Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1982 Subaru L Coupe

Subaru went through a lot of bewildering names for the early Leone in North America, and they've retained that tradition with their Legacy- and Impreza-based Outbacks in more recent years. Here in Colorado, I find astonishing quantities of 20+ year-old Subarus in wrecking yards. Most are four-wheel-drive machines, for obvious reasons, but every so often I run across an elderly front-wheel-drive Leone. Here's a rare 2WD coupe version I spotted in Aurora a few weeks back.
These things were cheap and (by the very lenient standards of the time) fairly reliable. Sure, they rusted like crazy (this one isn't too bad, thanks to Colorado's single-digit humidity), but what Malaise Era Japanese car didn't?


I'll take any excuse to find weird Japanese car ads.

Or vaguely relevant songs that I remember from Dr. Demento in the late 1970s.
This car appears to have been pretty well loaded with options you don't see too often on Japanese subcompacts of the era. Power steering!
Power windows!
Subaru stuck with this semi-weird style of headlight switch as the 1980s progressed, though it was sort of drowned out by the wilder fighter-jet-style stuff in cars like the XT6.
One thing that hasn't changed in all these decades of Subarus is the good old boxer engine layout.

19 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 01 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 17 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin 18 - 1982 Subaru Leone Down On The Junkyard - Pictures courtesy of Murilee Martin

from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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