Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Rough Start: This 1976 Ford Elite Is Nice And Is Just A Few Mods Away From Great!
How much longer are you going to be able to find a relatively cheap 1970s car that isn’t beyond hope? Every year I keep thinking that “this will be it”, and every year I find a...
Do Not Dismiss This 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood As Another Boring Barge! Check This Sleeper Out!
For the most part, 1990s Cadillacs can be summed up in one word, for better or for worse: Northstar. They were front-wheel-drive old-school American luxury barges that valued comfort and presence...
Pro Commuter Perfection: This 1991 Oldsmobile Calais Quad 442 W41-R Is The Perfect Daily. No, Really!
Before you say one word, I want to lead with the horsepower ratings for some of the better choices in vehicles for 1991: basic Corvette had either 245 or 250 horsepower, depending on your axle...
Question Of The Day: How Would You Built This Four-Speed Chevrolet Celebrity?
Yes, it’s another 1980s front-driver from McTaggart, the patron saint of automotive lost causes. Bear with me on this one, because this is one of the strangest oddballs I’ve come across...
Really Rough Start: How Would You Build This Roller Four-Eye Fox From The Rust Belt
Searching through any Ohio-area Craigslist ads usually leave me feeling like the two Stormtroopers afro-picking the desert in the movie “Spaceballs”. It’s the rust belt for a...
Pimp My Nova: This 1979 Cadillac Seville Opera Coupe Convertible Is Classy (In A Freak Show Kind Of Way!)
Forget opera windows, padded vinyl roofs or opera lights. Will someone who lived through the 1970s please explain how this coach-built Cadillac Seville actually saw the light of day, let alone a...
Unhinged: How This Too-Clean 1984 Ford Escort Sedan Brings Up Some Very Bad Memories
Looks way too clean to be for sale in 2016, doesn’t it? This 1984 Ford Escort L is currently up on Craigslist (CLICK HERE for the link), but seeing the car doesn’t induce thoughts of a...
Rough Start: Get Your Long Roof Fix With This 1979 Chevrolet Malibu Wagon!
If you haven’t noticed yet, the desirable late 1970s-early 1980s cars are starting to come up in value. What do we mean by “desirable”, when quite a few people dismiss that entire...
Good News Everyone: Someone Mashed Together A Corvette, An Eldorado, And More… Meet The Eldorette!
There are certain things out there in the world that when paired together become greater than their individual components. For instance, peanut butter and jelly. Everyone loves a PB+J. Better yet,...
Rough Start: Paying By The Ton With A Massive 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood!
You want the most from your hard-earned money, don’t you? Of course you do. That’s why a lot of Americans buy in bulk…it’s the cheapest way to get what you need. Works well...
Instant Low-Buck Racer: One Cheap 1988 Merkur Scorpio Is Up For Grabs Due To An Angry Wife!
First things first: say “MARE-koor”. Ford’s strange attempt at creating a super-Euro luxury brand by importing Federalized Sierras (the XR4Ti) and Scorpios was an attempt to jump...
Rough Start: This 1994 Ford Mustang Cobra Is Clean Driver Material With Potential!
When looking at the pony cars from the early 1990s, you have to do so with the same “for the time period” argument. The power war hadn’t kicked off yet, but there had been signs...
Would You Rather, The Two Grand Edition: Would You Go For The Firebird Or The Charger R/T?
Let’s scale the Rough Start budget down to around two thousand dollars for a minute. What can that buy you? 1980s beater nobody cares about…a ragged-out Fox Mustang…beat-up...
