Showing posts with label 1985. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1985. Show all posts

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Toyota LiteAce

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(Photo by me)

Sometimes, abandoned cars look like they could actually still be usable for many years and thousands of kilometres. This Toyota standing in a parking lot in a small town in Greece is quite the opposite. Hardly displaying any undamaged parts, this LiteAce from the early 1980s wears the traces of having been used hard for about three decades.
As this is what those small commercial vans were built for, not many have survived until today. And as almost nobody is interested in collecting this kind of car, they are likely to become extinct soon.


(Photo by andrewcarspotter98)

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Subaru L1800

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(Picture by Atrocity_Exhibition)

This car has been left behind in an abandoned workshop at a college and obviously became the victim of vandals. Part of the damage may also be a result of the car being used for training purposes, though.
It is a 3rd-generation Subaru Leone wagon, also known as L1800, Loyale or Omega in parts of the world.
The wagon sold best of all variants of the Leone, but still not in really big numbers.
As this model also rusted quite quickly it is almost impossible to find a good example now, 18 years after production ended.
Here is one of the few still existing:

(Photo by Spottedlaurel)

Update 19.7.12: Had to replace the originally used picture with a smaller version due to some problems with Flickr. Clicking the picture will still bring you to the full-size photo.

Update 16.3.13: The scene has changed, and not to the better.
(Photo by donebythehandsofabrokenartist)

Monday, January 31, 2011

Toyota Supra

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(Both photos by Leicestershire Vehicle Photography)

The third generation of the Supra, which was the first one not called "Celica Supra", was a nice sports car and the most expensive Toyota sold between 1986 and 1992.
The one in the pictures is from 1989 and has the most powerful engine that was available, which means it has 235hp for its 1550kg. So it only needs 6.3 seconds from 0 to 100km/h and has a top speed of 245km/h.
But obviously, this one has already been standing there for some years and would need some new tires, new paint and probably some work on the technical parts.
Then it would look like this one and would also be worth some thousand Euros again.

(Photo by Ate up with motor)

Monday, January 10, 2011

Dodge 600 Convertible

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(Photo by The New Taxiguy)
Called Dodge 400 before, this model got a facelift in 1984 and was known as Dodge 600 from then on.
The car in the picture is from 1986, the last year the convertible version was built.
41400 examples of the convertible were sold, meaning they are not a common sight today.
Without visible rust, but with flat tires, the one in the picture is sitting between other abandoned cars.
Otherwise, it could look like this (couldn't find one with covered headlights, seem to be rare):

(Photo by a cardomain user)