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title: "This Subaru Brat With Lambo Doors and a Picnic Table Is the Whimsy You Need In Life"
description: "Behold! A bright green beacon of pure joy."
date: "2020-10-15"
modified: "2020-10-15"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/37093/this-subaru-brat-with-lambo-doors-and-a-picnic-table-is-the-whimsy-you-need-in-life"
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---

# This Subaru Brat With Lambo Doors and a Picnic Table Is the Whimsy You Need In Life

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2020/10/subaru-brat-gl_970x546-1.jpg>)
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Everything about our current moment seems to be too sad and too serious. How I don't wake up screaming is beyond me, but there simply aren't enough truly delightful things out there right now. Except this: A lime green 1985 [Subaru Brat](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/29363/power-crazed-aussie-builds-1000-hp-subaru-brat-pickup-that-runs-7-second-quarter-miles>) GL with Lambo doors, currently for sale on [Craigslist](<https://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/d/wethersfield-1985-subaru-brat/7210881992.html>).

So many cars now are just too serious. Most people [don't](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car-paint-colors-have-gotten-more-boring-over-the-years>) even get a real color on their car anymore, much less a bright metallic green. Too many folks buy cars to sell, not to enjoy.

That was clearly not the case with this Subaru Brat, whose owner restored it into a very custom creation that would make Kermit the Frog proud.

![message-editor%2F1602817979485-00z0z\_imjet17egs1\_0ww0oo\_600x450.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602817979485-00z0z_imjet17egs1_0ww0oo_600x450.jpg>)
**via Craigslist**

The owner, who says in the ad that he's owned eight Brats and restored three of them, says that the Brat's 15-year restoration was a "very good cosmetic, drive quality, garage restoration," and not a perfect concours rebuild. According to the seller, it only has 91,000 miles on the odometer.

That being said, it's clearly a car show darling, as some of the photos have big display boards that talk about the car and the seller says it "won numerous car show trophies." I can't quit looking at it myself. It's a beacon of pure joy.

This particular Brat was the upper-level GL trim, which came with a 1.8-liter, four-cylinder boxer engine, butterfly t-tops, a tilting steering wheel and all of the available stock gauges. Best of all, those [import tax-dodging](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/30352/the-toyota-bb-open-deck-is-the-scion-xb-pickup-truck-we-never-got-stateside>) rear jump seats are intact, and now feature hand-painted Subaru logos on the headrests. Fun fact: The addition of the two rear-facing seats in the Brat's bed let Subaru classify it as a passenger car, not a truck, thus wiggling out of the higher, [deeply stupid](<https://jalopnik.com/lets-celebrate-the-50th-birthday-of-americas-worst-tax-977715943>)

[Chicken Tax](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7158/american-trucks-rule-thanks-to-the-chicken-tax>) on light trucks.

![message-editor%2F1602817961688-00v0v\_eufonqxuslw\_0ww0oo\_600x450.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602817961688-00v0v_eufonqxuslw_0ww0oo_600x450.jpg>)
**via Craigslist**

Even the name Brat is an acronym for something fun: "**B**i-Drive **R**ecreational **A**ll-Terrain **T**ransporter."

The real joy of this particular vehicle is in its custom mods, the most noticeable of which are the Lamborghini-style upward-tilting doors. Numerous parts were color-matched and color-coordinated to the bright green exterior, including the center caps of the wheels. There's a hood scoop because, well, why not?

![message-editor%2F1602818211365-00505\_3kok4cyhcue\_0ww0oo\_600x450.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602818211365-00505_3kok4cyhcue_0ww0oo_600x450.jpg>)
**via Craigslist**

Best of all, there's a cocktail table to enjoy a nice picnic outside in the bed of the Brat. If anything is a beacon of light at the end of the darkest, dumbest tunnel that is 2020, it's that perfectly staged happi*est*-hour photo from this listing.

Thanks, Lambo-doored show Brat, for restoring my faith in car owners' ability to have fun.

You can view more photos and find true vehicular bliss [on Craigslist here](<https://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/d/wethersfield-1985-subaru-brat/7210881992.html>), where the Brat is currently listed for $14,900.

![message-editor%2F1602818231660-00f0f\_adpswvgkkqi\_0ww0oo\_1200x900.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602818231660-00f0f_adpswvgkkqi_0ww0oo_1200x900.jpg>)
*via Craigslist*

![message-editor%2F1602818028867-00000\_5jh5g1ibint\_0ww0oo\_600x450.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602818028867-00000_5jh5g1ibint_0ww0oo_600x450.jpg>)
*via Craigslist*

![message-editor%2F1602818177713-00g0g\_2izbzbg1a5v\_0ww0oo\_600x450.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602818177713-00g0g_2izbzbg1a5v_0ww0oo_600x450.jpg>)
*via Craigslist*

![message-editor%2F1602818263167-00d0d\_lrojo4uvwir\_0ww0oo\_600x450.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602818263167-00d0d_lrojo4uvwir_0ww0oo_600x450.jpg>)
*via Craigslist*

![message-editor%2F1602818163406-00v0v\_ekhlhbqnnmb\_0ww0oo\_600x450.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602818163406-00v0v_ekhlhbqnnmb_0ww0oo_600x450.jpg>)
*via Craigslist*

*\[h/t krustywantout on [OppositeLock](<https://oppositelock.kinja.com/way-to-go-ruining-a-brat-1845383145>)!\]*

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## Author
Stef Schrader is a former senior staff writer for The Drive. She started writing about cars in 2013 after meeting Jalopnik's editor-in-chief at a race track, where Stef can be found at every available opportunity.

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