A classic red Corvette convertible. I don’t know the exact year, but it had the shark gill slits.
Neat. I’ve been a car geek, on and off, for much of my life, and i’d never even heard of Bricklin. Had to go read up about them.
I drove up to Carlsbad, north of San Diego, yesterday for a dip in the ocean. Saw an Audi R8 coupe on the freeway, and a Ferrari 458 Italia on the Pacific Coast Highway.
You think you’re surprised? I had no idea any of them were still on the road! It actually looked pretty good, except for that awkward front bumper design. A little later, I saw it driving away, so I know it was running. Sadly, I didn’t see the driver getting into it, so I didn’t see the (powered gull-wing) door opening.
A Triumph TR-3, pretty much identical to this one. And it was running!
Likely a '68 or '69 Mako.
A friend stores his Porsches in a warehouse he shares with a Porsche mechanic. Saw this Speedster in there last weekend. Darn nice little car.
Got passed by a cherry early mid 70s 735i with custom wheels and that really sharp looking sandy gold paint that only looks good on German cars for some reason.
That’s not it, unfortunately. It’s been kind of bugging me.
Ferrari California. It’s growing on me day by day.
I keep a couple of cars in a nearby warehouse, and we have a new tenant.
A friend of mine let me and my son play with his 360 Modena for a bit today, and I playedwiththe Californiawhile they rode around.
Will you adopt me? I want to be your son.
Of course, it is summer here, and all the classic cars have come out to play, but I have been seeing some unusual ones. Yesterday I saw a classic VW beetle. Grey. The unusual part was that it had the split small rear window. It must have been an early one–I’ve never seen one like that; just read about them.
I saw one with an Alaska license plate. I’m in NJ. That was one serious out of state license plate!
Saw that '71 BMW sailing down the road at near 100 mph tonight.
Well, at least the top of the Momo…
I saw the Wienermobile in Nevada
An early-80’s Chevy Citation that was actually still running!
a 1978 Chevy Chevette, with antique plates, door magnets & a grill badge from AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America).
That car was laughable when it was new, it was pretty amazing to see one (in good shape) 36 years later.
The Dominos Pizza I worked at had it’s own delivery vehicles (logoed out, of course) and one was a Chevette Diesel. We kids jokingly called it “the turbo” because it was hilariously slow. It was the only company car with a stereo (8 track, baby!).
I live about half mile from Woodward, and it’s only a week till the dream cruise, So getting anywhere right now is a frustrating jam of somewhat interesting cars.
The most interesting I saw while going to the next block to buy smokes was a split-window 'Vette.
Three cars I saw on my walk to the store and back this afternoon: 1940s Hudson, a 1966 Malibu convertible, and an Aston Martin Vantage. Which is the most interesting? You decide.
Chevettes are antiques now? :: sob :: I learned to drive in one (and the instructor’s Jeep), and I drove my mom’s Chevette all over the place.
Today at the corner of Lansdowne and Ashburnham in Peterborough, I saw some kind of early-1970s Citroën. Mint-green, with that cool retro-futuristic look they had. I want to say that it was a Citroën SM. but I am not certain.
This morning at the somewhat misnamed Supercar Sunday I saw the 1967 Triumph Herald Estate that was pictured on the Beatles Abbey Road album cover.
The car is now owned by Jeff Dunham and has as they say a nice pantina.
I had a 1967 Spitfire (same chassis sports car body) so this was very familiar stuff to me.