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Topic: eBay Finds of the Week, 12/15: Rad Era!

Phew, have had a couple of crazy weeks, but I'm back with some super 1980s and 1990s machines on eBay right now!

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vK4AAOSwpFtjjh6a/s-l1600.jpg

Winner, Winner - 1979 Buick Starfire Firenza - 305, automatic, crusty...the only one of the Monza quartet we haven't had in Lemons. LOOK AT THAT PAINT JOB. Slap a number on it and bring this MoFo. Yeah, yeah...it's a 1979, but these lasted easily until at least 1982 on the road.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155303147422

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/pzMAAOSwLzljllHG/s-l1600.jpg

1989 Citroen CX Prestige - Already on a trailer, so obviously can't be too bad, amirite? This is an IOE leader already. Must be hydropneumatic suspension, but I know absolutely nothing else about these.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/144851233414?h … SwLzljllHG

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/DEYAAOSw1ytjm2Ks/s-l1600.jpg

1983 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit - Four words sum it better than I can: Theft Recovery Rolls Royce. Boom. Do it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/304740288395?h … Sw1ytjm2Ks

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4m0AAOSwDLljl9Fb/s-l1600.jpg

1981 Checker - Yep. 1981, you read that right. The 1983 Checker was supposed to be Citation-based...wonder why that didn't work. Anyway, the V8 in this is possibly a Chevy 267, maybe a 305. Either way, extremely effluent.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285074047826

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HXwAAOSw13FjW~YT/s-l1600.jpg

1981 Firebird - Speaking of 1981, this was also the end of the second-gen F-Body. Buick 231 with an automatic. This thing probably has about as much WHP as a 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage. It also can be found in its natural environment where you'll pick it up.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134358875490?h … Sw13FjW~YT

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5PQAAOSwviJjk7F3/s-l1600.jpg

1988 Pontiac Fiero - THE GOOD YEAR OF THE FIERO WHEN THEY GOT IT ALL RIGHT AND THE BEAN COUNTERS MURDERED WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST GM PRODUCT OF ALL TIME. Still an Iron Duke.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325456907709?h … SwqUpjk7F3

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q~EAAOSw9n5jmk6P/s-l1600.jpg

1993 Ford Probe GT - V6 with a stick and a flame job! It was clearly the seller's baby and the seller seems desperate for it not to go to scrap...Lemons is better, right?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155311352867

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LdwAAOSwbntjmoFM/s-l1600.jpg

1995 Eclipse GST - Was this a direct competitor of the Probe GT? I feel like it probably was. People remember the Eclipse as being a better car, but I really, really don't think that's the case. Maybe prove me wrong.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204187004989?h … SwX8tjmoFL

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VJ8AAOSw41hjki0y/s-l1600.jpg

Toyota Paseo w/stick - You know what had 80 fewer horsepower and will probably round kick the ass of both the Eclipse and the Probe? Yep, this thing. I don't know why there aren't more Paseos in Lemons. They're not remotely exciting—it's the sporty Tercel!—but they have four moving parts and Toyota built all of them so they just effing work.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/304738866247?h … Sw3D9jki0v

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zCAAAOSw6BhjmSC0/s-l1600.jpg

1977 Datsun 720 - Again, not an 1980s vehicle, but the Sunkist paint scheme is straight 1985. I don't care if you race this, this thing is cool as hell and someone in this community should own it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165832453411?h … SwEo5jmSAC

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Re: eBay Finds of the Week, 12/15: Rad Era!

therood wrote:

Winner, Winner - 1979 Buick Starfire Firenza

This is your father's Oldsmobile...

1982 MG Metro 1300: IOE 2015 Pacific Northworst GP, Longest Distance 2010 Cd'L Box Wine Country Classic
1980 KV Mini 1: Worst of Show and Fright Pig Supremo 2009 Concours d'Lemons
1978 H Special: Second-Round Elimination 2010 Lemons Pinewood Derby at Sears Pointless
1967 SAAB 96: IOE 2012 Pacific Northworst GP, Organizer's Choice 2022 Hell on Wheels California Rally
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Re: eBay Finds of the Week, 12/15: Rad Era!

The Paseo weighs around 2000lbs as a stick. You can strip it down even further and even with the rated 90hp, it won't be the slowest car out there.

1992 Saturn SL2 (retired) - Elmo's Revenge -  Class B winner, Heroic Fix winner x2
1969 Rover P6B 3500S(sold) - Super G-Rover - I.O.E Winner, Class C Winner
1996 Saturn SW2 - Elmo's Revenge (reborn!), Saturn SL1  Dazzleshipm Class C and IOE winner
1974 AMC Javelin - Oscar's Trash heap - IOE,”Organizer's Choice" and "I got Screwed" award winner
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Re: eBay Finds of the Week, 12/15: Rad Era!

oh man, are you on a roll !!!!
i may have to buy that Citroën for my wife!!!

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Re: eBay Finds of the Week, 12/15: Rad Era!

I need to grab that Rolls. I just had an 82 model show up. PARTS BABY!!!!!!!