The return of the Shooting Brake
Once upon a time, my favorite wannabe ride was the Volvo p1800 wagon. Cool interior (for it’s time) moderately funky exterior, two doors, plenty of room for your guns and dogs. Decent ground clearance. Rallycar handling. Small enough to park with very little real estate.
Most of the builders came close with the crossover designs, but the original intention of the shooting brake, a small two door car with a spacious trunk was a good one, and one whose time may have returned.
Now, given my druthers? this one would be WAY cool. I’d have to have an in-house mechanic, though. Or, if i had the money for a team of mechanics, this one.
This one is typical of Porsche, in that it’s probably very functional and reliable, and looks like a buttock. And not even a nice buttock, like Eva Longoria, more like a saggy flat flabby buttock, like Amy Winehouse.
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If the power ball ever came around the Ferrari FF would be on my list.
It would have to be a big PB though.
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/ferrari/2012-ferrari-ff-ar103780.html
Watta about the Vega Camback or the Monza version? I always thought the Vega CamBack in rally trim with cosworth four was pretty cool. Course I did grow up on the farm and thought a Farmall F20 was pretty cool to.
Pinto made a wagon too.
Had they put any kind of suspension under those beasts, it might have been worth looking at, but they had- well, truck suspensions, for all purposes. I liked the look of the vega, but the interior was horrid. The Pinto had a better interior in the way bastinado is better than involuntary spleen surgery. Had they offered a Vega wagon with the Cosworth engine and an independant rear axle, some sway bars, and coilover struts fore and aft, it might have been well worth the look.
I get major wood looking at a Citroen DS, until I remember that french engineering is as awful as Brit cooking and German diplomacy.
Be sweet to strap that body over a real suspension & driveline that a person could afford to drive.
Seen this?
Dismantling/reassembling a Jeep in under 4 minutes.
yep. The other Arrgghh featured it on his site some time ago.
I was think of the pinto as well. I don’t recall but what they had 4 doors though. Pintos where bone simple. I know one guy that stuffed a 302 in his. Hard to keep rubber on the back.
Maybe we need to build a car.
That was my favorite Volvo model, too. IIRC some guy had one with 750,000 miles on it; Volvo used it and him in advertisements.
The pinto/Bobcat was a 2 door as well.
Come to think of it, you could get a 78 Bobcat with a 302 or even a nice six. Put a stang front end on it so it would have a decent line, and make the side rear windows flush, and it might not look like a pile of whaleshit.
Og,
Ironically, V6 Pinto 2dr hatchbacks are hard to find, as many of them have been dirt-tracked to death.
I did not know that until a friend bought one as a beater ride back in ’94 or so and had to fend off bubbas at rural gas stations trying to buy her car to run at the local roundy-rounds…
They were light and rear wheel drive- if you couild get the emissions crap off it it was actually fun to drive.
I hadn’t heard the term “shooting brake” applied to a vehicle until I read about one of those Porsche things at Bringatrailer. It seems to me that VW Type III’s would qualify as would a Lamborghini Espada.
I really like the sometime AWD system in my Honda Pilot; it would be very cool in a shooting brake.
Volvo also made the P-1800 in an Estate Wagon form. THAT was their real shooting brake.
Yep, EMD, if you click the link it takes you to the pictures of the wagon.
I really enjoyed my Pinto 2 door hatchback with the mag wheels, traction bars (the axle had a tendency to “wrap up”), custom interior, etc.
It outhandled anything that came up against it.
Getting married with a child forced me to park it.
Man, those cars got a bad rap.
I wasn’t going to mention my ’74(?-been a while) Vega wagon with the motor rebuilt by a guy who used the cores as the basis for midget racers. 4-barrel, header, sleeved/zero deck clearance; I could break the 10″ wide rear tires loose at 60mph by dropping back to second gear… Could carry a lot of toys in the back of that little runner.
lol.
Nice. Got pictures?
Heck, Og, I wish I still had the car. Mama gave it away while I was off on a long term TDY. OTH she did give it to the guy who built so….