It’s once more time to bless your timeline with a Retro Car Bot, a bot that tweets out retro cars and information about them. That’s it. It’s so great.
In fact, @RetroCarBot is more than just retro cars popping onto your feed, as it is really Retro Car Introduction Bot, designed to introduce you to retro cars, particularly oddball Japanese ones from when the Japanese auto industry went completely loopy in the Bubble Era.
Any and every niche was pursued, which is why there is such a thing as the Toyota Deliboy, a high-roof economy van with a troubling brochure that even I had never heard of until about five minutes ago.
I first noticed this kindly addition to the Good Internet (the one that is not constantly arguing about who has the worst takes in New York City media) when obscure-car-knower Chris Haining tweeted out that he’d found a car he’d never heard of before, which is saying something.
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Let’s look a bit more at that Autech A10, a kind of in-house custom retro homage to 1960s Alfa Romeos. Sources will argue about what car it’s based on but as best as I have found it was a custom-bodied Nissan Rasheen, a kind of post-Pike crossover production car that had a different East German retro style. This chassis code shown here seems to back that up.
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Thanks Retro Car Bot. I mean, I don’t really need to thank you. You can’t hear me. You’re a bot. This is what you do. But I appreciate it anyway.
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