It's not often you find a Plymouth Arrow on the pages of DT - in fact we've only ever featured two of them, in the same auction, if you don't count the eponymous pickup truck. That's not for lack of interest, as the little rebadged Mitsubishi fastback has a clean look about it, and that charming early Japanese simplicity and character that stands out as unique 40 years later. Find this 1976 Plymouth Arrow 200 for sale in Tucson, AZ for $3,500 via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck.
Maybe because it's Friday and the meds have worn off (or finally kicked in? Who knows) but this Evo IV clone has my attention. Evos I-IX were 4G63-powered rally rockets offering varying degrees of wing size (just kidding - they're all enormous) prohibited from American showrooms until number eight. Meanwhile, thumbstick jockeys got to experience them in Gran Turismo-style racing games. The creation of this clone follows the formulaic boy meets girl/boy can't buy girl due to pessimistic market predictions/boy assembles girl from overnight parts from Japan love story. Find this 1997 Mitsubishi Mirage Evo IV clone for sale in Sacramento, CA for $10,000 via craigslist.
It isn't often that you will find a factory fresh car for sale. Not a freshened car, or even a low mile example, but a car that was never registered for the street and has been stored since it left the dealer's lot. Mix in one part Texas cowboy named Carroll Shelby and you got a recipe for gold...multiply it by four and you've got today's next feature. Find these 4 factory fresh Shelbys, each allegedly the first car available to dealers (vin #6): 1987 Shelby CSX, 1989 Shelby CSX, 1987 Shelby Lancer, and 1989 Shelby Dakota offered here on eBay
for $120,000 or make offer located in Pennsville, NJ with 4 days to go.
In the 1980s, Carroll Shelby turned to Dodge to make performance-enhanced version of its good performance cars. Turns out Dodge was too busy with its Mitsubishi love fest to make anything good, but that didn't stop the late chicken farmer from creating beasts like the Shelby Charger and Shadow - cars that didn't deserve the performance treatment but got it anyway. Of those cars, only two had more than three doors: The Omni and the Lancer. Join the elite club of American, turbocharged, five-door hatch owners with this 1988 Dodge Shelby Lancer
for $3,600 reserve not met in Spring, TX. Original content by DT commenter & contributor slowcarSLOW-MPGlol.
The Shelby Lancer was based on Dodge's compact Lancer 5 door hatchback (yes a Chrysler K-platform car!!) but assembled by Carroll Shelby's technicians in his Whittier, CA plant. Please don't confuse it with the later Lancer Shelby - which was built the following year by Chrysler in its Sterling Heights, MI Dodge plant, because this is the real deal complete with a plaque containing the late great Texan's embossed signature. This 1987 Shelby Lancer is #388 of 800 built, sports a manual gearbox and is for sale for $1400 via the Roverclassics.com website (thanks to tip from DT reader IgnatiusReilly).
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is a factory hot rod version of the horrible economy car that Mitsubishi Motors calls the "Lancer". The Evo shares some parts with the base Lancer, but to call them brothers leads to the inevitable comparison with the DeVito/Schwarzenegger film "Twins". Yes, the Lancer shares DNA with the Evo, but it was actually the left-over genes that didn't make the cut to become the governator. This muscle bound 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII is for sale (via craigslist) in Orange County, CA for $14,700 and will hump the maid every chance it gets.
