A clever license plate. On this Tesla model 3.
TUG robots are used in some hospitals. They deliver and take supplies to/from different stations. When they stop at a station, they wait until someone removes the items s/he needs and pushes the green button on top of its “head”, and then they go on to the next station. TUG Autonomous Mobile Robots for Healthcare and Hospitality
Okay, I got stumped. No picture, so description only.
The car looked 1950s style. Instead of tail fins, it had a narrow “fin” going the length of the car, from nose to rear. Both sides, and even the doors had the fin. The rear taillights were huge circular target-shaped. There was a logo that I couldn’t make out; vaguely an eagle head with wide rectangular wings.
Any ideas?
Perhaps something like a 1962 Ford Galaxie?
Probably a Thunderbird of similar vintage.
Thunderbird would certainly match the logo reported.
I started learning how to work on cars with my dad’s old 72 LTD. Even taught myself how to replace the points. Something I’ll almost certainly never have to do again.
Taillights I saw were even larger diameter. And the “fin” was more pronounced, coming to a sharper edge.
No flags on the emblem. The Thunderbird logo is similar, but not the same.
An Imperial (Chrysler’s former luxury make) perhaps?
How about a '63?
The Imperial’s logo was an eagle but I can’t think of any with the described taillights.
Yes, that’s it! The one I saw was not a convertible, I think that’s what kept me from thinking Thunderbird.
I thought the most interesting car I’d see today was a VW rabbit pickup, and then a few minutes later I saw a VW transporter crew-cab, so you get a Volkswagen twofer.
the “crew-cab” (Pritschenwagen, Pritsche) was the central european version of a Pickup-truck.
it was strictly a work vehicle (nobody would have wanted one of those for private use, it was as uncool as you could get, in a world full of uncool cars) … mostly used by plumbers, bricklayer-crews and other construction related works.
If you had one of those in front of your house, you’d be the person who leaves early in a blue overall
The one I saw was working. The body was maybe supposed to be brown and grey, but was mostly rust colored. The bed was full of tires and other auto parts or scrap. It looked like it should have been parked behind a barn, with weeds growing through it, but instead it was making a left turn in the suburbs.
If my research is right, that little 79 VW Rabbit Pick Up can pick up 1100lbs.
I spent yesterday at the Los Angeles Auto Show, so I saw lots of interesting cars. Some were existing models I hadn’t seen previously, while others were new. One weird one was the Aitekx RoboTruck 1T. Apparently they looked at the Tesla Cybertruck and thought to emulate it rather than treating it like the cautionary tale they should have.
I liked the new Prius, which is much better looking than previously. And I also liked the looks of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 but didn’t really like the Ioniq 6.
I was a bit shocked at how expensive everything was. Most of the ones that appealed to me started at roughly $40,000. My present car, a 2010 Honda Fit, cost me about $21,000 for the fanciest version. It’s only got about 52,000 miles on it, so I’ll likely continue to drive it for a few more years. (It helps that my job keeps me out of town for two or three weeks a month.)
We use one to tow an ice racing Rabbit.
Only car of interest I have seen recently was the Tesla in front of my yesterday, and the only thing interesting about it was how damn slow he was driving on the Interstate. He musta needed a charge because he sure was milking it.