# 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:** 248
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4947 "2023-01-07T00:04:51Z")
#1 today, what the camera captured — untouched photo . #2 today, what my eye saw — new paint colors these days can really POP . [![](https://i.imgur.com/hRZoZvF.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/hRZoZvF.jpeg) . [![](https://i.imgur.com/jbBGcsE.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/jbBGcsE.jpeg) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4948 "2023-01-07T01:49:16Z")
Spotted at the end of a driveway, couldn’t get a good look at it so no badges. I suspect a late 60s Plymouth. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wLa5gw3ocwZGAoPDb9F4pIYkoTPefErSeraXaNRY6qI5-cfU3BTLP0LC6Qwo9ihCiTiouVZ33sno6c9kn9ka7lm_7vgmQOfjINFkgDffHqTkqZrSedS15onPaqVn4XvdYAleZDVxix4=w600-h315-p-k "New item by David Metsky") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/1Jm4bJtZ5ry9ySyZ7) ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4949 "2023-01-07T02:03:42Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > I’m wondering how well the prop at the back functions. I am thinking it might be pretty useless without the prop at the front. Could it keep the plane balanced in the air if the front prop stops working? Is it just an assist on takeoff? This will waste my time admirably tonight. 😀 Plenty of pusher configured aircraft over the years. They tend to be objectionable noisy though as the prop chops the exhaust it a way that sounds terrible. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Piaggio_P-180_Avanti_Rennes_2010_%28cropped%29.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Piaggio_P-180_Avanti_Rennes_2010_%28cropped%29.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:** [January 7, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4950 "2023-01-07T02:17:04Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I suspect a late 60s Plymouth. Yep, and I suspect that’s the original color. During the muscle car era Chrysler offered some outrageously bright colors like that at extra cost. I believe that one is “plum crazy”. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4951 "2023-01-07T04:24:08Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > > [@carnut](#): > > > > I’m wondering how well the prop at the back functions. I am thinking it might be pretty useless without the prop at the front. Could it keep the plane balanced in the air if the front prop stops working? Is it just an assist on takeoff? This will waste my time admirably tonight. 😀 > > Plenty of pusher configured aircraft over the years. They tend to be objectionable noisy though as the prop chops the exhaust it a way that sounds terrible. > > [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Piaggio\_P-180\_Avanti\_Rennes\_2010\_(cropped).jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Piaggio_P-180_Avanti_Rennes_2010_%28cropped%29.jpg) That’s GOTTA be a Burt Rutan design, right? Just a guess, and not willing to look it up right now. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4952 "2023-01-07T05:24:50Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > That’s GOTTA be a Burt Rutan design, right? > > Just a guess, and not willing to look it up right now. I can see why you’d think so, but nope. > **[Piaggio P.180 Avanti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_P.180_Avanti)** > > The Piaggio P.180 Avanti is an executive/VIP light transport aircraft, designed by Piaggio Aero and built in Italy. It features twin, wing-mounted turboprop engines, in a pusher configuration. The Avanti seats up to nine people in a pressurized cabin and may be flown by one or two pilots. The design is of three-surface configuration, having both a small forward wing and a conventional tailplane, as well as its main wing, with the main wing spars passing behind the passenger cabin area. > A 1980s... The Beech Starship from about the same time period did have Rutan’s input. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/NASA-2000Starship.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/NASA-2000Starship.jpg) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4953 "2023-01-07T05:32:06Z")
1967 Plymouth Barracuda. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4954 "2023-01-07T10:24:46Z")
Cool, thanks @Pork_Rind . ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4955 "2023-01-07T13:11:42Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > They tend to be objectionable noisy though as the prop chops the exhaust it a way that sounds terrible. Huh. Did not know that was because the prop ‘chops’ the exhaust. Learned something new today. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4956 "2023-01-07T14:34:19Z")
Yeah, that looks like a match. I couldn’t find a match for tail lights but that looks pretty dead on. I guess they removed the badging from the trunk at some point. I think I saw the fastback when doing my searches and that didn’t match. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4957 "2023-01-07T20:28:07Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > 1967 Plymouth Barracuda. Good call. I almost forgot they were anything other than fastbacks. > [@WildaBeast](#): > > I believe that one is “plum crazy”. [MoparNerd=10]Plymouth called that color In-Violet. It wasn’t available in 1967 so it’s not original for this car.[/MN] > **[High Impact Colors](https://www.dodgegarage.com/news/article/showcase/2019/03/high-impact-colors.html)** > > For years, theories have spread as to why Chrysler launched their optional High Impact Paint colors in the summer of 1969. Could it have been the b... ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4958 "2023-01-07T22:17:26Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > That’s GOTTA be a Burt Rutan design, right? The original one under discussion was Rutan, the one @Pork_Rind posted is not. But there’s no question they are building upon what is known from other aircraft, so still homage to Rutan. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4959 "2023-01-07T22:24:15Z")
I saw an old Jaguar XJS this morning. And I’m pretty sure I got a glimpse of a V12 badge on the trunk lid, although it was in motion so I didn’t get a great look. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4960 "2023-01-08T05:31:33Z")
In California I’m starting to see gray on black license plates. There’ve been yellow on black plates that have come back to be offered for a fee by the DMV — a retro look conjuring plates that were last issued in the early 1960s. But this is different. Here are two pictures from the web of the gray on black plates: [![](https://i.imgur.com/ZLYGZS2.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ZLYGZS2.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/hBoGPHA.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/hBoGPHA.jpeg) I haven’t seen them often, but today I saw two cars with them. On one car at the bottom of the plate was printed BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL. They aren’t an option when selecting personalized plates from the DMV: [Special Interest License Plates - California DMV](https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/license-plates-decals-and-placards/california-license-plates/special-interest-license-plates). As shown in the web pics they are wraps that one can buy. I wonder if these are driving the DMV and LEOs crazy. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2023, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4961 "2023-01-08T06:44:33Z")
That color has a long-standing nickname: Statutory Grape. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4962 "2023-01-10T15:23:36Z")
LOL! 😜 . _Discourse to Bullitt — An error occurred: Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?_ _Bullitt to Discourse — **YESgoddammitNowLetMeMakeMyFuckingPost!** _ _(sigh)_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4963 "2023-01-10T15:24:57Z")
A 2023 Cadillac CT6 400 SUV — owned by a friend with connections. His is metallic gray. These are web pics I met him for breakfast yesterday. His Caddy is beautiful. [[Album] 2023 Cadillac CT6 400 SUV — owned by a friend with connections; his is metallic... ![](https://i.imgur.com/A0JK6r1.jpeg?fb "2023 Cadillac CT6 400 SUV — owned by a friend with connections; his is metallic...") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/1L6Dmhk) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4964 "2023-01-10T15:41:28Z")
DeLorean is at CES Las Vegas! These pics are from an FB friend. [[Album] DeLorean is at CES Las Vegas! These pics are from an FB friend. ![](https://i.imgur.com/N4Ho6PB.jpeg?fb "DeLorean is at CES Las Vegas! These pics are from an FB friend.") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/23HKCi4) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4965 "2023-01-10T15:49:32Z")
That looks like a prop from a cheesy '70s SciFi movie. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/4966 "2023-01-10T15:55:21Z")
First person to say flux capacitor gets punched in the \*\*\*\*. Not much of a bumper. And do the wheels do more than spin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=247) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=249)