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On my way home tonight I was passing a trailer load of new Mercedes and I noticed a gray SLC350 on the bottom row. Then I noticed that the front left fender was dented in! Somebody is in trouble!

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Technically I did not see them on the road since they were parked in our town park for a concurs event, nonetheless, I got to see an Enzo, a Porsche 918 and a Veyron upclose.

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Boy did I find the mother load today.

The limo was in front of a local garage and is in rear bad shape. The rest are in a place called Lincoln Land in Clearwater FL.

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Check the sports car in the back.

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I stared at this for a good ten minutes before the proprietor let the cat out of the bag. It's a Bangert Manta Ray. My brief research leads me to believe there were a few released as kits, and a few more as production cars. It's on a Maserati chassis and originally came with an early hemi, which is sadly missing. Pretty cool find.

http://www.forgottenfiberglass.com/fiberglass-car-marques/bangert/the-bangert-manta-ray-limited-only-by-the-builders-imagination-motor-life-july-1955/

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This week on my commute I've seen a black Ferrari 456 parked at the end of a driveway w/ For Sale signs. It's not very often I see a Ferrari parked out w/ For Sale signs...

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For the last few weeks I've seen a silver car around town in different places not too far from home. I didn't recognize the grille emblem at all and to me it looked European. Turns out, it's a Tesla S. Not a bad looking car though.

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Saw this tooling along on I-10 headed East at 100! Trouble was the Speed Limit is 125 (Kph - 75mph). Well given they're here all the way from Augsberg Germany (well at least that's where the Auto Dealer it was purchased from was located) I suppose I can cut'em some slack. I'd never seen one of these before. It's a Ford Transit L.

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Neat...that reminds me of a few years ago when I saw a German-plated older Mercedes T-series camper van (Sprinter predecessor) in a Scottsdale parking lot. I suppose it was German tourists that shipped it over for an extended road trip vacation around the US...it was also yellow.

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It had to be at least 10 years ago, I spotted a Fiat motor home on the highway on my way home from work one evening. I later saw it parked in a supermarket parking lot so I got to talk with them. It was a family from Italy spending 6 months in the USA.

Takes a lot of guts to ship your Fiat motor home to a foreign country and depend on it for six months, without a spare part in the entire country!

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I saw this Chevy Impala on Friday. It was very nice to see a real car instead of just those egg-shaped plastic things. ^_^

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That's pretty amazing country Ed! And those are good neighbors. It's a funny thing, when I've been out in Denver or Salt Lake City, you always see the mountains and are in awe, but the locals don't seem to even notice. Then a friend of mine put it in perspective... I used to live at the NJ Shore, in fact drove along the coast for a bit on my daily commute. And yes, I didn't even look half the time.

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Here's my back yard and a few of my neighbors enjoying our Halloween pumpkin. The lookout only has one horn. These two are around all the time. Photo from my kitchen window.

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Always best to keep ones eyes open huh Tom! i do enjoy watching Wildlife. Here's another of my neighbors that dropped by Christmas Evening. Picture taken from my Couch in our Frontroom.

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There is a Sinclair gas station I drive by everyday on the commute and this morning they had their bay doors open, saw a black 48-49 Cadillac and a gold early C3 Corvette convertible inside.

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Always best to keep ones eyes open huh Tom! i do enjoy watching Wildlife. Here's another of my neighbors that dropped by Christmas Evening. Picture taken from my Couch in our Frontroom.

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I remember that from christmas time

Very cool pic

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Leaving the filling station today, I see a Chevy pickup on a side road.
"Like A Rock" must refer to what must have landed on it at some point. I don't think the snow did that!

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Leaving the filling station today, I see a Chevy pickup on a side road.

"Like A Rock" must refer to what must have landed on it at some point. I don't think the snow did that!

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Salt corrosion of the frame, I would think..

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