Custom rebadging of a Mini Countryman:
My Wife and I are in the process of moving to the Berthoud/Loveland area of Colorado. The front range. I’m sorry I don’t have any pictures (I can never post pictures to Discourse #$#%^@%) but there are a slew of classic cars around here. I see a couple every time I leave the house. They are in absolutely great shape, but it sort of seems like people also use them as transport.
Also, I absolutely refuse to take a picture. Or use my phone at all while I’m driving. Um, no. Not gonna happen.
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I spotted this tonight after dinner in Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley
I assume that’s just a display piece and not something that’s actually drivable. I imagine getting up to any sort of reasonable speed would destroy the plants. But I guess you could drive it sloooowly, like in a parade.
It’s parked in a hotel lobby. Display only.
Mercedes-AMG GT 63S 4-door Coupe spotted at yesterday’s SF Giants game at Oracle Park (a Giants win!)
Two different Cybertrucks today, no pictures but the first was matte black. As if attempting to hide what it is, or at least not attract attention.
I’ve seen those and am struck by how much smaller they appear. Black is slimming, indeed.
Orange Karmann-Ghia today, passed me in heavy traffic while I was walking to a bus stop. Only saw the rear but it looked and sounded bone stock.
1950 Ford Club Coupe (like the one pictured below) being towed. License plate: 50flaty.
I forgot to mention at the time, but last Thursday on my way home from work I passed a third generation (2002-2004) Oldsmobile Bravada. While its Chevy twin was quite common, the Bravada was always a fairly slow seller. The third generation is especially uncommon, since it only lasted a few model years before Oldsmobile went away altogether.
Saw a ~1972 blue and white Chevy pick-up. A bit degraded condition. (E.g., some worn paint spots that were rusted.)
Now, what makes this vehicle interesting? It was a low rider!
I mean why? Huh? And if you’re gonna make it a low rider at least fix the paint. It’s not in good enough shape for show, is it? I mean, what sort of load could this carry? Questions, I haz them.
Yeah they’re all about lifestyle, not practicality. To my eye anyway.
A trend in recent years, especially for old pickups, is to preserve the vehicle’s “patina” rather than making it look shiny and new.
And the gardeners who used to maintain neighbor’s lawn used to show up every week in a lowrider pickup (like a 1990s Chevy in their case). I used to think the same thing, but one day I realized – lowering it actually makes is easier for them to load and unload their equipment, and I’m sure it still has more than enough capacity to haul around a couple of lawnmowers and leaf blowers. Yeah, that probably wasn’t the actual reason they lowered it, but it doesn’t make the truck completely useless, and in their case actually provided some benefit.
As long as they don’t do anything stupid.
Someone with a Caprice low rider used to live near me; more often then not, it seemed to be parked with a wheel off. Whatever had been holding the wheel on was clearly broken.
I live very, very high up in the Colorado mountains. The land of 4x4’s cause ya need them, and they also go 4-wheeling. Sometimes as a necessity. Anyway, I once saw a low rider Jeep Wrangler 
I can’t decide which is stupider–the 1 ton duallies that are lifted implying that you might in fact take them off-road, or the dually lowrider I saw last year (24" wheels with low-profile tires, the works).
Not everything has to be functional. Some people modify their cars simply because they enjoy doing it and/or like how it looks.
Well, ok, but you are modifying a vehicle that really has one purpose–to carry and tow extremely heavy loads at the expense of many many daily driver capabilities–and severely compromising that ability. I mean, you could probably turn a dually into a drift truck, but WHY?
Your truck customizers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.