Yeah, they look good. The smaller Integra looks good, too.
My sister’s (now ex-)husband insisted their family sedan have one for safety reasons. Boring brown late-80s Chevy Caprice, IIRC.
My eyes hurt
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Teacher?
How do you get teacher?
Is it June yet?
That reminds me, I ran across this one a few days ago:
ETA and that’s a Land Rover Defender in front of it.
Yeah there are some pink cars out there!
6 - Count ‘em, SIX!!!
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Speaking of pink vehicles…
Yesterday I saw a Cybertruck wrapped in hot pink. Wasn’t able to snap a pic, though. Wish I had!
Having never seen a Honda Acty before, I have now spotted two in a week. This one was on a flatbed but looked the same as the one pictured above. Do they all come in white?
I saw a 1st generation Subaru Tribeca B9 (2006-7) and it looked so small.
In just 10 days I’ve spotted 3 Tesla Cybertrucks in new and wild colors: green, hot pink, and red.
➤ The green one was on Wed 05 Feb, in South San Francisco. I posted this earlier.
➤ The hot pink one was on Thu 13 Feb but I did not catch a picture of it. It was in Palo Alto.
➤ The red one was on Fri 14 Feb, in the snow up on Donner Pass.
Yesterday I spotted a Stewart & Stevenson M1078 LMTV.
Spotted at the Soda Springs General Store up at Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 21784 Donner Pass Rd in Soda Springs CA (Donner Summit, over 8,000 feet; on I-80 the Donner Summit interstate climbs to 7,239’). Good sandwiches and coffee there.
Have you heard of a Unimog? The Mercedes-Benz Unimog? Unimog stands for “Universal-Motor-Gerät”, which roughly translated means “universally applicable motorized device”.
Well this is not a Unimog, but it’s similar. Unimogs are German (Mercedes-Benz) but this truck is American. This is an American LMTV, a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle which is a 4x4 series of military trucks for our military. This is a Stewart & Stevenson M1078 LMTV.
Stewart & Stevenson is in Houston, TX and was founded by C. Jim Stewart and Joseph R. Stevenson in 1902. In their early years they were first a blacksmith shop, they shoed horses, and they were a carriage shop making carriages and wagons. They eventually got into military applications like (for a time) the Marine Corps’ 5-ton trucks, the M939. [At one time I was licensed to drive the M939 5-ton but that wasn’t my primary job in the Marines which was artillery FDC, for direction control. I drove 5-ton trucks and Hummvees and M-151 Jeeps more for fun (!) and as a ‘hobby’ (which reminds me that involved one of the most fun times I had in the Marines, but that’s a story for another time).
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The owner of this Stewart & Stevenson M1078 LMTV was kind enough to let me briefly take a picture of the inside before he needed to leave.
You do not see the Stewart & Stevenson M1078 LMTV every day. Up at Lake Tahoe, especially in the winter and the deep snows (sometimes very deep!), a truck with large wheels and high ground clearance like LMTVs can come in handy.
Very deep snow in California, you might ask? Put simply, just look up the Donner Party and the winter of 1846-1847. The snow up here can get a little deep. Wikipedia has a timeline, here ➜ Donner Party timeline - Wikipedia ■ .
That winter, snows got up to 20 feet deep. Not even an LMTV or a Unimog can get through that.
Interested in buying a Stewart & Stevenson M1078 LMTV? They can be had for less than $10,000, and about $30,000 to $50,000 for a nicely running version. See here ➜ LMTVs: M1078, M1079 & More | GovPlanet ■ .
Again yesterday, US Route 1 near Jennersville.
Well-outfitted MB Unimog at a ski area parking lot on a powder day.
Do those Also have portal axles ¿
From one of the pictures I took, one of the last ones in the imgur album link I shared (the last link), it doesn’t look like it does.
A 1952 Lagonda 2.6L Drophead at the Silicon Valley Auto Show
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This owner is David Foster of Los Altos. We had just met him and he invited us in for a private tour of his car. He is the third owner of this car. It’s in excellent shape and he bought it in 2014 in England pretty much as you see it now. He shipped it across the Atlantic, and across the country. He’s only done light maintenance work on it, and he does drive it so we might see this sweet car out on the Bay Area roads.
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In 1947 a David Brown acquired Aston Martin, and then he acquired Lagonda cars. This car is the first Lagonda made after the acquisition. More about David Brown when I post about the Aston Martins later
The ash wood interior is beautiful
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Drophead means convertible; also droptop, topless, cabriolet, ragtop, soft top, spider, spyder, top down, all-weather tourer, Carson top — what other names out there mean convertible?
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Showing us the suicide doors meant to allow a lady to enter and easily move to the back seat
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This car is a 6-Volt system that has two 6V batteries; most cars at this time ran on 6 volts; cars later moved up to 12 Volts in the 1950s and 1960s because starter motors needed to be more powerful (larger engines and higher compression ratios), and because of all the added accessories (sound systems, vent fan and AC, and stronger lights)
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my blue circle shows one of many countersunk brass screws that hold the beautiful ash wood interior
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my black circle and arrow point to the turn signal of the day; this is on the right side of the car just in front of the rear tire: the recessed bar pivots up and is raised out to the side of the car to indicate a turn
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my yellow circle on the dash board shows the turn signal actuator: it’s a dial that you turn either left or right to raise the appropriate bar
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