RR Silver Ghosts and AMC Spirits

[ocnblu]

bobo, you know, you just reminded me, there has been a light green/dark green two-tone Volare riding around town in showroom condition recently, with a young hipster driving it. It has a tiny exhaust pipe, it must be the stalwart Slant Six under the hood, purring away like a contented old housecat.

[LosAngeles]

Spotted my first two Genesises, a ilver one, followed immediately behind by a light blue one. And yeah, they really dont' look like much more than some conservative sedan that happens to want a taste of the premium market.

But I saw lots of classics too:

Nova convertible

55 Bel Air convertible

61 Impala

63-64 Impala convertible on dubs.

Also a Diplomat or Gran Fury. It really would be nice ot have one of those M-bodies.

[Sixty8panther]

There's an absolutely worn, and tired looking '50 Ford

4-dr sedan that's registered and driven by some guy

who lives in these condos by UPS. I always glance over

to see whether it's parked in it's usual spot, amongst

the '05 Civics and '02 Corollas in the condo parking lot

as I drive from UPS to my day job.

I've never seen the car on the road and I assumed by

the cracked window, tub of marvel's mystery oil and

Lucas products in the back seat, 35-yer old gray primer

and rocker panel patches that the car is only driven

around town, probably at 35 mph with it's big, knobby

John Deere-esque snow tires.

Yesterday while Julie (Amelia still "in utero") Sofia and

I were on a short roadtrip up Rt.495 when I see the

car on the opposite side of the highway looking like it's

trying to go for the Bonneville Salt Flats "stock 4-door"

world record in all out speed.

Seeing that Mad Max '50 Ford tearing up the highway

put such a big smile on my face.

Way cooler than the Ferrari 599-GTB I saw a week ago.

Light teal VW Routan, at the VW dealership. It is the polar opposite of what a VW van should be, imo.

Agreed. And those "procreation intervention" commercials ar so

dumb, insulting and annoying they even annoy my pregnant

wife, who the other day said: That's stupid, they should

bring back the "Veeeehh-Duuhhhbbb!" German Rocket-scientist

guy who destroys Hondas.

I laughed in agreement!

EDIT:

I forgot to mention some other cool "spots"

- 1930-31ish Ford Model-A 2-door sedan

- 1964 Chevy Impala ragtop with high-jacker shocks. white/red-interior/white

- 1st gen. (1964 iirc?) Malibu two-door hardtop

- 2009 Challenger in a funky blue color... (repaint... it was KUZtom)

- 1959-or was it 1960? Ford Thunderbird hardtop

- early 1980s Mercury Zephyr TWO-DOOR. Talk about a SQUARE car! (not w/ the slanted C-pillar, 1979 style greenhouse)

- Gorgeous fat-fendered 1937 Chevy 2-door 5-window Rumble-seat coupe...

(stock exterior, all the bright-work, riding on a trailer shod with Hoosiers)

Edited October 20, 2008 by Sixty8panther

[Robert Hall]

Today while walking at lunch, I saw 2 Challengers--a white w/ black top 73-74 in decent shape and an orange '08/09 SRT8...nice to see some real, RWD V8 cars amongst all the disposable FWD generics that one usually sees on a typical city street.

[LosAngeles]

Saw a 70s Barracuda yesterday. Those things are extremely wide to be so short and flat, reminds me of driving a pizza box.

[Robert Hall]

Saw a car hauler today with 3 H3Ts on top, 3 G8s inside... saw a gorgeous, rumbling black '71 Centurion convertible oozing down the street last night right around sunset, top down. Droooooll....

[ocnblu]

Model A 2-door sedan sounding like it had the original fart can on it, patina for days, on a shakedown run around the block, from the restoration shop across the street from work. Stare-worthy, even for two goth kids sitting on the front steps of a tattoo parlor.

[§carlet §wordfish]

-Early '90s Infiniti Q45, with the tiny square grille. Kinda neat.

-'01 Q45. :X

-Loooong wheelbase '85 Sedan De Ville, black.

-A mime.

[DetroitNut90]

-A pair of Traverses riding on a hauler

-gunmetal grey Quattroporte

-new M3 sedan

-A Prius that looked like someone painted cow spots on it.

Edited October 25, 2008 by DetroitNut90

[ocnblu]

Man, they are milking that whole Prius thing for all its worth, aren't they.

[Robert Hall]

Today---

a '79 Lincoln Versailles in tan w/ a padded top and aftermarket continental kit, wire wheel hubcaps on wide whitewalls. Haven't seen one of these in ages.

a GMC Avalanche---a black 1st gen Chevy Avalanche with a GMC front clip.

[Satty]

While out car shopping tonight:

A bunch of Wranglers (duh, thats what I was shopping for)

---A quick note on this; I need to get out of the habit of calling them "Jeeps" because anytime I would say "this lot doesn't have any Jeeps" my s.o. would reply, "Theres one right there" and point at a Grand Cherokee

But other, more interesting sightings:

Lexus IS300 SportCross (had to google it to find out what it was actually called)

Volkswagen CC (pretty good looking, $28k sticker)

Audi TT Cabrio (orgasmic if it weren't for...)

Porsche 911 (White, gorgeous, I didn't want to leave its side)

[Robert Hall]

Some offbeat sightings today.

Saw a faded blue '72 Ford Galaxie 4dr sedan in traffic and a faded but solid blue '68 Chevy longbed pickup.

The really outrageous sightings, though, were the black 1940 Buick Special Eight 4dr sedan (6-window) in the Target parking lot and the green w/ yellow spoke wheels Model A 5-window coupe (one of the handful existing that wasn't converted into a hot rod, but kept stock) driving along in traffic!

Shocking to see cars that old away from a car show, out in the real world!

[Satty]

There has been a guy using a Model A as a daily driver for the last month or so.

[Z-06]

A donked red Torino.

[ocnblu]

Mr. small, I am not quite sure what your new avatar is... but it looks like an elephant in the lotus position. Please clue us in, kind sir.

[Robert Hall]

Mr. small, I am not quite sure what your new avatar is... but it looks like an elephant in the lotus position. Please clue us in, kind sir.

Hmmm..I thought it was a glowing brain at first, now it reminds me of one of the Hindu gods.

[Z-06]

Hmmm..I thought it was a glowing brain at first, now it reminds me of one of the Hindu gods.

Bingo! Ganesha ... or Ganpati - The lord of Peace, Prosperity and Intelligence.

[ocnblu]

This Ganpati dude, is he an elephant?

[Z-06]

This Ganpati dude, is he an elephant?

Ganesha

I hope that helps.

[ocnblu]

Well thanks, small. He looks like a cool guy.

Back to dah tread, I did not see anything out-of-the-ordinary today in my travels.

[XP715]

Saw a beautiful '59 Bel-Air two-door hardtop on the way to work this morning; probably the coolest thing I've seen in my travels in a while.

[Z-06]

Pictures are worth thousand words.

[Robert Hall]

What is that in the last photo? Some sort of small FWD generic with a fake convertible top?

[Z-06]

What is that in the last photo? Some sort of small FWD generic with a fake convertible top?

Toyota Crapolla with fake convertible driven by an Old Lady from Sunshine State.

Edited November 1, 2008 by smallchevy

[§carlet §wordfish]

The local Pontiac dealership has a brown AMC AMX next to the Solstice on its show pedestal out front.

[ocnblu]

Hey Scar, we've got ourselves a new spotter thread for Nov, if you give a damn.