# 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:** 209
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4167 "2022-02-20T05:02:22Z")
I saw a Vivian SUV and a VW ID.4 on the freeway. Both recent model year all-electrics. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4168 "2022-02-20T13:49:54Z")
Rivian, probably, not Vivian. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4169 "2022-02-20T17:02:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Rivian Yes. Stupid autocorrect. Rivian Rivian. Rivian. Rivian. That trained it! ---
**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:** [March 7, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4170 "2022-03-07T17:08:19Z")
From a week ago, but a Park City UT town plow - a Unimog with chains [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_Sv52EfGQKCjc1oyYLHL4YEBeXHpfV8p208WjcyuEVdIJO_7hlWZ1vBomnSYKkgIKGgj2jjmFrE4RJoujW2_xpMu-5eenFzFXUk9AIsvMnOl3CmSzWP-ThZIMFoXeHGYYt3qVM78zXg=w600-h315-p-k "New item by David Metsky") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/bw8LZPderdWMxvMY8) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4171 "2022-03-09T01:44:24Z")
Car identification help. The neighbor across the street has an old sedan under a cover and it’s finally off. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kcmMwP1gZQdVLBqZ18p2jffv0TV1rYnHvNQ4j-20149A8Iv9jnJokpjwEISgsOmtJWHF7NyYdBXU6QNJG2AoTKn5bfChhZIkCgYQEQm4KZt_GOxToWTQvWuHvJXDmsryQBSRp0J1TP0=w600-h315-p-k "New item by David Metsky") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/s86fN3YYRUPkAhUP9) [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EUwzfNlhBFOGSKe-kspgWS0LZ8_Lg_m7P6AkAgqh2vA_MM8NlQK2bKbd0SwEYivQ_C7TfQ1ZicK-0TuR45eSGX0BjzeO56eEykULPRyrQHCuiXrmIxDm1zZnGBtGH8VnsBM3XQa3jgU=w600-h315-p-k "New item by David Metsky") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/FUxGiiky8DhWdme79) Maybe a 40s Chevy Fleetline? Also this pick up project. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/k7n-Lp0tWbgJcCLJUH-lbHiWY17cwfsuPgGEsqHc9O7l3c92tPb3mbYU9f8AGRdWCHxhwzeC6FB-uNMFyZyqjumtbgfUmijLUyTwikaOYEtuvo-vsdZR9N-jw9gfZ4jY5aRe3Dmh-Rw=w600-h315-p-k "New item by David Metsky") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/EXQxP6ShBd3Neg7W8) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4172 "2022-03-09T02:00:39Z")
That chrome strip up the middle of the hood of the sedan makes me almost certain it’s a Pontiac. That was kind of their trademark in that era. ETA: The truck looks like a late 40s / early 50s Chevy “Advance Design”. > **[Chevrolet Advance Design](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Advance_Design)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The Advance-Design is a light and medium duty truck series by Chevrolet, their first major redesign after WWII. Its GMC counterpart was the GMC New Design. It was billed as a larger, stronger, and sleeker design in comparison to the earlier AK Series. First available on Saturday, June 28, 1947, these trucks were sold with various minor changes over the years until March 25, 1955, when the Task Force Series trucks replaced the Advance-Design mod... ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4173 "2022-03-09T02:20:59Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > That chrome strip up the middle of the hood of the sedan makes me almost certain it’s a Pontiac. That hood ornament is specific to '46 Pontiac. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/55/d2/c5/55d2c5e91787e7a703a3f57e7104d633.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/55/d2/c5/55d2c5e91787e7a703a3f57e7104d633.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:** [March 9, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4174 "2022-03-09T02:33:34Z")
Ooh, thanks for posting that chart. My grandparents had an old 1940s era Pontiac rusting away in some forgotten corner of their farm. I kinda stole the hood ornament from it when I was a teenager. Now I can identify it as a 1941 8 cylinder. I do remember the long straight-8 under the hood. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4175 "2022-03-09T12:59:03Z")
Thanks for that definitive identification. Now, when I chat with him I can sound like I know what I’m talking about. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4176 "2022-03-09T22:26:36Z")
BTW: the truck is a Chevy or GMC, you can tell by the crease at the bottom of the fenders. They’re pretty much identical from '48 to '53 and this example seems to be missing all of its identifying badges. A friend in high school owned a '48 Chevy truck, a real sleeper. Looked stock but had a 350 with a four barrel and a big velocity stack under the hood. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4177 "2022-03-09T22:41:54Z")
The Wikipedia page I posted yesterday actually lists the year to year changes. If Wikipedia is correct, the fuel neck was moved to behind the passenger door in '49, and vent windows were added in '51. So this truck is either a '49 or '50. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4178 "2022-03-09T22:43:56Z")
I meant that Chevy and GMC are pretty much identical to each other for any given year, not that the years are identical to each other. 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 9, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4179 "2022-03-09T22:44:47Z")
Ah, gotcha. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4180 "2022-03-10T19:20:08Z")
Saw and heard a 2005-2006 Ford GT. Loud exhaust, beautiful, and had this plate: JUSTAFRD. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4181 "2022-03-16T14:55:09Z")
I don’t know what it was, but there was a completely burned out car (and a couple of fire trucks) at the Shell station at my exit when I was driving home yesterday. Someone posted a video of it on Facebook, and the car used to be red. What sucks is that the car was heading away from the pumps, so the driver probably just filled his/her tank. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4182 "2022-03-16T21:14:08Z")
While going out for lunch today I was stopped at a red light and caught some sort of mid-engined exotic sports car in my rear view mirror in the other lane a few cars back. Unfortunately I couldn’t see much of it as it was behind a large SUV, so all could see was the front right corner, the passenger side (but at a very steep angle), an air intake behind the door, and part of the rear spoiler. The shape was reminiscent of a first generation NSX; I suppose it could have been one of the later ones without pop-up headlights. But I distinctly remember it having LED running lights around the edges of the headlights. That seems a little too modern for a car that ended production in 2005. Unless it was an NSX that been slightly modified. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4183 "2022-03-17T01:09:02Z")
Sounds like a C8 ( 2021/2022 ) Chevrolet Corvette. Large air intakes behind each door, LEDs around the top/sides of the headlights in a kind of “A” shape. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4184 "2022-03-17T01:19:31Z")
I bet you’re right. Looking at pictures of cars online earlier, the C8 Corvette was the only other car that looked remotely like what I saw. And I remember the car I saw having larger air intakes than what the NSX had. I just doubted myself before because I thought I would have been able to recognize the new Corvettes; I have seen them in the wild before. I guess having so much of the car hidden made it hard to ID. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4185 "2022-03-19T00:39:33Z")
A stretch limo based on a Dodge Durango SUV. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4186 "2022-03-19T00:59:38Z")
More in the category of 30 year old ordinary cars still on the road: A 1990s era Ford Escort. You don’t really see many of those anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=208) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=210)