I saw a classic 1960s Lincoln Continental convertible today. Coincidentally I was waiting to turn left onto Lincoln Street when it drove by.
TIL that Lamborghini makes an SUV when I saw a dark gray Urus parked outside the local UPS store.
You’re not kidding. I keep wondering if there’s an upcoming trim level that has Something there, but now it’s just a flat rectangle of Nothing .
We drove the 356 to a Porsche club picnic yesterday. Driving home over the Santa Cruz mountains was fun!
And that primer-gray coloring!! Seriously, in the past 2-3 years, we have seen an increasing number of primer-gray, baby-poop-brown, and mental-hospital-green cars. WTF?!?!?!?
Personally, I like the primer/matte colors I’ve been seeing.
Obviously someone does, or they wouldn’t be selling them.
I could actually see the utility of the gray or the brown, depending on how you plan to use the vehicle (would show less mud) but the mental-hospital green??? Ugh.
Though I will admit, they would stand out in the parking lot full of identical-looking white SUVs!!
Someone mentioned the Rivian headlights, so I looked them up (the one I saw in the wild was from behind) - they ARE distinctive:
I spent the week on Martha’s Vineyard, and it must have the highest concentration of Rivians anywhere in the country. Followed closely by Land Rovers, Land Cruisers, Ford Broncos, and EV Porsches.
Fog lights would be good. Make them amber the way God intended.
I’ve noticed this too, and it’s not my taste at all. But yeah, apparently a lot of people like these colors. A nephew of mine bought a new Civic a few years ago and he wanted two things: primer grey color and a stick shift. He could only pick one without ordering it special so choose the grey color over the manual. Weird.
So my dad wanted to go to one the aforementioned car shows yesterday, and since he needed a chaperone I elected myself to take him. The show was full of pudgy pale grey men drinking lite beer out of Dixie cups and talking to other pale pudgy grey men about “back in the day.” Dad fit right in, although he’s significantly skinnier than the average attendee was. I was wearing Wayfarers so hopefully my eyerolling went unnoticed. Among all the shiny American muscle there was some real gems:
1957 Porsche Speedster:
1957 Triumph TR3:
(Now that is a pretty grey color) Dad said he had owned a TR2 “back in the day” and sold it for peanuts because he needed to pay bills. I’ve been there, done that so I can’t be too critical but man, I wish he still had that car. My fat ass wouldn’t fit in it, but still. I knew he had owned some nice cars before my time but I never knew about the Triumph.
1991 Nissan Figaro:
Alec from the YouTube channel Technology Connections has one and it’s very neat. It’s much, much smaller in person than I thought it would be. Here’s Aging Wheels “reviewing” it.
The weird thing is that I was under the impression that all Figaros were right hand drive but this one is left hand drive.
1967 Toyota FJ45 Landcruiser pickup:
There was a lot of DIY welding on the body that was badly ground down and not all all polished and then painted over. I’m not going to insist that a classic car at a car show be absolutely straight and all body work done by seasoned pros, but this was pretty bad.
Lots more like that on the body. Despite the bad body work it was definitely a cool pickup.
1953 International L-110 pickup painted in honest-to-God John Deere green:
International had something like 50 different models in the L line and the110 was the lightest, least powerful of the whole lot.
1963 Studebaker Avanti:
The only car at the show that I had never heard of before. Ugly as sin but apparently a very advanced car for its time.
1929 Lincoln with a V12 ::swoon::
1954 Hudson Hornet:
1965 Ford Econoline panel van:
This is the only car at the show I’d personally want to own. Ugly, unique, and useful.
Dad said he saw a Morris Minor but I somehow missed it. There was also a Nissan 240Z painted in bright metallic blue parked in the spectator parking lot but it was gone by the time I walked over to look at it. Also a third generation Toyota Supra in the lot, also gone by the time I went to look at it. My dad had one of those and not only do I remember it but I took my driver’s test on it – didn’t pass the first time. I also drove my now-wife to our first date in that car. 24 years ago this September. It was nice seeing one again.
There was also a mid-70’s VW bus there. My first car was a 1975 VW bus, and leaning in thought the driver’s window triggered some serious nostalgia. The cockpit was identical. The summer I turned 17 I took a road trip to Kalispell Montana from Roseburg Oregon in my bus, Janis Joplin and Cheap Trick blaring from the Blaupunkt cassette deck. No ventilation, steering like a shopping cart, squeaky clutch pedal, and no cup holders. Slept in a US Army surplus sleeping bag on the big shelf over the engine bay after stopping for the night at a Target parking lot in Ritzville, Washington. To this day I don’t know why my parent’s allowed me to do that trip. Before cell phones, of course. Man do I miss that car.
Now I sound like one of the pale pudgy old grey men. Dammit!
I just spent a week on Martha’s Vineyard, a fairly well off island vacation spot with the vehicles to match. Beyond the multitude of Jeeps, Broncos, Land Cruisers, and Land Rovers, there are all sorts of fun cars to spot. I did also see my second Cybertruck; it looks even worse in a wonderful setting like the Vineyard.
Starting with the trucks:
A nice old 1st generation Ford Bronco Ranger, 1972-75
An International Scout, 1st generation but I don’t know much more than that.
A couple of 5th generation (1966-72) Ford F100s in amazing shape. The first is a Ranger, the second has a lobster hood ornament.
According to the license plate, this is a 1972 Jeep Commando. This was in amazing shape and looked like it worked every day.
Finally, a nicely decorated VW Thing
Next, the cars:
An adorable 1st generation (1950-67) VW Bus, restored to within an inch of its life.
A modern Morgan Roadster, not much else to say
A Morgan +4(?), not sure, I barely saw the front end and wouldn’t know how to identify the model.
A Karmann Ghia. I spoke to the owner, she seemed wicked cool.
Finally, on the drive home, a Citroen GS X2 being hauled, such a cool looking body.
If I had the money, I’d get a restomod version. Dad owned a first gen when I was born.
It was yesterday, but does the Weinermobile count?
I’ve been shopping for a manual, and I’ve had to be verrry flexible on the color. But I realized that when I’m driving, I don’t notice the exterior of my car.
“He chose… poorly.”
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The Nantucket Island paper had a front page exposé on the first cybertruck to come over on the ferry. They had a photo of it parked across a crosswalk, then stuck in the sand.
It sure does. I’ve never seen one of them. Apparently there are 6 of them, and you can track them here ➜ https://khcmobiletour.com/wienermobile.
Cool - I did not know there was a tracking site.
As noted earlier in the thread, I’ve seen two of them, on separate occasions.
Since I just happened to notice this thread popping up, it’s a good place to mention that there was a Model A two cars ahead of me today.
Turned out pretty well.
I just picked the Prius up from the shop. There was an English guy there with an immaculate brown & black, 1970 Morgan Plus 8. 