Can You Guess The Three Cars The Autopian Has Tried To Buy This Week?

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The most common question in our Slack is: “Should I buy this?” Usually, it’s David, but we all have our weaknesses. David is obviously obsessed with balancing out his fleet of new-to-him cars with some old rusted iron. Jason somehow manages to find increasingly obscure Volkswagens that the average car person wouldn’t even recognize (“Oh, a Courier!“). Mercedes seems to want to purchase a motorcycle every week and Thomas, as we’ll find out, has a soft spot for German cars. For my part, I have about as hard a time resisting European Fords as The Bishop has resisting the siren call of the ponies. I realize the last bit there isn’t a car thing but, please, don’t talk about horse racing around The Bishop. With the exception of SWG, who is constantly flipping cars, we talk about buying cars way more than we actually buy cars. That changed this week.

I’ll reveal the first car today because it’s safely purchased and titled. I’ll let you guess at the other two because one is still semi-theoretical and the other one, though we’ve agreed on a price, hasn’t been technically purchased yet. Let’s start with the one that happened.

Mazel Tov Thomas!

Thomas Boxster

The ruckus was “The Detroit Auto Show.” Also, Thomas did not, for the record, kill a guy. He’s innocent! (Tommy Lee Jones voice “I don’t care“).

Boxster 2

That’s a good ass dibs.

Boxster Three

I love those Crossfires so much. SWG has the best, and worst, taste.

Here’s a slightly easier one and this is the one that, technically, David has not purchased yet. He hasn’t even agreed to purchase it yet:

Truck Talk

That should be pretty easy to figure out. There are a lot of clues there.

This final one is a car that we’ve worked out a deal for, but we really don’t want to reveal it until it’s safely in our hands.

That David Car

Any guesses?

 

 

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48 thoughts on “Can You Guess The Three Cars The Autopian Has Tried To Buy This Week?”

    1. You’re close. That is a Dodge bed, but the truck is a Studebaker Champ. Weirdly Studebaker used old Dodge beds to try and make their trucks look more modern, when they were in their last gasps of existence. They don’t fit the cab AT ALL, but that’s how they left the factory.

  4. Gotta be a Studebaker pickup OR it’s one of the final years you could get a Mercury branded F-series pickup for the Canadian market.

    I think a very interesting story piece could be how studebaker went in a different V8 design direction compared to the big 3 and how they somehow cobbled together their own (not licensed from BW, etc..) in-house automatic transmission with a much smaller budget compared to the big 3.

    1. It’s definitely a Studebaker. Look how poorly the bed fits the cab. It’s so weird that the factory did these that way! I mean, I know why they did it, but it doesn’t make it less weird.

      “I think a very interesting story piece could be how studebaker went in a different V8 design direction compared to the big 3 and how they somehow cobbled together their own (not licensed from BW, etc..) in-house automatic transmission with a much smaller budget compared to the big 3.”

      That would be interesting! I don’t know anything about either of those topics.

      1. Studebaker V8 : Probably the most “overbuilt” V8 design in every way, gear-driven cams, designed for efficiency, later years had supercharged options. The downfall at launch was that Studebaker thought that after WWII with all the advancements in high-octane fuel for aviation, that high-octane fuel would have a much bigger future and may be standardized for all cars…which wasn’t the case.

        Studebacker Automatic : 3 speed and a lockup torque converter and it debuted in 1950, also had a hill-hold feature (but it was brake based). They couldn’t afford the production costs and Ford was desparate for the unit and wanted to pay big $$ for studebaker automatics to be put in to Fords…Studebaker declined and had to abandon it to Borg Warner (who did help heavily to design it, so I wasn’t totally right about that). BW then sold what was really the Studebaker automatic to European automakers such as Jaguar.

        “1951 Commander with the new 120 hp OHV V8, tested by three magazines, the average 0-60 time was 17.0 seconds, about 4-5 seconds more than with a manual transmission. 1/4 mile times averaged at 20.8 seconds, top speed 95.9 mph, and fuel economy 22.3 mpg, a very good number considering the times, and for a V8 powered sedan”

        If Studebaker had sold the transmissions to Ford, it probably would have saved the company or at least given them a longer life.

  5. I thought David’s was a teal J-Truck at first (Jeep is THE orphan brand as its constantly moved to new foster homes). The front looks almost like the early rhino grill, the bumper looks right.

    But the bed, wheel arch aint it.

    I’m gonna go with a Studebaker, as it has some similar features.

  6. Every time Gossin gets abbreviated as SWG, I think Star Wars Galaxies?

    I’m going with Studebaker. The blurry box looks like it doesn’t line up with the blurry cab.

    2. Totally agree! Dala has enough info online and with David’s tools, he should be in for a battery swap. I will totally fly in to help him if he’s scared of the HV pack.

  12. Is it a 1973 Denbeigh Super Chauvinist Mark VII Saloon? 32 miles is the exact interval between fill-ups on Lucas wiring smoke, so good clue there.

    1. I went the other way–I immediately thought of International, but the “orphan brand” hint made me go to Studebaker. It doesn’t look quite right, but the blurring may just be playing tricks on my brain.

  17. Also, Thomas did not, for the record, kill a guy.

    Okay, we’re with you on this. Where should we say we saw him? Not too many details or it won’t be believable.

    1. He got to the Lumiere Rouge around 6 and was there all night. Him and Torch argued about something. If pushed for more details say you think it was about taillights that look like a Jeep.

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