In the Woodlands, TX on Saturday, an Aston Martin DB2, same color as the one in the linked photo.
I live in Qatar, and so I often see pretty spectacular cars. (Today, there was a Bentley in the school drop-off lane.) But the other day, when my daughter and I were getting Subway sammiches, I saw something that was pretty spectacular even for Doha. Parked at the strip mall, all in a row: Mercedes*, Maserati, Porsche, Maserati, Ferrari, Mercedes SUV**. I took a picture, but I can’t figure out how to get the damned thing off my phone. (I must be the last person in the world who doesn’t have a smart phone, and the thing doesn’t have a USB port.)
- Not just some run-of-the-mill Mercedes, but one of the AMG coupes, the kind with 500+hp.
** Either a G63 or G65–you know, the ones that cost as much as my house.
Nice.
Yesterday in downtown Mountain View, California: a Citroën 2CV - the “Ugly Duckling.” Brown and yellow, with the fabric roll-back sunroof. It was quite nice.
Today, in Sunnyvale: “The VW Thing” - the Type 181, in desert camouflage color.
Rare sightings, these. I see these about every 2 years or so.
I just found out that the owner of my wife’s favorite antiques shop has a yellow 2CV with black trim. I believe if you told me as a kid (when I lived in the UK and they were all over) that I would be excited to see a 2CV, I would have laughed at you. But it was so.
Saw my first BMW i3 on the road yesterday on the way to work.
Funny-looking little beast.
An older Jeep Wrangler.
Painted in a camo finish.
With a tow hitch mounted on the front bumper.
And a ladder rack and two ladders on the roof.
And it was lowered, with low-profile small wheels and maybe six inches of ground clearance (and we have snow on the ground.)
It looked very strange and wrong.
I was behind an immaculate Austin Healey 3000, in a very similar colour scheme of blue and cream. Still probably my Lotto car.
I was passed by a Volkswagen Phaeton, almost missed it since it really doesn’t look like much. I was also following what I think was a 1970 or 1971 Plymouth Sport Fury GT. Again, I was surprised that someone would be driving that on the winter streets of Boston.
It’s winter here. All the interesting cars are in their garages or hanging out well south of here. I saw a unique paint job on a Mini today. It wasn’t a good one, but it was unique.
Or the mall. I was in the mall & one of the ‘stores’ is a Tesla showroom. Not a couple of cars on display in the lobby/common area, but a regular rented-for-months store. The walls have accessories & hats/t-shirts.
Though the best part is it’s next to a store called ‘Diesel’.
I attended the AGM for the local chapter of the BMW M Club on Saturday (for work) - so yeah, just a few nice cars…
All day long kept hearing the wonderful burble of V8s,
And the Lamborghini showroom is adjacent, so a couple of Howling V10s also…
Today, there was a genuine Willys Jeep in the parking ramp at work. Now that was interesting.
A 1962 BMW 2002 - it’s one tiny car.
Maybe a '68 2002? BMW made them from '68 through '75 or '76. A really fun car to drive, despite the uncomfortable, horsehair stuffed seats.
Nothing interesting today. Being it is Super Bowl Sunday, the surburban street I live on looks like a festival of SUVs, but I don’t find them interesting.
Maybe, or maybe it was a 1602. It had 2 doors and was very small. I did not see any markings on it. I passed it on the interstate so I didn’t get a really good look at it.
That’s another fun-to-drive car. I’m guessing this is what you saw. They are quite small.
Today’s interesting car was a MX5 (Miata) soft top. Why interesting? Because we don’t often see nice-looking convertable cruising around here in below zero (F) weather.
Stepping out of Trader Joe’s in Huntington Beach today, I waited on a squarish, Seventies-looking sedan to cross in front of me - then did a double take when I spotted the trident on the grill. It was a Maserati Quattroporte, and it looked a lot like this.
I saw an awesome Nash Metropolitan in yellow and white: tiny, especially for an American car from the 50s, but ridiculously cute.
One winter I was visiting Manhattan. I rented a Mustang convertible, and early on a Sunday morning I put the top down, buttoned me up really well, and took in the skyscraper sights as I drove the near-empty streets. People looked at me sideways funny, thinking I must be nuts (and maybe I was!) but it was a great and COLD way to see the city.
Probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen driving around on city streets: a 1953 Dodge M37, a military 4X4 ¾-ton truck. It had a California historical vehicle license plate. It was parked at the hardware store, and was loud when it was driven away.
Here’s a site of someone’s build, although it’s from Wisconsin and is OD green while the one I saw was tan and without any tac markings: http://m37.crwdesigns.com/