Definitely time for the summer cars to come forth; A mint 1960 Ford Falcon in metallic blue and a white top, replete with chrome Moon wheels. Just beautiful.
On Hwy 1 south of Half Moon Bay today: a late-30s Supercoach Bus converted into an RV. It was restored to perfection, looked brand-new. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get a picture.
A couple days ago I saw an unrestored 1969 Plymouth Barracuda driving west on US 30. The paint was all faded but it looked pretty good otherwise.
I’m looking right at a 1955 Plymouth Savoy and a ‘32 Ford with so much rust I got tetanus just looking at it. Apparently the flathead V8 runs fine, though, but it looks like if I touch it the body will crumble. The windshield is completely clouded over. It’s pretty gruesome.
But hey, it’s not my car.
Saw an interesting car today but I couldn’t get close enough to identify it. Soft top, very sporty sedan with taillights that were small circles set in a triangular pattern that looked out through the bodywork, not in plastic housing. The logo appeared small and round, all chrome. I have no idea what I was looking at. Do you?
I saw that very same car last night and it’s definitely a Fiskar although the interior looked a lot squarer than than the ones I see online. I think it may be a current Fisker body on their new Emotion chassis/interior.
A 1st generation Mustang in spectacular shape, on a flatbed.
Some kind of Ford that looked to be late fifties, early sixties. Tried to read the badging as it drove past but couldn’t make it out.
Looked like this only tan and cream. Also, a two door.
Today was a good day for cars. The winner was a Volvo P544 waiting for the ferry in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard. It is an incredibly cool looking car, one I don’t think I’ve seen before.
Also, on the drive home I saw a 3rd generation Chevy Bel Air, a Chrysler 300 C/D/E, and one other 50s hotrod Ford.
Good day here too. Highlights were perfect looking 68-ish Camaro in dark green and a red 71-ish Olds 442 convertible.
I couldn’t post on Saturday, but that day I passed a car show and saw a Model T Ford.
A Maserati Bora, in this color.
Saw a regular pickup truck driving on train tracks. Think they’re called Hi-Railers? Always saw these in movies and tv, but never for real.
Last night I saw a Nissan GT-R, gold in color; except it looked like plastic painted gold, like the fancy plastic ‘silverwear’ you can get for parties. Really brought down the car IMO.
On sat I while I was driving a brand new Dodge Charger (:)), I heard something throaty in traffic. Looking all around, I finally saw it. Definitely right hand drive older car. I’m thinking a Nissan Skyline.
High-rail, hi-rail, road-rail are all generic terms, Hy-Rail appears to be a specific manufacturer. There are many others. I see a variety of RR and electrical trucks with them on the tracks around here.
A Slingshot pulled up next to me at a stoplight on the way home last night. Dude was giving his 12? year old son a ride. Looked like fun on a hot summer day.
My nieghbour down the street just bought a new Boxster in my favourite colour of blue. If it were a Cayman S instead I’d call it my affordable(In that I could concievably buy one) dream car. Looks like this but with black wheels.
Miami Blue is what Porsche calls it.
Forgot to post this at the time, and I don’t know if it qualifies as “interesting” per se, but: I saw a Ford Pinto a few weeks back. It looked to be in excellent condition and had a much snazzier paint job than Ford ever provided. It was a car or two ahead of us at a traffic light.
And I can’t remember whether it was in the DC metro area, or while we were on vacation in Vermont.
My family actually owned two Pintos. One, my parents bought for my two oldest brothers to share. First manual-transmission car I’d ever seen. The second, my second-oldest brother actually won in a raffle. He got a wagon vs the hatchback. I think that one got totalled (not rear-ended, fortunately!!). I don’t recall what happened to the first one - sold at some point, I guess, well before I was of driving age.
The Chrysler show is in town. Today I saw 3 1957-8 Furys, 4 1st-generation Road Runners, a late ‘70s Charger Daytona (which is essentially a badge-engineered Córdoba), and a early-mid ‘70s Dart GT hopped up with go-fast parts.
Gas is going to be very expensive this weekend with all of the single-digit MPG Mopars stooging around town.
Quite a few today:
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[li]A Lotus Elise in the parking lot at work. I usually see them on the highway or from a distance, but in person they are tiny and super low to the ground[/li][li]A 1st generation Chevy Chevelle in mint blue, maybe a 65? Gorgeous car, looked amazing cruising along on the highway[/li][li]Some sort of roadster, probably British, in red. Looked to be in great shape, probably from the 70s[/li][/ul]