensive when new, featured sophisticated DOHC V8s and rear-wheel-drive, and came equipped with dizzyingly complicated electronics and plush luxury gear… yet it's possible to pick either one up for a LeMons-friendly price today!
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Project Car Hell, Debacle Edition: Matra Murena or Alpine A310?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! I really wanted to call today's matchup Édition Débâcle, but the heads of our beloved Server Hamsters tend to explode when they're forced to deal with weird furrin letters in our headlines, and headless hamsters don't run on wheels. Never mind the English-only hamsters, though, because we've got to choose between two equallyimpossibledesirable French cars. More » -
#1979fordranchero
1979 Ford Ranchero
The Ford Ranchero cartruck went through numerous platform changes over the years, with the full-size sedan-based '57-59s, the compact Falcon-based '60-66s, the mid-sized Fairlane/Torino-based '68-76s, and the bloato-mid-sized LTD-based '77-79s. We saw a beige-and-brown two-tone '79 last summer, and now I've found another two-tone '79 on the island. More »
