Showers don't just bring May flowers...

[Lamar]

I'll start it off.

New Pontiac Vibe GT in all red... looked good. Hopefully the design won't age badly.

And is it just me, or has there been a greater appearance of TDI vehicles on the road? In the past few days I've seen three generations of Jetta TDIs.

[balthazar]

'39 Merc chopped convert, '48 Hudson Club Coupe, '50 Ford shoebox, '61 Super 88 bubbletop.

Oh, and a true first: a tundra actually towing something (small motorcycle trailer, prolly empty )

[XP715]

1967 Mercury Park Lane Marauder four door hardtop, maroon with a black vinyl top; a local guy's been driving it everywhere lately.

[SuperSport623]

a showroom clean 87 Cutlass, blue with blue vinyl top, daily driven by an older woman.... good loord its gorgeous!

[Cory Wolfe]

a showroom clean 87 Cutlass, blue with blue vinyl top, daily driven by an older woman.... good loord its gorgeous!

Beeeaaaast.

A pretty nice Miata for sale, but considering the year and mileage, it's far out of my range.

[04monteintimidator]

two Lotuses... a black Exige on 315 N on Monday and a yellow Elise on Lane Avenue last night

also... on 315 N yesterday afternoon... a Honda Prelude "Type R" haha for real it had Type R badging on it complete with windsheild sticker... clearly +10 hp each badge (there were 4 haha)... silver car with flat colored fire-engine red flames (+25 hp) it also had the optional bleacher style seating for that open air feel... or it may have been a spoiler... either way... +50 hp... the lower front fascia... or whats left of it... had clearly been met by a speed bump and quickly realized maybe 4 inches of ground clearance isnt enough... the whole drivers side front corner part of said "ground effects" was held together by duct tape (+20 hp) so if youve been keeping up... there was a prelude with 135 hp more than stock... im telling you man Corvettes are shaking in their transverse leaf springs... haha

[RJB]

I just saw a new Challenger in red this morning...very sweet!! I also saw another Dodge Nitro with the new whatever diesel they are going to use in them.

[ZL-1]

For lack of a better sighting, a red Citroen C2. Nice shade of red Citroen uses on that car!

[Lamar]

Oh yeah, a Buick Estate as a taxi.

[ocnblu]

gray gee-eight geetee at local dealer.

[Camino LS6]

I went back to the Pontiac store the other day and gave their 888 G8 GT the quick once over. I only sat in it for a minute, popped the hood and doors, and walked around it a few times.

It was nice to actually lay hands on one, and I want that ST even more now.

This morning I saw a red Solstice in a lineup of traffic surrounded by a sea of bland, silver and beige mid size sedans. Man did it ever stand out! I could never be part of that conformist parade - hats off to the Solstice owner!

In the WAWA parking lot there were some interesting high-end cars:

-An S600 V12 sedan ( friggin huge, ugly fender flares, nice sound to the exhaust)

-A CLS500 ( I still love the lines of that car)

- A super nice M3 convertible in white.

- A new Denali XLT

Plus an assortment of lexus stuff and other less interesting cars, trucks and suvs.

[Lamar]

Pontiac G8 GT, black exterior, black-and-red interior...

... at the dealer nearest me, with a $2,000 "limited edition" markup...

The G8 I test-drove in Newport News wasn't marked up. Daggone Baltimore dealers...

[caddycruiser]

Jaguar XF's, everywhere. Helps that the dealer is a mile up the street, they have some parked in view, I've seen several on test drives and a lot of salespeople using them as demos...and also one being used as a Jag loaner. Really like them, and the "un-Jag" factor.

[Camino LS6]

Pontiac G8 GT, black exterior, black-and-red interior...

... at the dealer nearest me, with a $2,000 "limited edition" markup...

The G8 I test-drove in Newport News wasn't marked up. Daggone Baltimore dealers...

The one I looked at wasn't marked-up either. (black GT, one of the 888)

[Camino LS6]

Jaguar XF's, everywhere. Helps that the dealer is a mile up the street, they have some parked in view, I've seen several on test drives and a lot of salespeople using them as demos...and also one being used as a Jag loaner. Really like them, and the "un-Jag" factor.

Really don't like them - nothing Jag about them.

[balthazar]

red '62 Corvette with softop up

'67 Galaxie 4-dr sedan, exc condition

circa '32 Ford 5-window hotrod peeking out from a garage

[Cory Wolfe]

Mid-Late 80's Monte Carlo SS, parked next to me at the gas pump last night. Would have made a fun G-Body picture

[Sixty8panther]

- 2009 blood-red Tin Indian G-VIII Gran Turismo.

(that's the only new car that I've seen that I actually care about, - except for that raven black '08 CTS

Now for the eye candy... these are from the past few months since I've been slacking on posting them:

'29? Model A... pretty cool for a Ford.

'41 Chevy... daily driven in the summer

That '39 Nash I recently mentioned

This Impala 2dr hardtop caught my eye the other day.

This Buick made me sad.... it is one of about a dozen classics I discovered

in a farmer's field about a month ago.

What is it with the Fords... people just LOVE mediocrity in their classics I guess.

This is a wicked cool mostly original truck but I'd much rather have a Chevy

or GMC anyday.

This is what I'm going to be driving if the scumbags in Washington let gas get out

of hand... I'll park my classic car & drive a 1960s "Porsche Rabbitt"

Small world.... this is a '79 SEDAN deVille that lives 3 miles away from me, and old couple drive it a

few times a week. It's not quite as spiffy as my '77 CVD though, the sedan has a tan interior which

just kind of pales in contrast to a white one.

[Sixty8panther]

& here's a few recent photos of the Banana Boat with its new CHiMSL from

a 90s STS (I've got like 7 of these things in the barn) I have not driven

the poor B-59 as of late since I have not even started to work on the head

gasket/carb./fire damage repairs. I have taken a few photos of it in the

car port, just chillin' like a villain and awaiting some much needed TLC.

[XP715]

Your '41 Chevy seems to have morphed into an Autocar

[Intrepidation]

`08 Dakota (first I've seen)

`08 Magnum (also first)

both red

[caddycruiser]

`08 Dakota (first I've seen)

`08 Magnum (also first)

both red

I just saw a new Dakota the other day too, in red. Really nice improvement, and still a fantastic looking truck. Not sure how much the schnoz and HO engine will help, as it's a truck, but very well could.

[ocnblu]

I still think dropping the regular cab was a big mistake. Dodge, bring back the regular cab Dak!

[Satty]

I still think dropping the regular cab was a big mistake. Dodge, bring back the regular cab Dak!

Back in the 97-98 timeframe, you could get a regular cab Dakota 4x2 with the 5.2 to make one hell of a sleeper pickup. I'm not sure, the 5.9 may have also been available in 4x2 regular cab configuration too. This dropping of regular cabs (Nissan is also guilty, Ford is too, kinda, I dont get those mini-doors on the F-150) is just sad.

Edited April 5, 2008 by Satty

[caddycruiser]

Back in the 97-98 timeframe, you could get a regular cab Dakota 4x2 with the 5.2 to make one hell of a sleeper pickup. I'm not sure, the 5.9 may have also been available in 4x2 regular cab configuration too. This dropping of regular cabs (Nissan is also guilty, Ford is too, kinda, I dont get those mini-doors on the F-150) is just sad.

Yep, I think it was--regular cab R/T's.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2000-Dakota...1QQcmdZViewItem

It's the "beefy" small/mid-size truck, and stands out because of that...in a forgotten, too much sort of a way.

[Cory Wolfe]

My first Smart. It's tiny.

[ToniCipriani]

Subaru SVX.

[ocnblu]

Yeah, Toni, I've seen two SVXs lately. One green one totalled at the scene of an accident after the guy lost it, hit an embankment, spun, and ended up against a bridge guardrail. Public safety volunteers directed traffic around the car, as the driver, stunned, surveyed the damage. The second was yesterday, a black one with gold wheels and graphics. These cars seem to be have a mild cult following.

[AAS]

'69 Camaro SS

[Robert Hall]

I took a road trip last week..left Denver Wednesday and drove down to Los Alamos, NM...then on Saturday, drove down to Soccoro, NM and took US 60 over to Show Low, AZ and then down through the Salt River Canyon through Globe and on into Phoenix...beautiful scenery.

I saw quite a few interesting oldies, incl. a goregous white '68 Buick Wildcat 2dr, a light green '61 Cadillac 4dr ht, a maroon '68 Camaro SS, a couple '64-66 T-birds, and drove past a salvage yard in Soccoro, NM chock full of '50s-70s vintage cars. I saw a sharp yellow mid '60s Chevy stepside pickup here in Phoenix last night.

[AAS]

I took a road trip last week..left Denver Wednesday and drove down to Los Alamos, NM...then on Saturday, drove down to Soccoro, NM and took US 60 over to Show Low, AZ and then down through the Salt River Canyon through Globe and on into Phoenix...beautiful scenery.

...

Beautiful drive, I've done it a couple times and might do it again in a few weeks. Can't remember the highway numbers, but I've done it a "short" way and "long" way. The short way took the main highway from central NM to CO and up to Denver. The long way took a smaller highway further west, and through lots of small towns in CO (we drove past a huge casino in the middle of the mountains).

[Robert Hall]

Beautiful drive, I've done it a couple times and might do it again in a few weeks. Can't remember the highway numbers, but I've done it a "short" way and "long" way. The short way took the main highway from central NM to CO and up to Denver. The long way took a smaller highway further west, and through lots of small towns in CO (we drove past a huge casino in the middle of the mountains).

I took I-25 down from Denver, then from Soccoro, NM I took US 60 across NM and down to Phoenix.. US 60 is a great road, very little traffic, and the terrain is fascinating (the drive from Show Low AZ to Superior, AZ through Globe is incredible...winding and twisty up and down the Salt River Canyon). The desert is in spring bloom now, very beautiful.

I stopped and took a tour of the Very Large Array radio telescope facility off US 60, it was featured in the movie 'Contact'...neat place. (NRAO VLA)

I've done the I-25 to Albuquerque and then I-40 to Flagstaff and then down I-17 to Phoenix drive 3 times in the last few years, so I was looking for something different this time.

Edited April 6, 2008 by moltar

[loki]

I saw my first Smart in real life, here in SE Missouri

[Satty]

1968 Firebird

White

350/automatic

71,000 miles

$12,000

[ocnblu]

Sounds like a nice Firebird, Sattingham.

One, two, three, SOLD! <--- Third G8 GT with big ol' yellow "SOLD" tag on windshield (first two went home) at local dealer, this one gray with cloth.

[Camino LS6]

That's great news,Ocn!

[caddycruiser]

Subaru SVX.

I just saw one today too!! It had been so long, to the point I had even forgotten about them in my mental catalog. Then around lunch, coming back from getting a paper and a few other things, I decided to stop by the VW dealer up the street. Perused the GTI's, Passats, several new R32's, etc....then looked out back, and right under their "Used Wholesale" sign was a green SVX, beside a silver GMC Jimmy. They have few, if any, used cars, except for the few 1 or 2 year old ones out front, but I was intrigued.

Went back to have a look. '95 in dark green with charcoal cloth and all was there with great paint, interior, etc. and the only real wear spot I saw was some paint worn off the centercaps. No price, but looked it up online and it seems to have a little over 110k on the clock. Must have been some kind of a VW trade.

Fascinating cars with those WEIRD windows (first time actually looking at them up close), but I'd love to play with one of these just for the heck of it.

[Cory Wolfe]

I've seen alot of S2000's lately.

[cletus8269]

green... gold duster . a car hauler with a 73 camaro and a 66 convertible 442, prolly on the way home from charlotte

[Lamar]

Mtsubishi Lancer Evo VIII, silver. Probably only the second Evo I've ever seen.

Mercedes-Benz E320 BLUETEC.

[Cory Wolfe]

Cavalier. $100.

[vonVeezelsnider]

1986 LeSabre Custom, Grey, Showy "4-Speed Automatic" Badges (!)

[Lamar]

Cavalier. $100.

What's wrong with it?

[vonVeezelsnider]

What's wrong with it?

It's a Cavalier. :AH-HA_wink:

[Cory Wolfe]

What's wrong with it?

Well, I presume its something mechanical for that price, but cosmetically, it looked like it had a fight with a pole or two in its lifetime.

[Lamar]

Well, I presume its something mechanical for that price, but cosmetically, it looked like it had a fight with a pole or two in its lifetime.

Makes sense to me. Otherwise I woulda suggested that as your new daily driver... aside from the fact that it would cost more to register it than buy it.

It's a Cavalier. :AH-HA_wink:

That was the too-easy answer.

Edited April 9, 2008 by Lamar

[Satty]

Blue Smart Cabriolet, unbelievably cool.

[ocnblu]

Like a '68 Datsun 510 wagon, in maroon, for sale along the road. Dust on it made it appear to be a fresh barn find. In surprisingly good shape. Cool.

[Cory Wolfe]

96 Ninety Eight Regency Elite for $3495.

[Lamar]

New BMW //M5 in silver. My wife didn't understand why I was when I saw it today.