# 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:** 406
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8108 "2026-06-03T04:25:30Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > So, 1982-83? “Datsun by Nissan” apparently started in 1980. [![](https://hips.hearstapps.com/mtg-prod/659f5d8701d13b00081d89b4/1980-datsun-280zx-black-gold-mecum-7.jpg?*&w=768&width=768&q=75&format=webp) ](https://hips.hearstapps.com/mtg-prod/659f5d8701d13b00081d89b4/1980-datsun-280zx-black-gold-mecum-7.jpg?*&w=768&width=768&q=75&format=webp) [![](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VioAAeSwjapp2byG/s-l1200.jpg) ](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VioAAeSwjapp2byG/s-l1200.jpg) Correction: I guess the badges changed at some point during the '79 model year. Google Image Search is finding some with and some without. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8109 "2026-06-03T13:42:31Z")
Peugeot 504 [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOsbO1bDaTKAiYMa9u8jr1jIAwnZlJNPj_JaWKH1Gx0H0eAFyRw494RV_TTrXt4zblRyMJzYIjpKQgF0Y6gIW1N9zocQIKV_lE8JY1paNVr1IWnr5rr=w515-h315-p-k "New photo · Monday, Jun 1 📸") ](https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNrm-QbdastRxzk0TWxI7H7780xYBNaemlreVwayf-lmp1-KzpzlJcm1KeQdmTQcw?key=VjhDU3F6dlhXSm5OVHR5ekJRZ29VVXlnLWZUUnd3) ---
**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:** [June 3, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8110 "2026-06-03T14:19:44Z")
A 1989 Buick Reatta at the local dialysis clinic. The Buick Reatta is a rare General Motors 2-seater. There aren’t many of them — the first, the Chevrolet Corvette, was unveiled at the 1953 General Motors Motorama in New York and of course the Corvette lives on to today through 8 generations over 70+ years. Through the years, all of the other GM 2-seaters have been short-lived and include the Cadillac Allanté, the Pontiac Fiero and Solstice, and the Saturn Skye. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Ru0zexf.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Ru0zexf.jpg) The Buick Reatta was designed by Dave McIntosh at General Motors Design and was produced for the 1988 through 1991 model years. A rare car today, this particular Reatta belongs to one of the techs at the dialysis clinic in Mountain View CA. He’s a young guy in his 20s who recently found it being sold by an elderly couple who drove it regularly but not long. It only had 60K miles when he bought it — it was barely broken in. [![](https://i.imgur.com/s7Tc420.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/s7Tc420.jpg) The Reatta has touch screen technology, a rarity for a 1989 car. The Reatta was Buick’s first two-seater car, and is also Buick’s only car ever with pop-up headlamps where the entire headlamp assembly moves up and down (some others had fixed headlights hidden behind moveable covers — e.g., the 1965–The Riviera and the 1987–1989 Skyhawk). This Reatta also has keyless entry, another rarity for a 1989 car. [![](https://i.imgur.com/bbBQSCP.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/bbBQSCP.jpg) The Buick Reatta has a nicely-styled design that has held up well over the years, and especially so for a car approaching 40 years old. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8111 "2026-06-06T23:29:07Z")
An early 1950s Chevy business coupe, that is, a body style with two doors, no back seat, and a huge trunk. They were meant for traveling salesmen to carry their wares in, hence the “business” part of the name. That body style mostly died out after the early 1950s. The one I saw was not nearly as nice as the one pictured here from Wikipedia. It was more like what I’d call a rat rod, or maybe just a work in progress. The hood and front fenders were blue, the rest was primer grey. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/1952_Chevrolet_Styleline_Business_coupe.jpg/960px-1952_Chevrolet_Styleline_Business_coupe.jpg?_=20101107235424) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/1952_Chevrolet_Styleline_Business_coupe.jpg/960px-1952_Chevrolet_Styleline_Business_coupe.jpg?_=20101107235424) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8112 "2026-06-07T00:05:13Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > The one I saw was not nearly as nice as the one pictured here from Wikipedia That one appears to have been retrofitted with bucket seats in the back. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8113 "2026-06-07T02:05:59Z")
I haven’t seen it yet, but I was talking to a good friend’s brother at a party tonight and he mentioned that in the next few weeks he’ll be taking delivery of his Koenigsegg. He’s a Rolls Royce/Koenigsegg/McClaren dealer, and does fairly well for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8114 "2026-06-07T02:44:37Z")
- Car show today so lots of stuff, but I’m going with the '80 Celica hatchback; that’s just something you don’t ever see anymore. - They also had a (crit) bike race with the lead vehicle’s being McLaren’s. Wonder what that cost in terms of mileage/wear charge to those cars? - Tonight’s was an older ford pick’em up. Windows (down) & wing vents (open) _after_ the thunderstorm line rolled thru. Oops! ---
**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:** [June 7, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8115 "2026-06-07T03:11:33Z")
I was behind an Ioniq 9 tonight, pretty stylish design. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8116 "2026-06-07T04:39:16Z")
I saw a light blue bug-eyed Sprite the other day. Not this one, but it looked the same. [![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/cache/13/0d/130dc36de3d59704613739ebc4652ba8.jpg) ](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/prod.mm.com/cache/13/0d/130dc36de3d59704613739ebc4652ba8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8117 "2026-06-07T09:45:00Z")
Yee-gad. Never saw one of those. Other Spitfires are beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8118 "2026-06-07T14:46:25Z")
Arrgh! I forgot about the all-British car show yesterday. 😢 ---
**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:** [June 7, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8119 "2026-06-07T14:54:29Z")
That’s an Austin Healey Sprite. All different from a Triumph Spitfire. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8120 "2026-06-07T15:43:21Z")
Thanks, I mis read. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8121 "2026-06-07T23:18:18Z")
We passed a brand new white AMG G 63 SUV about an hour ago coming back from the Norwescon Volunteer picnic at Steel Lake Park. Ghod, it was pretty. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8122 "2026-06-08T01:49:39Z")
Fun fact (for very limited values of fun) - in the US, it’s a _Bug_-eyed Sprite, but in the UK, it’s a _Frog_-eyed Sprite. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8123 "2026-06-08T03:15:24Z")
Lesse… NOT one of the _three_ McClarens, though the orange to black checkerboard fade was _pretty damn cool_ NOT the Lambo NOT the ‘63 Pontiac Bonneville with the top down; I think my lil’ car could fit in the [trunk](https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/mce/1/561/27713/790x1024/1963-pontiac-bonneville-convertible) NOT the old, little Citroen Nope, going with the Vanderhall Carmel, like this random intertubez [pic](https://cdn.dealerspike.com/imglib/v1/800x600/imglib/Assets/Inventory/01/0A/010AAB15-4F31-41CE-A63D-08E9ED27D006.jpg), but in black; man, that thing is _low_! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8124 "2026-06-08T12:15:11Z")
I saw this old Geo Tracker a few blocks from my house yesterday. [![](https://i.imgur.com/hkKizXa.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/hkKizXa.jpeg) What makes it interesting is that for the first 10 years or so after I moved into my house in 2005, this other Geo Tracker was always parked directly across the street from the first one. I’m WAGing they’re owned by the same person with a penchant for brightly colored Geo Trackers. [![](https://i.imgur.com/EaBIncq.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/EaBIncq.png) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8125 "2026-06-08T13:00:51Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Arrgh! I forgot about the all-British car show yesterday. 😢 Which reminds me that I missed the Kansas City auto show this weekend. I knew I was going to forget - it’s usually in late March or early April, but got pushed out to June this year. It’s been a few years and I wanted to go check out some EVs. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8126 "2026-06-08T13:49:51Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m WAGing they’re owned by the same person with a penchant for brightly colored Geo Trackers. There was one guy at the car show with a BRAT but he had something with it that I really wanted to ask him about. He was talking to a guy who was asking him questions & said he was a ‘BIG Subaru guy’ but had never even _heard_ of the BRAT or knew what it was. 🤔 What I wanted to ask him about was he had a mini BRAT go-kart. Apparently when it came out, each dealer got one go-kart as a promotional item to display in the dealership & he was somehow able to get his hands on one of these one-per-dealer karts. Anyway, in talking to him he’s owned 39 BRATs over the years. The one he had with him had a whopping 255 miles on the odometer & this was the second time he’s had it out this year, which probably means that this is a _high_ mileage year! ---
**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:** [June 10, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/8127 "2026-06-10T13:13:19Z")
A 3rd generation (1987-95) Chrysler LeBaron convertible, the perfect summer car. If you can read the license plate frame it says “Here’s Louie” so I assume this is the Louie the LeBaron. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/WYijNmU.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/WYijNmU) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Qa2o7YN.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Qa2o7YN) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=405) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=407)