bobo, you know, you just reminded me, there has been a light green/dark green two-tone Volare riding around town in showroom condition recently, with a young hipster driving it. It has a tiny exhaust pipe, it must be the stalwart Slant Six under the hood, purring away like a contented old housecat.

Spotted my first two Genesises, a ilver one, followed immediately behind by a light blue one. And yeah, they really dont' look like much more than some conservative sedan that happens to want a taste of the premium market.

But I saw lots of classics too:

Nova convertible

55 Bel Air convertible

61 Impala

63-64 Impala convertible on dubs.

Also a Diplomat or Gran Fury. It really would be nice ot have one of those M-bodies.

There's an absolutely worn, and tired looking '50 Ford

4-dr sedan that's registered and driven by some guy

who lives in these condos by UPS. I always glance over

to see whether it's parked in it's usual spot, amongst

the '05 Civics and '02 Corollas in the condo parking lot

as I drive from UPS to my day job.

I've never seen the car on the road and I assumed by

the cracked window, tub of marvel's mystery oil and

Lucas products in the back seat, 35-yer old gray primer

and rocker panel patches that the car is only driven

around town, probably at 35 mph with it's big, knobby

John Deere-esque snow tires.

Yesterday while Julie (Amelia still "in utero") Sofia and

I were on a short roadtrip up Rt.495 when I see the

car on the opposite side of the highway looking like it's

trying to go for the Bonneville Salt Flats "stock 4-door"

world record in all out speed.

Seeing that Mad Max '50 Ford tearing up the highway

put such a big smile on my face.

Way cooler than the Ferrari 599-GTB I saw a week ago.

Light teal VW Routan, at the VW dealership. It is the polar opposite of what a VW van should be, imo.

Agreed. And those "procreation intervention" commercials ar so

dumb, insulting and annoying they even annoy my pregnant

wife, who the other day said: That's stupid, they should

bring back the "Veeeehh-Duuhhhbbb!" German Rocket-scientist

guy who destroys Hondas.

I laughed in agreement!

EDIT:

I forgot to mention some other cool "spots"

- 1930-31ish Ford Model-A 2-door sedan

- 1964 Chevy Impala ragtop with high-jacker shocks. white/red-interior/white

- 1st gen. (1964 iirc?) Malibu two-door hardtop

- 2009 Challenger in a funky blue color... (repaint... it was KUZtom)

- 1959-or was it 1960? Ford Thunderbird hardtop

- early 1980s Mercury Zephyr TWO-DOOR. Talk about a SQUARE car! (not w/ the slanted C-pillar, 1979 style greenhouse)

- Gorgeous fat-fendered 1937 Chevy 2-door 5-window Rumble-seat coupe...

(stock exterior, all the bright-work, riding on a trailer shod with Hoosiers)

Edited October 20, 200817 yr by Sixty8panther

Today while walking at lunch, I saw 2 Challengers--a white w/ black top 73-74 in decent shape and an orange '08/09 SRT8...nice to see some real, RWD V8 cars amongst all the disposable FWD generics that one usually sees on a typical city street.

Saw a 70s Barracuda yesterday. Those things are extremely wide to be so short and flat, reminds me of driving a pizza box.

Saw a car hauler today with 3 H3Ts on top, 3 G8s inside... saw a gorgeous, rumbling black '71 Centurion convertible oozing down the street last night right around sunset, top down. Droooooll....

Model A 2-door sedan sounding like it had the original fart can on it, patina for days, on a shakedown run around the block, from the restoration shop across the street from work. Stare-worthy, even for two goth kids sitting on the front steps of a tattoo parlor.

-Early '90s Infiniti Q45, with the tiny square grille. Kinda neat.

-'01 Q45. :X

-Loooong wheelbase '85 Sedan De Ville, black.

-A mime.

-A pair of Traverses riding on a hauler

-gunmetal grey Quattroporte

-new M3 sedan

-A Prius that looked like someone painted cow spots on it.

Edited October 25, 200817 yr by DetroitNut90

Man, they are milking that whole Prius thing for all its worth, aren't they.

Today---

a '79 Lincoln Versailles in tan w/ a padded top and aftermarket continental kit, wire wheel hubcaps on wide whitewalls. Haven't seen one of these in ages.

a GMC Avalanche---a black 1st gen Chevy Avalanche with a GMC front clip.

While out car shopping tonight:

A bunch of Wranglers (duh, thats what I was shopping for)

---A quick note on this; I need to get out of the habit of calling them "Jeeps" because anytime I would say "this lot doesn't have any Jeeps" my s.o. would reply, "Theres one right there" and point at a Grand Cherokee

But other, more interesting sightings:

Lexus IS300 SportCross (had to google it to find out what it was actually called)

Volkswagen CC (pretty good looking, $28k sticker)

Audi TT Cabrio (orgasmic if it weren't for...)

Porsche 911 (White, gorgeous, I didn't want to leave its side)

Some offbeat sightings today.

Saw a faded blue '72 Ford Galaxie 4dr sedan in traffic and a faded but solid blue '68 Chevy longbed pickup.

The really outrageous sightings, though, were the black 1940 Buick Special Eight 4dr sedan (6-window) in the Target parking lot and the green w/ yellow spoke wheels Model A 5-window coupe (one of the handful existing that wasn't converted into a hot rod, but kept stock) driving along in traffic!

Shocking to see cars that old away from a car show, out in the real world!

There has been a guy using a Model A as a daily driver for the last month or so.

A donked red Torino.

Mr. small, I am not quite sure what your new avatar is... but it looks like an elephant in the lotus position. Please clue us in, kind sir.

Mr. small, I am not quite sure what your new avatar is... but it looks like an elephant in the lotus position. Please clue us in, kind sir.

Hmmm..I thought it was a glowing brain at first, now it reminds me of one of the Hindu gods.

Hmmm..I thought it was a glowing brain at first, now it reminds me of one of the Hindu gods.

Bingo! Ganesha ... or Ganpati - The lord of Peace, Prosperity and Intelligence.

This Ganpati dude, is he an elephant?

This Ganpati dude, is he an elephant?

Ganesha

I hope that helps.

Well thanks, small. He looks like a cool guy.

Back to dah tread, I did not see anything out-of-the-ordinary today in my travels.

Saw a beautiful '59 Bel-Air two-door hardtop on the way to work this morning; probably the coolest thing I've seen in my travels in a while.

Pictures are worth thousand words.

What is that in the last photo? Some sort of small FWD generic with a fake convertible top?

What is that in the last photo? Some sort of small FWD generic with a fake convertible top?

Toyota Crapolla with fake convertible driven by an Old Lady from Sunshine State.

Edited November 1, 200817 yr by smallchevy

The local Pontiac dealership has a brown AMC AMX next to the Solstice on its show pedestal out front.

Hey Scar, we've got ourselves a new spotter thread for Nov, if you give a damn.