# 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:** 280
**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:** [August 12, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5587 "2023-08-12T03:40:18Z")
Chevy Impala, I think it’s a 1964 [[Album] Chevy Impala, I think it’s a 1964 ![](https://i.imgur.com/M75062w.jpeg?fb "Chevy Impala, I think it’s a 1964") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/Qm44vtF) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5588 "2023-08-12T03:51:10Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I think it’s a 1964 '62 according to this handy identification guide. > **[1958-64 Impala Identification Guide & Model Year Changes](https://news.classicindustries.com/1958-64-impala-identification-guide)** > > If you're not already an Impala expert, you might not know all the model year changes. We've created a simple 1958-64 Impala identification guide. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2023, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5589 "2023-08-12T06:14:47Z")
Cool, thanks for that. It wasn’t easy to differentiate. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5590 "2023-08-12T11:49:31Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > As indicated by the name, it pumps water – at a rate of 750 gallons per minute according to [this _Hemmings_ article.](https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1948-mack-type-45) Yeah, I was just wondering if it carried a few hundred gallons to start fighting the fire while things get set up. Or for a car fire for instance when their are no hydrants near by. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5591 "2023-08-12T20:19:13Z")
1967 Morgan Plus 4. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AIL4fc_lgAyxDBjy4kES3LBdfDEI5O_92H0K6UTyR9ZJ8ZqyLCYQHIKvw5hxDGU5JFgVYpi54_t8kCk4NeSvxQnnHd5w6G7V5g-LQFGmjs96ZdT80KaZ6DR4=w600-h315-p-k "New item by James Hyder") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/QeVmzdhRVqzuPr9z5) Restored by previous owner, repainted by current owner of 12 years. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5592 "2023-08-12T20:23:56Z")
Nice Morgan. I saw a green one a few years back, in downtown San Carlos CA. They are beautiful. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5593 "2023-08-12T20:24:07Z")
A nearby neighbor has bought (or leased) a Rivian R1S. It looks nice in red. And it is quite big. [[Album] Rivian R1S ![](https://i.imgur.com/If94nf5.jpeg?fb "Rivian R1S") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/vnoe6OV) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5594 "2023-08-12T20:48:19Z")
I found my pictures of that Morgan Plus 4. This was from three years ago. I may have posted this, not sure. I have no idea what year this is. [[Album] Morgan Plus 4 ![](https://i.imgur.com/o9aQowp.jpeg?fb "Morgan Plus 4") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/rwYgD1K) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5595 "2023-08-12T21:12:58Z")
I should have grabbed some shots of the interior, but by the time I thought of it he was driving off. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5596 "2023-08-12T23:06:07Z")
those type of cars really need to be painted in **British Racing Green** , right? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5597 "2023-08-12T23:26:57Z")
BRG has a rich history and tradition, but many British cars are painted in other colors. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5598 "2023-08-14T03:50:28Z")
It’s a modest rebody and upscale version of the 1971-1973 Mustang, just before Ford went to the Mustang II and Mercury turned the Cougar into a badge-engineered Thunderbird. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5599 "2023-08-14T03:55:39Z")
Fun fact: cars in international racing series before the sponsorship era wore colors based upon where they were from. England was green, Italy was red, Germany was silver/white, the US was blue with white stripes, and France was solid blue. Thus British Racing Green isn’t just a fanciful name, it was the official required color for British cars, hence the early Lotuses and Coopers in F1. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5600 "2023-08-14T12:05:10Z")
thx, i had no idea ---
**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:** [August 14, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5601 "2023-08-14T12:58:03Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Fun fact: cars in international racing series before the sponsorship era wore colors based upon where they were from. England was green, Italy was red, Germany was silver/white, the US was blue with white stripes, and France was solid blue. Wikipedia has a list with examples: > **[List of international auto racing colours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_auto_racing_colours)** > > From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver. These were often quite different from the national colours used in other sports or in politics. > Th... The US also used white with blue stripes, as on Chapparals and Cunninghams. When Ford & Shelby used the white stripes over blue, they liked to call the color “Ford Racing Blue”. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5602 "2023-08-14T15:25:26Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Wikipedia has a list with examples: Back in the day when their sponsors did not cover the entire car with slogans. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5603 "2023-08-18T02:52:02Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Chrysler is a division of Dodge No, Dodge is a division of what was known as the Chrysler Corporation before becoming Daimler-Chrysler, then Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5604 "2023-08-18T03:32:01Z")
Well, I’m in Monterey for Car Week, so I could saturate this thread with all the astonishing vehicles I saw today, both here in town and down at the Goodings action at Pebble Beach. I’ll be at Laguna Seca all day tomorrow so my list will inevitably grow. To sum up today though, how about this Countach with twelve, count ‘em, TWELVE exhaust tips. [![](https://i.imgur.com/0YHzsBj.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/0YHzsBj.jpg) Edit: there was a detail guy working on that car, going farther up those exhausts than I think my proctologist went during my last colonoscopy. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5605 "2023-08-18T11:05:00Z")
One for each cylinder? Uh. 12 mufflers? Or do they just say the heck with that. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/5606 "2023-08-18T12:56:56Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > TWELVE exhaust tips. Has a ways to go yet. [![](https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20131112/wtf_cars_13.jpg) ](https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20131112/wtf_cars_13.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=279) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=281)