Antti Kautonen
@julkinen.bsky.social
Automotive writer, photo taker, coffee drinker, classified ad browser. As old as the cars I like.
You’re looking at a freshly inspected Mercedes 240 D ambulance. With a 280 SLC body and drivetrain.
People used to do body/drivetrain swaps all the time in the ’80s due to heavy Finnish import taxation of the time. This is one of the more :chef kiss: examples.
huutokaupat.com/kohde/588686...
People used to do body/drivetrain swaps all the time in the ’80s due to heavy Finnish import taxation of the time. This is one of the more :chef kiss: examples.
huutokaupat.com/kohde/588686...
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
You’re looking at a freshly inspected Mercedes 240 D ambulance. With a 280 SLC body and drivetrain.
People used to do body/drivetrain swaps all the time in the ’80s due to heavy Finnish import taxation of the time. This is one of the more :chef kiss: examples.
huutokaupat.com/kohde/588686...
People used to do body/drivetrain swaps all the time in the ’80s due to heavy Finnish import taxation of the time. This is one of the more :chef kiss: examples.
huutokaupat.com/kohde/588686...
Tell me the #1 red flag with this 2003 Peugeot 106 Pop Art if you can spot it. I didn’t, and @theemitchi.bsky.social needed to point it out. Unless there was a good explanation I’d steer clear of it
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tell me the #1 red flag with this 2003 Peugeot 106 Pop Art if you can spot it. I didn’t, and @theemitchi.bsky.social needed to point it out. Unless there was a good explanation I’d steer clear of it
I love Caldinas because they are weird and rare, and the Avensis bodyshell is super normal and ordinary
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I love Caldinas because they are weird and rare, and the Avensis bodyshell is super normal and ordinary
I don’t think these Mazda pickups were ever common and they’re now downright rare. The same trucks were also available as Ford Rangers here, and they’re not the same as US Rangers.
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don’t think these Mazda pickups were ever common and they’re now downright rare. The same trucks were also available as Ford Rangers here, and they’re not the same as US Rangers.
I also drove a Smart. My take is that now that Daimler doesn’t have Jeep anymore, they turned Smart into Jeep with Geely. For … reasons. Anyway, it’s frickin’ fast and has green seats and Netflix.
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I also drove a Smart. My take is that now that Daimler doesn’t have Jeep anymore, they turned Smart into Jeep with Geely. For … reasons. Anyway, it’s frickin’ fast and has green seats and Netflix.
I drove a new Renault 4 today! I really liked it, except for… the rear seat. Thing is, it’s simply too small to work as a Peugeot e-2008 alternative family car. In the Pug I can easily sit ’behind myself’, but the R4 rear seat is genuinely cramped.
It drives well, though, and trunk size is fine.
It drives well, though, and trunk size is fine.
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I drove a new Renault 4 today! I really liked it, except for… the rear seat. Thing is, it’s simply too small to work as a Peugeot e-2008 alternative family car. In the Pug I can easily sit ’behind myself’, but the R4 rear seat is genuinely cramped.
It drives well, though, and trunk size is fine.
It drives well, though, and trunk size is fine.
For this price they better have mixed and matched the panels manually from four different toy cars
ebay.us/m/VaaPFZ
ebay.us/m/VaaPFZ
Pardon Our Interruption...
ebay.us
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
For this price they better have mixed and matched the panels manually from four different toy cars
ebay.us/m/VaaPFZ
ebay.us/m/VaaPFZ
Listening to Lucio Dalla’s Automobili album from 1976. On ”Il motore del 2000” he sings how the engines 25 years in the future will be silent and quiet, and ”the exhaust will not smell of pollution. A boy or a girl will be able to breathe it”. 25 years after that imagined future, are we there yet?
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Listening to Lucio Dalla’s Automobili album from 1976. On ”Il motore del 2000” he sings how the engines 25 years in the future will be silent and quiet, and ”the exhaust will not smell of pollution. A boy or a girl will be able to breathe it”. 25 years after that imagined future, are we there yet?
Hey, this postcard sent from NYC in 1946 is suddenly again relevant
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Hey, this postcard sent from NYC in 1946 is suddenly again relevant
Forget your stadion rock band themed Volkswagen, I want this Primera named after an obscure Wetton-Bruford-Holdsworth-Jobson supergroup
www.goo-net-exchange.com/usedcars/NIS...
www.goo-net-exchange.com/usedcars/NIS...
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Forget your stadion rock band themed Volkswagen, I want this Primera named after an obscure Wetton-Bruford-Holdsworth-Jobson supergroup
www.goo-net-exchange.com/usedcars/NIS...
www.goo-net-exchange.com/usedcars/NIS...
Hey @glenn9k.bsky.social, do cars rust a lot around the Helsingborg area? Road salt? Sea air? Looking at an ad of a Mercedes W204 which was imported from there in 2019.
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Hey @glenn9k.bsky.social, do cars rust a lot around the Helsingborg area? Road salt? Sea air? Looking at an ad of a Mercedes W204 which was imported from there in 2019.
Excellent timing!
(Yes, it’s a 600 and a 500)
(Yes, it’s a 600 and a 500)
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Excellent timing!
(Yes, it’s a 600 and a 500)
(Yes, it’s a 600 and a 500)
These are some of the most humble, least quirky Skodas made.
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
These are some of the most humble, least quirky Skodas made.
Good looking trim line
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Good looking trim line
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
Someone doing Sunday evening shopping in style
October 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Someone doing Sunday evening shopping in style
Corolla made it 500km home and the hubs don’t get hot anymore. Celebrated with an Ikea lunch.
October 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Corolla made it 500km home and the hubs don’t get hot anymore. Celebrated with an Ikea lunch.
Rare photo of a Mercedes F140 ambulance chassis
October 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Rare photo of a Mercedes F140 ambulance chassis
If the Clio Williams wasn’t parked near, this would have been the coolest car on the street. Teardrops, blende, quad headlights.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If the Clio Williams wasn’t parked near, this would have been the coolest car on the street. Teardrops, blende, quad headlights.
Honestly quite an incredible sight on a quiet residential street. It’s sat for quite a while, and I hope it won’t be there for the entire coming winter. Yet it’s still so cool. #weirdcarbs
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Honestly quite an incredible sight on a quiet residential street. It’s sat for quite a while, and I hope it won’t be there for the entire coming winter. Yet it’s still so cool. #weirdcarbs
Today’s weird carbs. Not a Variomatic though.
Took pics of it on a grocery run with the kid. ”It’s a Volvo but made in Holland instead of Sweden and these used to have rubber band gearboxes. If the band snapped the car wouldn’t go. Believe you me”
”… I don’t believe you.”
Took pics of it on a grocery run with the kid. ”It’s a Volvo but made in Holland instead of Sweden and these used to have rubber band gearboxes. If the band snapped the car wouldn’t go. Believe you me”
”… I don’t believe you.”
October 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Today’s weird carbs. Not a Variomatic though.
Took pics of it on a grocery run with the kid. ”It’s a Volvo but made in Holland instead of Sweden and these used to have rubber band gearboxes. If the band snapped the car wouldn’t go. Believe you me”
”… I don’t believe you.”
Took pics of it on a grocery run with the kid. ”It’s a Volvo but made in Holland instead of Sweden and these used to have rubber band gearboxes. If the band snapped the car wouldn’t go. Believe you me”
”… I don’t believe you.”
”Hold on, I don’t think these are glass.” The CLK needed some quick and dirty headlight refurbishment.
October 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
”Hold on, I don’t think these are glass.” The CLK needed some quick and dirty headlight refurbishment.
