A SWARM OF JUNE BUGS (and Crickets, and Spyders, et al)

[ocnblu]

Post 'em if you got 'em! It's June already, so the cool cars are coming out of their cocoons and swarming the roads. Grab your net, don your safari hat and bring us back some tasty specimens!

[Nick]

I took some pics of a new Regal, but they didn't turn out well. It looked to be out on a test drive. I had no idea they were for sale already.

[CSpec]

Yet another GT-R on my drive home...

[GMTruckGuy74]

Though I really found this on the last day of May (Monday), I finally checked out what was "parked" in the back of a local glass shop... saw a '52 Chevy sedan, a '67 Camaro, several other '80s cars and buried in a large brush was a 1954 GMC 150 pickup truck (too far gone for restoration). I've driven by this place many times over the last 6 years but never checked out their back lot. I was pleasantly surprised to see the GMC back there ('54 being my favorite year of the Advanced Design era trucks). I have a picture I'll post when I download my digital camera soon.

[ZL-1]

Plenty of Opel Astras, lately. Nice looking 5-door, but I'm dying to see how the 3-door turns in final production trim!

[ocnblu]

Light blue metallic Volkswagen Thing, all opened up on an evening cruise.

[Cory Wolfe]

I saw a Lotus Elise drive past my house the other day. I thought it was rather odd for one of those to be out here.

[balthazar]

^ good, sparsely-trafficked, curvy roads out there the draw ??

There's a dealer about 30 minutes from me, so I see these all the time.

'67 Eldorado, a nice (for yellow) buttery yellow, exc shape, parked

'64-65 El Camino, white w/ Cragars, exc shape, parked.

[Drew Dowdell]

I saw Limo 1 from a distance on Wednesday.

[caddycruiser]

'03 Quadrasteer Silverado with some 7+ year fading & discoloration, out shopping this week.

I saw a Lotus Elise drive past my house the other day. I thought it was rather odd for one of those to be out here.

Very odd around there...very...

Edited June 5, 2010 by caddycruiser

[Sixty8panther]

Balthazar:

Any photos of the '67 Eldorado...? <3

As far as the Lotus dealer that's down

the street from you I stopped by there

the day after I visited you on my

roadtrip back in 2005. I must admit I

have a soft spot for Lotus.

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Since I've been absent from C&G for most of 2009

into the spring of 2010, I'll post some of my

favorites from this past year:

[Sixty8panther]

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Hey O.B. did you say "spiders" or "Spyders"???

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[Camino LS6]

Some very cool shots in there, 68.

[ocnblu]

Silver Mini Cooper, done up like a base model '95 Cavalier. It had a satin black roof, mirrors, and bumpers.

[ZL-1]

Mary Kay Astra

[caddycruiser]

Last gen Lexus IS Sportback...rare bird, but cool bird, little RWD hatch wonder.

'06 Denali pickup on the used lot, with a flat tire.

"Delmarva Pro Sport" edition '10 Sierra(s). The local GMC commercials have been advertising this package at all the dealers, but I never saw until today the badges actually say "Delmarva..." on them. Okay then.

Edited June 6, 2010 by caddycruiser

[ocnblu]

Regarding the Delmarva Pro Sport package: seems like a lot of money for a little bit of extra content.

[caddycruiser]

Regarding the Delmarva Pro Sport package: seems like a lot of money for a little bit of extra content.

Yeah...I never understood it in the first place. The local GMC marketing commercial "chrome...lots of chrome...at your local Delmarva GMC dealers" play again & again. Finally seeing it, eh, fine if you wanted all those accessory chunks anyway and don't mind Delmarva plastered on it.

[ocnblu]

For $2049, you get a chrome grille, tow hooks, doorhandles, side steps, and exhaust tip. You also get mudflaps and bedrail caps. Whoopty-do.

[caddycruiser]

For $2049, you get a chrome grille, tow hooks, doorhandles, side steps, and exhaust tip. You also get mudflaps and bedrail caps. Whoopty-do.

The worse part is in the commercials they show a black Sierra with GM accessory chrome 20/22" wheels and make it legitimately sound like that's part of the deal, or at least used to. Another dealer has one as such and made their own commercial showing it, but again, the accessory wheels are yet another couple grand on top...stupid.

[Sixty8panther]

Thanks Camino.

Here's a few more, some are from a few years

back but I'm pretty sure none of these have

ever been posted on C&G. I'm also posting 3

more photos of that GORGEOUS, very original

1933 Chevrolet, I love this Pre-War classic like

a fat kid love cake.

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[Drew Dowdell]

That's what I had but in light brown. Mine was an '85, the shape of the front fenders on that make me think it's an 83 or 84

[Drew Dowdell]

A first gen Honda Fit with the "Turbo" badge from an older Saab pasted on the back. I don't think they're fooling anyone.

[caddycruiser]

Brand new silver 2011 Toyota Avalon parked at a Bob Evans. Woof. So antique, but with curvy new eyebrows up front and lower side sills. Oh what change.

[ocnblu]

No one will bemember this, but some months back, I posted about a cousin of mine with an '02 Liberty. She was nearly ready to replace her 115k mile Jeep... with a CR-V or Rav-4.

As of last Friday, there is a Natural Green 2010 Jeep Liberty with SkySlider Roof in her driveway... and it is schweet.

[caddycruiser]

No one will bemember this, but some months back, I posted about a cousin of mine with an '02 Liberty. She was nearly ready to replace her 115k mile Jeep... with a CR-V or Rav-4.

As of last Friday, there is a Natural Green 2010 Jeep Liberty with SkySlider Roof in her driveway... and it is schweet.

Nice. Don't even like those, but a good sign & move she got another

[caddycruiser]

'08'ish Cobalt SS sedan (2.4L car, back when it was an appearance package on the sedan, basically) with a big hitch & ball out back. Intriguing.

Black Ford GT in traffic. Been a long time since I've seen one of these around here. Sounded great & looked so cool when he crossed in front of me.

Dad's mysterious project in his tent garage out back. Been around for a year now, but I still know very little about it or look at it. He had the door half open so I snapped a shot of current status, finally. '68 Dodge Coronet 440, I think...

[ocnblu]

Oh man, the Ultimate Sadness for a Ford GT driver: to be stuck behind a Camry at a red light.

[caddycruiser]

Oh man, the Ultimate Sadness for a Ford GT driver: to be stuck behind a Camry at a red light.

Even when that new Camry is a $70k+ brand new Lexus LS460...and yes...tragedy. Black & white, cool & crap. At least it was clear which one everyone was looking at & listening to when their light turned green...

[Drew Dowdell]

all 79 horses of a museum piece first generation Ford Escort very base station wagon

[caddycruiser]

Red Suzuki Equator (err, Nissan Frontier with big chrome grille) passing on the road. First one I've ever seen out driving.

[ocnblu]

New-style uplevel orange Vitamin-CTS with a well-integrated (but something I wouldn't have, still) spurler. Orange Pontiac G8 GT.

[ZL-1]

Saw my 1st new Audi A8 (black TDI Quattro). The official photos do not do the car justice; IRL it doesn't look like an inflated A4.

Edited June 13, 2010 by ZL-1

[Robert Hall]

Spent the weekend in beautiful So Cal (La Jolla, Torrey Pines, Del Mar, Encinitas, Carlsbad)..saw an interesting selection of cars...lots of the usual, predictable modern high end cars and a number of oldies..

A drop dead gorgeous turquoise/turquoise '66 GTO convertible, red line tires, Rally I wheels, absolutely mint. A clean dark blue '61 Caddy 4dr ht, A pair of vintage birdies--a red '55 T-Bird and a med. blue '65 T-Bird w/ black Landau roof. For the imports, saw a clean yellow Porsche 914 and a sharp blue '70s vintage Aston Martin coupe.

Most interesting modern car was the black XLR-v rumbling along...great exhaust note. Saw a number of current Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers.

[SAmadei]

Saw a Audi R8 in Staten Island recently. That car still doesn't really do it for me from most angles.

Also saw a CLS55 AMG... at first I didn't think it was a real AMG, as I thought they were all 63's... and this one had seen some healthy customizations from the upmarket JC Whitney catalog. But at the next light, it took off like only an AMG could.

Been seeing quite a few oldies during my time up in NYC... but my favorite so far is a '67 fastback full size Pontiac. Shorter wheelbase, probably a Catalina. Black and flat black, needing bodywork... but with red pinstriping and a square headlight conversion and the upper light spots filled in with a mesh grill, so the whole thing looked like the Batmobile.

I always thought the '67s are the closest production car to the real Batmobile... Unfortunately, I didn't think to snap a photo. Maybe next time.

I also need to get a photo for you guys of Brooklyn's Mad Max Minivan... its hilarious...

[balthazar]

'10 Camaro, Synergy Green in the sunshine, WOW! what a color (and I hate greens). People were staring...

'65 Impala SS convert- red w/ blk top, a bit musty & 'landlocked' behind a putrefying '70s Jag.

'61 Cadillac SDV, black, musty, parked.

[ZL-1]

1960's SAAB 96

Edited June 17, 2010 by ZL-1

[caddycruiser]

Driving back from Maryland, nearing home, an '04-06'ish Durango with hood scoops, custom wheels and...a high top. I swear I've seen this before, but can't remember where. I wanted to see the inside...

At Safeway Starbucks with a friend on Tuesday, and older guy pulled his white '07+ Avalanche in near mine. Snow-va-lanche.

Edited June 19, 2010 by caddycruiser

[Robert Hall]

Saw a 1990 or so (base model, gray egg crate style grille) Lumina 4dr in light blue, minty condition. Strange to see a 20 yr old W body in such clean shape.

Saw a derelict '80s Monte Carlo SS on the freeway--nose riding really high, primer gray all over, dented left door and front fender, nose cap askew w/ a piece of the plastic broken and flapping in the wind.

Saw the Synergy green '10 Camaro LT parked next to the yellow w/ black stripes '10 Camaro SS and a black '10 Camaro LT parked in a row at the office in one of the outer edges of the front lot. Neat to see they coordinated their parking.

[Satty]

I saw 2 Dodge Journeys, which is 2 more than I thought they sold.

[Intrepidation]

2 SRXs

Lotus Elise

G8 GT