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Wheel Choices: 1980 Porsche 924
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The Porsche 924 is a dainty little thing, especially when you compare it to more modern street hardware. That’s a good reason to be quite conservative when you consider wheels for it, in case one wants to upgrade from the original 14- or 15-inch wheels. In this case, one of the Porsche’s owners has boldly…
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Weekend Edition – Tampere Sightings: Land Rover Discovery Td5
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In addition to the two swoopy Japanese grocery-getters, this ultra-blocky British invader could be spotted on the same parking lot. Perhaps parking right next to the construction zone was deliberate, as the Land Rover Discovery could most likely make easy progress through the rocks, sand and gravel. It even has a snorkel just in case the…
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Weekend Edition – Tampere Sightings: Toyota Celica 1.8 GSi
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In case you caught a glimpse of an electric blue Celica in the background of the previous Micra shots, you’re in for a treat. I did actually have time to take a couple photos of the Toyota, too. And as it so often is with these ones in here, this Toyota Celica is the base…
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Truck Thursday: 1979 Datsun 1500 Truck (620)
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It’s a pretty handy coincidence, after running a Datsun-Nissan weekend edition and including a photo of the exact same kind of 620-series truck, I noticed this one parked at a service station close by. It’s not exactly a common sight here, as most of these were probably run to the ground before the mid-1990s and…
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Exercises in Plasti-Dip: Volkswagen Golf MKIV
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This mud-coloured, completely matte Mark-Four VW Golf has been appearing on this Helsinki street every now and then. I walked for a cheap pizza – one that sadly found its final demise in the hands of my brother after I foolishly planned to save half of it for the next day – and on the…
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Surprise Brougham: 1996 Cadillac Deville Concours
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Suppose it’s Monday. Wait, it is Monday. Ugh. Anyway, when you get over the fact that the working week has started and brought a slush storm with it, and you go for groceries later in the day, an honestly weird car sighting is something that can really lift up your spirits. No, it wasn’t the…
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Helsinki Street Sightings: 1984 Mazda 323 DX
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On some grey, overcast days you never see anything that really turns your head. Well, as a car guy, you care a little about everything. Just a little. And then there are sunny days that really bring out the red on some small, boxy econo-hatches such as this 1984 Mazda 323. Look at it! Over…
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Helsinki Street Sightings: 1993 Skoda Forman
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Following the Eastern European street furniture in an earlier post by our Kamil, here’s a newly Czech car doing daily service in Finland. Czechoslovakia was peacefully split into two countries on January 1st, 1993, and this car was first registered late in the year, so the odds are that the Skoda Forman here was built…
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Helsinki Street Sightings – Rover 600-series
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How would you like your mid-1990s Honda Accord, sir? As an American-built car from Ohio? Or perhaps a Japanese one? Or as a re-dressed, widened version of the very JDM Honda Ascot Innova, which the European Accord essentially was? Nope, for true class you would want it decorated with a Viking ship. No matter how…
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Black Pepper: Volkswagen Lupo GTI
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The Volkswagen Lupo was never sold here new, but some examples have been imported here privately in the latter years. You can take your Lupo pick from usual 1.4 petrol engines, or go for different TDI versions, the three-pot, 78mpg 3L TDI being the more interesting of those. But this GTI version is probably the…
