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You’ve probably seen offroad VW bugs before, and we’ve recently talked about offroad VW vans (convertibles with reinforced roll cages), but here’s another sand dune-happy German model: the Karmann Ghia.
Actually these have competed in the Baja 1000 races (various particular Ghias), including one that came up for sale recently on 401 Dixie Volkswagen. It’s the orange one with the #3 in the photo gallery “[T]his VW coupe is said to have been prepped for off-road racing in the late 1970s. It received some substantial suspension modifications, the quite necessary oversized tires, skid plate, cut fenders, and a hearty racing motor to propel it. And if that weren’t grin-worthy enough, it allegedly competed at the 1979 and 1981 Baja 1000.” We put a bug in there too for comparison and good measure.
1954 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible
An all-American classic, the Chevrolet Corvette has held many jobs over its illustrious career, including pace car for the Indianapolis 500 (thirteen times), endurance racecar (in Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans for instance), NASA sponsor (Chevrolet set up a program that allowed astronauts to purchase slightly used Corvettes at a low price), and movie star (appearing in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon as the character “Sideswipe”).
Once made in Flint, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri, the Corvette now calls Bowling Green, Kentucky its home, and has been given the title “Official Sports Car of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.” Named after a warship with later designs inspired by Mako sharks, the Corvette has evolved over seven generations to become one of the most beloved sports cars in America.
This particular one came up on Hemmings a while back out of St Louis for just under $80k. Dig that Sportsman red exterior matched with red vinyl interior!
“In 1951, the initial seed was planted at GM by the legendary Harley Earl, creator of the GM Art and Color department which was the predecessor to automobile styling departments around the world. Although essentially classified as a Harley Earl design, the first Corvette was actually sketched up by a young stylist named Bob McLean for the 1953 Motorama. Over the next several months the Corvette quickly took shape in the form of a clay model in late 1952 and shortly thereafter, a running prototype finished just in time for the show. By the end of 1953 the first production Corvettes rolled off the “line” in Flint, Michigan, essentially hand built cars, the 1953s are the rarest of all Corvettes with only 300 units produced. In 1954, production moved to St. Louis, Missouri to a new facility capable of building hundreds of cars per month. Although people loved the new Corvette, 1954 sales were slow and more than 1,100 units still sat on showroom floors at the end of the model year! Faced with sluggish sales, GM’s top brass panicked and almost ended Corvette before it had a chance to get started. The introduction of the V-8 in 1955 saved the Corvette and breathed new life into the model, sales rocketed and the legendary automotive milestone was assured a bright and prosperous future.”
You can see our gallery for this one below. All the images on our website expand when you click them, so you can get a better look.
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A Way for Small Vehicles to Function as RVs
So for people who drive smaller vehicles but still want to go camping or RV road-tripping, what are the options. Here’s one, anyway – a vehicle that has a pop roof plus a covered tarp area. Really, when you’re driving it doesn’t even look like an RV, and the RV parts of it don’t take much space when in storage mode. Also, check out that hitch, which kind of acts like a truck bed for storage.
Found this one interesting of the Japanese compact crossover being offered for sale in Craigslist has completed with Ecamper equipment. As shown here, it’s a 2005 Honda Element EX All-Wheel-Drive version that was assembled in Ohio by East Liberty. The car has been modified and upgraded into camper with tons of extras.
Unique overland modified, it could be a perfect vehicle for weekend or to took him out on the RVing season, asking $22750 located in Ballard, Seattle. Interested please read details below.
This particular unit, that we saw for sale a while back on RV and Camper actually made a 9 month trip from Seattle to Peru and back.
Specifications
2005 Honda Element EX
VIN: 5J6YH27685L034267
condition: good
cylinders: 4 cylinders
drive: 4wd
fuel: gas
odometer: 117200
paint color: orange
size / dimensions: 16 x 6 x 7.2
title status: clean
transmission: manual
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