Fading Brakelight Obscurity II - Championship Edition

ok here’s a bunch of StarQuest ads



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Revelations: Persona’s localization was so slap-dash they didn’t really bother to actually properly translate most of the Persona names, and the hero’s starting Persona (Seimen Kongou) was called “Starion”, because the Starion is the one of the raddest cars ever.

mitsubishi-starion-8 mitsubishi-starion-5 mitsubishi-starion-9 mitsubishi-starion-6 mitsubishi-starion-interior

(I fucking hate those hood mirrors, though, those are so fucking ugly)

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dead assed wrong

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both dead and whole assed

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Disagreed, I think the hood mirrors look out of place on it.

the $1,500 coupe challenge is the only episode of top gear i’ve watched. i’d embed it, but i can only find sped-up versions, so fuck it.

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turbotastic pictures, thanks!

The Tucker Torpedo

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this is actually a '71 Buick Riviera

Google Image Search lied to me :frowning:

apparently an attempt to replicate this early prototype of the eventual Tucker '48

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The most beautiful pedestrian mangler there ever was

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It’s got a human-scale cowcatcher, yeah

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The exhaust on the riviera version is just wild, I like the whole thing better than the original

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are there any more pics of this? I love the rear shot for its goof Rocketeer vibe. but I need a couple more angles on the front

However, the regular Riviera is a nice looking machine:





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If you search for the Tucker Torpedo a whole bunch of pictures come up of the one I posted

sold for nearly 3 million

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craziest trunk lines

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