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GM’s Oldsmobile Division made some of the plushest, most heraldic-crest-bedecked, fake-wood-interior land yachts of The Brougham Era, which peaked in about 1981 but still had some strength as late as 1990. Here’s a proper Regency Brougham, spotted not long ago in a Denver self-service wrecking yard. The Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight went through 12 generations between its […]
A rare “Rambo Lambo,” an American-spec 1990 LM002 that was Lamborghini‘s first SUV and arguably the first high-performance sport utility, has sold at auction in New York for $ 467,000. RM Sotheby’s says the luxury ute, which has 19,153 miles on the odometer, underwent a comprehensive five-year mechanical and cosmetic restoration and was originally priced […]
1990 was an interesting year for those shopping for rear-wheel-drive Volvo station wagons. Close to the end of that year, customers in Volvo showrooms could choose between three related but very different wagons: the original 240, the new 1991 940, and the in-between 740. Here’s an example of the middle member of the overlapping Volvo […]
When Diamond Star Motors, a Chrysler-Mitsubishi joint venture, came online in the late 1980s, the first products to come out of the Normal, Illinois assembly plant were versions of the first-generation of the Mitsubishi Eclipse. There was the Eclipse itself, the Eagle Talon, and the Plymouth Laser. Here’s a somewhat tattered example of the latter […]
The third-generation Daihatsu Charade could be purchased in the United States for the 1988 through 1992 model years, but competition against the likes of the Ford Festiva, Geo Metro, Subaru Justy, and Pontiac LeMans proved too tough for the relatively unknown Japanese marque. You won’t see many Charades (or Rockies) today, but this gold ’90 […]
