What's the most interesting car you saw today?

From the school of automotive design…

Yesterday evening I saw this International Harvester 1110 pickup. IH sold these from 1970-75, and they were never all that common compared the the pickup offerings from the Big 3. After 1975 IH discontinued offering consumer grade pickups, although they still offered the Scout SUV until 1980 (and there was technically a pickup version of the Scout, but it wasn’t a serious work truck).

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That’s a pretty crude looking taillight setup, with the lights just tacked onto the side of the bed, and the wires exposed like that. Pretty crude looking tailgate, too, with two pins on chains holding it closed.

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Then as I was leaving I noticed this McLaren 720S just a few rows away. Sorry, it’s not a great shot; I didn’t feel like getting out of my car and just pulled up next to it and snapped this.

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Lastly, after I pulled out into traffic I saw what I’m pretty sure was a Lamborghini Huracan. I only saw the back, and I couldn’t get a photo since I was driving, but I saw a Lamborghini badge and the exhaust tips were high up in the rear bumper like this picture on Wikipedia. The one I saw was the same shade of green, too.

You’re among like-minded friends. I do that all the time.

But don’t refrain out of respect for the person’s privacy. I mean, personally, I’d hate it if someone took a picture of me, but I’ve had people stop and take a photo of my car, and I swell with pride…

I saw this beautiful Bronco in the grocery store parking lot in Durango today:

I saw 4 different Cybertrucks today. They’re multiplying.

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I have yet to see my first in person, here on the North Shore of Boston. :frowning_face:

A neighbor of mine has one of those. He keeps it garaged and I’ve never seen him drive it and only know he has it because of the exceedingly rare times I’ve driven by when he’s had his garage open. It looks to be in immaculate condition but I’ve never seen it outside the confines of his garage. If I ever do I’ll try to get some pics.

I found out last week that my grandfather owned a 1967 Land Rover IIA, the long wheelbase version similar to this one, although my grandfather’s was green – and a year older.

A Man, His Land Rover and a 20-Year Mission to See Every Corner of His Country - WSJ

He also owned a Rover TC 2000 sedan. I would’ve loved to have seen both those vehicles.



Oldmobile Toronado. Google images is saying 66 or 67.

Apparently this car got stolen 20 years ago and the owner got it back last year.

A 2015-17 Bentley Continental GT Convertible, with the top down, in traffic on a hot day.

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And a 2000-02 Saturn SL2, almost a vintage car at that age.

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An old Jeep. I drove these things when I was in the Marines, 40 years ago. I liked them. They were simple, small, and light, and they could easily maneuver between trees. My job was not as a driver, but I wanted to drive so I did!

Not a car, but a truck…but as it was all buttoned up, the bed was closed and looked like something other than a truck. And it was on the westbound side of the road, while I was on the eastbound. Both of us going about 30mph.

I didn’t get a picture, but it was a Tesla Truck! They actually exist out there in the wild.

Pretty odd looking no matter if it is a car or truck as far as

A Frito-Lay full-electric delivery truck
A Cadillac Sedan DeVille, 3rd-generation (1965-1970)
A Ford Maverick (1970s)

And then this baby,

A beautiful 4th-generation Ford Thunderbird (1964-1966), in clean condition.

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While out for a walk this morning, I saw a man driving what appeared to be a T bucket hot rod, although the vehicle was painted less colorfully than the one depicted in the link.

A Bentley SUV in an extremely ugly shade of blue. FL plates in IL.

I didn’t have the chance to get a picture, but saw a maroon Toyota Camry with about two-thirds of its rear bumper torn off and dragging on road behind it, in relatively heavy traffic southbound on route 1A north of Boston.

If it had been a racecar he would have been black flagged, but he was just driving along, oblivious or maliciously indifferent. Some cars made a point of moving away, but others seemed to think nothing of following behind him at ordinary distances. They would have regretted it if it had broken off and they had run over it. I couldn’t pull up along side to try to give him a sign before he turned off in Revere. But I have to think that others had tried.

Completely bizarre.

He may have been attending the Celtics parade today and wasn’t in possession of his full faculties.

I saw my first Cybertruck today, going the opposite way on a highway. The first word that comes to mind is hideous. The second is huge. 1/10, would not buy.

Also saw another Lucid Air.

I’m visiting the UK now, so many ordinary cars look interesting. So far my favorite is the Ford Streetka. Here is a generic picture I found online. It’s hard to tell the size from that picture, but it’s approximately the size of an e-bike.

The most posh I’ve seen was (I think) a Rolls Royce Cullinan Black Badge. I was very unimpressed. It seemed to have the presence of a Chevy Tahoe. I mean, it was large, it was black, and was probably perfectly lovely for the person sitting in the back seat (did not recognize her), but the only reason I looked twice was because I saw the RR badge.