Now on the menu: old lady ass
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.
The Videos
Trying to Find a Good Nissan 300ZX on Facebook Marketplace
A classic Facebook Marketplace hunt for the last “affordable” 90s Japanese halo car turns up a bunch of Z31s and drift junk. It might be over.
The RX-7 Project Car Trap
This week’s CarTaku features a man who can’t stop blowing G6 trannies and another entrapping himself in rotary project hell. He’s not in deep enough piecing together a flat-packed Ikea-spec FC; he wants to mod it to hell along the way.
These Crime Scene Auction Cars are Packed with Junk
We return to Dickensheet, where you can buy the Scene of the Crime. Every car featured is abandoned or seized and half of them may have been private domiciles. The trash inside these cars is never short of astounding: it’s wild that the yard workers aren’t stealing all the power tools left in these things. Dickensheet clearly has a code of honor.
The News
Squeeze what? A Florida woman is the talk of her town with a racy license plate she got in the mail
Nancy Dello Stritto received her new plate, and it caused her to “go ballistic”. It’s “SQZ A55”.
“While Dello Stritto is unhappy with the configuration, she noted that others, including her sons and their friends, have encouraged her to keep it. She said the current tally is 16-1 in favor of her keeping the plate.”
The Grand Tour returns September 4th 2026 with a new cast
Speaking of ass, they went and zombified Top Gear with new hosts yet again. This never, ever works out.
The Nissan Altima Isn’t Dead Yet
When I initially read this article, it said the Altima was finally being discontinued. However, Nissan reached out to Motor1 (the Weekly World News of automotive journalism) to correct the record: it’s getting “at least” one more model year.
Either way, it’s pretty clear the guillotine is finally coming for the people’s missile. The Kia K4 has taken the throne as the #1 car to give an extra car length to on the highway.
Flock Says Its Cameras Worked ‘Correctly’ When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason
Recap: one of the writers for The Drive was out The Driving a test vehicle for review. Its license plate wasn’t an exact match for a similar stolen car in another state, but whatever, good enough. Just another in a countless line of false positives from this dogshit company.
Nissan’s R32 Skyline GT-R Is Back In Stock As A $50 Mouse
Officially licensed product by the way. They need to pack their old CEO up in a box and ship him back to Japan. Also, $50 is in the title like it’s a lot to spend on a wireless mouse. $50 seems pretty reasonable, especially when it appears to be ambidextrous (rare). Maybe I could get Nova Master in Dust 2 with this thing.
The Cars
2018 Ford Focus RS Limited Edition
No shortage of horny cars right up my alley this week. 55K on the clock in the chad color (for these; honestly the RS has wack color choices but this is as good as it gets), no accidents. Observe in horror what the American Evo sells for these days.
2006 Subaru Baja Turbo
This is one of TWO Baja Turbos listed this week on CaB. Here’s the other one. Netgear’s beats them both on style points easily. But will they sell for the $35,000 Netgear has invested in his?
2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS Coupe EJ255 Swap
Speaking of timebombs here’s a cool one. EJ255 swapped and ready to blow, the 2.5RS might be the coolest looking Subaru ever sold in America.
1995 Subaru Sambar Fire Truck
This is the kind of thing you only ever see on auction sites, importer sites, and at Cars and Coffee with the biggest geek you’ve ever seen sitting in a lawnchair next to it giggling as he fields questions about his moronic purchase. If you’re a stupid piece of shit, bookmark this one.
2004 Volvo V70R
This is the all wheel drive stick shift 80% of Subaru owners need. Check out the spaceball license plate; nice. This would be a killer daily. Imagine getting that swing-down chain link fence thing that separates the cargo from the passenger compartment? Too sick. Really nice condition interior on this one. The spaceball shifter is cool, but check out the gauge cluster as well. It’s like the Fossil watch you got for 8th grade graduation, but you can drive it.
2003 Acura CL 3.2 Type-S
I had a first gen CL v6. J30. Glass transmissions. You never see them anymore because they’re all dead. This is a second gen, 3.2 liter v6 with a stick. If it didn’t also have a Comptech supercharger slapped on, it’d probably be a very reliable and fun car. As it is, it’s probably still more reliable than my 3.0CL.
Note that CaB lists this as “rear-wheel drive”. Somebody called them out on this three days ago and they still haven’t fixed it.
1986 Toyota MR2
This is the cleanest AW11 I’ve ever seen. 24k miles and nearly flawless. Base, but still sick. Kosei K1s are doing work on this thing.
2003 Nissan 350Z Touring Coupe
38k miles and immaculate. Will the fear of the CD008 and non-HR VQ be enough to keep the price down on this one? Otherwise it’s a real gem of a 350Z (stock, not a base model). Keep your eye on this one and you’ll be grinding gears and adding quarts before you know it.
The End
Absolutely nothing of note happened with me and a car in the past week. I am noticing a slight vibration from the front end of the FiST, yet again, that starts becoming notable around 70MPH, maxes out in intensity around 80MPH, and then starts to fade into the background. I have had the tires balanced on this fucker at least three times, maybe four. They say nothing is wrong with it. When I had it inspected, the tech noted all the suspension bits were in excellent condition, nothing worthy of replacement. So what’s going on here? Bad tire? Before you guess brake rotors, it has four new rotors and did it both before and after replacing them. Some say it could be a bend in one of the wheels, that these cars are known for bending wheels. But I’ve spun them off the ground and didn’t notice any bends whatsoever. I’m going to swap the wheels front to back, because somehow I haven’t done that yet.
Truth be told my first FiST also shook a bit at highway speed, and I replaced just about everything on the front end of that car except the wheels. Have you owned a Fiesta ST? Did it shake a little bit at highway speeds? Did you ever figure out what the problem was? What wheels did you wind up buying?
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