Often drive past Macari’s on my way work
Miracle i havent crashed
A gen-u-ine '57 Chevy, for sale at a mechanic’s shop.
Whoa. Is this a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO? Spotted by a friend of mine today in Carmel CA. He just texted it to me.
I believe that’s one of the McBurnie replica kits. I’ve seen three, maybe four of the real 250s, and spent quite a bit of time with another that a friend had and would bring to some of our car events, and this looks wrong in a lot of ways.
With the Historical Vehicle plates…?
Yeah. Just has to be 25 years old. Trust me, that car is super wrong. One of the giveaways is the Datsun 240z hatchback. Real GTOs had a fixed rear window and a trunk lost for one.
Doors are also from a donor car and don’t blend into the rear wheel bulges. GTO side windows are a two piece sliding arrangement. Fuel filler is in the wrong place. Whole bunch of things are off.
Trunk lid. 
Also, I should add that then back end differs between the series1 and series 2 250 GTOs. My friend’s car started life as a series 1 and at some point went back to the factory to be rebodied as a series 2.
Thanks for the good info. Ignorance fought!
Also the side vents behind the front wheels — they look like fish gills to me but I don’t know what they’re called — in my photo there are 2 on each side but in yours and others online there are 3.
Those vents are are part of the system that carries cooling air over the brakes. Might also exhaust hot air from the engine compartment but I am less sure about that. The series 1 cars had 2 vents and the series 2 cars had 3. It’s possible there are variations on that. These were hand made cars built one at a time and changes could be incorporated as they learned. Important also to remember that these were real racing vehicles, crashed and modified several times.
Restoring such a car can be a real detective story. Another guy I know restored the prototype Testarossa, and I saw it when it was just scraps of metal. His people compiled many binders full of info, including every known photo of the car they could track down. From there, they determined what point in the car’s existence they were going to recreate. They even had to figure out how many times to “accidentally” drop a hammer on the floor pan, because it would never have left the factory exactly perfect.
At the racetrack this weekend where the SSZ Stradale showed up again. There were a couple of Mini Mokes and several great street dragsters. My favorite car though, is an old, old Honda Civic that has been reworked to be a convertible. Sorry, no pics. I’ll try to get one at my next event.
A… what? An SSZ Stradale? Had to look that up!
From wiki:
The SSZ Stradale is an automobile developed by Tom Zatloukal, an Alfa Romeo racer and restorer, that was produced between 1984 and 1999. SSZ stands for Sprint Speciale Zatloukal. Based on the Giulietta SS, the aim was to produce a high-performance version with a lightweight and wider body than the standard production SS.
She is pretty:
As I was on my way home in my '66 MGB, I met a dark green Porsche 914 at an intersection. Earlier, I was behind a neighbour (he didn’t notice me) in his gold '68 Galaxie 500.
There’s a beautiful yellow 914 out on Bring a Trailer now. Current bid = $9,914.
Nice.
Oh. I also saw the red Meyers Manx that some guy down the beach brings up/out every year.
1st generation Chevy Malibu, I’m guessing a 1966.
White-over-gold Lincoln Continental, either a Mark IV or a Mark V, parked amongst other vehicles outside a nearby mechanic’s shop. Caught a glimpse while I was on a bus and couldn’t tell the exact model.
Yesterday, on the homeward stretch of my walk, I saw a classic VW Beetle convertible driving down the beach. I always look to see if it has a '60s flat windshield, or a '70s curved windshield. This one appeared to be flat. Then I noticed that it was shorter than it should be, and had unusual corners. It turned out to be a quasi-dune buggy. Not a Meyers Manx (we I see here) or a dune buggy based on Beetle underpinnings; it was more like a ‘chopped’ Beetle. The rear end looked a little dune-buggyish. I assume it was reshaped for better rear seating.
Saw this today, liked it so much that I bought it. 1926 Ford Model T.
Wow!!
I have to say I like the engineering that went into the Model T. A lot of clever little things that kept it simple. Hope you enjoy it.