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The fastest American car around the Nurburgring isn’t a Corvette anymore
…allegedly
This is Collector Car TL;DR: a weekly recap of what happened on Collector Car Feed, plus car auctions, listings, automotive news, and other things of interest to the average CCF Enjoyer, and you can get it weekly by giving me your email address.
The Videos
We Found MORE Stolen Cars on Facebook Marketplace
The Stolen Cars trilogy continued last Monday with this video. We found a car being sold out from under the bank, a Chromebook being sold out from under a school, and much more in the same vein.No title, if you know you know: even more stolen Facebook Marketplace cars
This concludes the Stolen Cars Trilogy; unfortunately we kind of run out of stolen cars here, but there’s still plenty of weird Facebook Marketplace junk. Did you know Maxpeedingrods makes coilovers for the Buick Century? Me neither, but there’s a slammed one in this video.We found something unbelievably expensive at the junkyard
Netgear copped a sick pull at the yard and tells us all about it. This is another important lore-building video for real CCF heads and ends with an edit I’m pretty proud of, so this is my one-video recommendation for the week.The News
The 2027 Nissan Z Visits the Plastic Surgeon, and the Nismo Now Comes With a Manual
Nissan just facelifted that car you saw on the street, driving the other direction, one time, three years ago. They will also now sell you the ~$70,000 version of this thing with a manual gearbox. Honestly it looks good, and “more stick shifts” isn’t a bad thing. It’s just hard to get excited for anything this ghost of a once-great marque does. Good luck, Nissan.Mazda Promises To Keep The Next Miata Under 2,200 Pounds
The next Miata won’t be a pig, or even a hybrid as some have guessed. It’s going to remain the same well-balanced enthusiast-forward car, bought new almost exclusively by non-enthusiast retirees, that it has been for almost forty years. We appreciate you, Mazda.The Ford Mustang GTD Might Have Just Destroyed the Chevy Corvette ZR1X’s Nurburgring Lap Record
Ford is, allegedly, at time of writing, now the fastest American around the ‘Ring. The absurd Mustang GTD is now, allegedly, the second-fastest production car, EVER, around the ‘Ring. Have I mentioned lately that Ford didn’t take bailout money back in ’08-’09, or ever in its history?Kansas Joins Growing List of States to Pass Racetrack Protection Laws
The Kansas House of Representatives just passed, unanimously, a bill to protect existing racetracks from NIMBYs who choose to buy homes in subdivisions near them. This is not performative: dorks actually complain about the noise coming from racetracks they choose to live near, and actually get racetracks shut down. It really happens, but no more will it happen in Kansas. Iowa And North Carolina have already passed similar legislation, and ten additional states (not listed) have proposed similar bills.The Cars
2000 Honda Civic Si
This is a beautiful example of an EM1 and will go for a fortune. 76,900 miles verified, single owner, stock. It has some sunburn on the roof, but that’s not going to stop this car from reaching $20K.
1996 Buick Roadmaster Sedan
Another beautiful example: this time a desirable American neoclassic. We love a good boat here. Imagine going on a road trip in this thing; if nothing else you’d be very, very comfortable. Everybody even gets their own ashtray!
2009 Rossion Q1
I’m including this only because I’ve never seen or heard of it. I assumed it was a Fiero-based kit car, but it’s a ground-up kit with a carbon fiber monocoque. Something different.
1993 Mercedes-Benz 500SL
And here we have Doug’s weekly humiliation ritual, in which he says only nice things about one of the worst looking cars you’ve ever seen. Really zoom in on this wrap job. Even in the first picture it’s just awful. Scroll down to the comments and have a laugh at the seller saying it was wrapped by him and “someone who is familiar with wrapping”. I wouldn’t let this person wrap a Christmas present, they might lose a finger on the scissors. Holy god what an awful looking job.
1993 Acura Integra LS Coupe
Another nice verified low mileage Honda that will go for a small(er) fortune, this second-gen Integra is unfortunately not a GS-R, and is a little crusty around the edges. You can still bank on $10K or better here regardless.
1992 Nissan 240SX SE
This car is really only notable because 240s don’t really come up for auction much on either BaT or CaB. This is the second on Cars and Bids in the past six months, and third in the past year and a half. Scrolling back even farther to the beginning of Doug’s Bring a Trailer knockoff, this is only the 21st 240SX CaB has listed since the platform’s inception during the coronavirus pandemic.
As for the car itself, it’s your usual swapped 240SX: a mishmash of parts. Mystery Meat. There’s nice parts, there’s confusing absences, there’s modern stuff, there’s parts that look like they were installed decades ago. It’s a project car, but with SR20s priced like it’s a week before Race Wars, I expect $20K or more on this.The End
Sheesh, somebody got a Super Street magazine calendar that matches up with 2026 days, AND a Scion CD today. You really should have signed up for the mailing list already! Scroll up.
I finally found a set of Recaros for my FiST, but they’re a ten hour round trip drive away, so I’m probably doing that right now! I also replaced my rear pads and rotors, and will be doing the fronts this week as well. I’m still hunting a minor vibration in the front end that only shows up around 50-80 MPH. Thinking it’s a wheel bearing.
The midwest is warming up, so it’s time to get moving. What did you work on this past week?
See you Soon.
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Easy S14 Project: Buy This Nissan 240SX
Look at this thing. Yeah, it has some negatives, but take in the positive. It’s a 240SX. It’s complete. The body is straight. There’s no visible rust whatsoever. It’s a five lug SE and the owner has had it for four years without taking the stock wheels off, so you know he’s a responsible adult. It has a hair over 100k miles, and if you don’t like this one, head over to ccf.com/cars to find hundreds of other 240SX listings.
Yes, it’s an automatic. On the high end, you’re $2000 in parts and rough day in the driveway away from a manual. Yes, the paint is fried. But it looks like there’s no real bodywork to do, so you’re only a couple grand out from this thing shining like new.
He’s asking $8500, which is exceptionally reasonable. Offer $7k and haggle, and you might have a pristine (resprayed) S14 Zenki for just a bit over ten grand, with what is considered low mileage in the S chassis community. This is an excellent base for a very nice project, and I hope you shoot him a message.
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Double Your Money With This DC2 Acura Integra GS-R
I like the Integra Type R. I like it a lot. Stitch welded chassis, obscene bright paint schemes, and decals that launched a decade of Autozone rice aisle sales. But I will never own one, and neither will you. The ITR market has exploded much like the Mk4 Supra and many other desirable 90s JDMs, and now, for most of us, save the oil barons and crypto bros, they’re out of reach, and they’re never coming back.
But, you can still get the next best thing, if you keep your ear to the rail that is ccf.com/cars, stay vigilant, and react quickly. The GS-R is the more common, less refined little brother to the ITR. No stitch welded chassis, no suede interior, but it still has the B18 and it’s ready to party. It’s also way cheaper than a Type R: while your average ITR on Bring A Trailer will pull over $40,000 and sometimes breach the six figure mark, GS-Rs tend to sell in the teens, even with mileage similar to the gem pictured in this article, which I recently found on Facebook Marketplace with an asking price of $6900.
Bright red, fat fives, 100% stock, no rust, and 156K on the clock. I’ve found two examples on Bring A Trailer with similar mileage, one selling for $13,750 and the other for $15,250, both within the past four months.
So what are you waiting for? If you’re in Ohio, empty your checking account and pick up this quintessential 1990s Honda hot hatch. Bet it on red and double your money.
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Goodbye, Daily Deals
Daily Deals, the near-daily blog post featuring a half broken list of Facebook Marketplace cars you’ve been getting spammed to your inbox for months, is coming to an end.
If you’re a daily reader of Daily Deals, don’t worry too much. I’m making a new page that will update daily with good deals found on ccf.com/cars. I’ll post about it when it’s live.
So why pull Daily Deals? Because it severely clutters the news feed. We have actual content we’ve created going up multiple times per week, and I want the feed to be nice and clean, a showcase for all of our work. Unfortunately, DD gets less views than our features, and really just looks bad in its current state. We’re trying to at least look half professional, here, after all. This is also to improve our mailing list. I only want to deliver you a morning email if there’s actually something on the site to read.
In other site news, Ebay listings are returning, and I’m going to start sunsetting the forum in favor of /cars inside the next month. If you’ve bookmarked any of the forum pages, they’ll start redirecting to /cars but filtered to your chosen make/model/generation. The forum has been a spam magnet from jump and is made obsolete by /cars, so it’s time to stop supporting it.
I know for most of you, this doesn’t really affect you in any way. If you have any concerns about DD or the forum, let me know. /cars is, for the most part, much more user friendly than the forum, but if I’ve missed or broken something, just shoot me an email and let me know.
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Toyota GR86 Warranty Claim DENIED Over Social Media Photos: Engine Blew Up During AUTOCROSS
Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.
In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.
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The Bring A Trailer Guessing Game: Nice Price or No Dice #4
Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.
In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.
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Real Boomer Content: Mecum Orlando 2022 Coverage
Today, we try to attract some boomers to the site, to help even out the overwhelming weeaboo population, by watching Mecum Orlando 2022. It’s the final hour of the final day: what will roll across the auction block? Probably some cars from the 1960s and 1970s.