There was one at a car show here in Dublin, OH last year. I remember some late teens kid and his dad looking at it saying "I don't know what that is... must be a homemade car." I didn't want to correct them and seem like a jerk so I rolled my eyes and walked away.DURPILOT wrote:I see one of those Noble cars almost every day on the way to work. One of the Porsche repair guys here in Jax has one and it is heavily modified. My ENT also has one that is fairly basic that he tracks all the time at Roebling Road. I'll shoot a picture one day of the modified Noble, it is strangely intoxicating to look at.kway wrote:This past Friday must have been British exotic day for me, because I saw a Lotus Esprit V8 as I was leaving work, then a Noble M12 on the way home.
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Saw this a couple weeks ago out by my house (West Marin). Probably 25-30 cars. Then a week or two later it was the Vette guys. Same amount of cars, but not nearly as impresive.Mike W. wrote:That's fun when you catch one of those runs. We did years ago now out at the coast by Bodega. We were out for a Sunday drive and a car went by. I went wow, that's a Testarosa!!! Then another one. Then another Ferarri. Then some more. I can't say I even really want one, but they're cool to see.Corner Carver wrote:Saw this on the way to an Easter Egg Hunt this morning with my daughter. Seems the Ferrari Club was out for a drive.
This was on the 1rst part of CA-150, which is one of my favorite twisty roads. I drove with them for just a couple of miles before my turn off.
I counted 7 but I think there were more up farther past were I could see. I turned off before it got interesting.
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Well, yesterday, I saw what I think was a Unimog. 
Done up military style olive drab camo but with California historical plates. Looked too new for that to me, but who knows. A ton of ground clearance, I got close enough to see under it and it had reduction axles like old VW buses so the axle went in about the top of the brakes, still a solid axle though. Kind of a snubnose with a bed on the back of it.
Other than that a mid 60s Suburban, one of the 2 door ones and an original Mini, the little one, not the big ones like are currently being sold.
Done up military style olive drab camo but with California historical plates. Looked too new for that to me, but who knows. A ton of ground clearance, I got close enough to see under it and it had reduction axles like old VW buses so the axle went in about the top of the brakes, still a solid axle though. Kind of a snubnose with a bed on the back of it. Other than that a mid 60s Suburban, one of the 2 door ones and an original Mini, the little one, not the big ones like are currently being sold.
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Last Friday, I was amazed to find a red 4-door Chevy Citation II parked in my office lot. Surprisingly, it had only a couple of minor rust spots on lower door panels. Like the Vega and the Chevette, I haven't seen one of these shitboxes in years. I shudder to think that there may still be others like them out there somewhere ...
It looked more like this. I didn't see the three point star on it, but it was in camo. High mounted air intake and all. Definitely impressive, it seemed like the ground clearance was almost as high as the tires on other trucks on the road. Pickups that is. Relatively short wheelbase and definitely high ground clearance. I thought it was IRS at first until I figured out it had gear reduction axles.
Yeah, but in a perverse sense I kind of like it. Look down on the luxury posers in the jacked up 4WD pickups that never carry more than groceries on pavement, with perfect, unscratched paint in the bed.TSMacNeil wrote:The other day I saw a full size tractor rig...I think it was a Peterbilt.
But it was setup as a pickup truck. More $$ than brains.
Well, in a sense, I understand it. If you're caught up in the "my truck is bigger/badder than yours" thing...this is the rig. And since none of them go off-road anyway, I guess it's good to be king.Mike W. wrote:Yeah, but in a perverse sense I kind of like it. Look down on the luxury posers in the jacked up 4WD pickups that never carry more than groceries on pavement, with perfect, unscratched paint in the bed.TSMacNeil wrote:The other day I saw a full size tractor rig...I think it was a Peterbilt.
But it was setup as a pickup truck. More $$ than brains.
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A-body Cavaliers make great Figure-8, Demo Derby racers. Heavy, construction plus front-wheel drive makes for a killer in classes restricted by weight, cylinder number, and/or displacement.1st 5er wrote:A first generation Chevy Cavalier.I thought they were disposables.
No such thing as a "well-preserved mid-80's Fiero." Just ones that haven't yet caught fire or died of natural causes.Calypso wrote:Driving home with my son in the e28 and came upon a well preserved mid 80's Pontiac Fiero.
As for the main line of the thread, I saw an old, Volvo. How old you ask, a 122 I was informed. (I had to look it up to be honest.) Old rusty hunk driven by an equally old guy who knew a heckuva lot about old Swedish cars. Overhead him talking about 2-cycle Saabs. All of this happened on Monday at the Post Office.
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There was this elderly lady, she was early 60's at the time I was early 40's,rmiddendorf wrote:I will argue that point just a little. I always thought the 1988 Fiero GT was a pretty cool car. But that was the only one. I rode in one once, it was a decent handling car.Calypso wrote:Driving home with my son in the e28 and came upon a well preserved mid 80's Pontiac Fiero.
who worked for me for a short time who owned one of these.
During times of joint field work we ended up in my car.
I never even tried forcing my 6' 4" frame into that little car.
Although I enjoyed the heck out of the 124 Spyder we owned for several years.
