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It’s built on a modified Suzuki Samurai chassis, and it’s running a V6 from a Chevy S-10. This would be like if you had the power of your 4wd Blazer with a tiny wheelbase and only about 1300 lbs curb weight. Now that has to be fun! Check out the eBay auction.

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It was built as a turn-key show car, and it’s got 3 miles on the 454 big block. The custom-fabbed nose is “held in place with 24K gold plated Dzus fasteners”…yeah, those must make it go faster, right. Perhaps more remarkably, it’s entirely street legal and functional, right down to working windshield-wash nozzles and other everyday creature comforts that seem a little out of place on such an uber-built trailer queen. Yep, and the seller is calling it an ISCA show car and wants 100 grand for it. Check out the auction on eBay!

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The spectacle of this Gulf Racing livery DeLorean, at the very least, settles one thing: this iconic paint scheme, which I’d briefly considered, will not work on my diesel Escort. In fact, the only car I’ve every really thought the garish Sunny-D-and-baby-blue warpaint looks right on is the Ford GT40. Mercifully, the color scheme is actually a vinyl wrap, which could presumably be peeled off and the original bare stainless steel cleaned up. And the DeLorean is currently for sale on eBay. Take a look!

Via Autoblog.

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I’ve never had to deal with serious floor-pan rust on a frame-off car before, but I’ve often been blindsided to find a relatively pristine-looking ride that’s actually rotting from the inside out. Like this alleged Hurst Olds on eBay–you’re staring right through the floor at the road!

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What does it take to get an Express Van to sell for $100K in Moscow? I’m not sure. But at that price, this KronKraft coach had better be bulletproof too. The interior is pretty cool though. Check out the auction on eBay!

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I love the Unimog in any form, but I think this zombie-crushing camper version is the way to go if what you really want is to cruise the ruins of civilization in style. It’s on eBay now! Via Ridelust.

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Just the other night I was watching “What’s My Car Worth?’ and feeling a bit despondent about the astronomically overinflated prices that a lot of owners (egged on by the stand-to-gain auction companies) believe their cars should command. Seriously: $70K for an Impala? Oh well, I thought, at least you can still get an AMC Eagle for under a grand. Or a Trabant. Hey, yeah, a Trabant! I’ve wanted one ever since U2 used them for their ZooTV set back when I was a kid. And now one has shown up on eBay in Washington State, just down the road! Oh, but wait, it looks like the seller’s probably got the reserve set at around 4 grand. Yep, for a duraplast car with a two-stroke motor and a kind of speckled history of kimpchy-cob repairs. The seller’s rationale for jacking the price is interesting, but the Trabant has acquired such a culty hipster following over the years that I’m sure there’s someone out there who will actually pay that for it. Check out the auction here.

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The Yella Brick, the ’76 Cordoba that originally appeared in the blog as a Basketcase Rescue, has turned up on eBay looking for a new home. CarDomain member Dwaine has done some amazing things with this car, building it into a mean-ass LSR and open-road racer. And if the Yella Brick makes its reserve, a portion of the proceeds will go to the Wounded Warrior Project. Good luck with the auction, man!

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This three-axled Mercedes limo is much more than just a meth-addict’s junkpile–nope, this is the work of a truly crazy person, on par with great art cars like Carthedral. It’s also an otherworldly grab-bag of trim and accessories from countless postwar classics. Get this rig just for the rare bits and pieces it comes with–if you don’t, the scrappers will! Check out the eBay auction here, via Hooniverse.

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Wow. Looking around on eBay and discovering just how many pace cars are listed at any given time, it dawned on me that now is a perfect time to snap one up. Televised motorsports is in its heyday in America, and these cars are a dime a dozen–in most cases, no seller can claim that they’re rare, or that you should have to pay a lot of money to get one. So, in browsing the mind-blowing selection of pace cars on eBay, while trying to talk yourself out of placing a bid, do remind yourself of exactly why you should be buying one.

1. Racing history without the race car. Of course it would be out-of-this-world cool to own the Monte Carlo that Earnhardt drove to his first championship. Historic race cars are great, but not only do they command astronomical prices, they’re generally not practical (or legal) to drive on the street. With a pace car, you can get a vehicle that’s participated in a small but important way in racing history, but without the gallons-per-mile fuel consumption, the squirrely dry-rotted race slicks, or the prosecutable-in-50-states exhaust noise. You get to actually enjoy it.

Hit the jump for four more reasons to pull the trigger.

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