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[ocnblu]

Yeah, it's cold. But there are still some hot vehicles on the road this time of year. Let us know what's out there. Edited February 1, 2009 by ocnblu

[Satty]

Hudson Hornet--on a trailer

[Lamar]

I actually saw a Lincoln Blackwood on the way home tonight. Never saw one before.

[§carlet §wordfish]

NOTHING! Bwahahahah!

[Intrepidation]

silver Flex

black Challenger

[NOS2006]

Saw a brand new Fusion yesterday and a brand new G6 a few days ago. The Fusion was much nicer. And it was black.

[Lamar]

Saw a brand new Fusion yesterday and a brand new G6 a few days ago. The Fusion was much nicer. And it was black.

A '10 Fusion?

[mustang84]

A guy that moved to my building a month ago just bought a brand new Mazda 6. Those babies are sharp looking.

[NOS2006]

A '10 Fusion?

Yessir, and it looks even better on the street in the grime and snow than it does at the autoshow!

[ocnblu]

I followed a baby blue, circa 1975 LTD up the street this week. Its rear bumper, painted silver, with duct tape covering large rust holes, was mounted a couple inches to the right of normal. Every time it would hit a bump, that big ol' bumper would jiggle like Aretha Franklin's ass cheeks. I was sure it was going to fall off and total my poor little Cobalt with one bounce off the street.

[Robert Hall]

I followed a baby blue, circa 1975 LTD up the street this week. Its rear bumper, painted silver, with duct tape covering large rust holes, was mounted a couple inches to the right of normal. Every time it would hit a bump, that big ol' bumper would jiggle like Aretha Franklin's ass cheeks. I was sure it was going to fall off and total my poor little Cobalt with one bounce off the street.

Heh-heh...my brother had a couple mid '70s ('73, 74) LTDs back in the '80s, both had serious rust issues...on both, you could open the trunk and see ground...was open between the frame rails..he made a trunk floor out of plywood...had the rear bumpers wired on. One he paid $50 for and drove for a couple of winters...the radiator fell out and he ran over it, and what eventually killed the car was when the rear axle fell off while driving...had like 350k miles. I still give him a hard time for his 'white trash' affectation during those years (and this is a well educated guy, Ohio State grad, but a perpetual f*ck up and the black sheep of my family).

Back on point, I haven't anything really memorable this first week of February.

[DetroitNut90]

There's a black Renault Alliance DL convertible with Texas plates that lives on campus. I've never seen a Renault in person before.

[§carlet §wordfish]

orange/white roof mid 70's Impala 2-door sedan

some weird 5-door version of the Mercury Tracer I've never seen before

[Robert Hall]

An early '80s Datsun 280ZX in yellow with later 300ZX wheels. Decent shape...haven't seen one of those in ages.

[Lamar]

Saw a Nissan 370Z on 95 heading to DC today. Looks like a pufferfish from the front. Not too bad though.

Also saw a Quattroporte with black wheels on a tow truck.

Not quite of note, but every time I've gone by a car wash, it has been PACKED. Everyone's getting the salt off their cars, it seems.

[trinacriabob]

Yeah, it's cold.

Not here.

Today, on the freeway next to me, en route to the rail station:

Last version (2005?2006?) Pontiac GTO - black exterior, red interior, black dash with red instrument cluster bezels. This is indeed a good looking car...had it only been silver...

[toesuf94]

Some NON-Candy, but rare in these parts: 1984 Chevrolet Citation in Gold Metallic. SWEET!

[Teh Ricer Civic!]

I saw a gerry-rigged moped that took... ohh... 2 blocks to get started.

[Justin Bimmer]

Ford Edge

Looks great except for the ribs that wrap around the whole car.

[§carlet §wordfish]

Black BMW E24 6er

[ZL-1]

Uhh.... does 'hot blonde driving an Audi A4 wagon' qualify as a reply?

Edited February 10, 2009 by ZL-1

[balthazar]

Saw a solid driver '55 Chevy 4-dr sedan (maybe a Two-Ten), multi-colored blue paint & primer, but straight and sitting on fat blackwalls w/ 5-slots.

'65 Buick Wildcat hardtop fastback, bright red, ... couldn't make much out thru the shrubs it was parked behind.

[gm4life]

93 Cadilac Deville Touring Sedan, red with tan interior, dirty but looked to be in great shape.

[XP715]

Saw a '39 Plymouth two-door sedan today, mildly rodded and covered in salt! Unbelievable; could be the owner's only car right now maybe?

[Robert Hall]

Saw a '39 Plymouth two-door sedan today, mildly rodded and covered in salt! Unbelievable; could be the owner's only car right now maybe?

Wild...can't imagine having a 70yr old car as your only car...brave man. Having an 8 yr old car w/ 95k makes me nervous.

[balthazar]

About 2 years ago I saw a guy in a tiny river-side town with a stock, worn, baby$h!brown '40 Willys coupe as a daily driver. As a DD, the age didn't bother me, but the rarity, desirability and value of it as is, did.

[Lamar]

Finally, an R8 in the wild. It was in the parking lot at my school.

I find it interesting how you can see the engine in the "trunk."

[XP715]

Saw a pretty nice late 70's Z28 on the road today, silver with the red/orange/lighter orange side decals

About 2 years ago I saw a guy in a tiny river-side town with a stock, worn, baby$h!brown '40 Willys coupe as a daily driver. As a DD, the age didn't bother me, but the rarity, desirability and value of it as is, did.

That's crazy. Did you attempt to buy it?

[Lamar]

OK, two s from today:

A 4th-gen Maxima... with fender vents, Altezza tails, and a VTEC badge on the side.

A Venza on the road. No, it does not look better in motion.

[balthazar]

>>"That's crazy. Did you attempt to buy it?"<<

Couldn't- it was rollin' one way & I was rolling another.

Saw one of those FWD-proportion ferrari 360s drive by as I was workiong off the tailgate of my truck today. As it droned off into the distance, the audio impression was none other than one of those commercial leaf blowers on wheels - I thought these things were supposed to produce some sort of mechanical symphomy ... BFunimpressiveD.

I remember standing in the garage of a house I was working in a few years back, with a couple of Italian immigrant painters. The ex-husband comes out of the house and climbs into his ferrari 355 spyder, starts it (rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat) & drives off. The one painter asks me to affirm I am in love with it, to which I reply 'its sounds like an old Plymouth starting up'. Mystically, he made as if personally insulted at that.

Perhaps it's not enough of a sampling to go by, but these 2 up-close exposures failed completely to cement the supposed religious experience I hear so many pre-teens say I should be having in the presense of a ferrari.

[§carlet §wordfish]

Gray '70(?) Chrysler 4-door

[RBB]

A Mercury Marauder

With chromed fender sills and a Landau top

-RBB

[Robert Hall]

Went down a different street on the way downtown to work this AM...saw a small used car lot with a clean black '79-80 Pinto and a white AMC Eagle wagon. Turned the corner, and saw the greenhouse of a white early '50s stepdown Hudson in a fenced in lot behind a body shop..

[AAS]

A black G8 GT with red stripes.

The new, as in the one just being shown at auto shows, E-class in silver with the badges covered and Michigan mfg. plates.

A black STS-V with the European clear lights in the rear and black wheels.

[XP715]

A late-model F-series towing a Model A sedan on an open car trailer this morning on my way to work.

[Robert Hall]

A late-model F-series towing a Model A sedan on an open car trailer this morning on my way to work.

Speaking of Model As, there is a two-tone green 5-window coupe parked in fenced in lot downtown w/ a For Sale sign that I see everyday on the way home.

[Lamar]

In light of the thread in the BMW section about the new 5-Series... thing... and hatches and wagons and all that ...

I saw, for the first time ever, a Mazda 626 hatch.

[gm4life]

'74ish Chevrolet El Camino nice American racing polished mags and one great sounding set of straight pipes. It was black/white paint job neat looking car.

Edited February 14, 2009 by gm4life

[caddycruiser]

A new Pacific Slate G8 GT Premium/Sport with tinted rear glass & a very tasteful pinstripe...

Wait a minute...check the sig

[§carlet §wordfish]

Congrats, very slick!

[ocnblu]

caddycruiser, get out of town! Need a daddy?

White '64 Studebaker 4 door in great shape with baby moons & beauty rings and fat tires. A black '63 Comet sedan in worn, stock condition, both truckin' around Lancaster.

[caddycruiser]

caddycruiser, get out of town! Need a daddy?

Sure, we can work something out;)

In review, the number of cars I've had in 6 months is a little odd, but I'm finally thrilled...whoa, just whoa. I'll have to tell more sometime.

This one was a bit out of left field, but what fun, and believe it or not, financially "happy" fun.

[Lamar]

Infiniti M30 convertible in DC.

Also a Bentley sedan... I had to look it up and it's an Arnage Red Label. First Bentley I've seen that wasn't a Continental.

[ocnblu]

Hot new red G3 at "my" former BPG dealership, parked in a prominent position out front!

[caddycruiser]

Hot new red G3 at "my" former BPG dealership, parked in a prominent position out front!

After speaking with the very informed dealer I bought my G8 from in Jersey, who had actually just come back from a G3 "event" where dealer staff from the area competed in reference to the car (and he ended up winning basketball tickets because he used to sell Chevy's...and "could run circles around them, when it comes to this car"), they're actually happy to see it come. None of us like it and it's badge engineering at its worst, but from a dealer perspective, they just want products for the brands they have that they can sell, and in the experience here, the Aveo was a "great little car that all my customers who had one loved it". They get it, in the "huh?!" way, but you sell what you can sell.

I've seen a couple listed...I'm, uh, anxious to see one myself;) As I cruise by in my big scary brother of a G8, hah.

To stop hijacking & get back on track...parked next to a new White Diamond Tri-Coat '09 Denali the other day. It was the local dealer owner's girlfriend's latest demo (it seriously took her 3 tries to figure out how to turn into a large parking spot...), and the "Cadillac" color looks great on them too. Now they're just even more Escalade-like, with the color that used to be exclusive--but it looks great.

Edited February 18, 2009 by caddycruiser

[XP715]

Saw a 1957 Ford Custom 500 four door Ranch Wagon on a flatbed on my way to work yesterday morning in white/aqua/rust, hopefully heading to a new home for restoration. Looked to be in pretty decent shape for 53 years old.

Edited February 18, 2009 by XP715

[NOS2006]

White Buick LaCrosse. You know.. the new style. Very nice looking on the road!

[§carlet §wordfish]

Olive-gold-ish MINI Clubman S

[XP715]

Saw a GMC General 10-wheel dump truck on my way to work this morning; been a long time since I've seen one of those.

[Lamar]

... annnnnnnd another Arnage Red Label in DC.

Also a slew of Ford Flexes.