Let's take a break from the carpocalypse...

The Corvair club around here hosts the "Orphan Auto Picnic". An "orphan car" is considered any car that has been discontinued for over 20 years, and is not the direct predecessor to a current automobile being produced.

This is where you see all sorts of oddball and rare cars. I brought my Fiero to this show and two others showed up. Didnt get pics of the black one with the 350 V8 swap.

Cleaned, packed and ready to go



Chrysler K-Car convertible. I guess this model with fake wood paneling is rare.


Ralph Nader, eat your heart out...






Studebakers and Packards. The first one is a Firebird-based Studebaker Avanti rebody



Edsels


An International


Triumphs



Opel GT


Citroen. LOTS of legroom in the back seat.


Lancia Scorpion. Guess I'm not the only mid-engine car there.



YUGO!



Fiat/Bertone X1/9's. The Fiero is very similar to this car.


Jensen. Dont know much about them other than they're Chrysler-powered



More Corvairs





Cadillac Eldorado


Studebaker


63 Pontiac Tempest with the Trophy-4 motor. Basically half of a V8.




Some GM's


My Fiero and my friend's Fiero GT


DeSoto, a defunct Chrysler brand


The area I was parked in was surrounded by Mopars and Corvairs.


Kaiser


1969 SC/Rambler


Some Nash Metropolitans




Sign


Nash Metropolitan


American Motors Corporation section




Hudsons



REALLY bizarre cars


Cadillac Eldorado


My Fiero Formula and my friend's Fiero GT. Both 1988 models.


After this I went to Dixie Square (See thread in "Midwest")

Nice

I want like every car in those photos. And I've already owned a few (Like the X1/9)


My co-worker has a PERFECT '88 Fiero GT. You would love it.

i've hard an orphan car and it takes real love to have one.
It was an 86 Merkur XR4Ti. Bulletproof engine... shitty fucking drivetrain. Both manual and automatic transmissions were too weak for the car. The 5-speed was an a Pinto RAD-style 4speed with an overdrive cog tucked into it. The automatic was a weak C3 3speed... The preferred swap was a T5 from a Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, but those were getting hard to find, even in 1999. After the transmission in mine died, I sold it to another Merkurphile over in Vermont who used it for parts.

this is my friend who came up from Tennessee back in July with his 86 Fiero GT that had 154,000 miles on the odometer. Never missed a beat up or back, over 2400 miles round trip.