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more about #1989 more comments → Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: What did that hay wagon do to deserve that? more » Timtoolman, sporadically speaking: She's beautiful. The car, not so much. more » Alfisted: Of course they hired the daughters of famous people. It was, after all, their father's Oldsmobile. more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: Great. One more reason for me to be excited about moving to Georgia. /thick, thick sarcasm more » MadcowsDiseased: Jalopnik is freaking me out.. It's almost as if they're following me. Just this past week, I was in Macon.What about the guy with the lambo with squea... more » JB_Finesse: Macon? I thought Dave's Farm was in Canada. more » Dhillaz 2.0: Imagine the antics if this was RWD. more » MushyHeirloom: Demolition derby logic says that unless the mud gets too deep (in some areas), anytime you have front-wheel traction, everything behind the B-pillar i... more » joneez wants the clunkers he paid for: Needs more caster wheel. more » skaycog: Oh, to be different! This is a 1957 BMW Isetta converted to a 3-wheeled version of an airboat on wheels. It's powered by a 190 hp, 435ci, 6-cyl, Lyc... more » Six Flags Over Tomsk: This purty thing right here is a real trike, not that dad gum sissy-wimp Spyder thing made by them socialist Canadians. In't that right, Cletus? more » AlienProbe: Lord Humongous called... He said he is missing a car from his fleet. more » UDMan: Is is wrong to really want this badly, possibly to LeMonize it? I'd have to ask Jay if he would let this thing run, but why not? And does wanting thi... more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: $600? The ad is already gone, which bums me out. Road-legalization cost: $200 Fixing rear suspension: $300 Freaking people out wherever you drive/... more » Lost in the age of Aerostar: Damn, and it's a SUPERCHARGED 3800 too!!!!! The fun you could have in this.... simply add a couple cases of beer, and acres of backyard romping groun... more » -
#classicadwatch
Roger Moore's Daughter Confounds The Baddies In Her '89 Oldsmobile Trofeo
Oldsmobile apparently had a policy of hiring the daughters of famous actors for their ads of the Bush I Era; there's Julia Nimoy in this '91 Silhouette ad, and here's Deborah Moore in the Trofeo. More » -
#fieldexpedientengineering
Supercharged Buick 3-Wheeler: Perfect For Hunting Or Just Having Fun!
You want a great power-to-weight ratio and plenty of drive-wheel traction? Head on down to Macon, Georgia, where this 1989 Buick Park Avenue-based three-wheeler could be yours for just 600 bucks! More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
Welcome To East Oakland, 1989
Now that I've sorted out all the SCSI termination headaches on my 1998-vintage slide scanner, I've digitized some more of my old 35mm negatives. Here's a trio of old cars I shot in 1989. More » -
#novelties
Life Imitates Art, 80s Style: Shot Wheels Cars
You never know what you find when you start looking into the profound cultural effects of Wacky Packages. Not only did they begat Topps' Weird Wheels, but one card inspired real-life toy cars: Shot Wheels!
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#classicadwatch
The Only Way To Travel Is Cadillac Style: 1989 Allanté By Cadillac
Priced at $57,183 (about $98,000 in 2009 dollars) the 1989 Cadillac Allanté had a gorgeous, built-in-Italy Pininfarina body… and approximately zero buyers. This ad features the famous Cadillac Polo Team, yet somehow didn't boost sales. -
#projectcarhell
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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#auctions
2009 Barrett-Jackson Auction Scottsdale: Eight Highest-Priced Cars Through Day Three
The big Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale's going on right now and we're already into the fourth day of hot gavel action. Here's the eight top cars that have found new owners through day three.
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#downonthestreet
1989 Subaru GL AWD Turbo 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. In all this time, we've seen just one DOTS Subaru. More » -
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#projectcarhell
PCH, Twin Turbos Versus Twin Frenchmen Edition: Twin-Turbo Ford Falcon or Two Peugeot 405 Mi16s?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, the Humber Super Snipe got out-prestiged by the Aston Martin DBS, according to the Choose Your Eternity poll, and you'd think we'd follow up Britain-on-Britain and Italy-on-Italy matchups with a matchup honoring the other PCH Superpower, France. Instead, we're going to make PCH Supergalactic Megapower France do battle with lowly PCH underdog America today, and then we'll have a France-on-France matchup.
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#projectcarhell
PCH, CeauÅŸescu Versus Krushchev Edition: Three ARO 244s or One GAZ 69-M?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time, the '72 Stutz Blackhawk blackjacked the Buickborghini and stuffed it in the trunk, for disposal in a hole in the desert later on (the way so many Blackhawk owners in Vegas solved their problems back in the day), according to the 71% of you who voted that way in the Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're going to go with a couple of choices that allow me to use not-often-seen-in-PCH flags in the poll: Romania versus the Soviet Union!
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#projectcarhell
PCH, Maximum Minivan Edition: Toyota 4x4 Or Turbo Caravan?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time we had another PCH Superpower upset, with Germany beating Britain in the Glas Versus Lotus challenge. Britain will come back strong, of course, but for now Germany can enjoy the pool of oil gathering beneath the Project Car Hell trophy. Fast forward to today; since it's Maximum Minivan Day, we're going to have Maximum Project Minivan Hell.
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#downonthestreet
1989 Volkswagen Golf, 24 Hours Of LeMons Veteran
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 going to check out a car that proves what a small world this really is; I was over at the parents' place the other day- yeah, I'm still on speaking terms with them in spite of having been given a girl's name, since it's that name that's given me the gravel in my gut and the spit in my eye- and my mom asked, "Have you seen that race car parked down the street?" Race car? Sure enough, parked about five doors down from my childhood home, here's the El Moto Loco VW Golf from the 24 Hours Of LeMons SF race in May. One day you're scraping fenders with a car on the race track, and a few months later it's lowering the property values in your parents' neighborhood!
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#1989ferrarimondial
1989 Ferrari Mondial T Cabriolet, With Bonus Pininfarina DOTS Poll
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 finally found a Ferrari on the island; sure, it's not even 20 years old and the Mondial isn't the most beloved of Ferraris, but it's the real thing. I was going to save this car for a special occasion, but it seems appropriate that we continue to honor Pininfarina in the wake of Andrea Pinafarina's death. More » -
#chooseyoureternity
Project Car Hell: Lancia Scorpion or Merkur XR4Ti?
The blowout Choose Your Eternity polls are fun, but we really enjoy the nail-bitingly close races... which is what we got yesterday, with the Roots-blown Old Beetle just barely beating the Pro Street Peugeot in a 175-165 vote split. Does that mean a German car just upset Project Car Hell GigaTeraPower France, or does the Detroit engine water down the 200-proof Frenchness of the Peugeot? We'll leave that question open for now, because today we're going to see how an Italian basket case fares against a brutalized European Ford! More »
