An old Porsche 911. Can someone help with the year?
Also an original Fiat 500 being used as an advertisement.
A quick guess, mid to late 1960s. I’ll try to pin it down more accurately.
ETA — interesting: when the pic URL was within the quote and /quote tags your picture would not show. I had to move it outside of the tags. As Mr. Spock would say, “Fascinating.”
ETA #2 — 1964 or 1965. By 1966, those vertical chrome front bumper thingies had a rubber strip on them. BTW, 1964 was the first year for the 911.
Next weekend is the annual Porsche 356 ‘North Meets South’ gathering in San Luis Obispo CA. I’ll be sure to post some pics! And if any of you’ll be in the area, PM me and if you’d like, let’s meet up. We’ll be in the parking lot of the host hotel, the Embassy Suites San Luis Obispo. Or just cruise by to see many of the first Porsches ever made!
A Motor Trike conversion kit for Indian Motorcycles. This one with South Dakota plates. I spotted this in Texas when I was there the other week for the eclipse. He must be another eclipse chaser.
I would’ve thought the owner of that license plate liked Chinese food. “Mono Sodium Glutamate to Eat”.
Squinting Monsignor To-go
I was a spring-like day, lots of cars were out of winter storage. No pictures, but I saw a Barracuda, a Plymouth Reliant, and a split window Bug.
(Also squinting) Or MUST GET OUT.
Wow, a Plymouth Barracuda. That reminds me of a Hot Wheels toy I had when I was a kid, mine was a fastback. Cool.
I actually find the Plymouth Reliant to be the coolest of that bunch, just because it’s one of those cars that used to be incredibly common when I was a kid, but has mostly disappeared from the road. The fact that the Reliant is precisely not the sort of car people held onto makes it all the more interesting to see one on the road today (as opposed to the Barracuda and other pony cars, which are exactly the types of cars people preserved, making them not all that uncommon today).
I saw a Nissan Ariya with new-car temp tags on the commute home. It’s a battery-electric vehicle with a SUV form. Actually nice looking.
Today I saw a FedEx BrightDrop truck. Looked the picture linked below. Googling shows they were used in Canada first, but are apparently in Los Angeles now.
What’s BrightDrop? Is that the manufacturer, or a FedEx service, or what…?
Sorry, I should’ve explained more. BrightDrop is the division of General Motors that does electric vehicles for industrial customers.
1975 Toyota Land Cruiser. Aside from the shoulder belts they added for safety, it’s pretty much all stock.
Oh man, is that a catalytic converter hanging under it?
I know the FJ40 well. Back in ~ 1976 I helped a friend drop a 327 into his FJ. I think it could do a ‘wheelie’ in low-range. Or darn close to it.
Many ‘jeeping’ adventures in that beast.
Another friend had one we could borrow. Broke the winch cable trying to get it unstuck. We had a very, very poor plan for that.
It would appear so. I see aftermarket ones for it that look similar.
Would that have been OEM? I can’t imagine adding one later, for a car that wouldn’t be (legally) required to have it. It’s also sitting so low to the ground, it seems like it’s just asking to hit something and tear the exhaust system off.
Some checking suggests they started to become a requirement in 1975 (especially in CA). I wonder if the factories were just adding it on without reworking everything until they had time to make it fit properly.
No way. I busted up two of those FJ’s on Jeep trails. It looks likes it ripe for stealing too.
But otherwise @Telemark, great capture of a very cool vehicle.
I know the person who drives the TLC, I’ll ask her the next time I see her at the pottery studio.
And a bonus car for today, seen on my afternoon run. A 1967 Pontiac Gran Prix, which looks like a work in progress but the license plate is current so I suspect it runs.
Today I saw a 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. That brings back memories of some golden childhood years. I never had one, I had a 1970 Chevelle SS396, but those Trans Ams were pretty cool.
A bunch of interesting cars on today’s walk.
An Olds F-85, the first generation of what would later become the Cutlass.
A Fisker Ocean, I think the first one I’ve seen.
And I’ve posted this one before but it’s such a good car, and old Land Rover Series IIA.
A nice little Datsun 2000. Produced from 1967 to 1970, It was the first Japanese car to reach a top speed of 200 kilometers per hour (124 MPH), and was known as the “Datsun 2000 Sports”.
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