Found this weird wagon on the Googelator searching for diesel. Just had to post it . From Hemmings originally in 2007.
Ben Merkel, who owns the 1982 Checker in the December 2006 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, sent us these clippings from a classified ad in the French Nitro Magazine. Devoted HCC Lost and Found readers might remember the car above, mentioned in the May 2006 Lost and Found, but we thought it odd enough to post here.
The ad described it as a 1980 Oldsmobile “break” restored in Portugal with a diesel engine and offered it for 10,000 Euros. Despite the, uh, homely combination of late 1940s and early 1960s sheetmetal and the builder’s apparent lack of a level in his shop, the work does seem well done from the pictures Ben said he wanted to buy it, convert it to biodiesel and cruise it at Woodward. We never got any solid responses on the car’s identity.
Bakljus från Cortina. Såg sammantaget inte alls dumt ut!