YouTubers documented driving their second-gen Eagle Talon project car after restoring

These YouTubers have rebuilt and restored an Eagle Talon, an obscure Japanese-American sports car.

They shared the experience and the story on their YouTube channel, and it’s quite interesting.

Partly, because they did a good job with the car.

But also because this car is quite unique.

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One of the most interesting ‘projects’ we’ve seen this year

The guys from the Gears and Gasoline YouTube channel specialize in sports cars for hardcore gearheads.

Even better when they’re JDM cars, as in Japanese Domestic Market.

The Eagle Talon isn’t, but putting it back together, while not super easy, was not impossible.

This is because the Talon is closely related to another, much more popular sports car.

So, that means that spare parts are more or less easily and readily available.

They did a great job, apart from the weird hood, which looks like it’s unfinished and hasn’t been polished properly.

Mind you, that’s apparently a deliberate choice.

The weird story behind the Japanese-American Eagle Talon

Automakers often use components, from the chassis to the engine, from other brands to build their cars.

The original Tesla Roadster, which by the way has been around for so long it is now becoming the subject of barn finds, was built on the underpinnings of the Lotus Elise.

Then for example we have the Dodge Intrepid, a car no one remembers even though it’s based on one Chrysler 300M, which won Car of The Year in 1999.

The Eagle Talon has a very similar story.

Marketed by Eagle, a defunct American brand that was once part of AMC group, the Talon was essentially a rebadged Mitsubishi Eclipse.

It’s quite rare but, to be fair, it’s because no one bought it.