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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! After a 24 Hours Of LeMons race, I like to do a PCH pitting the #1 and #2 cars against each other, but this time it's going to be a bit different. You see, the #2 car in Houston was a 2nd-gen Camaro, and they're really easy projects- cheap, simple, and with ridiculously easy parts availability. That means we'll be going for a Japan-versus-Germany 80s Hot Hatch Challenge today, and you Camaro fans can console yourselves with the fact that you can fix most problems on your cars with a pipe wrench and zip-ties. For that matter, the Toyota Corolla FX16 is almost too reliable to show up here, but most of them spend their entire lives with the tach needle bouncing around the 8 grand mark and the body panels scraping telephone poles, with repairs performed by 19-year-old hoons with $9.98 Taiwanese socket sets and 12-packs of Steel Reserve to provide...
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newVideoPlayer("/87_VW_GTI_476.flv", 506, 423,""); VW's "Kleine GTI" series of ads, starting in 1984 , was still going strong three years later. Those crazy Wolfsburgers went and doubled the number of valves for that year, giving America's Members Only -clad sorority girls 123 rampaging German horses under the hood.
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newVideoPlayer("/84_VW_GTI_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Yes, it's a German version of the 1964 Ronnie And The Daytonas song "Little GTO," and while the '84 GTI had a throttle body instead of three deuces and an extra gear on the transmission, it was just like the GTO! This ad came out around the time that the Reagan Administration said it was cool to show total hoonage in car ads again (after a moratorium on car-ad jumps and burnouts that lasted through most of the Malaise Era). These things sold like crazy in California, but by now most of them have disappeared.
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newVideoPlayer("87_Peugeot_505_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Looking for a car with stepless fan blower speed? The '87 Peugeot 505 GTI has you covered! The well-dressed gentleman in this ad (which seems intended for the Canadian market, judging from the "zed" pronunciation of ZF) appears to be a somewhat bewildered car thief who just grabs any parked car that appeals to him. Some nice dirt-road hoonage, too. Too bad Peugeot pulled out of the North American market just a few years after this ad.
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