A 1934 MG K3 - supercharged to boot.
A Bentley convertible. Full of toffee-nosed gits, no doubt.
Yup, I think that’s it. My wife read the badge as we passed and I’m guessing she got them mixed up. It appears to be a 1925 type 35 or something similar. The bathtub shape is dead on, the wheels I’ve found online aren’t an exact match but close enough.
Odds are it was a Pur Sang replica but a very, very cool car.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2016-12-30/driving-a-pur-sang-type-35-bugatti
I saw that when I searched. I don’t remember the wheels looking quite like that one, but it was at highway speed. That still seems more likely than an original.
I have read that those lucky enough to own a real 35c use Pur Sang parts and even swap out their original engine for a repro engine for ‘normal’ driving.
I can’t imagine why. If you do that you’re still risking the frame and the rest that make the car valuable while costing yourself a fortune to have everything changed over. It would be easier and cheaper to simply get a reproduction and drive it.
A 1959 Impala, with a beautiful repaint job, sitting next to a 1960 Impala with original paint. I needed a drool rag.
I talked to the owner of the 1960, who had just last month bought it from the original owner.
I’m sure a repro engine is a lot less than a full car. Also, a repaired body/frame is not as big a hit on valuation as a non-original engine so preserving the original engine makes sense.
IIRC, the Pur Sang cars and parts are made from original blueprints (but probably with better materials/tolerances).
You know, I never have had an opportunity to participate in this thread and always felt somewhat cheated. That is, until the last 2 weeks (I kept meaning to come and post, but it just got away from me). Anyway, in last two weeks I have seen:
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[li]A Delica. Here’s theWikipedia (I had to look it up), the one I saw looked like this one. I saw this in a driveway in my neighborhood. [/li][li] A Corvair Truck like this. I drove past it on the interstate where somebody was hauling it on a flatbed. It was beautiful and looked pretty pristine. I did not see if was a rampside (or all of them rampside?).[/li][*] I found out that on of my daughter’s friends father has a unamog, an old one. Very cool.[/ol]
Alfa Romeo 4C.
A Nissan Murano convertible. A crossover convertible. It has none of the sporty performance you would hope for in a convertible, none of the storage from a crossover… but you have to admit they are interesting.
A Lexus LC500 coupe. I think it’s the first one I’ve seen on the road.
The reviews ding it for being heavy and somewhat cumbersome—more of a grand tourer than a sports car—but it certainly looks the part.
I go back and forth between really liking and hating those. A big, chunky convertible is just odd. But also awesome.
Mint-condition 1971 Mercury Cougar, similar to the pictured car but in burnt orange.
The chunkiness reminds me a little of the New Beetle convertible, which it vaguely resembles and which indeed has many of the same issues. Either one would be a fun second car but not as primary transportation, IMHO. I’ve never driven a Murano but the latest incarnation of the New Beetle is a fun car to drive with sporty handling.
An Audi R8 Coupe, which I almost mistook for a BMW i8. The V10 badge was a dead giveaway.
At one point it was the lowest selling model of any car in the US by a major manufacturer.
I saw a few interesting vehicles driving home today but the top two were a 1966 Plymouth Belvedere and an early 60s Ford Galaxie. Unfortunately the Galaxie was broken down on the side of the road.
So…
Found On Road Dead?