10k: Hot Hatch: 1969 Austin America 600hp LT1 V8

The Austin America was internally known as project ADO16 and was the platform for a family of larger than the Mini vehicles including the Austin 1100/1300, MG 1100/1300 and Morris 1100/1300. The ADO16 front drive machine was one of the best selling vehicles in the UK, and it was exported in decent quantities. But the Austin America earned a reputation for poor quality, rust, and repeated mechanical failures. Fix those mechanical failures by replacing everything with a firebreathing 'Merican V8 mated to the rear wheels.  Find this 1969 Austin America 600hp LT1 V8 for sale in Nashville, TN currently bidding for $12,500 with two days to go.

5k: Like A Big Mini: 1969 Austin America

In the early 1960s Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was given a project from his bosses at BMC (British Motor Corp) with the internal and thoroughly unsexy name ADO16.  This project would be the basis for a family of larger than the Mini vehicles including the Austin 1100/1300, MG 1100/1300 and Morris 1100/1300. Combined production figures for the entire family made the ADO16 front drive machine one of the best selling vehicles in the UK, and it was exported in decent quantity (60,000 from 1968-1972 according to austinamericausa.com).  Unfortunately the Austin America wasn't well suited to the US style of high-speed freeway driving and earned a reputation for poor quality, rust, and repeated mechanical failures.  Few remain intact, much less on the road today, but one of them is this 1969 Austin America for sale in La Mirada, CA for $3,500 via craigslist.