Mitsubishi Delica, RAV4 Convertible, and Lancer Evo Wagon Hit the Market
Happy Friday, beautiful people! I missed you last week, as I spent my Friday convalescing from strep throat while also moving. I cannot in good conscience recommend combining those activities, but I am now legally a resident of the good borough of Queens. With strep. Look, antibiotics only work so fast, and I only got mine on Sunday. As with any move, I’ve spent a lot of time on Facebook Marketplace recently. Much of that has been window shopping for TVs and kitchen islands I can’t afford, looking at commercial stainless steel prep tables like a Dickensian orphan with my nose pressed against the glass of some bright and shiny toy store, but some of it has been spent on finding automotive listings for you fine folks pressing your own noses against your computer screens. IT told you to stop doing that, by the way. Welcome to this week’s Dopest Cars. 1992 Mitsubishi Delica Exceed Crystal Lite – $11,000 You know me, I can’t see a kitted-out Delica and not include it in this weekly roundup. These things are like catnip to me, I just love a little space-maximizing van with some big bumpers and a just-barely-proportional lift. If this Mitsubishi were any taller, it’d be comical, but a two inch lift looks perfect. You heard it here first, folks: You don’t need any more than two inches. This owner seems to be a real Delica head, given their description of a Montero front brake swap as “popular.” That’s the kind of arcane thing you only get into when you find yourself really deep in an enthusiast community, like the people who swap Cadillac ATS brakes onto their Subarus because real STI Brembos are too expensive. Listen, I never said I wasn’t deep into arcane enthusiast communities myself. I’ve owned two Boxer engines. There was a point, early in my Jalopnik career, where I desperately wanted this exact flavor of build. A track-focused Integra, with big aero elements and a K-series under the hood, that I could take out to HPDEs and track days. It never worked out, due to both cars and track days costing money that I could instead be spending on unfathomable luxuries like “having a roof over my head,” but the desire hasn’t entirely gone away. In that spirit, I offer this listing up to you. Walk where I can’t, and get this K-swapped Integra in an incredibly period-correct green shade for all your track-day duties. The seller says it’s track-only, but that probably depends on how committed you are to the race car life. Just don’t daily drive harnesses without a helmet and a HANS to stop your neck from snapping in a parking lot fender bender. Or, barring that, write me into your will. The seller of this mini race bike claims it started life as a Grom, and judging by the gauge screen that’s probably true. That little LCD is my only way of knowing, though, because everything else identifiable has been stripped off or covered in race-looking plastics. But the mods go more than skin deep — I see a steering damper, Ohlins supension, aftermarket brakes, a front brake lever guard. The builder of this bike either tracks it, or really wants you to think they do. Doing this Grom up as a Desmosedici, rather than an RC213-V, is an extremely funny bit. The Grom is a Honda, and Honda has bikes in MotoGP. These plastics are generic enough that they could be printed in any livery, yet the builder of this bike chose Ducati — complete with Akrapovic stickers that don’t match the SC Project exhaust. This would be worse if it was done up in Repsol orange, honestly. 2010 BMW R1200GS Adventure – $4,800 It’s a bit of a running joke that BMW GS owners are generally older and wealthier, with the gnarliest of their adventuring days behind them. The more farkled the GS, the truer that seems to be, and this GSA is well and truly farkled. Crash bars, fog lights, aluminum panniers, there’s even a handlebar-mounted CB radio (though I don’t see a CB whip anywhere). This, of course, makes one wonder: How old must the seller be? Well, to answer that question, this is an est
