It's been about a year since the last update on the goings on with the cars that make up the DT fleet. There has been some additions, sales, crashes and a couple of new guys have  |
| Not the DT fleet, but there have been a few Volvos and Miatas and even a 911 in the fleet. |
Your dear Aunt Hilda's hand-written recipe that calls for "a dash of" salt refers to a lost art of cooking. By assigning a calculable measurement (1/8 tsp) to it, modern cooking websites have inadequately quantified what was intended to be an experiential learning method. For all the science within and throughout food production, it is and always will be an art. Just like piloting a medium-sized wagon with a naturally aspirated four-cylinder diesel engine. Modern automotive experts will tell you that 49 measurable horsepower isn't enough in a 2,400-lb car. But the best way to learn this isn't from a spreadsheet. It's from getting messy (or nearly killed) a few times during the learning process. Find this 1980 Volkswagen Dasher diesel wagon for sale in Redlands, CA for $1,500 via craigslist. 
Here are the three most important facts you need to know about this hand-built, Subaru-powered Porsche 917 tribute : 1. It isn't a Laser. 2. It isn't complete. 3. It has "two Subaru Tribeca engines bolted together to make a 12 cylinder boxer." The project lit up the internet when it first listed on eBay last August for $40,000. Today, it's just looking for an offer. Find this custom Porsche 917/10 Can-Am replica for sale in Hartford, CT for "best offer" via craigslist.
Sometimes you can just look at a vehicle and think, "I bet that driver owns a Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt." And while most trucks don't make good cars, the rare performance-special 454SS doesn't make much of a truck either. For $34,000 (in 2015), you got 2wd, a regular cab, regular bed, two seats, a 1,000-lb payload, and 10 mpg on the highway. Gas was cheaper then. In a way, it's like a Corvette with a fuel leak and blown struts, but more room for empty beer cans in the back. That's good enough for some people. Find this 1991 Chevrolet 454SS for sale in Yakima, WA for $9,000 via craigslist.
The first AMG Americans could buy from a Mercedes-Benz dealership was a joint project between both companies, although production was completed before Mercedes took 51-percent ownership. With a bored and stroked 3.6-liter DOHC 24-valve inline six, a Bose surround sound system, brakes from a V12 SL600, and a tight suspension, it set the standard for MB performance in a reserved, sophisticated package. It also set the standard for depreciating AMG products; costing $50,000 in 1995 dollars, most examples can be cross-shopped today with 100k-mile Hyundais. Find this 1995 Mercedes-Benz C36 AMG for sale in Farmingville, NY for $3,500 via craigslist. 
Named after an Italian town and originally intended to bear a Wankel rotary by NSU, a German company, the Chevrolet Monza isn't the American car you expect to see in an Evel Knievel jumpsuit. Yet here it is adorned in stickers and polyurethane aero bits comprising the rare (and very American-themed) Mirage appearance package. Built during a time when it wasn't in vogue to sport the typically American formula of "big engine in front, big smokey burnout in the back," celebrating the Monza Mirage today is paradoxically patriotic. Find this 1977 Chevy Monza Mirage for sale in Oconomowoc, WI for $1,900 via craigslist.
At the intersection of dentures and drag radials – where AARP meets ARP head studs – is a beige on beige front-drive Caddy with a 70mm secret. Joining that big turbo is a long list of supporting modifications that wouldn't look out of place on a Pro Street Camaro listing. With the stock 4.6-liter transverse-mounted Northstar V8, it all adds up to a staggering 650 horsepower at 21psi. Who needs head gaskets anyway? Find this custom turbocharged 1999 Cadillac Seville Touring Sedan for sale in Dayton, OH for $14,900 via craigslist. 
The last Honda-swapped Mini we featured was a raucous, rear-engined, rear-drive donut machine with a turbocharged K20 packing 495 horsepower. With "just" 185 horsepower out of a JDM Type-R B16B 1.6-liter pushing around a 1,400-lb curb weight, this Mini has a power:weight ratio of a C6 Z06. In a short-wheelbase front-drive layout, you would be crazy to pass on at least one ride. But you would be even crazier to drive it daily. Find this 1960 Mini with a Honda B16B swap currently bidding here on eBay
for $12,650, located in Flagler Beach, FL, with 18 hours to go. 
Wedding season is overspending season. We're obligated to lavish the young couple with matching "bride and groom" keepsakes of sentimental value simply because the registry says so. Not even in rural Sullivan, MO would you find a bridal registry including two matching turbocharged Dodges old enough to legally toast the happy couple with Walmart champagne. However, these two Dodges, listed separately but sold by the same seller, are tempting for the creative gifter. It's the thought that counts. Find this 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T and this 1992 Dodge Daytona Iroc R/T for sale in Sullivan, MO for $2,500 and $3,500, respectively, via craigslist. 
The car you're looking at is the best kept secret in the used car market. If you scrolled past this post without clicking, you have proven my point. Actually, if you scrolled past this, you're no longer with us and I can say without fear of repercussion that your mother is a woman of ill repute. Unlike other Geos of similar vintage leaving oil stains at the Salvation Army parking lot, this one revs to 7,600 RPM like a puppy earnestly tugging at its leash. You see, this generation Geo Prizm was the only four-door sedan or hatchback ever sold in the U.S. with the venerable 4AGE twin-cam engine. Find this 1990 Geo Prizm GSi hatchback for sale in Vancleave, MS for $1,650 via craigslist.
Imagine pulling up to a Porsche meet in a 918. Your alien-tech wonder rocket reaches 60 mph in 2.2 seconds, shaming 996 GT3s and climate-controlled short-wheelbase 911s alike. You have the fastest Porsche. Now imagine pulling up to a Geo meet - not just any meet, but the "largest Geo Metro/Suzuki Swift meet in the world" this August in Geneva 
The Harlequin Edition third generation Golf was a real variation of a real car built by a real automaker to be sold through real dealers to really misguided buyers. This is one of just 264 sold in America, making it one of the rarest Volkswagens ever. But being a Volkswagen, it's also bagged, modified, and in between electronic failures. Find this 1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin for sale in Waukesha, WI for $10,000 via craigslist.
Next year, when the earliest 1991 Honda Beats are eligible to bounce like skipped stones onto U.S. shores under the 25-year rule, all of cardom will rejoice like we did for the R32 Skyline GT-R, earlier Skylines, the Lancia Delta Integrale, and others. This particular Beat, however, won't be 
for $9,999 buy-it-now, with 12 days to go.
Is a sleeper still sleepy if it's wearing an eyeball-searing color? This rear-drive Focus uses a 5.0-liter Windsor V8 and transmission from a 1993 Cobra, plus a ton of custom fabrication to make it fit under the stock Focus bodywork. It all comes together with exceptional handiwork that looks like a factory job. You can't miss it, but you definitely won't expect it either. Find this 2001 Ford Focus with SVT Cobra V8 swap for sale here on eBay
or craigslist in Philadelphia, PA for $13,500 via craigslist. 
"Mini has lost its way, man." "Yeah, the new ones are just bloated, overpriced, kitschy garbage aimed at the lifestyle vehicle market." "Totally. They're nothing like my old 2006 JCW GP." Shocked? This could be a legitimate conversation between two modern Mini enthusiasts. Or the start of a fight between an Austin Mini and a BMW Mini driver about corporate BMW oversight, creeping rust, size and implied safety, giant-slaying, and other buzzwords. If you're a neo-nostalgist aching for the best of the newest cars to bear the Mini badge, the supercharged, 1.6-liter R53 GP is for you. Find this 2006 Mini Cooper S John Cooper Works GP here on eBay
, located in West Chester, PA for $17,900 buy-it-now via eBay. 