Notable car sightings

[Sad, little man]

I saw an Elise.

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1223&d=1431916486

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[Drachen596]

A Porsche Speedster. could have been a replica though.

[Sad, little man]

Aren't the real ones worth like a beeeelion dollars? I pretty much assumed every one I've ever seen has been a replica since I also assumed all the real ones are in a garage somewhere wrapped in bubble wrap.

[Yw-slayer]

I think I've seen 1 Speedster here, but given that cars are usually treated like jewellery here by certain rich people I wouldn't be surprised if it was a real one.

[Sad, little man]

Nevermind, it's the Spyder I was thinking of that's worth crazy money. I think the speedsters are still worth a lot, but not on the multi-million level of the Spyder. I'm not crazy about the speedster honestly... Looks too much like an upside down bathtub to me.

[Yw-slayer]

Sorry, I just noticed the other orange Elise in Michigan. WTF are the chances of 2 of them being on the road at the same time, and in the same place?!!! Minimal, I'd have thought.

[Freude am Fahren]

A beautiful later gen NSX, looked like it was right out of showroom. Also a green 650S Spyder.

http://www.freudeamfoto.com/gtx/nsx.jpg

[speedpimp]

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[Sad, little man]

Sorry, I just noticed the other orange Elise in Michigan. WTF are the chances of 2 of them being on the road at the same time, and in the same place?!!! Minimal, I'd have thought.
I have seen two yellow ones, that orange one, and a black one around here. I have heard of others. I think being that this area eats and breathes the automotive industry that there is a specific sub-set of people who appreciate the Elise for what it is and have bought them like me despite the abysmal road conditions around here.

The Elise is a car that engineering geeks lust over, and there are plenty of engineers around here.

[Kchrpm]

A lifted Dodge Ram, on chrome 22s or similar, with SS badging on at least the side. And they sucked at parking it, despite going to a space with 2-3 open spots in a row. Almost hit me as they were trying to back up and get lined up.

[XHawkeye]

A white Lamborghini Gallardo convertible eastbound on I-80, east of York, NE. Temp was 45° so the top was up.

[pl8ster]

Was on the bike and didn't get a picture, but saw a mid-70s Nova with '95-ish Dodge Dakota flush headlight/turn signal assemblies where the original headlights used to be. Actually looked really sweet.

Now that I think about it, weren't the Nova turn signals in the outer edges of the grille? I didn't notice what they had done with the grille.

[speedpimp]

According to the pic of a '76/'77 Nova on Wiki, yes they were at the edges of the grill.

Speaking of headlight transplants, there has been a late '90's Suburban running around the area for quite a while with Range Rover headlights(the ginormous square ones) grafted on. Has an odd charm to it.

[thesameguy]

I just saw one of those Range Rover conversions the other day, but on a pickup. Had a billet grille across the center, and since the RR lights have signals in them the grille extended past the headlights on the side and wrapped where the old headlights used to be. Odd for sure.

This morning I saw two '20s Fords, a '47 Chevy panel, and a Subaru Brat. I have no idea why two vintage Fords would be on the freeway on a Tuesday morning during rush hour, but there they were.

[Freude am Fahren]

http://www.freudeamfoto.com/gtx/aventador.jpg

[Freude am Fahren]

Another day, another Aventador :lol:

http://www.freudeamfoto.com/gtx/aventador2.jpg

[pl8ster]

Bienvenido a Miami!

[Godson]

You taking photos on the bike?

[Freude am Fahren]

I usually ride with a camera going on my helmet.

[Kchrpm]

Remote trigger or you just watched the entire footage when you got home and screengrabbed?

[Freude am Fahren]

The latter.

[thesameguy]

Talked to the owner of this for a little while...

http://www.sacsaabs.org/sacsaabs.org/othercars/slammedmagnum.jpg

Not everyone's cup of tea, but I'd rock that in a heartbeat.

[Godson]

Totally impractical. But who am I to say that

[thesameguy]

It's a station wagon. It's totally practical.

[Godson]

I meant that front end. Potholes/speedbumps here would take the whole front end off.

[thesameguy]

It's bagged. :up:

[speedpimp]

Is that in reference to it's suspension or the presumed douchiness of its owner?

[Godson]

It's bagged. :up:

I would like to redact my previous statements then. :up:

[thesameguy]

Is that in reference to it's suspension or the presumed douchiness of its owner?

The suspension. The owner was super cool - we talked for a while. He has a shop down the street, invited me to swing by & check it out in detail sometime. :up:

[speedpimp]

You tell him about you being a member of THE F EETWOO TANG CLAN?

[Kchrpm]

THE F EETWOO TANG CLAN
:up:

[JoshInKC]

:up:

:up::up:

[thesameguy]

ROFL!

I did... we talked for a while about that, too. I would really love to win a relationship with a moderately talented body shop that is willing to cut deals for steady work. I could keep someone busy for a year at the right price.

[Rikadyn]

Saw 2 Pandas (Corolla and Levin) and a Red Panda (Corolla)

[Drachen596]

I keep seeing a Nissan Leaf.

Not really that notable except that I wasn't sure they were even for sale here and also because I don't think I have ever seen another pure electric here where I live in Indiana.

[pl8ster]

My question for you (Drach) is: do you see a lot of Subarus in Indiana? It's the Official Car of New England (especially the XV Crosstrek, you can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting one) and I understand Colorado as well, but I know at least the Legacy/Outback is manufactured there, so wondering if you see a bunch there as well.

[Drachen596]

I see them constantly. Not huge numbers but always daily. Wrxs are slightly rarer

[TheBenior]

I think Subarus are fairly popular anywhere in the US that sees measurable annual snowfalls. Hell, Subaru sells as many cars in the US as, if not more than, VW does as a brand these days (adding in Audi pushed VAG past Subaru by about 40k cars last year). They hold their value extremely well here in Chicago, enough so that I don't understand who buys lightly used Subarus for only a few grand off of new pricing when they offer sub-2% financing on everything new that's not the WRX.

Maybe there's enough people with bad credit to support that pricing.

[KillerB]

The 300 wagon is awesome.

[Random]

Very popular here, too.

[Freude am Fahren]

Subaru's are pretty popular even here in South Florida.

[The359]

A 300ZX convertible in the most 80s off white color ever.

[speedpimp]

Red Pantera on I-94 at a Speedway in Mattawan, Michigan.

Yes, pl8, Subies are everywhere in Indiana.

[The359]

There were far less Subarus i when I was in Indiana than there are here in Pennsylvania.

[JoshInKC]

Yep, tons of subarus in Kansas.

[Kchrpm]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jVZ4aIjtfmfYO9bwXbNjkSa9uCdzLKauU2_IlIXJ5kD7=w993-h769-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gMFn9iSAcNXlulZFCKTx9VM6fwmVcxh6ceHf_Qid9GP2=w770-h769-no

[Cam]

That is very noteworthy. :up:

[speedpimp]

Isuzu NPR fitted with a sleeper and late 80's/early 90's Chevy bed.
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[Freude am Fahren]

So did you just pass by these and think, they're probably sitting there in the google street view as well? Or are you just trolling google street-view for notable car sightings? :lol:

Also that Renault is tits.

[speedpimp]

I spotted the truck yesterday while I was out driving, told Adam about it as he is an Isuzu-phile, posted the street view pic so that he could see it on FB and felt like posting it here, m'kay?

[TheBenior]

Not-terrible cars getting towed after their owners got arrested for street racing (in this case, for trespassing on private property):

1 NA Miata, 1 NB Miata, and 2 350Z

Usually it's beater compact FWD cars.

[overpowered]

It seems like I've seen 458's at least once a week along the coast lately.

[SportWagon]

Saw a Hillman Super Minx. It passed me on my bicycle as I was struggling out of the Conestogo River Valley. Later I had got to Canadian Tire, and I realized the same car was beside me as I was waiting to turn left at the mostly T intersection.

Baby blue, with a white roof. And, strangely, left-hand drive. Although from the early sixties, it had small tail fins, reminscent actually of some models of Plymouth Valiant, which is about the size it was. (Large for a British car). But according to wikipedia, although it was a Rootes group car, Rootes wasn't quite part of Chrysler yet, and the car didn't share any design or engineering with Valiants.

[Cam]

There's someone in my neighbourhood who's building a rat rod or something out of, what appears to be, an old ('50s or '60s) British sports car that I don't recognize. I passed it on the street twice last week. I'll get a shot of it if I see it again and post it up here.

[IMOA]

Delorean. RHD!

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[Cam]

There's someone in my neighbourhood who's building a rat rod or something out of, what appears to be, an old ('50s or '60s) British sports car that I don't recognize.
I talked to the owner today. It's a Bugatti kit car built over a VW. He and his son welded a new nose on. He called it an "Indy nose." It's for sale and needs work.

[pl8ster]

Where the hell are you? The US?

[Cam]

:lol: Yes.

[pl8ster]

:lol:

I meant to reply to IMOA's post.

[overpowered]

This asshat in a Maserati is setting up to use the right turn only lane to pass the nearly gridlocked cars and go straight through. It was the third time I saw him do it in the last couple of miles and I was on my bike. For all of his aggressive line cutting, an old guy on a bike was keeping up with him.

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[IMOA]

:lol:

I meant to reply to IMOA's post.

That was in France, I'm in Belgium this week

[speedpimp]

Checker Marathon eight door wagon. It's used as a shuttle for Hacienda Restaurants(a local Mexican chain).
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[Godson]

Red FD

[Rikadyn]

Red FD

pfft Red FC
and an Aventador

[Godson]

I see red FCs everyday, but not Aventadors.

[Rikadyn]

LanEvo II

[Random]

Saw a really clean 2nd gen Chevy II wagon at Starbucks this morning. White with white-painted wheels.

Didn't see an obvious tattooed hipster or bearded hot-rod guy hanging around, so I am going to go ahead and assume it belonged to the hot Asian chick. :up:

[Taimar]

I've been out for a total of 15 minutes today, but was rewarded with a 1967 Mercury Cougar and a 1941 Cadillac convertible.

Best sighting recently, however, was the 1938 Packard 12 Convertible Victoria flying down I-5 during rush hour two weeks ago.

[overpowered]

Saw a Porsche GT3 today on the freeway.

[speedpimp]

Brand spanky new Ferrari California T wearing Illinois temp tags. Took the pic at a distillery I was delivering to.
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[Taimar]

Out for a quick drive this evening:

'61 Coupe DeVille
'67 Datsun 1600 roadster
'79 Plymouth Trailduster
'76 Chevy Caprice four-door hardtop
'82 Civic S 3-door

[The359]

Drove past a small garage in the area, they stand out simply because they sell racing gas and ethanol free gas, but there was a DeLorean in the garage bay when I drove past the other day.

[Godson]

Silver\gray NSX

[Freude am Fahren]

Saw the same yesterday. It was a pre-facelift with the pop-up headlights, and dark red "Pit Stripes" on the driver's side fender.

[Mr Wonder]

Strange day Saturday. Poodled along the M25 at roughly five miles an hour for what seemed like an eternity. Alongside an immaculate Aston DB5.
Then I saw something I haven't seen for a long, long time. A Skoda Felicia Fun. Looks like this;

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5151b481e4b01fd1f7075ea1/t/53d77d5ce4b04ca0794fcdf3/1406631262744/skoda-felicia-fun.jpg

Those rear seats slide into the cab, you can see the rear glass in this shot, to allow more load space in the pick up bed. Weird.

[Random]

Which one is Felicia?

[Godson]

I bet they are both fun.

[Random]

The old : a two-door OG RAV4. :D
The new: first HR-V that I've spotted in the wild. :cool:

[Kchrpm]

Was one of them a rental? Or blue?

[speedpimp]

Not my photo but I spotted this same beast running wild on I69 in NE Indiana last Thursday.
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[Freude am Fahren]

I'd take that over one of those Murano convertibles anyday.

[Rikadyn]

http://i.imgur.com/g7p5gOc.jpg?1

[thesameguy]

There is just about nothing you can do to an FD that would make me not want it. All those crazy '90s Veilside et al kits still look good to me. Dated, but good.

[Freude am Fahren]

RCR's latest is on the FD, it's great.

[pl8ster]

Just about had the sh*t scared out of me on the bike last week, guy in what I'm pretty sure was a 911 GT3 got on the gas hard just as he was passing me. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt because he was at the beginning of a long straight and stayed in it. Sounded superb.

[pl8ster]

And last night I saw this while on the bike (stopped at a stoplight, fortunately):

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[Godson]

Lotus evora in black

[thesameguy]

Pretty sure that's not a Lotus but rather some hacked up old Pontiac.

[pl8ster]

Neither a Lotus nor a Pontiac but a '68 Gran Fury III.

[thesameguy]

Pontiac, Plymouth, whatever. It's definitely not an Evora. Those have four doors.

[Freude am Fahren]

Pretty sure that's a lambo, dude.

[Godson]

I saw a lotus evora in black....

[Rikadyn]

Silvia Varietta

[2ndMoparMan]

Spotted a Lotus Exige today on the way home. Pretty rare around here.

[speedpimp]

Slammed mid-late 90s Lexus GS wearing Toyota Aristo badges.

[thesameguy]

Like :up:

[Dicknose]

Alfa 4C
First I've seen and it was just for a moment as it was coming fast on the "Old Pac" aka IMOA Rd
I might have also been going a reasonable speed

[Random]

Saw a nice VW Bora on the freeway on Friday. Rebadged or imported?

[speedpimp]

Probably just a rebadged Jetta. Ran into one of those here locally about six years ago. Even had "BORA" on the license plate.

[2ndMoparMan]

Saw a early 90's Nissan Frontier today, but what made it unique to me was that it had no doors. Pretty sure they'll get stopped sometime today.

[thesameguy]

There is a shop by my house which always has a few really nice E30s out front - usually stanced, but sometimes really clean, stock cars. This morning there was a perfect 1600 Touring out front. :up:

[Kchrpm]

Speaking of shops with a bunch of nice older BMWs always out there

Enthusiast Auto Group - Inventory (http://enthusiastauto.com/qsearch/?form_request=56&action=results&showres=1&1268_0=&selLevel_1268B0D=&1574_0=1&x=15&y=7)

And checking them on Street View, they've expanded!

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.283682,-84.410459,3a,75y,97.61h,71.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLlsjrGxcwMTj-C3JGv0a9w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[thesameguy]

Good call on Street View -

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.612805,-121.401481,3a,75y,216.67h,79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slueMUybfaK9DkBokXdedmA!2e0!7i1 3312!8i6656

Sheesh - E30 Touring!

It always blows my mind that this is some crappy strip mall "all makes all models" shop and not a specialty place.

[Random]

Good call on Street View -

Your place has the Stupid Fe in full view. Bummer. :lol:

[thesameguy]

Really? I guess that means they redid the block pretty recently. For a long time Street View was before we bought the place. It would be much cooler if it had the '80s Museum instead. :)

[Random]

May 2015 on the image. Stupid Fe, XR4Ti, Falcon, and a Suburban outside the gate. :)

[Godson]

Vantage roadster. I couldn't tell if it was a V8 or 12 as I was on the bike (which is loud).

[Freude am Fahren]

The only way I can usually tell is the hood. If it's full of vents, it's the V12.

[GB]

Alfa Romeo 4C, white. First one I've ever seen.

[Cam]

Saw an older pick-up truck driving through town with most of of the front-end bodywork, including grille and bumper, missing. The only thing still attached was the hood and one headlight. In most developed nations with laws, this would be illegal, but hey, South Carolina. Yee-haw!

On the same street a day later, I saw a rather normal, pedestrian-looking minivan (might have been a Nissan or Toyota, I wasn't sure) with abnormally small wheels. This era of minivan probably came with 15 inch wheels from the factory, but it looked like it was rolling on aftermarket 13 inch wheels with low-profile tires. It looked really silly.

[speedpimp]

Were the rims really wide and protruding out of the wheel wells quite a bit?

[Cam]

No.

[KillerB]

To be fair, such a shitty truck would be legal in CA as log as it passes emissions. Gotta love that the state protects our lungs from mildly tuned cars, but couldn't care less if you're rolling with blown shocks, toasted brakes, and cords showing on your tires. :|

[TheBenior]

We don't have any sort of non-emissions related vehicle inspections in Illinois, either.

[SportWagon]

Last night and this morning at that garage I saw a real Mini 1000 (badged "Leyland", I think). Sort of a non-photogenic dull red, though. And I was in a hurry. And it's just a Mini. Left-hand drive. Probably from about the 1970's when they used to import them. "Mini! Mini! Mini! Mini!"

[KillerB]

Yeah people bitch about state inspections being a racket, but in PA it helped keep the real basket cases off the roads. I saw maybe two or three cars a year in PA suffer a blowout; here in CA I see one every week or so.

[Random]

:? None of my flat tires have ever been from old tires--it's always been debris (rock, nail, etc). How does an annual inspection fix that?

[neanderthal]

Tire condition.

Older, more worn tires are likely to blow out.

[neanderthal]

R32 Skyline last week. I had to do a double take.

Wasn't an S13 Silvia/ 240SX.

[KillerB]

I'm not talking plain old flats, I'm talking about blowouts - tire coming apart. Something I almost never saw in PA as an adult.

The times I've stopped to see if the person with a blowout needed help, a quick glance at their other tires showed bald tires and sometimes cords showing.

[thesameguy]

:? None of my flat tires have ever been from old tires--it's always been debris (rock, nail, etc). How does an annual inspection fix that?

They check for weathering, age, tread, inflation etc. Things most people never do. Most people are 100% reactionary with tires - they look only when something has gone wrong. I think the fuel economy tire inflation law probably helped, since now anywhere that touches cars is obligated to check tire pressure so at least there are eyes on the tire. I've had the same experience as KB - when one tire has totally failed the others are invariably not far behind. It just a complete lack of attention.

[TheBenior]

Plenty of small tire shops here in Chicago sell used tires, which terrifies me, though I have benefited from it in the past.

I got a new wheel/tire combo for my Mazdaspeed3 not because my OE tires were worn out (between my short trips, splitting miles between the Miata/bicycle/motorcycle, but because they were showing cracks between the tread. I'm not talking about fine spiderweb-like cracks, either. It cost me all of $15 to get them pulled off of every wheel, almost certainly because they were going to sell them as used tires, deep cracks and all.

[Drachen596]

Polaris Slingshot. Lots of stares from people at the gas station.

[thesameguy]

Saw this, <3

http://www.sacsaabs.org/sacsaabs.org/othercars/greenalfa.jpg

[Sad, little man]

Admittedly not in the wild, but I saw this today at a car show... I fapped. :o

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1448&d=1442192426

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1449&d=1442192430

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1446&d=1442192418

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1447&d=1442192422

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1445&d=1442192413

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[speedpimp]

XJ 13?

[Freude am Fahren]

Looks like it. Lovely car. And a Florida plate! Too bad I've never seen it. I bet it's on the west coast. I think there are a few big guy collectors over there. The guy that has like every homolgation special from the '90s lives over there.

[Kchrpm]

Saw some high dollar cars by a small airport today, the rarest of which was the classic GT350.

[Godson]

Lotus Elise
Volvo V70R running a decent amount of boost. :D

[overpowered]

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12034442_10206861886858445_5862915796272204206_o.j pg

[Yw-slayer]

Toyota Caldina GT-Four N.

[pl8ster]

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12034442_10206861886858445_5862915796272204206_o.j pg

I was looking to see who posted this before I saw the full picture, so I read your user title just before I scrolled down to see the rest of the pic, which was perfect :lol:

[Random]

From this morning's commute: a late model silver Buick Lacrosse with a tan vinyl top. All kinds of good taste failure there... :erm:

[The359]

Passed two old Opel GTs rusting on the side of the road, and saw a silver McLaren 650S convertible.

[GB]

YES, PLEASE.

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1488&stc=1

[speedpimp]

Pontiac T1000. First one moving under its own power in years.

[TheBenior]

Audi A6 TDI with Michigan manufacturer plates on the 90/94 in Chicago.

[tigeraid]

Heard my first flat-plane crank GT-350 down the road in front of my house the other day. Jesus Christ. The first Ford I've been interested in in a decade. What a noise.

[Freude am Fahren]

Ran over to Miami Beach, Sunny Isles (didn't go down to south beach, stayed north) area for lunch, and saw a GT4, Ford GT, and 458 Speciale.

[Cam]

Subaru XT6! :eek:

Looked in good, original condition, driven by a middle-aged lady. Diamond in the rough, methinks.

[Cam]

I've also been meaning to mention a car I see all the time parked at school. It's a newish Toyota Camry with a Landau roof. :erm: :lol:

Saw a different newish Camry, not more than ten years old, with a Reagan/Bush '84 bumper sticker. :lol:

[MR2 Fan]

Snapped this on the way to work today....3 Sunbeam Tigers and one Triumph Spitfire

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu329/techno9991/20151024_083915_zpsycoyjwfr.jpg

[sandydandy]

Yesterday was a rare day. I saw three different Skylines. An R32, R34, and a modern-day GT-R.

The R32 I see parked everyday down the street close to work, and GT-Rs are becoming a common sight, but R34s are extremely rare.

[Kchrpm]

Alfa Romeo 4C outside of Detroit. That car on those roads highways must be loud as well.

[2ndMoparMan]

I think I could live with the noise if I could look at that car every day, Keith. Such a gorgeous car.

[Mr Wonder]

Two rare ones this week.

A Lotus Evora GTE - Only 20 (or possibly 30) made for the road, with most bound for China by all accounts. Looked great in silver pootling along in traffic on the M4. Left hand drive sporting the plate LOT 3S - A plate that would have probably cost £50k or so.

On the other end of the rarity scale a Citroen CX 25 Limousine Turbo 2. - What a beast! There can't be many of these left now. It was puffing a bit of smoke but otherwise looked in fairly good nick. The front track seemed to be wider than the rear, and the rear screen is curved around the longitudinal axis. Very strange.

[thesameguy]

I had to google that Citroen... is it really true they called the diesels Limousine? :lol:

[Freude am Fahren]

Panoz Esperante, just leaving my mom's neighborhood.

[pl8ster]

Saw an e-Golf today in my town with a temp plate. Didn't realize it was a limited-market vehicle - or at least it was at one point - so I didn't pay any attention to the selling dealer and have no idea if it was purchased locally.

EDIT: "The e-Golf will be available only at participating dealers in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, DC."

Up yours, New Hampshire :lol:

[CudaMan]

Not what I expected to see when I walked out of the hardware store!

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Most likely a kit, but still.

Moments later, I saw a twin to my girl's M3, and just after that a blue C7 Z06.

Good spotting day.

[Cam]

Ferrari 458--An extremely rare sighting for Columbia.

Volvo C30 T5--great-looking hot hatch, IMO.

[thesameguy]

A+

http://www.sacsaabs.org/sacsaabs.org/othercars/slammedprevia.jpg

[Random]

Nice! :up:

[CudaMan]

I would drive a minivan like that. Maybe change up the wheels but otherwise that looks superb.

[thesameguy]

The Previa had superb styling - it still looks great!

[speedpimp]

Chrysler 300 hearse in Kalamazoo. And unlike most hearses that are either white, black or silver, this one was blue. Looked good.

[thesameguy]

Please tell me it had a tag axle!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c1/89/af/c189afdeac248dde9c7497117991d232.jpg

[speedpimp]

Sadly it did not.

[thesameguy]

Oh well, still an awesome variant! :D

[speedpimp]

White Alfa 4C at the Fiat dealer in Fort Wayne, IN. Sweet looking car.

[Godson]

Black r32 Skyline

[neanderthal]

Alfa Romeo Guila looks the business.


Don't know if the LA Car Show counts as a sighting.

[neanderthal]

I think I saw a Local Motors Rallye Fighter on the 210 freeway the other day..

It was either that or a last gen Mitsubishi Eclipse on 31 inch (or so) truck tires. But it looked like it had a solid rear axle hence me thinking Rallye Fighter.

[speedpimp]

IH Scout. No doors or rear fenders. Had what looked like a boom lift attachment. Driver could slide right from the driver's seat to the boom operator's seat without getting out of the cab.

[Random]

Saw an early 80s square Lotus Esprit. :up:

[Godson]

Noice!!!

[SportWagon]

I took my 2000 Subaru to the place where I found out my dealership does the "Ontario Drive Clean" get some near-emergency exhaust work done.

While I was there the mechanics turned away a 1989 Subaru for a "Drive Clean" because they don't have the equipment to test a car that old.

It was a flattish, longish 3 or 5 door. Searches suggest a GL or Leone or whatever they called them in Canada back then. It wasn't one of the really small ones (Justy?) Assuming it was a Canadian model at all. By the time my in-laws bought a Subaru in the early 1990's, "Legacy" was already its model name.

Should be faster with my camera.

But, then too, I was trying not to be conspicuous and troublesome because I was sneaking in walk-in service.

[speedpimp]

Three wheeled pickup in Muskegon, Michigan.
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[Cam]

Saw a newish pickup with a crazy white (truck's original colour), orange and yellow custom paint job. Didn't really think anything of it until I got closer and realized that it had been put on with a brush. :lol: :rolleyes:

[Phil_SS]

AMC Pacer

In this part of the world it's like seeing a unicorn. And it wasn't some restored example, it was pretty beat up and obvious it was being used for daily driving.

[Random]

Along those lines, just saw a Stocky McStockerson Mustang II, brown with a tan vinyl roof. Yeah, baby!

[pl8ster]

Random Celebrity sighting yesterday at my local Lowe's. Had to look up where Macon County was, and I spent years in TN.

EDIT: I just noticed the hitch. LOL!

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[Kchrpm]

Ha, I was going to ask what the Celebrity's name was :)

[pl8ster]

Saw a yellow Gallardo the other evening while waiting for snow tires to be installed on my son's Corolla. My son was with me, and we were outside the tire place...the owner gave it the beans leaving a stoplight, and it was a nice father-son moment. That is not a sound we will hear again anytime soon.

[Random]

Big ol' Bentley at In-N-Out in San Ramon...like you do...

[thesameguy]

In the Bay Area, even the bourgeoisie have Bentleys.

[Drachen596]

Three wheeled pickup in Muskegon, Michigan.
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There;s a white one of those thats on Craigslist here. has been for a while since it doesnt run. says previous owner hooked the battery up backwards and hasnt started since.

[Yw-slayer]

If I had a Bentley in America I'd go to In-N-Out.

[speedpimp]

Nah take the Bentley to Rally's/Checker's.

[TheBenior]

Heh, in Chicago it seems like all the Checker's that have sprung up in the past few years are all in sketchy neighborhoods.

I presume it's one of the cheaper/easier franchises to buy into.

[Reynard]

I just had a Sterling 825L move into my neighborhood.

[speedpimp]

Heh, in Chicago it seems like all the Checker's that have sprung up in the past few years are all in sketchy neighborhoods.

I presume it's one of the cheaper/easier franchises to buy into.

Yup and they tend to be found in primarily lower income neighborhoods. It is saying something when a Rally's/Checker's closes because the hood was too tough.

[Random]

Saw a late-model Exploder today, which is not noteworthy, but it had this odd plate, which is:

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1558&stc=1
Not that actual plate number, but that was the layout.

Any ideas? US plate shape, but English flag.

[speedpimp]

Did it look similar to the ones here (http://www.pressedplates.co.uk/uksamplesjaps.asp)?

[pl8ster]

Real UK plates don't have the EU or country flag, so my vote is for illegal remake of a real US plate number from...somewhere. Amazing what people get away with as far as that is concerned.

It should also be noted that there are vaguely US-sized UK plates for vehicles that have US-sized plate receptacles, but those don't have a flag either, at least that I have seen.

EDIT: Wow, I was very much mistaken...must have been thinking of the older UK plates. Current UK plates can certainly have the EU "GB" flag on the left (though are not required to), and can even have country-specific flags in place of the EU flag. But to be a real UK plate, the one you saw would have had to have been in an AB12 CDE format.

I chalk up my brain fart to my advancing age :)

[Random]

Yeah, Rich, it looked like the yellow one in your samples, but with the English flag.

Funky.

[thesameguy]

Inexplicably, there was a completely mint red Paseo convertible on the road this morning.

http://theautoz.com/images/toyota-paseo-convertible-8.jpg
(not this one, however)

[Random]

Speaking of red cars...saw a Mk IV Supra Turbo on the freeway yesterday. :D :up:

And a red Saturn SC2 with a Supra wing about half an hour later. :erm: :lol:

[XHawkeye]

Saab 93 wagon
and a
Audi RS6

[Kchrpm]

Cadillac ELR :eek: In (metro) Detroit.

[Godson]

VW Phaeton

[overpowered]

At Target this evening.

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http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1598&d=1455942821

[Godson]

Rolls Royce. No idea on model, as they all look the same to me.

[MR2 Fan]

probably a Silver Flying Ghost Spur

[Godson]

It was black and big.

[speedpimp]

It was black and big.

That's what she said.

[thesameguy]

Caught up to a Merkur Scorpio ... While driving the XR. Talk about a moment!

[Random]

http://cdn1.theodysseyonline.com/files/2015/07/06/635717492031980775-1328329288_T4YX44tlqOKaI.gif

[thesameguy]

That is more or less how it went down, in fact. :lol:

[JoshInKC]

Saw a semi nice early 70s(? small bumpers) red Alfa Spider in traffic today being driven by someone who I have to assume is associated with the university. Why do I assume that? Dude behind the wheel was wearing a tweed jacket with elbow patches, driving gloves, crazy grey hair sticking out under a flat cap, and with an honest-to-god calabash pipe that was smoking almost as much as the tailpipe.
Definitely needed a tune up, but it wouldn't have been nearly as funny looking.

[thesameguy]

I love those cliches! That car is probably exactly how he likes it. :lol:

[JoshInKC]

Yeah, it brightened my day.

[pl8ster]

Just saw my first GT-R in ages (if not ever - this is Maine, after all, and my memory is shit) - just cruising around on the wet, salted roads in the freezing drizzle, not giving a single rat's ass. Rear Maine vanity plate "FAN."

[speedpimp]

I love those cliches! That car is probably exactly how he likes it. :lol:

Only cliche missing is the knocked up co-ed he is "mentoring".

[thesameguy]

I had to stop in at the Fiat/Maserati dealership today, and it looks like they are expanding into other Italians. A brand new 4C and a handful of used Ferraris were around. I was unable to leverage my current situation into a sympathy test drive of any of them.

[Cam]

A McLaren MP4-12C--extremely rare anywhere, let alone SC.

[Kchrpm]

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlt1/t31.0-8/12514087_799282245349_1412496593420422066_o.jpg

[thesameguy]

We spent the past weekend in Portland, and logged about 14 miles on the girl's pedometer. While traveling from bar to bar we passed a Jag dealer with these in the showroom:

http://www.sacsaabs.org/sacsaabs.org/othercars/pdx_brits.jpg

Talk about odd company!

[speedpimp]

Red one is an Austin Marina?

[thesameguy]

Oh, also, there was a decorative map in our hotel room that inexplicably has an Alfa on it...

http://www.sacsaabs.org/sacsaabs.org/othercars/pdx_alfamap.jpg

I am sure there is some significance that I don't know, cool nonetheless.

[thesameguy]

Red one is an Austin Marina?

Yeah it is! Nice eye!

[thesameguy]

Oh yeah - saw my first ever Scion iA, which I didn't even know was a thing until I saw it. From a distance, up close, and more or less all over it looked exactly like something Kia would build... which somewhat ironically means it looked pretty decent short of a few details. :lol:

http://pressroom.scion.com/images//2015_NYIAS_Scion_iM_008_66449_42747_low.jpg

[Yw-slayer]

There is one 4C in town that I have seen on the road a few times.

Not much other stuff of note. TBH nowadays it's the (bad) driving I notice rather than (nice) cars. I guess I'm getting really old.

[JoshInKC]

Saw a 4 door kia forte with a vanity plate that read VTECLOL

[thesameguy]

Gold star to that guy!

[Kchrpm]

A relatively new Civic with early C4 wheels.

[Mr Wonder]

Today I mostly saw this;

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1620&d=1422286737

[thesameguy]

So. Nice. I have only ever seen one of those at a car show - IIRC an XJ220 was also present. <3

[Godson]

Wow. And in white!

[Freude am Fahren]

That is glorious!

[overpowered]

A friend of mine posted this to his FB feed that he saw yesterday:

https://www.facebook.com/photo/download/?fbid=10208760707080307

[pl8ster]

Invisible car?

[speedpimp]

Invisible car?

This.

[overpowered]

BMW i8.

[thesameguy]

Spent an unfortunate amount of time in traffic while Californians failed in the snow. Favorite car sighting was a Toyota Highlander with chains on the rear tires.

[Yeti]

There's a metallic seafoam-ish colored late 70s Chevy Impala in my school's parking lot every day. Not really notable except for the fact that it's pulling daily driver duty in WI and isn't rusted into small pieces.

[thesameguy]

A rolling Chevy gathers no rust?

[pl8ster]

I can appreciate that - I would be just as amazed seeing a Chevy like that here. Though I do regularly see a brown '78 Corona with Antique Auto plates driven by an old lady who obviously knows how to game the system...no yearly inspections for Antique-plated vehicles, though there are supposed to be mileage restrictions.

[TheBenior]

BMW i8 parked at my local gyro joint (http://brandysgyros.com/).

[SportWagon]

Invisible car?This.
We are part of an undesirable audience.

[GB]

McLaren 12C

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1634&stc=1

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1631&stc=1

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1633&stc=1

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1632&stc=1

[thesameguy]

Sho is purty....

[Random]

A bright red Huracan in downtown Sacto when I went out for a coffee this afternoon. V10 judging by the exhaust sound. :up:

[speedpimp]

50's-ish Mercury 3-ton pickup running a modern diesel and pulling an older Coachman 5th wheel rv.
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[The359]

While putting new brakes on the BRZ, a guy in a Starsky & Hutch Torino drove by.

[pl8ster]

I still really want a S&H Torino, maybe more than any other TV/movie car, and I'm not even a Ford guy.

But today I saw a bright yellow Beretty Indy edition - can't remember the last time I saw even a standard Beretta on the road up here.

[Leon]

I was in a workshop yesterday, with three R32 GTR Skylines, one R35 Skyline (caged), more Evo's than I could count, two RX7 bat's ... the list went on forever.

[thesameguy]

That Mercury pickup is gorgeous!

[Yw-slayer]

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[Godson]

Wow!

[speedpimp]

Nice.

[SportWagon]

A television ad for ancestry.ca features a picture of a lovely old BMW.

I don't think it's the one here, however.
http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?uidh=000&rank=1&new=1&so=3&msT=1&gsln=Airey&gss=angs-d&MS_AdvCB=1&MSAV=2

I recall from the pictures that it's a similar age/style car, but with an even skinnier radiator, resulting in even more like the traditional 2002 grill.

[Boo! I knew the URL was unlikely to work later or for other people].

A search at google.com for "site:ancestry.ca grandad bmw" might find it, FWIW. ("Airey")

https://www.google.ca/#safe=off&q=site:ancestry.ca+grandad+bmw
https://www.google.ca/#safe=off&q=site:ancestry.ca+airey+grandad+bmw

[Random]

Saw a "patina'd*" VW Bug today with "this is not an abandoned vehicle" scratched (yes, scratched) into the deck lid. :erm: :lol:

*primer/rust/oxidation on every panel + vintage roof rack...it's a thing.

[speedpimp]

Very sharp original 1984 VW Sciorocco.

[JoshInKC]

While out earlier I saw an extremely ratty FC RX-7 convertible. Was a complete piece of shit with a flapping rear bumper cover and a wildly white trash dude behind the wheel.

But... I had my window down and it made a very race-y "WHHHOOOOOOOOPPPP, WWWWHHHHOOOOOOOOPPP, WWWWWHOOOOOOPPP!!!!" sound as the guy was rowing the gears and accelerating VERY rapidly to get to highway speed.

[Random]

:up:

[Cam]

International Harvester Scout 80 with the top off. Looked good.

[speedpimp]

Porsche Cayenne Diesel.

[Cam]

1990ish Lotus Esprit.

[speedpimp]

Spotted this in Fort Wayne, IN today. Not sure if it's the real deal or a Fiero based kit.
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