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more about #1983 more comments → MushyHeirloom: Having taken my stock Volvo 244 down a washed-out road with a half-dozen three-to-four-inch puddles this afternoon, come to a stream, and turned aroun... more » CptSevere: I knew a guy who had one of these in the mid nineties. We took that car to some pretty difficult places in Utah's West Desert, and it went to those pl... more » Elhigh: *Sob* Was it ever a great car? No way. But it was so much of what so many other manufacturers never tried to make. Cheerfully dipping into other m... more » CanadaCraig: It was a sad day when AMC disappeared. It was the death of an underdog. I became an AMC fan the day i saw a Matador drive into a a barn - sprout wings... more » Turboner: Chrysler DID make a very successful Eagle. Oh, wait, that was Mitsubishi, my bad! Serioulsy, it's hard to beat the bang-for-the-buck of a used, turb... more » suzq044: I'm still a fan of the SX-4. more » Bri: Whats with all of the vacuum lines to the tranny on these things? - I should say, I tried to buy one years ago that was in good shape but the seller d... more » Jeb_Hoge: Some of my frat brothers pooled together about $600 one spring and bought one of these. It got rattlecanned into a station wagon version of the Genera... more » Maxichamp: Remember that guy on Jokers Wild (with host Wink Martindale) who won like 6 of these? more » carlivar: I love these. Been keeping my eye out for one, but I'm a stickler for manual trans and it seems like most I see listed are automatics. These have one... more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: The AMC was truly amazing tech for its time. This 4WD system became the Quadra-Trac, I think, and the full-time system on the '94 Grand Cherokee I us... more » Novaload: At first these Eagles were eye-catching because they rode so high, which looked strange at the time. Hard to believe, given what was to follow. But t... more » citroën67: AMC wagons are the shit! I remember working for a friend of my dad's doing odd jobs when I was twelve. He had an Eagle Wagon...and one of the odd jobs... more » Fd3rsrz: There is a gent around my parts with a mint white with "wood" panels on the sides Eagle and everytime I see it, I smile. It reminds of a quote I've se... more » danio3834: These cars really were the Forresters and Impreza wagons of the 80's. God they were always so frumpy looking, but you can't argue with the utility of... more » -
#classicadwatch
1983 AMC Eagle: Too Far Ahead Of Its Time?
Who in their right mind would buy a station wagon with four-wheel drive? That's probably what the competitors of doomed AMC had to say back in the Late Malaise Era. More » -
#junkyardfind
This Junkyard Alfa Romeo GTV6 Won't Get To Go Out In A Blaze Of Racin' Glory
We've seen some members of the Alfetta family excel in 24 Hours Of LeMons races, with one coming in third at the Goin' For Broken race in May. No such luck for this one! More » -
#classicadwatch
Honda Honda Honda Honda! Madness Goes JDM To Pitch The '83 City
What's the best way to sell the 1983 Honda City Hyper Turbo? Honda's Japanese-market admen figured that the ska popmasters of Madness would be just perfect for a series of super-frantic TV spots. More » -
#racing
Automotive Worship Object Of The Year: Street-Legal 500-Horse Audi ur-Quattro
While I was at Infineon to drive the STaSIS S5 a couple weeks back, I kept seeing this silver blur howling past everything on the track. It looked like an old Quattro… but that fast? -
#classicadwatch
The 1983 Mazda Cosmo Big Run: Instant VIP Treatment At The Playboy Club!
Roll up to the Playboy club in a Mazda Cosmo Big Run Genteel back in '83, and you'd be sure to get some special treatment from the bunnies. -
#projectcarhell
PCH, Hell Uber Alles Edition Revisited: BMW 745i or Audi V8 Quattro?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! In our last Hell Project matchup, we learned that two-thirds of Jalopnik readers would choose a Mustang-based Fauxrrari over an Integra-based one as their ride of choice in the Lake Of Fire. The Lake Of Fire, as we know, is rough on body panels… but not nearly as rough as it is on brain-scramblingly complex German electronics. That means we're going to return to Hell Über Alles, with a couple of precision-engineered German machines with bargain-of-a-lifetime price tags.
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#downonthestreet
1983 BMW 633CSi
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. I've been seeing a fair number of E24 BMWs in Alameda lately, so let's add this one to the DOTS parade. We've had this '83 633CSi, this '87 M6, and '87 L6 so far, and now it's the turn of another '83 (I've been looking for some 5- and 7-series BMWs of this era on the island, but so far I haven't found any parked in photo-friendly spots).
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#downonthestreet
1983 Honda Civic Wagon
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We haven't seen many Hondas in this series, though I'm still hoping to find a very early Civic or- better still- a 600 on the island. The early-80s Civic wagon is a good example of the Japanese cars that shifted American car buyers' opinion from the "cheap, gets good gas mileage" view of the 70s towards the "these things never break" view widely held today. They were once everywhere, but nostalgia doesn't adhere too strongly to a reliable appliance... and so most were crushed as they hit 300,000 or so miles on the clock. More » -
#downonthestreet
1983 Toyota Hilux 4x4
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today we're looking at a vehicle owned by our first four-time DOTS honoree, WhatWouldJesseDo. Well, I think this is Jesse's truck; my Black Metal V8olvo emailed me about his new truck, and I found this Hilux parked on his block. When you have a '66 Datsun, a '61 Mini, and a '70 Puma GT, you need something to haul parts! More » -
#chooseyoureternity
PCH, Rear-Drive Japanese Sedan Hoonage Edition: Cressida or Maxima?
Amazingly, a Chevy (well, Chevy/Buick) managed to beat an obscure, 40-year-old German microcar in a heads-up Project Car Hell competition, with a 57-43 split in yesterday's voting. Today we're going back to the common-theme idea; inspired by all the love for the DOTS Cressida, we decided we ought to do a Project Car Hell matchup featuring a pair of Late Malaise boxy Japanese midsize sedans, complete with luxury features, independent rear suspensions, and big inline-six engines. Japanese stuff isn't normally hellish enough, however, due to their boring reliability and tediously good build quality. In order make things more interesting, these projects are going to require massive horsepower upgrades. Boost, engine swaps, whatever it takes! More » -
#chooseyoureternity
Project Car Hell: R33 Skyline GT-R or Aston Martin Lagonda?
Perhaps it was the terrifying rust coupled with warrior heritage, but somehow an American Hell Project managed to beat an obscure Warsaw Pact convertible in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll. Actually, it was a near-tie, but still a triumph for the red-white-and-blue over the, uh, blue-white-and-red. Today we're going to up the price of admission to the Gates Of Project Car Hell, though we've found a couple of high-buck cars available at (what ought to be) reasonable prices. Will you go with Late Malaise British super-luxury or Mangled Super Tokyo Hoonage? It's up to you: buy now, repent at agonizing leisure! More » -
#downonthestreet
1983 Toyota 4x4 Pickup Truck
Our last Japanese representative on DOTS Truck Monday was the '80 Plymouth Arrow, but the last one actually bearing the name of an overseas manufacturer was the '74 Datsun of a couple months ago. That means we're due for another Japanese Truck Monday, so let's take a look at this fine tape-striped Late Malaise Toyota pickup. Oh, sure, these things are still everywhere (including the motor pools of every strongman, warlord, and wannabe Lord Humungus in the world), but immortality shouldn't disqualify a vehicle from Down On The Street! More »
