It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Javelin. Agreed, it was a good looking car.
looks like a Rolls Royce from that angle … and that says a lot about RR (imho)
… and there is def. a russian-design-component in there … 
A Grenadier?
A 1976 Hercules W-2000, rotary engine motorcycle
The 1976 Hercules W-2000, from Germany. Produced 1974-1977, this is the first production motorcycle with a Wankel rotary engine. The engine displaces 300 CCs.
Suzuki also made a rotary motorcycle, the RE5. It has a larger engine, displacing 500 CCs. Criticized as being underpowered, expensive and too complicated, in 1985 Cycle World magazine called it one of “The Ten Worst Motorcycles”.
Cycle World also found the W-2000 to be underpowered and too costly.
This video nicely explains the Wankel rotary
engine ➜ https://youtu.be/ZePgOTqXA2g.
Cool. Never new a Wankel made it into a motor cycle. IMHO, the Wankel is an interesting idea. Why go up and down, instead of round and round.
There have been a few wankel engines in motorbikes over the years. The british maker Norton built one that was used by a few police forces in the UK back in the late 80’s. As teenagers we used to go around pointing at police bikes and shouting ‘wankel’ and then collapsing with giggles. (change the last letter to ‘R’ and you get a rude word that’s more popular in UK than US)
In my imgur link there are 2 videos. The exhaust sound is unique, a mix between diesel popcorn machine and weed whacker.
Besides that rotary engine motorcycle, yesterday I also saw a Tatra 603, from Czechoslovakia. The Tatra 603 was made from 1956 to 1975. Its engine is in the rear and is an air cooled, longitudinally mounted 2.4L V8. Tatra has been making cars and trucks since 1897. Today they make about 2,000 trucks annually.
I soooo want a Marathon, painted up as a NYC taxi; no logical reason, I just do!
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I saw a black & white Crown Vic, but instead of taking the six letters off of the door, they just spray-painted over it. Looks like a newer Blues Mobile because it was so crappy
Checkers do show up for sale in that classic yellow + checkerboard livery from time to time. This one sold for just over $10K in October.
Lots of room in the Checker Marathon, for sure.
Yesterday, besides the wankel rotary motorcycle and the Tatra 603, there were some other nice toys at the monthly Ronnie’s Morning Get Together in San Jose. My wife is in the reflection of the 427 side badge of a beautiful Cobra. I’m blessed to be married to a car chick.
Actually, the Checker A11 was the taxicab sold exclusively to fleet buyers. The Marathon was the consumer version. Although I don’t know what if any difference there was between the A11 and the Marathon, apart from the Marathon not being painted taxi yellow.
I’ve always dreamed of getting a Checker painted in the classic taxi livery and using it as an Uber. Of course that wouldn’t actually be possible; I’m pretty sure Uber has a limit on how old your car can be if you drive for them.
Some builder built a multimillion dollar house on spec (or the buyer fell thru) nearby a few years ago. It was built in a really weird place & I wouldn’t like living there but the one thing it had that I really liked was it had his & hers garages - 3 cars at one end of the house & 4 at the other. As far as I know it’s still vacant; mebbe I should offer him $1000 for it; at least he’ll cut his losses & get out of paying any more property tax on it.
That would also solve my problem of not having anywhere to put my desired taxi; you don’t leave a 40-60 year old car outside in the elements & we already have more cars than garages.
I think uber requires cars to be < 10yo, so you’re right, not possible. I’d use it to pick up friends/family from the airport; I’m sure it would turn heads in the pickup line!
My father had a 64 Checker in his wrecking yard. Someone had done an engine swapped and installed a Buick V-8. I wanted to take the car and run in in a demo derby at my local race track but the rules forbid Checkers and Chrysler Imperials.
I saw my first Lucid in the Rx line at CVS. Don’t know if it was an Air or a Lightning. Website says they start at $69,900.
Lucids are making a comeback of sorts. I only base that on what I see on the roads here near San Francisco. 4-5 years ago or thereabouts, I’d see one or two each month, pretty regularly. Then for the last couple of years, nothing. Now for the last six months I see them almost every week.
Those Lucid Airs move pretty quickly.
It was really windy here today, and a few tarps blew off or partly off cars that I’ve been eager to look at.
The Camaro SS that needs a little bit of work:
Can anyone help with this mystery based on a glimpse of the front bumper? The car in front is a Spitfire Mark IV for scale and maybe gives a hint as to the mystery car.
As a wild guess I was thinking Datsun 1600? But no, I don’t think so ➜ https://is.gd/ryy6uB. It doesn’t fit the scale compared to the Triumph Spitfire.
ETA, since that’s a Spitfire, then perhaps an Aston? DB4? DB5?
ETA2, Jaguar XJ6?
I’m through guessing wildly. And wrongly.
A Cybertruck, wrapped.
It was green at first, and that green was truly stunning, but as I approached and the angles changed, the green turned to blue, then to pink, then to purple.
Pretty cool.
These pics don’t do it justice.
