I saw a Delorean today.
Ugh! . . . lose their wheels. 
I had to look it up, but apparently this is a Mitsubishi Type 73 light truck, a 1/2 ton truck produced for the Japanese military. It’s right hand driver and looks pretty bare bones for comforts, but fully featured for adventure.
Mitsubishi and other Japanese makes have been making virtually direct copies of Jeeps for quite a while.
daihatsu and suzuki come to mind …
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DAIHATSU:
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SUZUKI
(gotta love those structured side-panels)
Likewise, Indian manufacturer Mahindra has been building copies of Jeeps since their founding – their first vehice was a licened copy of the Willys CJ3B. The present day Mahindra Thar is still based on the Jeep CJ. They even sell a version in the US called the Roxor, although it’s not street legal here. It’s marketed as an off-road only vehicle.
An early Ford Thunderbird. I think it’s a 1955 based on pictures on the internet, although most '55 and '56 models seem to have two round thingies that look kind of like jet intakes on the front of the grille, like this example, which this one lacks. But the '57 had the front turn signals in the bumper, so I’m still calling this one a '55.
I saw some sort of late-model Bentley driving south on Birch Bay Drive when we were out to dinner tonight.
In the Costco parking lot was a Maserati Granturismo and a Bentley Continental parked next to each other. There were two guys chatting in front of them.
Parked a row over was an extremely beat up Hyundai Accent with a Ferrari shield emblem on the hood. I really wanted to go over to the guys and tell them about the Ferrari.
Those particular additions are called dagmars, and they appear to be optional.
More interesting is how dagmars got their name. I’ll let you look it up, but let’s just say that in this era nobody would dare come up with a name like that.
Didn’t even have to look that one up.
Several dozen models available
I had to. I just called them bullet bumpers. I’ma little too young for Dagmar.
Added — damn, she was 5’8” tall and 42-23-39.
Yesterday, a new Chevy Malibu — bye bye in November 2024
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The Malibu is a vanishing breed because in November, Chevrolet will discontinue the Malibu after 60 years and 9 generations. Some reasons for this are because
➤ SUVs and pickups are more profitable than sedans and compacts;
➤ General Motors is pivoting to EVs — the next generation of the Chevy Bolt will be built at the retooled Malibu plant; and
➤ The infrastructure for EVs is improving.
Bye bye, Chevrolet Malibu. 
Some traffic folks used to use round concrete domes to form the outlines of traffic islands, apparently still in use for transverse speed bumps, although now lower plastic or rubberized ones They were also referred to as Dagmars.
1956-1959 Mercedes-Benz 220 S
Wow, that is a good looking car.
Is the license plate relevant to the car in any way?