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Article: CHEAP THRILLS // A Guide to Used Sports Cars
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 14, 1995
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While nobody was looking, the sports car virtually disappeared
from America.
A sports car is the perfect spring-summer-fall fun vehicle, but
most reasonably priced ones have gone to the used car market. Still,
a fairly large number in good shape are available, says Norbert
Bries, owner of Lake Bluff's Northshore Imports, which sells used
sports cars.
Japan's $17,795 Mazda Miata roadster - a copy of England's Lotus
Elan sports car - is the only true wind-in-the-face 1995 sports car
for those of average means. The few other remaining convertible
sports cars - from the Corvette to Ferrari F355 Spider - cost $43,665
and up.
"Outside of the Miata, you must get a sports car from the 1950s ...