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eBay Find of the Day: Northstar-powered 1998 Buick Riviera prototype

As we approach the big SEMA show in Las Vegas next week, it's time to look back at a previous star of the show. Sometime back in the mid-80s the decision was made that Buick would abandon V8 engines and instead be the home of the V6. Even for top models like Riviera and Park Avenue, turbocharged and supercharged versions of the long-lived 3.8-liter V6 would serve propulsive duties. Needless to say, not everyone in the bowels of the Warren Tech Center agreed with this approach. In 1998 a group of GM engineers felt the Riviera should be ... Read more →

REPORT: Police auctioning off motorized La-Z-Boy used in DWI Michael Harley

If you've ever had the urge to cruise your neighborhood in a self-propelled La-Z-Boy, your opportunity has arrived. Minnesota resident Dennis Anderson (no relation to the Gravedigger monster truck ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1987 Ford RancheroStar Sam Abuelsamid

The last time that we spotted today's eBay find of the day, it was cruising along Woodward Ave in Birmingham, MI this past summer. The RancheroStar immediately caught our attention, but evidently ...

eBay Find of the Day: George Barris' rockin' 289 Cobra-powered 1967 Voxmobile [w/VIDEO] Frank Filipponio

Feelin' Groovy? Do you like guitars, speed and attention? If so, check out eBay Motors item number 260492703795. It's the one-and-only George Barris-created Voxmobile! Powered by a Cobra 289, it's ...

Hurst SEMA Scholarship Camaro eBay Auction underway Jonny Lieberman

SEMA, Chevy, eBay and Hurst have teemed up to auction off a Hurst-tuned Camaro with the proceeds going to the SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund, "a program that fosters industry leadership by ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1984 Volkswagen GTI MkI 1 month ago on Autoblog

No doubt we've had GTI on the brain the past week or so after driving Volkswagen's new, fun, we-like-it-more-than-we-thought-we-would MkVI GTI. And if you read our review, you're aware that Volkswagen is actively trying to market the new GTI as if it's cut from the same cloth as the original ...

GM reportedly ending pilot eBay program, yet claims success 1 month ago on Autoblog

Back in August, General Motors began a pilot program in which it opened up its own eBay mega store. A total of 225 dealers had participated in the California-only pilot, but GM has decided to pull the plug on the program effective today. With the program ending instead of expanding to all of the ...

eBay Find of the Day: Hyundai-based X-4 "concept car" 1 month ago on Autoblog

Here's what to do with that Elantra GT you couldn't flip for Cash for Clunkers money. The seller is listing this "X4" as a Hyundai-based concept car, though it's unlike anything we've seen on the show circuit. A lot of work went into making this a conversation piece from what looks like parts of ...

eBay Find of the Day: Tim Allen's gruntworthy "Licorice Streak Special" 1 month ago on Autoblog

When television funnyman Tim Allen rang up Steve Moal and asked for a custom Tracknose roadster, his response was the car you see here. It's known as the "Licorice Streak Special" and it's won numerous awards in the 10 years since the Home Improvement star was handed the keys. The gang at Moal ...

eBay Find of the Day: Chrysler Imperial - Rampage edition 2 months ago on Autoblog

If you have kids, you probably know that no matter how times you tell them that two wrongs don't make a right, they still have to find out for themselves. Case in point, the 1990 Chrysler Imperial – which clearly had way more than two wrongs against it from the start – has been with ...

Despite low take-rate, GM reportedly extending eBay experiment 2 months ago on Autoblog

General Motors' experiment in selling new cars and trucks on eBay hasn't exactly been a raging success story. Despite this, America's largest automaker has extended the program, which will now run through the end of the month instead of halting on its originally scheduled ending date of September ...

eBay Find Of the Day: 2006 Maserati MC12 Corsa track machine, chassis #3/12 2 months ago on Autoblog

When Ferrari unveiled the Enzo supercar in 2002, it was the fastest, most expensive roadgoing vehicle ever to roll out of the gates in Maranello. But the exotic automaker – and its sister company Maserati – soon found that its wealthiest customers were willing and eager to pay even ...

eBay Find of the Day: Rare '69 DeTomaso Mangusta packs pedigree, Gurney engine 2 months ago on Autoblog

American muscle. Italian design. Cadillac Allanté notwithstanding, that right there is a recipe for success. And few were ever as capable of straddling that divide with one foot in each of the best of both worlds as De Tomaso. Like modern-day Pagani, De Tomaso was founded by an Argentinean ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1968 Chevrolet Corvette SCCA racer recreation 2 months ago on Autoblog

Next up on the auction block is every Corvette-loving Walter Mitty's fantasy come true, a 1968 SCCA Corvette hardtop convertible race car. Okay, maybe that's not everyone's idea of the perfect Corvette, but for those of you old enough to remember the glory days of SCCA Trans-Am racing circa ...

eBay Find of the Day: Gorgeous 1964 Lincoln Continental has a 723-hp secret 2 months ago on Autoblog

The Elwood Engel Continentals are so instantly recognizable that Lincoln borrowed some of their design cues when creating modern vehicles like the MKX crossover. These big hunks of awesome from the Sixties are still even relatively affordable, too. The seller of this gem claims that there's more ...

eBay Motors launches 2009 Motors Master Contest 2 months ago on Autoblog

We know a lot of you out there have a project car in your garage right now. It's either finished, still on the drawing board or waiting for parts (or the money to buy parts). We might be able to help you out with that last part if you have what it takes to be eBay Motors' 2009 Motors ...

REPORT: Selling cars on eBay starts off slow for GM 2 months ago on Autoblog

General Motors is hoping to get a sales boost by selling its vehicles on eBay, but so far the General's newest tactic to move metal hasn't generated much in the way of sales. The pilot program, which is currently only running at 225 California dealerships, has reportedly generated just 45 sales ...

eBay Find of the Day: BMW 3.0 CS/CSL Group 2 Racing Coupe 2 months ago on Autoblog

So how'd you like to get your hands on this? First, a little explanation of what this is. You are looking at (and hopefully bidding on) a car that began life in 1968 as a 1969 BMW 2800 CS where it served for five-months as a BMW test car. It then spent close to 40-years kicking around various ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1980 Datsun 280ZX Black Gold #1 3 months ago on Autoblog

There's a great Sam Kinison routine that goes something like this: the problem with cocaine is that it ends one of three ways. You die, you go to jail or you run out coke. Of course, there's a fourth possibility -- you buy a Black Gold Datsun 280ZX! Only, we'd hardly consider the latter a ...

eBay find of the Day: Clarkson's Cheap Car Challenge Mitsubishi Starion [w/VIDEO] 3 months ago on Autoblog

Oh, yes. Think back to when you first really fell in love with Top Gear. For this author, it was actually the Cheap Porsche Challenge. But it may as well have been the Cheap Coupes That Aren't Porsches Challenge that came later. To refresh your memory a bit, May shows up in a hopeless smoking ...

eBay Find of the Day: ex-Moonwalker video Stratos Zero replica 3 months ago on Autoblog

First of all, HA HA HA! Second, yes, this is the car used in Michael Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker. Now, even the King of Pop couldn't get Lancia to cough up the original Zero, so a replica was built by movie car maker Andy Saunders, based on a Fiat and complete with a four-cylinder engine. ...

Henderson: GM to experiment selling cars through eBay Motors 4 months ago on Autoblog

As part of its post-bankruptcy rebirth, General Motors plans to "experiment" selling its cars on eBay. At its press conference this morning, CEO Fritz Henderson let slip to members of the media that the automaker is engaged in talks with online auction site eBay "to revolutionize how people buy ...

eBay Find of the Day: Optimus Prime hiding in plain sight [w/VIDEO] 4 months ago on Autoblog

With Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen holding the number box office spot for two weeks, there couldn't be a better time for this ardent Autobot fan to be flogging his truck on eBay. Done up thoroughly enough to qualify as an Optimus Prime replica, this 1997 Peterbilt 379 wears custom PPG ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1989 Mustang Dominator, straight off the cover of Road & Track [w/VIDEO] 4 months ago on Autoblog

The Fox body was hardly a high point in the history of the Ford Mustang. But every kingdom must have a king, and in the late-'80s and early-'90s this was it: the JBA Dominator GTA. Commissioned from J Bittle American by Ford in 1989, the Dominator took the pony car to new heights, installing ...

eBay Find of the Day: Hummer H1 gets beaten with aerodynamic ugly stick 4 months ago on Autoblog

It takes a special talent to infantilize the brute strength of a Hummer H1, but someone's gone and done it with an oddly swoopy redesign. One of only two made (yes, there is another), this unique Hummer features a custom hood and front bumper, as well as a multi-section removable roof should ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1954 Bentley R-Type fastback racer 5 months ago on Autoblog

Have you got two-hundred grand to drop on a Bentley Continental? Well, then you're more fortunate than most of us, but before you head down to the local luxury dealership and place your order for the same car that everyone else in your tony gated community already owns, why not consider something ...

eBay Find of the Day: Malcolm Bricklin's very own 1970 Meyers Manx SR 5 months ago on Autoblog

The Meyers Manx SR (for "Street Roadster") was the roadgoing version of Meyers' seminal, frog-eyed dune buggy. There were ten built at Meyers' factory in Fountain Valley, and the 1970-vintage example you see above was built for that other kit car icon, Malcolm Bricklin. For sale right now on ...

eBay Find of the Day: $45,000 hot rod couch 5 months ago on Autoblog

Loving all that is automotive is slightly different than living all that is automotive. One of the distinguishing factors is how automotively-influenced your furniture is. If you bought your sofa because it reminds you of your M3's upholstery, you're in the love group. If, however, you can ...

eBay find of the day: n2a Motors 789 serial #001 6 months ago on Autoblog

The n2a Motors 789 is perhaps the ultimate automotive expression of retro styling. Based on a C6 Corvette chassis and using hand-crafted carbon composite body panels, the 789 features styling cues from 1957, '58, and '59 Chevrolets. Just over 20 of these unique cars have been built over the past ...

eBay Find of the Day: Damaged ZR1 on the cheap 6 months ago on Autoblog

We figured it was just a matter of time before a cracked-up Corvette ZR1 found its way onto eBay, and thanks to (we're assuming) a ham-fisted driver hailing from Fort Worth, Texas, a slightly marred example of Chevy's hottest Corvette can be yours for the Buy-It-Now price of $97,500. According ...

eBay Finds of the Day: Pontiac Vibe GT-R and G6 GXP SEMA showcars 6 months ago on Autoblog

Pontiac fans are undoubtedly going to miss the role-out of new concept cars from the not-long-for-this-world GM division. But for a lucky two, that thrill can be experienced every day on their own driveway as two past Pontiac show cars have popped up on eBay Motors for sale. First up is the ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1965 Frua-bodied Coombs Jaguar E-Type prototype 6 months ago on Autoblog

In 1965, a Jaguar dealer named John Coombs got an idea for an exclusive model. He was doing well selling modified Jaguar Mk 2 sedans, and asked Italian coachbuilder Pietro Frua – yes, the man behind this Camaro – to rework a red E-Type as a test lure for cash-heavy customers. Pietro ...

eBay Find of the Day: Crazy Horse - 1967 Ford Mustang with butterfly doors and folding hardtop 6 months ago on Autoblog

According to this eBay seller, this is the only 1967 Ford Mustang ever fitted with a retractable hardtop. As we've never seen one before (or one wearing butterfly doors, for that matter), we'll give the auctioneer the benefit of the doubt. In any case, this restomod 'Stang has been ...

eBay Find of the Day: George Barris Oldsmobile Toronado 67X 6 months ago on Autoblog

As the story goes, Esso Oil asked custom car guru George Barris (he of Batmobile, Munster Koach and Drag-u-la fame) to create four custom Oldsmobile Toronado coupes for the 1967 Canadian Expo. The car you see above is dubbed Toronado 67X, and according to the seller on eBay, it is one of the ...

eBay Motors now offering local searches, Paukert rejoices 7 months ago on Autoblog

Put another nail in the coffin of newspapers. We say this without glee, as one of the classic car-guy respites – sitting with a cup of coffee and the classifieds, looking for interesting local vehicles to rescue or dream about – has been dealt yet another blow. eBay Motors, one of our ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1995 Lincoln Sentinel Concept 7 months ago on Autoblog

Looking like a 1961 Continental reimagined thirty years on, the Lincoln Sentinel concept caused quite a stir on the show circuit back in the mid-'90s. Eventually, the not-quite-a-runner sedan somehow wound up in Hardeeville, South Carolina, where a dealer is now looking to unload it for ...

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Autoblog Podcast #151: With Car and Driver's Eddie Alterman

Eddie Alterman wades in with Sam, Chris, Dan, and Jonny to talk about SEMA and other recent events.

 
 

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