You’re on the low end there. The last three GTOs that I know of sold for $38 million, $48 million, and $70 million.
I was at our local privately-owned tiny grocery-cum-post office, and out at the gas pumps I saw a Ford GT, low-slung, black, and beautiful. It was like seeing Audrey Hepburn at Wal-Mart. I would have spoken to the owner, except that the last time I tried to do that sort of thing (see Avanti sighting, above) I was reduced to a babbling fanboy almost instantly.
We recently had the annual New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run, which means the Twin Cities had a lot of great antique cars tooling around on skinny tires. I’ll pick the air-cooled Franklin. I don’t have a pic but the 1905 Runabout on this page is close to what I saw.
Ok, this was weird. I passed an oncoming Subaru SVX in red on a side street and took note. I thought they were the slickest shit back then and I still like the contour. The driver appeared to be a woman with big, light colored hair, though my glimpse was brief. A minute later, maybe even less, I saw another one. I pulled up behind it at a stoplight and there was no way the first one could have arrived at the intersection before me. The driver was difficult to see from behind but I could tell it wasn’t the same big hair. So, ya, 2 SVXs in a minute.
Today I saw a restored white Ford Ranchero. I’m guessing it was a '63, but that’s only a guess. Round taillights, no fins.
Could’ve been a '64.
I guess the most interesting was probably the 1970s era Toyota pickup, the 1972-78 generation according to Wikipedia. It was in remarkably good shape for a 40-something year old truck, but Top Gear did demonstrate that it’s impossible to kill a Toyota Hilux (as they were called in the rest of the world).
Honorable mention goes to the Ford Probe, just because seeing it made me realize you hardly ever see them anymore.
And also…
Tonight I was behind a fairly new Nissan 370Z that had those louvers on the rear window. I didn’t even know you could get those for modern cars.
A 3rd Generation (1968-82) Chevy Corvette Stingray, so that would be from the first half of that range.
A couple today. There were two 3rd generation (68-72) Chevy El Caminos in amazing restored condition for sale someone’s lawn. Then a Ferrari 308 GTS parked by the ocean as I walked to a wedding reception.
I live very close to Auburn. Auction weekend is coming up soon. I usually see a lot of vintage classics as I live on one of the main roads between Auburn and Fort Wayne.
I used to spend a lot of weekends in South Bend, home of Studebaker and saw many, many restored Studes and Avantis.
'60-'65 Rancheros (Falcon-based) all fit a round taillights, no fins description.
An Edsel in poor condition.
A 60s vintage Mercedes 230SL in gold. Not sure why anybody thought that was a good color.
A bright blue Sunbeam convertible in the golf course parking lot.
A first generation Corvette, in black which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before.
Yesterday - I was debating between the pale yellow early 70’s Lincoln Continental & the F E Red Jag F-type…until I saw a red w/ black racing stripe Viper. Rare & cool!
Today was a VW SUV that was colored a cross between Gulden’s mustard & pea soup; ugliest solid color I’ve ever seen on a car.
Forgot to mention, last week I saw a brand new, as in in-the-showroom new MG Hector. I was floored because I didn’t realize they were still in the car market for decades.
A house opposite my parents has a restored Morris Minor Traveller (like this one with the wood frame) parked outside. I haven’t seen one of those for a while.
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Thanks to a tenuous connection with the Traveller I’m going to shoehorn in my pictures of an Adams Probe 16 (front and rear) that I saw a few months ago, even though it was in a museum. (I’ve only just uploaded my pics). The connection is that apparently the Probe 16 has a wooden chassis. Only three were made and it sounds as though only two of them still exist as known cars (one might be a wreck somewhere in California). This one was in the lobby of the Design Museum in Kensington as part of a Stanley Kubrick exhibition - it’s the car used in A Clockwork Orange.
Peering through the window it appeared to have over 19,000 miles on the clock, which is an impressive number for such a rare and impractical car, even though it’s had 50-odd years to do them in.
A Toyota fire truck like this one
Actually, I may have seen that 1991 Toyota Hiace 4WD fire truck, since I saw it today in Seattle. Only, the one I saw had gold Japanese lettering on the side.
Though I didn’t see it in person, I ended up in a long conversation about the Reliant Scimitar that makes me want to find and view one in person instead of just online.
An Alfa Romeo 4C Spider in black, the Italians know how to make sexy looking cars.
I saw one of the new McLarens at the weekend - I think it was the 720s: