# Most unusual car you've seen today? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092 "2005-07-25T18:44:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/1 "2005-07-25T18:44:34Z")
Feel free to define unusual any way you want. Mine was a 1963 (according to the antique plates and Kennedy/Johnson bumper sticker) Studebaker Avanti, light-blue. It really stands on out a city street full of Civics and Camrys. Not in mint condition, clearly it was driven fairly regularly and had a backseat full of junk. So, what have you seen today? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/2 "2005-07-25T18:51:53Z")
A police car - unusual because it was a Citroen. I can’t figure out why on earth they’ve started using them. Most of their choices are logical - Ford Focuses for around town, logical for the same reason as anybody gets a Focus, Volvos for highway patrols so they can cram in a large amount of equipment, Jags for unmarked cars that may be involved in high-speed work, and Land Rovers. But a Citroen? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![big\_dogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f1d935/32.png) [@big\_dogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_dogs)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/3 "2005-07-25T19:45:09Z")
I saw an Avanti this morning. That has been my dream car forever. Of course, not light blue - black, or maybe [red](http://www.cars-on-line.com/10500/63avanti10549-A.jpg) . ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/4 "2005-07-25T19:51:57Z")
I saw one of [these](http://www.aoqz76.dsl.pipex.com/Web%20Page%20Components/Wallpaper/Digital%20Art/Hot%20Rod.jpg) this morning. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/5 "2005-07-25T19:52:07Z")
I drive a Prius, and that’s often the most unusual car I see in a day. In Palm Beach, you sometimes see Bentleys and other super luxury cars that are unusual in normal parts of the world. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/6 "2005-07-25T20:57:46Z")
Most days, it’s our Aztek. It’s a metallic blue; I’ve only seen one other blue Aztek in the Omaha area.Lots of the Aztek’s quieter cousin, the Buick Rendezvous, in that color, but only one other Aztek I know of. That one has the same wheels as ours, is obviously parked in an area with mulberry trees like ours (the reddish bird crap stains practically matched the ones I’m contantly fighting on ours),and since both my wife and I were in the Ranger at when we first spotted it, we initially thought that someone might have stolen ours. We live near an old white wooden church popular for weddings and we’ve seen this wacky-looking “super-long Excalibur”-type limo several times (wish I had a picture). On close inspection, this is obviously a stretch of a pre-1991 Lincoln Town Car wrapped in a bunch of outrageous fiberglass fenders, fake sidepipes and sidemount spares, '30s Mercedes-like grille and outsized antique-look headlamps. All-in-all still less ridiculous than the more-common stretched Hummers and Excursions. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/7 "2005-07-25T21:03:30Z")
The most unusual car I’ve seen today is a 1963 Triumph Herald 1200 Convertible. It’s parked in my driveway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/8 "2005-07-25T21:26:02Z")
Nothing today. I saw a brand spankin’ new Rolls Royce going down the 10 on friday though. Also on the same trip a guy was hauling a very unusual-looking motorcycle in the bed of his truck. I have no idea what it was but I liked it, except for the fact that it was **ORANGE!!!** Only orange-r than that. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/9 "2005-07-25T22:01:35Z")
A car with the license plate IQ-165. With a Red Sox frame. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/10 "2005-07-26T01:22:19Z")
:::waves to zenith::: i will keep an eye out for the excaliber limo, and your blue aztec. sad about caniglia’s closing, isn’t it? from omaha, lh75 ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/11 "2005-07-26T01:31:47Z")
I saw a car, I suppose it was a car, this morning. It looked like the nose of an airplane, flying, er… driving south on Highway 19 in Hudson, Florida. It definitely had one wheel in front and 2 in the rear and wings. Also a pointy nose. It was tiny. I know I saw it, but it was so weird. It didn’t look very safe at all. Too bad I was driving north and only had it in my field of vision for about 5 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/12 "2005-07-26T01:38:33Z")
[Bentley Continental GT](http://www.europeancarweb.com/firstlook/0402ec_bentley/) It’s an unusual car in that you’d think there would not be very many on the road. I see three regularly in my neighbourhood. A silver one is parked daily in the garage at the office building where I work. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/13 "2005-07-26T02:38:28Z")
It was white and had some sort of whirling cutter blades coming out of the front. Oh, and a great big number “5” on each side. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/14 "2005-07-26T14:32:36Z")
Umm, ::looks out into driveway:: I’ve got a 2001 Kia Rio and a 95 Monte Carlo out there. Which is more unusual? ---
**Author:** ![Emerald\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Emerald\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emerald_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/15 "2005-07-26T17:15:16Z")
My housemate’s [laser blue Lotus Elise](http://images.google.com/images?q=laser%20blue%20lotus%20elise&hl=en&hs=fV7&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi) is fairly unusual. The color in particular is uncommon, since it is not listed as an option at any of the dealerships here in the US. You have to know about it to ask for it. He gets a lot of different reactions from people when they see the car. Kids who play a lot of video games are usually impressed and know all of its stats. Most people have never heard of them though. A week ago, a guy in the parking lot at the movies asked my housemate if he had built it himself, from a kit 😉 . He also gets asked “Who builds a Lotus?” a lot. Lotus builds a Lotus, silly! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/16 "2005-07-26T17:21:45Z")
> [@Ravenous Lady](#): > > I saw a car, I suppose it was a car, this morning. It looked like the nose of an airplane, flying, er… driving south on Highway 19 in Hudson, Florida. It definitely had one wheel in front and 2 in the rear and wings. Also a pointy nose. It was tiny. > > I know I saw it, but it was so weird. It didn’t look very safe at all. Too bad I was driving north and only had it in my field of vision for about 5 seconds. A former neighbor of ours had an old 3-wheeler like that - I cannot remember now if it was a BMW or a Messerschmitt, but it was neat. There’s [a whole museum](http://www.microcarmuseum.com/virtualtour.html) dedicated to microcars. There are way more than you’d think. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/17 "2005-07-26T18:16:40Z")
Today it was a BMW 2002, dark green. Very nice looking ride. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/18 "2005-07-26T19:00:08Z")
Our black cherry [read: purple] Scion xA. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/19 "2005-07-27T13:04:42Z")
Today I came up behind a strange-looking thing. From the rear, it was as wide as a car (or small truck), and had an open top – actually it had no top. And it was painted with woodland scenery. As I started to drive up beside it, I saw that it was an open passenger compartment. But I couldn’t see any driver or where the driver would sit. As I came even with it, I saw it was being pulled by a guy on a Harley Davidson!!! (The bike was in the center, and due to the width of the passenger compartment he wasn’t visible from behind). It was quite an impressive thing. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092/20 "2005-07-27T14:20:39Z")
A black Hummer. Being followed immediately by a Black Hummer. Both had Ohio plates, but from different counties. I thought I’d come upon a caravan. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-car-youve-seen-today/314092.md?page=2)