The advert for at the moment’s Good Worth or No Cube sizzling rod Limo claims it can garner its driver “compliments and thumbs up all over the place you go….” Let’s determine if its value is simply as worthy of a thumb within the air.
Yesterday’s 1983 Autobianchi A112 Junior proved cute as a bug and virtually as small as one, too. That lovable nature mixed with a sizzling drivetrain proved a palatable pairing, making the $6,500 asking value a stable deal, at the very least based on the 60 p.c of you who anointed the little sizzling hatch with a Good Worth win.
With a wheelbase of simply over 80 inches and an total size (with its lacking bumper taken into consideration) simply shy of 127 inches, yesterday’s Autobianchi is arguably a tiny automotive. Actually, it’s so little that it will handily match throughout the working board area of at the moment’s 1931 Ford Mannequin A Limo. After all, only a few promenade arrivals or bachelorette events may very well be dealt with by the Autobianchi.
Now, as oddball a automotive as this Mannequin A limo is, let’s contemplate it on its deserves. The plain marketplace for it’s not the overall sizzling rod fanatic nor anybody with parking area limitations. As an alternative, it’s of curiosity to a livery service or perhaps a type of celebration bus firms seeking to diversify whereas on the identical time letting their freak flag fly.
Amazingly, this as soon as was an actual Mannequin A. Actually, it apparently took two Mannequin As to construct. In keeping with a earlier advert for the automotive, the bodywork is all metallic save for the extra-wide rear fenders, that are fiberglass. The advert additionally notes that the entire thing rides on a bespoke body comprised of rectangular-section metal tubing and is so lengthy it requires two driveshafts.
This being a sizzling rod, the large block 460 CID V8 is proven off to good impact. It breathes via an Edelbrock four-barrel and has been dressed up with a number of polished elements and chromed equipment. That’s paired with a C6 three-speed computerized with its personal oil cooler and actuated by way of a floor-mounted shifter. Suspension is unequal-length A-arms and coil-overs in entrance and one thing else holding up the 9-inch rear finish within the again. And talking of the again, if you happen to’ve ever puzzled why the baggage compartments are referred to as “trunks” because of this.
Each the motive force’s compartment and the seven-seat passenger area are air-conditioned, and there’s a glass panel separating the 2 so farts don’t co-mingle.
In keeping with the present advert, the automotive has 6,500 miles on the clock and a clear title. It additionally claims the engine to be a small block 351, so there’s some discrepancy between this and the older advert. The valve covers lend credence to this being a giant block, nevertheless.
One thing else we will glean from the advert is the automotive’s total situation. The photographs present a clear and apparently well-assembled automotive with nothing wanted save for the twist of the important thing to get driving. It was as soon as a part of the Volo Automobile Assortment, one thing famous with a certificates within the present advert, and as Volo was the vendor within the earlier one. Now, it asks $59,000 to go to a brand new collector or be put into service for hen events and pink carpet arrivals. Does that appear like a good value?
Look, I do know this limo isn’t our communal cup of tea, however its audaciousness in simply being a factor is a hoot and a half, and I, for one, am glad such a automotive exists. I believe try to be, too. That doesn’t imply, nevertheless, that it’s price that $59,000 asking to exist in a brand new proprietor’s essentially very-long driveway anytime quickly.
What do you say? Is {that a} honest value for this practice Mannequin A because it’s offered? Or is that an excessive amount of for a automotive with so restricted an attraction?
You determine!
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