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One lap of the Web: microcars and muscle cars

Wed, 04 Dec 2013

-- Remember the 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2? Yes, the one that you can't find anywhere now outside of those amazingly outdated posters (where do they find them?) they have on the walls of your local oil change place, right next to a poster of a GMC Syclone and a first-generation Dodge Viper? The one with the plastic nosecone that inevitably gets warped? Hooniverse's Jim Brennan has the story on this forgotten muscle car from the Reagan '80s.

-- The Porsche 911 GT2 is coming next year, and it has already been spied attacking the 'Ring almost completely undisguised.

-- Uh oh, Ferrari, what are you doing towing a reindeer sleigh with one of your F1 cars around a visibly warm racetrack?

-- And you thought domestic ads for domestic cars from the 1970s and 1980s were awkward? Hemmings Blog has dug up some curious artifacts of branding exercises from around the globe.

-- Vespas aren't just scooters -- they're also microcars, and this week there's a project Vespa 400 on eBay that is claimed to be "restorable." Okay, it is arguably restorable if you can find all the parts you'll need. We'll let you be the judge of just how easy a restoration this would be in the U.S., though.




By Autoweek editors