Yahoo Autos Honda Stepwagon, Case Excavator, Ford Weed Ambulance: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
I’m beginning to realize I have an... eclectic definition of dopeness. Most people would say that a Yamaha R1 is dope, or an E36 M3, or even a Volvo 240 wagon. I certainly agree with all those sentiments, but I think they’re missing something. There’s a hole in most lists of dope cars, and it’s shaped like a weed ambulance.
Or an excavator. Or a beat-to-hell kei truck. Or— OK, yeah, fine, you’re here for the weed ambulance. I get it. I’d click for that too. Well, I won’t keep you any longer. With no further ado: The internet’s Dopest Cars.
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This one comes courtesy of Jalopnik’s own José Rodríguez Jr. Sure, this TDM (presumably pronounced like the Netflix noise) may not have the spoked-wheel offroad prowess of modern adventure bikes, but let’s be honest — you’re not buying it for that, you’re buying it for touring. Or sports. Sport touring. Someone should make a segment of motorcycles for that.
Carbed bikes of a certain age are always a fraught purchase, but this one claims a recent rebuild. It’s had its battery and fork seals changed out too, and claims a fresh oil change — it shouldn’t need much more to be a reliable daily driver and road tripper.
1984 Ford Mustang SVO - $3,000
Four-cylinder Mustangs are cool. Maybe that’s a hot take, but the Ecoboost was dominant for years in SCCA autocross — clearly there’s something good there. I admit, the old SVOs aren’t exactly modern turbo systems, but they do look rad as hell. I think that counts for a lot.
Imagine getting this, throwing an EcoBoost under that angular hood, and pairing retro looks with modern sututu. Also, modern horsepower. A Focus RS doubles the factory horsepower of the SVO — imagine how that’d feel in a Fox.
Mitsubishi Minicab - $2,000
The day I don’t include a kei truck in Dopest is the day one of you should put a hit out on me. Clearly, I have been replaced by some nefarious doppelganger, hell-bent on using my esteemed platform for a plot of the utmost evil. Something involving... cars? And blogging? Y’know, the world’s great evils.
I admit, this particular Minicab is rough. It’s dented, rusted, missing its doors, its tires are flat — there’s not a whole lot of car left there. And yet, can anyone really say it’s not enough? It gets you to work, hauls mulch home from Lowes, and keeps your hair out of the rain.
1982 Ford F100 - $500
But, fiiiiine, if you’re some sort of prima donna who needs little luxuries like “doors” in your daily driver, I guess I can throw in a truck that has those. The seller claims it’s “butt ugly” with “lots of patina,” but that doesn’t really show through in the singular listing photo. Maybe that’s why there’s only one photo, actually.
For $500, how bad could it possibly be? It needs a transmission, but nobody’s perfect. How did the truck get from the location of the ad’s single photo to the location of its single video without a working drivetrain? Honestly, that’s a great question.
1998 Honda Stepwagon - $18,500
Do you love the Honda CR-V, but wish it was more of a Volkswagen Westfalia? Do you love the Westy, but wish you could hang out with the all the cool kids at the Honda meets? My incredibly specific, likely imaginary friend, do I have the deal of a lifetime for you: This REO Stepwagon.
It looks like a sort of Borzoi of CR-Vs, plus a pop-top camper in the roof and a set of truly gorgeous wheels. The seats in the rear fold totally flat for sleeping, while the camper up top has room for someone smaller to curl up — it’s a two-bedroom camper van. Can your Sprinter do that?
1986 Ford F-150 Prerunner- $10,000
I’ve put plenty of old trucks in the vaunted slides of Dopest — their slab sides and square sealed beams hit a part of my heart . Similarly, I’ve thrown plenty of prerunners in here, with their wide fender flares and long-travel suspensions. It’s easy to dream, when you see one, of ripping through dunes in the California desert.
This truck, then, is targeted at Me Specifically. A boxy old Ford decked out with all the accoutrement you’d want from a dune-eating off-roader — I am powerless against its charms. It’s even yellow, my second-favorite color for motor vehicles. If it were purple, I’d already be in talks with the seller.
2019 Husqvarna 701 Enduro - $12,500
Speaking of vehicles whose charms I’m powerless against, we have one of my all-time favorite motorcycles: The Husqvarna 701 Enduro. I’ll give you a bit of a story here — after crashing my bike offroad in Massachusetts, I waited a week to bring the BMW back to Brooklyn. When I finally did, after my concussion had healed a bit more, I made it all the way to the entryway of my bike garage without incident. Upon arriving, I was cut off by a cyclist, and immediately dropped the GS again.
With three people lifting, that fully-loaded bike was still a pain to pick up. After I parked it, I immediately hopped on to Marketplace to start browsing for Huskies. They’re so much lighter, so much more compact, they must be easier to lift after an embarrassing zero-mph drop. Turns out, I still can’t afford them. If you can, though, godspeed.
2004 Honda S2000 - $23,995
