Jalopnik points us to this nutty, 1978 245 for sale on eBay. With a 410hp Chevy V8, it’ll get you to the local 7-11 pretty damn quick.
Pro-Street Purple Brick
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Category Archives: Other People’s Bricks
Drifty Brick
With my lower ground clearance I’m finding that little patches of snow between ruts on the road are scraping the underside of my brick. Parallel parking is a particular challenge, as I just jam it into reverse and plow over snow drifts until I can’t move anymore. The snow I drove into last night had been deep enough to slightly elevate the chassis and gave the rear wheels even worse traction than usual. I had to rock back and forth about 5 minutes before breaking free.
Driving around town is fun tho. Not as exhilarating as the rubber-burning brick seen above, but as much fun as you can have w/ RWD, no traction control, tight streets and vast sheets of ice.
Salty Brick
The car above was “just visiting” and not attempting to race the Bonneville Salt Flats at 200+mph. Still looks cool tho.
A tip from a reader sent me to the site of “Stealth” and his “Streak“, a 1984 242ti. Lots of useful info and photos of RWD turbo projects.
242 V8 Burnout
Drive your Brick to a Hotel Already
Ich Will? Not So Much.
Here’s some Rammstein for your weekend.
This weird video has 11 ladies laying their hair on a 245. Don’t know what the video is for. A shampoo photo shoot? Whatever, I find it creepy and sexist.
Latte Sippers
Took this outside the B&N. I’m sure we were both buying a copy of the NY Times.
Drunken Brick
This is what happens when you feed your Volvo too much moonshine. @$!*!
Who Needs Mufflers?
Um… huh?
Black Death on Wheels
This war-weary brick was preparing for an epic confrontation at the Sussex, NJ state fairgrounds a couple weeks ago. I wasn’t able to catch the evenings event but spoke with the owner, Joe, and found out this was his third demolition derby with a Volvo 240. He totaled his first 244 but this 245 lived to smash another day after an oil fire put him out in the middle of competition last year. He tells me he makes the entry fee by selling plastic interior parts to bricksters in Europe.
I tried to contact the driver last week to find out how he did but haven’t heard back. Joe, if you’re out there, send us a report!