I don't think I need to explain to many of you why a Lancia Delta Integrale gets my attention. These things have gone from rally-bred hot hatch to proper cult car, and finding a good one in the U.S. isn't exactly easy.

But this 1992 Evoluzione 1 on Car & Classic has an extra little detail I didn't know much about until I started reading the listing.

It's a "Sacca Intercooler" car. As part of homologating the intercooler water-spray system for rallying, Lancia fitted an early run of road-going Evo 1s with the water bag in the boot, pumps, plumbing and wiring needed for the system. This one apparently still has its original sacca in place.

I love little homologation details like that. Something that exists on the road car essentially because Lancia wanted it on the competition car.

The rest of it isn't bad either. Red, five-speed manual, four-wheel drive and just over 61,000 km. More importantly with something like an old Integrale, the seller says it's recently had some fairly serious work, including an engine-out service, four original replacement shocks, a new radiator and various rubbers and gaskets.

And this is where these overseas auctions become dangerous for me.

You start looking at the car in Italy and thinking, "I'd quite like that." Then the obvious question becomes what would it actually cost to have it sitting on your driveway in the U.S.?

That's exactly why we built our free TDV Import Calculator. Put in the car, where it is, where you're bringing it to and the purchase price, and it'll work through the shipping, duties and other import costs so you know what you're really bidding before getting carried away.

And it's not just for bringing cars into America. If you're reading TDV elsewhere, you can use it to work out the costs of importing into your country too.

Because with something like an Integrale, the car being thousands of miles away might actually be less of a problem than you think.

After watching the 1979 280 TE I had my eye on sell for $252,000 at Monterey, another one has appeared and, yes, I've immediately started looking.

Let's get one thing out of the way. This car isn't like that one in pretty much every single way, and the price is going to be completely different. The Monterey car had just 6,100km and was an exceptional example. This 1980 European-spec 280TE has 130k miles, plenty of imperfections and has clearly lived a proper life.

That being said, I still love it. And if I do, I'm pretty sure plenty of other people will too.

Classic White over Palomino cloth, Euro bumpers and headlights, heated seats, sunroof and the 185hp M110 six-cylinder. It was imported from Germany decades ago and, importantly, it's no reserve.

The seller has also spent nearly $8,000 on it since buying it on The MB Market in 2024, on top of plenty of previous work. There's been rust remediation, new SLS shocks, a rebuilt steering box, heater core, windshield and lots more. He's also refreshingly open about what remains. There's still some rust, one heated seat doesn't work, neither do the headlight washers, the central locking has its moments and it'll apparently leave a drop or two of oil if you don't drive it for a week.

I quite like the seller too. He's got 12 to 14 Mercedes in his garage at any one time, has owned an R107 for 38 years and seems to buy unusual cars, make them better, enjoy them and then move onto the next one. That's pretty much exactly the person I'd want to be buying an old Mercedes from.

So forget the $252,000 result from Monterey. That's not the comparison here.

This is a completely different 280TE for a completely different buyer. One you can actually drive, use, put things in the back of and hopefully not have a nervous breakdown every time another car parks next to you.

This one takes me straight back 20 years.

A 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX STI in WR Blue Pearl, six-speed manual, gold BBS wheels and that enormous rear wing. There was a time when these seemed to be everywhere. Now a good one pops up and suddenly I'm looking at them very differently.

This one has 86,800 miles, has been with the current owner for almost ten years.

It's certainly not perfect, or stock. There's an ECU tune, bigger injectors, upgraded fuel pump, Cobb downpipe and exhaust, HKS blow-off valve, suspension work and plenty more. The seller does still have most of the important original parts, which I like.

There are also a few things I'd want to get comfortable with. The timing belt and water pump haven't been done during his ownership, there's no compression or leak-down test and, in its current form, it won't pass California smog. To his credit, the seller is answering all of this pretty openly in the comments.

But none of that is really why I'm featuring it. For a certain generation, WR Blue, gold wheels and that ridiculous wing is exactly how an STI is supposed to look. These were the cars people desperately wanted 20 years ago, and now we're reaching the point where those same people have the money to buy one.

I spend far too much time scrolling through auction listings every day, and quite frankly there are plenty of cars that do absolutely nothing for me. Clearly somebody likes them because they seemingly keep selling, but I can only look at so many variations of the same thing before my eyes start wandering.

Then something like this appears. A 1998 Toyota Chaser Tourer V. Right-hand drive, turbocharged 1JZ-GTE, rear-wheel drive and, originally an automatic, now fitted with the R154 five-speed manual. It's also been modified fairly heavily in Japan with BC coilovers, wider arches, 17-inch Enkeis, a GReddy intercooler and, yes, a drift button on the handbrake.

Is it perfect? Absolutely not. It started life Ebony Teal, has apparently been red at some point and is now black. The arches have been cut, the rear seat doesn't even match, ABS and traction control don't work and the seller is pretty confident it's spent some portion of its life going sideways. It's titled in Washington, sitting in California and hasn't passed California smog either.

But at least it's interesting. And that's probably why I stopped on it. This isn't some beautifully preserved collector car where we're debating whether a tiny scratch knocks $5,000 off the value. It's a slightly mad Japanese sedan that someone built to have fun with, and apparently it still drives surprisingly well on the road.