Tennessee Shite: 12 June 2025 Update!

[Madman Of The People]

11 September 2013 A-Team Van update!

 

 

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem...if no one else can help...and if you can find them...maybe you can hire...The A-Team!

 

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[cort16]

At least that A-Team van's the real deal. Here they're usually lashed up out of old Day Vans with the stripe going over the window on the side or shagged out smiley faced Ford Transits.

[Madman Of The People]

At least that A-Team van's the real deal. Here they're usually lashed up out of old Day Vans with the stripe going over the window on the side or shagged out smiley faced Ford Transits.

 

 

You mean like this?

 

 

 

 

[Madman Of The People]

8th October 2013 update!

 

Let's kick things off with the non-shite spottage.

 

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Okay, now that I've got that out of the way, have some proper shite!

 

 

Mercury Comet

 

 

 

 

The world's last running (Well, I think it still runs, anyway?) Chevrolet Chevette.

 

 

 

 

A pair of Alfas.

 

 

 

 

Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu.

 

 

 

 

Chevy Luv pickup (a rebranded 1970s Isuzu).  I thought they had all rusted away by the mid-'80s.

 

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Sweet-ass Cadillac!

 

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Right-hand-drive UK-spec Fiat 500.

 

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Classic Volvo 164.

 

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[michiel]

I LUV MIKADO.

[mercrocker]

early fed spec 164E  yum yum but look at the size of that dually alongside!!

[PhilA]

 

8th October 2013 update!

 

The world's last running (Well, I think it still runs, anyway?) Chevrolet Chevette.

 

 

 

There's a beige one not far from here that's just had its' engine out, they've pumped the tires up and given it a wash. I think we might be in for a Chevette Resurruection.

 

It even has the appropriate red-lead primer daubed on with a paintbrush around the arches.

 

 

--Phil

[brickwall]

That Volvo is sweet. Great colour too!

[Madman Of The People]

I saw this thing pulling out of a gas station and had no idea what it was.  Turns out it's a Phantom Pharaoh, an ersatz Rolls Royce built around a Lincoln Town Car.  According to Jalopnik, it's one of only 20 made before the fibreglass moulds were destroyed.  Should have destroyed them sooner, it you ask me! 

 

http://jalopnik.com/for-49-900-bling-in-the-new-year-1491648395

 

 

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[rml2345]

That Phantom Pharaoh looks like they've tried to copy a Mitsuoka of some sort but failed miserably. It's God awful.

[spike60]

Good stuff, particularly like the Corvair. Good to see the 164, I used to have one which was probably the thirstiest car I've owned and I've had a few shockers!

[Madman Of The People]

A couple of German classics for your viewing pleasure.

 

Crusty looking E21 with MASSIVE Yankee-spec bumpers for sale.  Body looks much better in photos than it did up close.

 

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Clean looking Beetle.

 

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[brickwall]

Loving the beemer. looks odd with the extra added rubbery no kill ppl bumper

[cort16]

If I was BMW I'd have rather have not sold them all than let them leave the dealership looking like that.

If you removed them and fitted euro spec ones would you get your fingers wrapped?

[Madman Of The People]

If I was BMW I'd have rather have not sold them all than let them leave the dealership looking like that.

If you removed them and fitted euro spec ones would you get your fingers wrapped?

 

 

No, nobody will care.  A few enthusiasts have retrofitted Euro-spec bumpers to their E21s and early E30s, which had similarly hideous bumperage.

[brickwall]

But what happens if you hit a pregnant women carrying a pile of puppies?

[Vin]

That UK spec Fiat 500 came from Belfast. A chap called Jim Magill took it over for Fiat Freakout 2008. They drove it from New York to San Francisco. It's now in Lane's motor museum.

 

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/29/fiat-500-makes-trek-across-america/

 

Another resident of the museum is the Panda 4x4 (E505 JPY known as Juppy) that Jim also drove across America.  He first did the America thing in a 1991 Panda 1000S and has also taken over a Fiat Multipla. All for the Fiat Freakouts.

 

 

[Madman Of The People]

24 June 2014 Update!.

 

 

From the "Holy Shit, somebody actually bought one?!?!?" files........

 

A Saab 9-7X.

 

 

 

 

Old-School Buick.

 

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These Toyota Tercels were ugly when new and even uglier now.

 

 

[Madman Of The People]

5th August 2014 Update!

 

 

The 1950s rozzers are coming to get you!

 

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McLaren.

 

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Rat-Rod pickup.

 

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I don't know what a "Visage Event" is but, according to this classic Jag, it's happening on Thursday.

 

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Cool Datsun on crap wheels.

 

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DeLorean.

 

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Last of the Saab 9-5 saloons.  A rare beast, indeed!

 

[vulgalour]

Shame the back end of that Datsun is all stoved in really.  This is a quality tat spotting thread with real quality tat of the interestingly interesting and puddingy McBland sorts of things that appeal to me.

[Madman Of The People]

10th September 2014 update!

 

 

Plymouth Volare.  The only car ever to be named after a Dean Martin song.

 

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Viper.

 

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Beetle.

 

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Pontiac.

 

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Chevy.

 

 

 

 

Jensen Healey,

 

[mercrocker]

Lovin that Plymouth, slant six and three wheel trims - just how I like 'em!....Nice thread this, its time I went back to Tennessee.  

[Lukas]

Very cool car here, this Volare. I guess, not over there though...

[Madman Of The People]

Classic Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

 

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[mercrocker]

Awesome thing....There was a time when that would have towered over everything else in the car park.

[MarvinsMom]

i'm lovin the wagoneer, dunno if it is the formica down the sides, or that they were in alsorts of crap 70's and 80's telly programs but it looks the business.

 

its almost as classy as a range rover classic, IMHO.

[danthecapriman]

I love the Wagoneer, one is definitely on my bucket list. Although I prefer the similar Jeep 'Gladiator' pickup truck version, like Val and Earl used in the Tremors movies! Great looking old things! I prefer the Gladiators more utility spec front end styling.

[Skizzer]

+1 on Wagoneers.  And have a Gladiator spot from my last trip to North Carolina:

 

1962-68 Jeep Gladiator fire truck by Skizzer, on Flickr

[Madman Of The People]

17 April 2015 update.

 

1959 Edsel Ranger.

 

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Unmolested Mk II Golf GTI.  A rarity these days.

 

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Land Rover Defender 110.  It doesn't have the exoskeleton-style roll cage, which means its not one of the 500 US-spec examples sold by Land Rover for the 1993 model year.

 

[Tayne]

It doesn't have the cage because it's not a 110.

 

It's a leaf sprung 109 that dates from between 1958 and 1985. The front wings don't have the air intake so likely a Series 2 or 2a (1958-1971) but do have lower indicators and recessed headlights making me think 69-71.

The doors are 110 two-piece items from 84-88 and I think that's a Defender bulkhead.