By Robert Emslie
Did you know that AMC introduced the Gremlin to the world on April Fools Day? Yep, April 1, 1970 saw the debut of American Motors’ import fighter, no joke! Hopefully no one pulled any pranks on you this past April Fools day, but if so, you can take solace in this week’s Mystery Car contest, where we’re trying to fool you, but in a good way. As always, make and model FTW.
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Kamil Kaluski
I hate when I can’t remember the actual name of something even though I’m pretty sure I know exactly what it is. It’s the only product of the Buehrig Motor Company – possibly just called the Buehrig Motor Car, but I can’t remember the model name – it’s made out of Corvette bits so it’s got a 350 V8 in there, and I think it was ’79 or ’80. Here’s a blue one. I don’t think it hit serial production, but they must have made more than one since that’s orange.
http://www.veteran.ro/images/user/image/articole/Muzeul_Auburn_Cord_Dusenberg/Buehrig_prototype_1979_02.jpg
This is also the guy who designed the Cord 810, surprisingly enough.
I know it because it had a photo feature in some magazine my parents got me, and it was just so weird I never forgot it. Outside of the name.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nx6_hTvf36o/UEIay5BUq7I/AAAAAAABYyA/r95CkNjxgPs/s800/1979_Buehrig_Coupe_01.jpg
That does look like a good match. It appears they indeed made more than one.
Holy Carp!! My fellow Hoons are unstoppable!!