couple days ago I saw a 60’s era Studebaker truck with a turbo charged, supercharged, detroit diesel 2 stroke. It had aturbo charger feeding into a supercharger as God intended from the factory.
I saw a late 60’s or early 70’s Jeep Commando that looked almost exactly like this except no Jerry can on the back - http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/1967_Jeep_Jeepster_Commando_For_Sale_Rear_1.jpg
'66 Studebaker Lark, in Walmart parking lot. Driver said he did his own restoration, took four years.
Where to start. I saw a 1950 Martin Stationette,
A 1965 American Motors Rambler with a straight 6 flat head motor.
A Mid 60’s Studebaker truck with a turbocharged, supercharged, 2 stroke Detroit Diesel.
1972 Pantera
1955 Corvette
Various Porches, Maserati’s, GTO’s Shelby’s, Jaguars, Lotus’s…
OK, been to a couple of car shows.
Today I passed a Cadillac Allente with the top down.
There’s a Maserati dealership nearby, as well as loads of rich folk. I am sick of the 1947 Cisitalia portholes they all sport. At least they don’t have the portholes from the '47 Maserati A6 (old man Farina was going through his porthole period), which would make the cars look even more like Buicks, but they do not look good to me. It’s like Enzo’s ghost thumbing his nose at the Maserati brothers (again) from beyond the grave. 
A '75 (I think) Ford Fairmont, in mint-looking condition. They were shitboxes even when new, complete with emission control stuff, but rusted apart and died quickly like most any 1970’s American car. Whatever possessed this person to take care of one is a mystery.
Sorry, but the Tesla leaves me uninspired. The technology is grand, but the bodywork is “Eh, another sports car”
Yesterday, we passed (!) a McLaren with paper plates. I can only assume the driver was stil a bit scared of finding the point where the car’s potential exceeds his driving skill.
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Yesterday I saw a bumper sticker that I’ve occasionally (though rarely) seen in the last few years: a blue square with two lateral gold bars, and no words.
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How can you be in San Francisco and not recognize the HRC logo? :dubious:
I hope seeing a car on Autotrader counts – for the third time since I sold it in January, my old Mini Cooper has reappeared on the UK Autotrader. The car was an absolute horror of electrics problems and water damage; I bought it in ignorance from an unscrupulous dealer.
When we sold it, we let it go for next to nothing, listing completely its faults and problems, explained that I’d never been given a complete dealer/maintenance history, it had a bad transmission sensor (which caused the car suddenly and without warning to stop running. Loads of fun at 80 mph on rush hour motorway traffic) and that I was the 5th owner (it was a 2001, just for reference), and that it was a parts-car (especially as I’d just put four new Conti tyres on it :mad: ). Many people came to look at it because they thought £500 for a Mini was a steal – and they ran from the hills when we pointed out it was being sold as a parts car due to numerous issues. One guy came out with an AA inspector who gave it a thorough going over and agreed that it was best left to be a parts car or someone’s hobby to fix up.
Flogged it off to two students for about £500 who assured us it would be fun to fix up. We warned them that it would require a lot of work.
Two weeks later, it’s up on Autotrader again for £2500.
Then a few months later, different seller, up on Autotrader for about £2000.
Now it’s back, like the cat in the song, with a different seller. Except this time, the person selling it is claiming that it has a complete service history (not true – there is a huge gap), only two owners (at least 7 by now), and that it’s completely clean inside and out (the latter may be true superficially, but I discovered, to my dismay, the summer that I owned it, that once the car got hot inside in the summer sun, the Ghosts of Piss & Vomit past were readily apparent). They want £2500 for it.
It’s not that frequently seen. But yeah, that’s it, exactly.
A Batmobile - a freakin’ Batmobile. Replica (I assume) of the 1966 TV Batmobile cruising to a festival in Somerville MA.
Saw a butterscotch and blacktopped Mini on the way to work this morning. A real Mini, not that BMW thing. It was like passing a mobile Allsort.
Porsche 356 cabriolet, in St. Louis (actually Chesterfield). Maroon, beautiful.
Tesla model S. In oil happy Houston of all places.
Huh. I’ve seen those decals. Wondered if the owner was a lieutenant in the Navy or something.
I guess that answers my question of why I never see rainbow sticker variants on cars any more. They’ve been upgraded, and I wasn’t informed.
An Audi R8 on the streets of our little 'hood.
On Saturday, I came across a pickup painted in what I can only describe as PG&E blue, with a few scattered white Smurfs.
Not 100% sure, but thismay be the actual truck. We were moving in opposite directions on a city street, so there wasn’t much time to study it.
Today - a DeLorean!
Wooot!!!
One of my acquintances drives the last remaining DeLorean in Singapore. I haven’t seen it in person yet.
I consult with the local M Cars and Alpina dealerships - so everytime I go there I see an E30 M3… still one of the classics. There’s a picture of it in the showroom here
They have some awesome Alpinas being restored in the service centre also - one an 850…
Nice!
I’ve only ever seen silver (stainless) DeLoreans. Apparently there are other colors but I’ve never seen one live.