desireable used cars??? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

sixto · #1 03-21-2012, 07:01 PM

Ten desirable used cars that are impossible to find - Yahoo! Autos

Say what? Any of those would have me longing for my '73 Dodge Dart.

Sixto
87 300D

TylerH860 · #2 03-21-2012, 07:26 PM

Not 1 of those is remotely desirable to me.

elchivito · #3 03-21-2012, 07:33 PM

Acura Legend. I've always liked them, esp. the second generation motor. I'd grab one if I happened onto a nice one.

ramonajim · #4 03-21-2012, 07:37 PM

I could get all kinds of excited for a virginal CRX. Big time.

PaulC · #5 03-21-2012, 07:40 PM

In 1973, I sat in a chocolate brown Fiat X1/9 parked in a Fiat showroom, and swore that an X1/9 would be my first car. It was a beautifully-styled vehicle for the time, and the controls seemed designed for my 5'3" frame. One year and an 11" growth spurt later, they would have had to cut a hole in the targa top for me to fit inside. To this day, I don't know if that was a shame or just dumb luck...

The Clk Man · #6 03-21-2012, 07:40 PM

I know a certain poster that would love to have #8.

Chris W. · #7 03-21-2012, 07:57 PM

I remember a test ride (salesman would not let me drive) way back when, in a new CRX when they first came out. He started it up, drove out the dealer lot, and promptly bounced off the rev limiter in 3 gears. Car had only been running about 15 seconds before he wound it up. No wonder they are all beat...

Rgds,
Chris W.
'95 E300D

PaulC · #8 03-21-2012, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris W.

I remember a test ride (salesman would not let me drive) way back when, in a new CRX when they first came out. He started it up, drove out the dealer lot, and promptly bounced off the rev limiter in 3 gears. Car had only been running about 15 seconds before he wound it up. No wonder they are all beat...

Rgds,
Chris W.
'95 E300D

Reminds me of a test ride I once took in a newish Datsun 260Z - the salesman pulled out of the dealer lot and promptly hung the tail out while turning at the next intersection. Raggedy execution - I passed on the car...

lorainfurniture · #9 03-21-2012, 10:39 PM

I had an 85 scirocco. Fun car, always broken. I think I owned it for 2 years, and was only able to put a few thousand miles on it before I junked it. I was 17.

catmandoo62 · #10 03-21-2012, 10:46 PM

for some reason i have been looking to score a cheap dodge rampage.yank the "vw" gas engine and drop in a diesel.

Fulcrum525 · #11 03-21-2012, 10:48 PM

I wouldn't want to own one but the Scirocco's were certainly interesting. I'm surprised to see that the Merkurs made the list but the Other Acura Legend (The Sterling) didn't make the list....

MTI · #12 03-21-2012, 11:02 PM

A TR7 or TR8 would have fit that list.

The Clk Man · #13 03-22-2012, 12:15 AM

I figured that the Buick Opel would have been on the list.

Jim B. · #14 03-22-2012, 01:33 AM

The only thing the New Chrysler Corporation has that looks like Chrysler has that it looks like it might understand that Detroit no longer produces cars by any divine dictate, other than Lee Iacocca's, is the Dodge Rampage, a little sport-truck on the order of the Subaru Brat, like a scaled down Ranchero or El Camino,, redeemed by the fact that it's as quick as a bunny.

When a construction worker has moved past foreman to supervisor and then spent enough time there to have established the distinction in his own mind, the first thing he does is trade the pickup in on an El Camino. There follows a few days of good-natured and generally envy-inspired razzing. The first to have achieved such a status and then gone against the grain and bought a Rampage undoubtedly took an unmerciful ration of $hit; the second, a severe and rather ill-natured attack, but by the third occasion, the boys on the jobsite had probably spent enough time eating dust on the way to the bar after work that no untoward words were spoken.

It's not much for schlepping stuff around, but supervisor's trucks were never supposed to be, and it gives off a definite air of dash and dexterity.

The Plymouth version was given the kiss-of-death name "Scamp" and the sales handle doesn't seem to have been quite grasped yet.

One of the the salesmen, at Negherbon Lincoln-Mercury-Chrysler-Plymouth (what a depressing corporate litany!) an older gent, had glommed onto a dazed-looking customer in his late twenties while I was there and gradually the customer had gravitated toward the showroom Scamp. The salesmans gears kept slipping once he started to address this new little neither-nor:

"This little car - little truck - little car-like truck..." (and here he paused to catch his breath) "...is really a pretty economical litte thig, and you can haul a fair amount of stuff around in it, too."

This is not the sort of pitch that prods and pokes the dormant Animal Spirits into a buying fever; most likely nobody filled the salesman in on the fact that that's what we're up to again this year.

What was needed was something like:

"This thing moves like a bat out of hell with its ass-hairs on fire, and the money you save on gas in a week will pay off your tab at the Wild Oat Inn, and leave you with change to spare for the cigarette machine."

Still, he did the best he could under the circumstances and delayed the guy's exit for a minute or two; it's hard to have the old reflexes tuned to close-the-sale tone when the only thing you've had to practice on in months has been either the the cardboard cut-out customers who've been set up as stand-up displays or the stuffed cartoon cougar that Mercury's replaced Chauncey with."

excerpted from:

The East Bay Express (December 3, 1982)

"Drive, They Said ... reflections on a cruise down Auto Row" by Bart Bull

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jplinville · #15 03-22-2012, 02:30 AM

CRX...great little car. The Conquest would be fun to have. I'll pass on the others, especially the Rampage