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Here’s another entry in the “Elon haters Tesla owners club”
Some help identifying this Chevy Pickup year, I think it has to be between 47 and 51.
Also, my first VW ID.Buzz but it’s as a dealership, so not sure if it counts. IMO, it doesn’t look great from the side.
Today, a yellow Mercedes TD300 wagon. Like in this web pic:
It’s a diesel Mercedes-Benz W123. Model years are 1976–1986. I admire those old diesels. They’re near indestructible and can run forever!
I saw it coming up to pass me on the highway climbing up the Santa Cruz Mountains (Patchen Pass, 1,800’). I was admiring it behind me and watching it pass me, but as it passed me I saw the driver was a nice young lady and its license plate was BABE WGN.
I had to smile at that! Love it!!
Double posting this because it belongs in both threads, in here and in ➜ Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild - #1364 by Bullitt ■
How weird (and oddly comforting*) to see this car on imgur today! I remembered your Fiat from a much earlier post about the X1/9 and your brother.
*I’ve never run into a Doper elsewhere, even online; kind of like seeing a favorite cousin at a music festival.
In that second photo I thought that was some weird sort of Mad Max style vehicle heading straight for the pink and blue SUV! On closer look I realized it’s the back of a tow truck. 
Hm. Doesn’t look like Tadoe art. 
The wrap appears to be called Baby Milo. The closed I could find WRT the plate is a rapper that had their wrapped car stolen in Illinois. I doubt it’s related though.
I saw a vehicle that looked like one of the Telo trucks, except it had a closed back (I think), plus it was all painted in some loud pattern (blue and white diagonal stripes?), and it had a blue light over the cab like a UK police car. This is all based on a very brief glimpse, because I was driving and it was going in the other direction. Location: northern San Mateo county, just south of San Francisco. If anyone can identify it from the description, I’d love to know what it was.
Well they are HQ’d in San Carlos so it could’ve been a Telo with a wrap job.
At a Subaru dealership I saw this poster of a car I’d never ever seen before, either in a picture or IRL, the 1970 Subaru 360. Its engine displaces a tiny 356 CCs.
Imported by none other than Malcolm Bricklin, the same guy who would later import the Yugo to the US.
That’s the type of car that looks like it’ll go end over end if you hit a bump.
One of my brothers friends had one of those in high school 1970 sounds right. I think he paid $500 for it new.
Kind of funny, he had a Honda 450 motorcycle. The bike had a bigger engine, and even that would be considered not that big. 750’s where all the rage.
My brothers friends and he would move it around in the parking lot. He never knew if he would find his car.
My first motorcycle had a 750. My 90’s era Harley has a 1340.
A 1970 Beetle (not exactly known as a performance car) had a 1600. My 1968 Beetle has a 1500.
That Subaru is basically a Cozy Coupe with a mini-bike engine. 
When Bricklin couldn’t sell them, he turned them into big go-karts.
If you’re the readin’ kind, I highly recommend The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History by Jason Vuic. Its not only a fascinating read that dissects the Yugo (which actually had the DNA to be a better car than we ended up getting) but it also devotes a few chapters to Bricklin himself. I find it fascinating that Bricklin is single-handedly responsible for bringing both Yugo and Subaru to the US. One became a pariah and the other became phenomenally popular – both reputations justified.
Edit:
I’m new to Subaru. I bought my first one last year. Malcolm Bricklin brought Subaru to the US?
Cool. Slinks off to read…
Added after reading 30 seconds: not only did he bring Subaru to the US, he also brought the first car I ever bought, the Fiat X1/9.
Cool!
I had a friend in high school (late 80s) that had a Yugo his parents bought new, and I got to drive it occasionally. A Yugo with four people in it was perfectly capable of doing such important teenage things as going to the movie theater or pizza place.
His girlfriend had a shitty American hatchback, maybe a Dodge Omni, that wasn’t that much better.
Thinking back to all of the hatchbacks I dealt with the in the 80s is quite the nostalgia trip. All of those cars were pretty bad, but some so much worse than others. I’m so glad when it came time for my parents to buy a little hatchback they ended up getting a Toyota Pickup instead.
All years are approximate
- 1980 VW Rabbit (gas)
- 1979 Chevy Chevette
- 1978 Toyota Tercel
- 1986 Yugo
- 1984 Dodge Omni
- 1980 Honda Civic