# What's the most interesting car you saw today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889 "2014-05-21T02:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 171
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3406 "2020-09-19T23:07:43Z")
> Is that the specific truck you saw, or is that just a picture of a similar vehicle from the internet? Because if that’s the actual truck, it would qualify as interesting to me even apart from its purpose. It looks to be a classic Jeep forward control truck… It’s one of a bunch of Jeeps of various vintages and configurations parked out in front of Gillette’s Trading Post, just south of the intersection of US 285 and CO 114. There’s a sign hanging over the lot that says “Jeep Rescue League”. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3407 "2020-09-19T23:19:28Z")
Missed the edit window…you can see the Jeeps using street view here (the map image is from a couple of years ago, the giraffes were on a different chassis then) : [https://goo.gl/maps/51FSa4NNyZUt76ej7](https://goo.gl/maps/51FSa4NNyZUt76ej7) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3408 "2020-09-20T12:07:40Z")
Yesterday I saw a neon green Lamborghini Huracan, a Ferrari Mondial 8 (which is even smaller than you think it is, the Lotus Esprit I said was small is big in comparison), and my first Corvette C8. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3409 "2020-09-20T13:35:57Z")
I used to see Ferrari Mondials in the '80s and '90s when I lived in L.A. (Now that I think of it, I don’t remember ever seeing a hardtop.) I’ve always liked the looks of them. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3410 "2020-09-20T19:08:51Z")
I saw a beautiful Karmann Ghia. I had a chance to drive a buddy’s beater Ghia back in college, it was almost Flintstones with the rusted out floor. [/quote] AU GHOTI [/quote] Goldfish? ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3411 "2020-09-20T19:54:14Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Goldfish? Aye. Extra characters to post. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3412 "2020-09-21T04:05:08Z")
This weekend: Two Model A Fords, one pristine, one “as found”. A Chrysler Prowler. 1969 Camaro, very nice except for the modern low profile rims and tires that really detracted from the overall vibe. A 1970s Dodge Challenger, very nice. Orange with black accents. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3413 "2020-09-21T14:00:41Z")
That last one is pretty clever Au =gold and ghoti=fish. For those of you going ghoti? gh in enough is pronounced “f”, o is pronounced like a short i on women, and ti in nation is “sh”, ergo ghoti=fish. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3414 "2020-09-23T23:23:41Z")
A couple of days ago at the Pioneer Museum in Gunnison, Colorado: a 1959 De Soto Firedome. (If you’re ever in the area, the museum is a must-see. The car collection alone is worth a stop and there’s a ton of other stuff worth checking out.) [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50377201557_baa63fc949_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50377201557_baa63fc949_c.jpg) [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50376331128_d19f8d809f_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50376331128_d19f8d809f_c.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3415 "2020-09-24T02:42:17Z")
A late 1970s Toyota Corolla wagon. My dad had a '79 when I was a kid, so I instantly recognized it. The one I saw looked somewhat modified, with modern aftermarket wheels, aftermarket exhaust, and LED headlights with amber rings around them for turn signals. I don’t remember if the original turn signals were also functional, as my eyes were drawn to the ones around the headlights. And given the aftermarket exhaust I suspect a non-stock engine under the hood. But even in it’s non-original state, that was a fun car to see. You really don’t see Japanese cars from that era anymore. > [@blondebear](#): > > a 1959 De Soto Firedome. Interestingly, for a short period in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chrysler Corporation had just as many car brands as GM: Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler, and Imperial. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3416 "2020-09-24T13:08:27Z")
We were eating dinner outside in the square last night when a tan TR6 went by, top up but rear window missing? Is that a thing or did the window just die and the owner hasn’t replaced it yet? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3417 "2020-09-24T15:00:13Z")
I don’t know about TR6s, but MGBs got zip-down rear windows in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3418 "2020-09-24T16:18:46Z")
I saw a late 40s or early 50s Studebaker while I was driving to work this morning. I only saw the back, so I couldn’t see if it was the “bullet nose” variety or or the more conventional late 1940s hood. But you can’t mistake that distinctive trunk and rear window for anything else. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3419 "2020-09-25T01:17:41Z")
At Capitol Reef National Park today, a couple of '64 Austin Healey 3000s: [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380174473_1d5fb20902_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380174473_1d5fb20902_c.jpg) [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380175378_11436e1c7d_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380175378_11436e1c7d_c.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3420 "2020-09-25T22:55:17Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I saw a late 40s or early 50s Studebaker while I was driving to work this morning. I only saw the back, so I couldn’t see if it was the “bullet nose” variety or or the more conventional late 1940s hood. But you can’t mistake that distinctive trunk and rear window for anything else. So I looked at some pictures of Studebakers yesterday, and I realize they did re-style the rear of the bullet-nose ones a bit. The '50-51 bullet nose models had vertical taillights and smallish tailfins. The '47-49 models had more horizontal taillights. So I can say the car I saw yesterday was a late-1940s model. Actually, come to think of it I have seen a 1947 Studebaker in that same area before (the first time I saw it there was a sign in the back window that read “1947”). So it was probably the same car. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3421 "2020-09-26T00:52:33Z")
A 2020 Ford Escape. I like the new design. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3422 "2020-09-26T02:19:45Z")
A mint-condition '54 Chevy Bel Air. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3423 "2020-09-26T20:26:37Z")
A Corvair. Looks to be somewhat restomodded. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50387168367_267cb2fc23_b.jpg "Corvair") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/50387168367/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50386294618_408d5841f7_b.jpg "Corvair") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/50386294618/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50386295048_cdefd940b5_b.jpg "Corvair") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/50386295048/) Honorable mentions that I couldn’t photograph because I was driving at the time: An old Chevy LUV pickup, with a “stepside” style bed. Did Chevy/Isuzu offer that kind of bed on the LUV, or was that a custom job? It looked like a smaller version of the stepside bed offered on the 1970s/80s full sized Chevy pickups. The truck I saw also looked like it was restomodded, hence my thinking that the bed might have been custom. An Audi R8. The exhaust note was _loud_. Like obnoxiously loud, IMO. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3424 "2020-09-27T16:48:09Z")
[http://hikethewhites.com/sdmb/valiant.jpg](http://hikethewhites.com/sdmb/valiant.jpg) From a sticker on it I think it’s a 1962 Plymouth Valiant. I’m only familiar with the later boring versions of the nameplate. This is a funky car. ETA- not sure why the preview isn’t showing, but clicking on the link works. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/3425 "2020-09-28T14:21:09Z")
Early 90s BMW 325xi. The boxy sedan just before they changed the body shape. A very nice red Corvair tootling down the same highway I saw the Delorean on a few weeks ago. Some sort of modern Aston Martin at a small town garage on that highway. Matte black with a big wing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=172)