A Volkswagen Vanagon Westphalia Synchro, the rare 4x4 version of VW’s iconic camper van. I’m pretty sure the ride height was stock, and it looked like it would tip over in the slightest breeze. And it looked clean and shiny, ironic for a vehicle that was meant to go off road.
I saw one in a Sedona AZ parking lot, my wife saw a bunch in a group earlier in the day so there may have been a gathering.
Also this beauty driving out of Phoenix.
Can’t wait for my first sighting of an AWD electric (or hybrid) Corvette.
Yesterday when leaving work there was a 55 Bel-Air driving along. I only know the year because the license plate said 1955.
For Xmas, last year, I got my (photo) shooting partner a mannequin. It was a from-the-waist-up model with cloth torso & featureless cloth head & wooden arms with bendable/posable joints. Mannequins are not really wrapable so I put it in a large, clear, trash can liner bag & left it on the hood of her car at work (about 75 miles from me) with a bow & a note, Merry Christmas, ___" She put up a post thanking the anonymous gift giver for the most interesting & one of the best gifts she ever received. I confessed later on.
I saw a XR4TI yesterday.
At lunch today (Burien, WA) I saw a dark green '80s Land Rover Defender like this one. It had the rack, a brush bar (not sure if it was exactly like that), LHD, a snorkel, and a Diesel engine.
I’ve always wanted one of those. (And I also want a Toyota FJ40, and my '48 CJ2A.)
When I went out to lunch today I pulled up next to a Bentley Turbo R at a red light. The license plate read “POUPON”. No, I didn’t ask if he had any.
On the way back I saw an old Fiat 124 Spider.
I have fond memories of a red 124 Spider, that was my dad’s commuter car after he let one of my sisters take the '71 Pinto to college. The Pinto lasted longer than the Fiat did; it died in NYC when Dad got transferred from Kankakee to Tarrytown. The Pinto would have been my first car when Sis was done with it but one of my brothers got to it before I could.
The car was just a boring newish Honda Civic, but it had those rear window louvers like the ones that were popular in the 1980s. I didn’t know they still made those.
I finally have something to report.
I was just now driving home (Bucks County, PA). In front of me was a car with Arizona tags. I looked again to see what their motto is. No motto, “Manufacturer Test Vehicle.”
Dark blue, super clean. It has the square butt end of an old Mustang with new style rear lights (a thin line of red surrounding the said butt end).
That is exciting. Though I hate the lights that surround the whole rear of the car. Hmmm.
The interesting car quotient is extremely high at the Don Garlits Drag Racing Museum…it’s kind of overwhelming, actually. But if I had to pick one I’d go with Craig Breedlove’s dragster project named (like his land speed record-setting cars) “Spirit of America”
Today I saw a 1960ish Ford medium duty stakeside truck that looked like it was still being used as a work truck for some farm or business. Not bad for a 60+ year old vehicle. It looked pretty similar to this one.
This morning, a Porsche 356 Speedster. It was difficult to photograph as it was parked in between an SUV and a full sized pickup, so this was the best I could do:
Saw an early 1960s Jaguar Mark 2 cruising about. Some sort of bluish gray, in perfect condition.
I may have spoken too soon. I went for a walk and discovered someone in my neighborhood has placed what’s left of a Model A on their front lawn as a piece of literal yard art. I’m not sure how much of a vehicle needs to remain for it to still be considered a car, but this isn’t a bad use for a car that’s probably too deteriorated to restore.
“Too deteriorated to restore?” Poppycock! You need to snatch that up for the price of a six-pack, and start restoring it!
I wonder if somebody tried to get the tree to grow through the car and missed.
It may have been a Polestar 1.