September 2019 auto spotter

[G. David Felt]

Came out of 24hr fitness to find this near my Durango.

[Drew Dowdell]

One @balthazar especially will like.

 

[balthazar]

^ I like different!
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'68 Coronet R/T ~

[Robert Hall]

Saw a nice copper colored 67 Satellite or GTX 2dr yesterday. 

[G. David Felt]

Today on the way home to the bus stop.from work, I saw this police car followed by a manufacture plate full size truck that had tubes all over Nd then I saw on the back a camera hanging with red light clearly recording. I look where the camera was pointed at and a standard size Yukon with no plate, but also a nose I had never seen before. Got my phone out in the rain to snap this pic, this refresh??? Yukon was followed by a current year yukon 2019 with manufacture plates and then a seattle motorcycle with lights on. Clearly recording something in the Emerald City.

[Drew Dowdell]

I was followed a bit by what I think was a 49 Buick

[G. David Felt]

Today on the way to the bus stop, saw a mint condition Ford Excursion V10 edition.

So rare to see.

[USA-1]

Got to check out and sit in this bad boy C8 last month at a Chevrolet dealer reveal day here in Scottsdale, AZ. GM is touring the country with 3 or 4 or them. Very cool presentation. Beautiful and solid build inside and out. GM really knocked it out of the park with this car, amazing engineering feat. U.S.A!!

[Drew Dowdell]

I really like the steering wheel. 

Some interesting ones from a recent car cruise.

[USA-1]

On 9/17/2019 at 8:45 PM, dfelt said:

Today on the way home to the bus stop.from work, I saw this police car followed by a manufacture plate full size truck that had tubes all over Nd then I saw on the back a camera hanging with red light clearly recording. I look where the camera was pointed at and a standard size Yukon with no plate, but also a nose I had never seen before. Got my phone out in the rain to snap this pic, this refresh??? Yukon was followed by a current year yukon 2019 with manufacture plates and then a seattle motorcycle with lights on. Clearly recording something in the Emerald City.

New GM commercial possibly? That's definitely DT Seattle! I grew up in rural Oregon that's now wine country.

[balthazar]

So I was standing on a suburban curb, looking to cross the street. Otherwise I would never have noticed it, but an assumedly brand new audi A7 went by. It wore a rather striking coat of a silvery green color.

I googled around, found nothing. I looked at audi's website, it's not a standard color. They have an option to check 'special colors', but the price was "$0" and none of them show up in the configurator. Either the site is screwed up, or there are in fact no special A7 colors. Would like to see that color again...
 

[USA-1]

1 hour ago, balthazar said:

So I was standing on a suburban curb, looking to cross the street. Otherwise I would never have noticed it, but an assumedly brand new audi A7 went by. It wore a rather striking coat of a silvery green color.

I googled around, found nothing. I looked at audi's website, it's not a standard color. They have an option to check 'special colors', but the price was "$0" and none of them show up in the configurator. Either the site is screwed up, or there are in fact no special A7 colors. Would like to see that color again...
 

Probably a wrapped car. Ton of colors and it looks really good now can't even tell it's wrap.

[Robert Hall]

Saw a clean '72 Cutlass S 2dr fastback this morning, dark blue w/ a yellow on blue '72 Ohio license plate.

Edited September 21, 2019 by Robert Hall

[balthazar]

Cool if OH let's you use YOM plates. I put a set on my '40, but they aren't legal. I have a actual plate, currently only showing on the rear, but an debating pulling it & tempting fate.

[balthazar]

[Drew Dowdell]

Uffa! ^^

Spotted a nicely maintained and rust free Jeep Grand Wagoneer in one of the more posh neighborhoods of the city.

Saw a museum piece second generation Chevy Cavalier. 

[G. David Felt]

10 hours ago, balthazar said:

WOW, first time that mug has ever looked OK. Better than the chromed versions.

[Drew Dowdell]

Spotted this just a few blocks from my house. Rare to find them in good condition these days. They tended to eat timing belts.

 

[G. David Felt]

11 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Spotted this just a few blocks from my house. Rare to find them in good condition these days. They tended to eat timing belts.

 

Nice, too bad it has a FART can applied to it.

[ccap41]

On 9/17/2019 at 10:45 PM, dfelt said:

Today on the way home to the bus stop.from work, I saw this police car followed by a manufacture plate full size truck that had tubes all over Nd then I saw on the back a camera hanging with red light clearly recording. I look where the camera was pointed at and a standard size Yukon with no plate, but also a nose I had never seen before. Got my phone out in the rain to snap this pic, this refresh??? Yukon was followed by a current year yukon 2019 with manufacture plates and then a seattle motorcycle with lights on. Clearly recording something in the Emerald City.

You can even tell you're tall from your pictures! It looks like the camera is at the height of the Tahoe! 

On 9/18/2019 at 5:07 PM, dfelt said:

Today on the way to the bus stop, saw a mint condition Ford Excursion V10 edition.

So rare to see.

Are the V10's more rare than the diesels? 

[G. David Felt]

4 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

You can even tell you're tall from your pictures! It looks like the camera is at the height of the Tahoe! 

Are the V10's more rare than the diesels? 

 Yup welcome to my world View!

At least in the pacific northwest, you find plenty of better Excursion Diesels, but rarely a V10. So yes at least in the PNW they are very rare even in truck form they are rare for Ford. Ram on the other hand has V10 everywhere.

[G. David Felt]

Was at costco picking up a few things, came out and found this beauty parked by me.

[balthazar]

Owner/builder upgrade.

[G. David Felt]

4 hours ago, balthazar said:

Owner/builder upgrade.

What part since I have no knowledge of what these cars were originally like.

[balthazar]

427 in a mid-size Fairlane. I think this gen max’d out at 390s.

[G. David Felt]

13 minutes ago, balthazar said:

427 in a mid-size Fairlane. I think this gen max’d out at 390s.

Now ya got my curiosity perked,

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/ultra-rare-1967-ford-fairlane-427-comes-out-of-hiding-after-25-years/

Had no idea only 57 of the 1966 Fairlane were built with the 427 and only 230 built for the 1967 year. 

Very cool read on this guys mission to find and finally buy 1 of 2 rare 1967 427 Fairlane with Tach and 4 sp manual.

According to this, and I hate quoting wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fairlane_(Americas)

The 1967 convertible could be ordered up with the 427 which was only available with the XL package. This very well could be factory as the hood scoop came with the dual quad carburetor's. 

Very cool indeed and rare.

[USA-1]

6 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Now ya got my curiosity perked,

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/ultra-rare-1967-ford-fairlane-427-comes-out-of-hiding-after-25-years/

Had no idea only 57 of the 1966 Fairlane were built with the 427 and only 230 built for the 1967 year. 

Very cool read on this guys mission to find and finally buy 1 of 2 rare 1967 427 Fairlane with Tach and 4 sp manual.

According to this, and I hate quoting wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fairlane_(Americas)

The 1967 convertible could be ordered up with the 427 which was only available with the XL package. This very well could be factory as the hood scoop came with the dual quad carburetor's. 

Very cool indeed and rare.

Never knew the Fairlane even came with a 427. Had a buddy in high school who had a white '66 with a built 390, big Ford guy, very clean nice car.

[balthazar]

I knew of the '63-64-ish 427 Fairlane Thunderbolts, but they were factory race cars, not really RPO.
Good info dfelt!

[frogger]

Second generation Saab 95 spotted on the way home from test driving 2020 Outback XT and CX5 turbo today.  I don't recall ever seeing one before.  Funny that the salesrep at Subaru used to work at a Saturn/Saab/Isuzu dealer here.

 

 

[balthazar]

Local show (my '40 was supposed to go to; GRRR) gorgeous '62 GP ~

[Robert Hall]

Out and about this afternoon saw a matte black '55 Chevy Bel Air ht street machine..no front bumper, wide rear tires, on Centerlines, a sharp dark blue '69/70 Grand Prix, a clean early 70s bright red Camaro, and a clean gold early 80s Sedan de Ville.

21 hours ago, dfelt said:

Now ya got my curiosity perked,

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/ultra-rare-1967-ford-fairlane-427-comes-out-of-hiding-after-25-years/

Had no idea only 57 of the 1966 Fairlane were built with the 427 and only 230 built for the 1967 year. 

Very cool read on this guys mission to find and finally buy 1 of 2 rare 1967 427 Fairlane with Tach and 4 sp manual.

According to this, and I hate quoting wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fairlane_(Americas)

The 1967 convertible could be ordered up with the 427 which was only available with the XL package. This very well could be factory as the hood scoop came with the dual quad carburetor's. 

Very cool indeed and rare.

Some of the '66-67s were built w/ a fiberglass hood w/ scoop.   Saw one at Barrett-Jackson auction a few years ago in Scottsdale.  

Here's a '67:

 

Edited September 29, 2019 by Robert Hall

[trinacriabob]

Retro posting

Sighting in Sicily

A trio of very different cars with the Mediterranean in the background while buying snacks at a roadside cafe:'  a Smart car two-seater, an old and beat up Fiat Panda, and, what, a Ford Fusion?!?

Turns out it's a Ford Mondeo.  I do not know what powers it and I did not check to see whether it was a manual or automatic.  That's probably about the biggest size car you'd want over there with the narrow and archaic roads.

 

 

[trinacriabob]

In doing some photo organizing, I found this.

(Someone once told me that, in Japan, "young" people wear t-shirts with some random English word on them, just to have something in English on their t-shirt. Whatever floats your boat.)

You can see some random things in Europe, too, and here's a fairly goofy choice of words I saw on a Smart for Two in Sicily.   This would be funny to most Anglophones.

[Robert Hall]

13 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

In doing some photo organizing, I found this.

(Someone once told me that, in Japan, "young" people wear t-shirts with some random English word on them, just to have something in English on their t-shirt. Whatever floats your boat.)

You can see some random things in Europe, too, and here's a fairly goofy choice of words I saw on a Smart for Two in Sicily.   This would be funny to most Anglophones.

 

Similarly, I've seen random US sports team shirts show up in European TV shows..like Ohio State, Notre Dame and a high school in Texas sports shirts/hoodies were seen in a Belgian crime drama I watched recently.

[G. David Felt]

@trinacriabob @Robert Hall So true about crazy English on Asians. Sometimes I just cracked up walking around back in college in Japan or as I traveled the Asian rim during college breaks and even in the last 10 years for work. So funny that they have no clue what is on their t-shirt, just cool as it is English.

[Robert Hall]

There were photos of t-shirt and a logo on a truck in Japan some years ago posted on a car magazine site fir KFC—King Fucker Chicken .  Apparently it wasn't a restaurant, but a Japanese heavy metal band.

Edited June 30, 2020 by Robert Hall

[trinacriabob]

9 minutes ago, dfelt said:

And I've never been over there.  I've just heard about it from exchange students or travelers who have seen this.  So I guess it's true.  And, damn, it's even funnier when their grammar is quite a ways off!

[G. David Felt]

@trinacriabob @Robert Hall The English interpretation are always funny too.