Car Show in the Parking Lot
The world's full o' cars. Not always a Good Thing. Like, here, in sunny SoCal --- we're absolutely choking on 'em, over-run with 'em . . . frickin' swimming in 'em. The amount of real estate, infrastructure, resources, energy, money + time these stupid things consume --- I just spent 45 min traveling, like, 3 miles!! . . . ridiculous
And, yet . . . I love cars. Always have. Don't know why. And I admit it . . .
I am an idiot
I'm guessing that most cars are little more than means-to-an-end --- we pretty-much have to have a car, just get on with our lives. I know I do
So --- given that we're all kinda stuck w/ cars in our lives . . . it's kinda fun to see something special --- that's not black/white/silver, not an SUV/mini-van/pick-up, not Japanese . . .
. . . sitting out in the parking lot . . .
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Most Excellent Supreme . . .
Well . . . it may not've started-out that way, but --- it's a parking lot, now . .
I have to admit . . . I do love good car wreck. I think of/treat them forensically, as in . . . .
. . . WTF were you thinking?
This one almost deserves a caption contest
I mean . . . this Genius took a perfectly normal/quiet/lightly-traveled Real Housewives of Orange County-type suburban feeder street --- at what looks like about a buck-plus (!) . . . then managed to un-stick his AUDI Quattro, leave a good 200+ feet of skid-marks, ricochet off a light pole . . . and NOT die!
For this display of surviving an almost total lack of car skills, I bestow upon you the title of . . .
Most Excellent Supreme Master Driver
Now go buy a Lotto ticket . . .
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Truck Show in the Parking Lot
Perhaps I should say "Truck" in the parking lot, but saw this Chevy for several weeks, near the Palm Beach County Courthouse. Having grown up in the country of the South, I like it.
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As seen yesterday at the PCA Parade --- parked out by the entrance to registration . . .
Very tidy --- spotless, even. Anybody here?
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Mercedes-Benz Wagon . . .
. . . as seen in the hotel parking lot, at the PCA Parade Concours
This one's AMG'd
= E63
= 5.5 liter twin-turbo V8
= 577 HP
Uhhhh . . . can I get air-bags for my groceries?
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Two beauties in Hollywood today
1976 last of 'em 914. 2.0, and '05 (?) Carrera GT.
Give me that cgt...I'll personally "Un-wrap" it !
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A vintage Aston Martin on I-40
Some years ago, a vintage Aston Martin being trailer-ed on westbound I-40 around the New Mexico/Arizona border:
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Back to Arroyo Grande . . .
Seeing something like this always makes me think of 'retained value'
After the '36 mo/36k mi' are past and the warranties expire . . .
. . . when the car needs paint, and upholstery, an engine re-build --- maybe some trim parts replaced . . .
. . . when the odo's turned over --- + over + over + over . . . .
. . . long after tastes have changed, and new regulations 've taken effect --- and the World has just . . . . . . . moved on . . .
. . . what do you really have?
I'm sure that there are people who 'collect' cars like this . . .
. . . but would it be for their dollar value? . . .
. . . or something else?
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Meanwhile --- In a Driveway . . .
. . . 'round the corner from my Mom's
Things been there for years --- five, at least
4.5" Fuchs on what-looks-to-be a SWB
Could be a 912 --- but . . .
. . . need to get under those sheets --- to be sure . . .
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On the Way To Monterey . . ,
. . . make that Mill Valley
Zovig had a Really Big Birthday, this year, so . . .
. . . we skipped the Monterey Week-end, a long-delayed car trip, and pretty-much everything else to celebrate
I rented us a place in Mill Valley, took a week off of work, then? . . .
. . . we slept late every day . . .
. . . ate too much . . .
. . . walked a total of 38 miles (according to Zovig's phone, any way) . . .
. . . did our best to pump-up the local economy --- and . . .
. . . generally goof-off
Doesn't mean we didn't see any cars, along the way
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Porsche Carrera 3.0 . . .
. . . requisite Porsche content --- as seen on the roads 'round Tiburon
Small bumperlettes = 'Euro' car? --- w/proper 15s, too, it looks? Kinda scruffy, too --- shallow dings + donks, touched-up paint, incomplete stripage . . . but looked/sounded/ran healthy-enough = my kinda car!
No plates = naughty-naughty
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On the Streets of Oakland . . .
. . . BMW R90S . . .
. . . says so on the engine case, anyway
(Know nothing 'bout these. German, right?)
Anyway --- super-groovy paint job
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As Seen in Emeryville . . .
. . . c/o Fantasy Junction
Requisite Porsche Content
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