A fresh layer of snow looks great on cars, as long as it’s not the one you have to drive early in the morning. I like how it’s accentuating the shape of the B210 that William Oliver shot and posted at the Cohort. It’s nice just to see one at all; there used to be such a healthy number here up until about 5-7 years ago. Now where have they all gone? To Canada? Snow bees?
We’ve covered the B210 quite well here at CC before, so we’ll just let the snow do the covering this time.
I had a white one with awesome B210 graphics pass me on I5 about 6 months ago. (How it got to that speed is anyone’s speculation).
First one I have seen in many years. It was heading to Canada with only 60 some miles to go.
Sadly no picture.
Complete unicorn in Europe. I last one maybe 20 years ago. The Honey Bee was killed by the tinworm
This might be shortly after the 31cm (12 inches) of snow the Toronto area had earlier this month. Pretty amazing to see this example roaming Southern Ontario. Or at least parked in front of a Meineke Muffler shop.
Whereas the early 70s Celica were clearly influenced by the Mustang, to me the B210 two door sedans appeared like a subcompact caricature of the ’71 Chargers. The general proportions, roof line, quarter windows, and wheel arch details bearing a resemblance to the Dodges. Perhaps rationalizing the ‘Honey Bee’ edition.
And the Honeybee logo was clearly a knockoff of the Superbee logo, that happened to be offered on these Chargers in 71.
Ah hah! We have it!!
When I was scrolling down and just saw the greenhouse of this car from a front 3/4 perspective, I initially thought it was a Porsche 924/944.
Never saw that resemblance before, and it goes away entirely once I scrolled down further and saw what was below the beltline. Talk about a rude awakening!
I hate these things with a violent passion. I was traumatised by a stripper 86 Sentra growing up and have never gotten over it. If anything will launch you into an irredeemable broughmance, this sort of ugly, wheezy, stunted, cramped, noisy, miserable, vinyl seated econobox will do it. The 86 was at least tolerable to look at but had 0 concessions to human comfort and seemed designed solely with the intention of making the prospective buyer move up to the nicer trim. This thing is not only hideous, and was much uglier when common, but is also painted in one of those awful 70s body fluid colours. I hope Roger Smith has to drive this thing in the afterlife.
Robert Eaton should have to push it . Up hill. With a rope.
Agreed!!
I had a four door 120Y years ago, reliable car if not a very good one, they’ve become collectable with young guys and girls over here but they’ve got scarce too the ones that got tinworm were gutted for the mechanicals to build ministocks for speedway (non contact junior class racing) and good ones went there too.
That they are collectible makes me feel despondent about this generation. It’s like collecting turds. Why would you?
Or perhaps, because I don’t get it, it just makes me feel old.
I had to rent a B210 (Honeybee, IIRC) over on Kauai in ’79. Man that car sucked, but I’m sure they ran forever.
You’ve never driven a more miserable conveyance than a B210 with the 1200 California-emissions engine and automatic transmission. Fortunately it was a two-day loaner, but it was dangerously underpowered.
“dangerously underpowered”
More or less than an autostick Bug?
These were everywhere until about 1990, then they vanished. I saw one running around Portland, OR in 2016