Mercedes-Benz Storyteller Overland overlanding sprinter van
Summertime brings out the campers and vacation road trip vehicles. This one is from New Jersey, has a satellite WiFi antenna on the dashboard (yellow oval) and is ready for some serious overlanding.
It is really tall — about 9’ high.
From Storyteller Overland, a rig like this will run about $200K.
I also saw a Sprinter-based RV, w/ a rooftop AC unit on it on the Parkway (no trucks or commercial traffic allowed) yesterday; luckily, he got off before removing the AC on one of the seriously low bridges!
Also saw a two-toned (tan over maroon) Mercedes S-class (debadged so not sure which one but it was a long wheel base) on the same road
& a blue Honda Fit tweaked out with blue tinted windows & tiny little, wide go-cart tires at maybe 12" (standard is 15" or 16", depending upon trim). How difficult is it to alter the speedometer /odometer (I’ve never thought about doing such but if one put big Hoopties on, isn’t that a way to under report mileage? This one was way over reporting based up9n t8ny wheel size
I’m almost positive a bidirectional diagnostic tool has a setting for changing the wheel size for exactly that reason. I have an Autel, and I think I’ve run across that before.
Edit: without doing more than 3 minutes of searching, it appears a computer (ie Autel) can be used on some cars to change the wheel size so the speedo does the correct calculations. But it seems like that’s not an option for Hondas, or at least not Honda Fits.
Or maybe I’m wrong, that’s just what I picked up glancing at a few posts from others who’ve asked similar questions.
I think the family across the street has one of those, or something similar. Never really thought much about it but now I need to take a closer look (and maybe some pix).
A 12th generation (1992-2002) Cadillac Eldorado ESC with the Northstar engine. Not too shabby looking for a 23 year old car.
1972 Toyota Corona Mark II 1900 Deluxe
Today on the freeway I was driving my Porsche 356, and I passed an interesting car, a 1972 Toyota Corona Mark II 1900 Deluxe. One might think hey, it’s just a Toyota Corona, and while on one hand there is some truth in that and in the 70s and 80s they were all over the roads, today in the 2020s they are very rare. I haven’t seen one in many years. It was really cool to see it today. It was pretty clean and straight. This one was a driver. It was not a trailer queen. Cars are meant to be driven!
I did not get any pictures of it so these pics are off of the web.
A Mercedes-Maybach S580
Sparkling purple paint job on this Cadillac
I spotted this lady and said hello, and complimented her on the paint job. In the bright sunlight it really popped! Her English wasn’t too good, and neither was my Spanish. And so it goes.
As I passed her, the car ended up in my side mirror, stopped in traffic so I was able to get a parting shot of it.
She kinda sorta looks like Carrie Fisher.
No, just…no
I thought that was an Insight or Prius when I took the pictures. I see now it’s a CR-Z. Maybe the kids are modding them like they used to mod the CR-X in the 90s.
Mini rant, entirely unrelated other than it happening in the same parking lot (and I’m not going to start a thread over it).
So, I park, I buy my stuff and when I walk back out to my car, a women snaps at me ‘you’re parked too close’. Completely dumbfounded by such a stupid comment, all I could say is ‘well, I’m leaving now’, which caused her to roll her eyes at me like I was the asshole. Then it took me an extra 30 seconds to get backed out because she was standing behind my car. Honestly I’m not even sure she realized she was in the fucking way, but she was glaring at me while waiting for me to, what, back up over her?
Anyways, the reason I was so dumbfounded is because what I wanted to say instead of ‘I’m leaving now’, was ‘You parked next to me’. When I pulled in, I distinctly remember being surprised at finding two adjacent spots right by the door. The spot she was in was empty when I parked. Honestly, I don’t even know how she got out of the car in the first place. I did jot down her plate and car make/model. I figured I was going to find the side of my car all dinged up from her door and wondered if the ‘you parked too close’ thing was going to be a scam to get me to fix some damage to her car. But I don’t see anything. Just a bizarre interaction. I almost wonder if she was on something. I don’t think she was, she wasn’t acting like she was, but I can’t think of any other reason to blame me for her parking job.
77 million Americans gave delusional jerks an excuse to be themselves.
An Alfa 4C, driven like he stole it…& was afraid of getting pulled over & going (back to?) jail. Seriously, that car, on that road should have been driven much more aggressively. Why get a totally impractical little sports car if you’re not gonna drive it like one?
Wait, what? Do you think “drive it like you stole it” means slowly and cautiously?
I think it’s exactly the opposite.
That’s the joke, son.
Whoosh
I agree, “drive it like you stole it” is not how a little old lady drives to church.
He was in a tiny, totally impractical, low (hard to get in & out of), minimal storage, two-seat roadster on a two-lane twisty road that parallels the river. IOW, exactly the fun type of road that car was designed for, yet he was driving like he was delivering a wedding cake on the passenger seat.
This just hurts to read.
A couple of fun ones over the long weekend.
First, I think this is a 1951 Studebaker Starlight coupe, spotting headed north just before the 4th of July.
Next up, a classic 2nd Generation Corvette Sting Ray convertible, from 65-67 because of the 3 exhaust vents on the fenders.
Finally, parked near our rental house in South Country RI, a 1965 Ford Fairlane 500 2-door sedan.
That is a 1950 or 51 Studebaker, but not a Starlight Coupe. The Starlight Coupe had two doors and a unique wrap-around rear window. That’s either a Champion or Commander sedan.
Did you even look to see what was on the passenger’s seat? 
okay, so maybe he was moving a goldfish bowl??? 
There’s not exactly a lot of rear window* to look thru
* random internet photo
Not sure why I wrote coupe, since it’s clearly a 4-door with suicide doors. It’s a 1951 Studebaker Commander Land Cruiser, with confirmation from the trim on the fenders and the license plate.
