What did you see on the road today?

[Mike999]

Saw one of these sitting at an intersection in town.  1950 (?) Chevy COE truck.  The one I saw was in about the same condition as this one (pic from the internet). Rusty hood, dents, mud. Not just "unrestored" but still hard at work with hay and stuff in the enclosed wooden bed.  That's not so unusual in this rural, farming area.

 

Edited December 7, 2017 by Mike999
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[Rocking Rodney Rat]

[Junkman]

Yesterday at The Junktowers(tm).

 

Turns out there is another one in the area. It is an UNRESTORED(!) survivor and somehow its owner managed to find me.
It's a very late model TA (the 'A' stands for automatic) in total contrast to my very early manual and it was sold new in my town and remained there ever since.
It only had three owners prior to the chap who owns it now. Its first owner was a local bank director who kept it in a heated garage (I'm NOT making this up!).
Apparently he suffered from a rather untimely meeting with his maker, but his widow kept the car and since she didn't drive, she employed a chauffeur!
She eventually sold the car to the meanwhile retired Renault dealer turned collector I have yet to meet, who sold the car new!
He kept the car in - you guessed it - a heated garage! He then sold the car to the guy who visited me, who keeps the car in - get this - a heated garage!

The car was registered almost exactly to the day ten years after mine. Mine was registered new in Paris on my third Birthday,
I bet this is a bit of trivia you always wanted to know.

So why, you may ask, did I pap a door knob?
Well, mine doesn't have any. The only way to unlock the rear doors of my car is to reach down to the inner door handles.
The motoring press - and of course the first owners - rightfully identified this as being daft, so Renault reacted by adding the most beautiful door knobs ever made to later models.

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

My wife saw this parked at the DMV. I have no idea what it is. Can anyone identify it. Sorry for the poor pic.

[wisdonm]

Lotus Elan Plus 2

[W-409]

Saw this '82-'87 El Camino on the parking lot a while ago. Here in Finland these G-Body Caminos are unfortunately pretty often in quite poor condition as back in the day they were used as a daily drivers for a long time... And especially the Finnish winter doesn't treat daily drivers very well... So seeing one in this nice condition was really cool, I had to park my daily driver (1st gen Chevy S10) and shoot a picture.

And later on the same day an older Chevy Truck was spotted on another parking lot. Unfortunately the picture didn't turn out that great, but.....

I spotted this '76 El Camino probably two weeks ago if I'm not mistaken. It's in nice clean condition too, and it's always great to see these GM 3rd Gen A-Bodies as I'm racing a '74 Malibu in Stock Eliminator.

And the most recent one was this '68 Firebird Convertible that I saw last weekend. It looked pretty solid too.

 

[Erik Smith]

Cool cars, Niko, especially for Finland. 

We made it over last summer, and there are very few US made cars, especially older ones, rolling around. Saw a few, but some had a speed restriction? Sticker or something on back. 

Here are a couple I saw in Finland that, to my Stateside eyes, were pretty cool:

 

[The Junkman]

On 12/4/2017 at 1:45 PM, iamsuperdan said:

I'm not sure if it's awesome, ridiculous, or a bit of both, but one of my coworkers drives this. Need to find out who.

 

I'd just LOVE to see this driven in anger on a proper road course.  Sears Point, Road America etc.  What would you say, about a 70% to 30% weight ratio front to rear?  A John Deere tractor wouldn't plow any better than this.

[Earl Marischal]

16 hours ago, wisdonm said:

Lotus Elan Plus 2

Agreed.

Can't quite tell if it's an 'S', possibly not.

steve

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

5 hours ago, Earl Marischal said:

Agreed.

Can't quite tell if it's an 'S', possibly not.

steve

Thanks guys. Neat little car.

[W-409]

17 hours ago, Erik Smith said:

Cool cars, Niko, especially for Finland. 

We made it over last summer, and there are very few US made cars, especially older ones, rolling around. Saw a few, but some had a speed restriction? Sticker or something on back. 

Here are a couple I saw in Finland that, to my Stateside eyes, were pretty cool:

 

Yep it's not very often when you see old US cars cruising around, unless there's a Cruising night nearby. Those old Fiats are seen sometimes, but I can't say that they would be common cars either. But that Aspen looks really good. Those are often in very poor condition, so seeing one as nice and clean as that one is rare!

The speed restriction sticker was used on old vans. After '81 Vans that were heaver than 3968 lbs had the maximum speed limit of 80 km/h, and it had to have that ugly yellow "80" sign on the rear end. If the van was lighter, you didn't need this, and if the car had ABS brakes and airbag on driver's side then it didn't have that 80 limit either. And to make this a bit more confusing, this applied to all cars that were registered as vans, so many Station Wagons and Pickups were also having that 80 km/h speed limit. If I'm not mistaken, Pickups are automatically registered as vans, but Station Wagons could be registered as "Passenger Cars" as well... But the reason they were almost always registered as "Vans" was that you didn't have to pay ridicullously high taxes from them... If it was registered as a passenger car, then your only choice was to pay a lot of tax from it... So that's why pretty much all STWs that are big enough (Caprice Classic for example) have that speed limit on the back.

That's one of the many laws here in Finland that don't make any sense. Believe me, there are more idiotic rules as far as cars go....This is one of them. Luckily my S10 is so light that it doesn't have that 80 km/h limit!

[W-409]

This solid looking G-Body Malibu has been sitting for a long time on some company's yard under a tarp. Now the tarp was off for some reason so I tried to shoot a picture of it. Those Malibus are good looking cars.

And yesterday while Cruising around Helsinki with my daily driver, I saw this early '70s Toyota Celica parked to the side of the road. I'm definitely not a Toyota fan, but some of these older ones are really cool!

But what really made my day was this very nice and clean Jeep Wagoneer! Seeing these is rare, but I can't even remember when was the last time when I saw one that was in as good shape as this one.

[MrObsessive]

I remember when this car was new (fall '77) for '78 and being REALLY disappointed in how it looked. To me, it wasn't as nice as the previous "Colonnade" cars of '73-'77, and somehow seemed to take a step back instead of forward.

Now forty years later, they're not bad looking cars at all, and even here in the states they're just not seen anymore. A lot of that was due to indifferent build quality, and of course the dreaded tinworm claimed many of them. That one does look to be a very clean example of what was the car industry's "dark days" and it's interesting that these are now turning up in car shows as either plain 'ole stock, or tricked out in a Pro Street style.

Who'da thunk??

[peter31a]

A friend of mine (who was best man at my wedding) had a 78 Malibu 4 door silver and black with a red and grey interior. He did not take very good care of it. It was to be lead car in our wedding and I borrowed it for a day so that I could buff the paint as it was so oxidized. A couple of years later he was having trouble with it, brought it to the garage. They tried to do an oil change but it came out thicker than molasses because he hadn't bothered to do an oil change in about 3 or 4 years. Poor car. I would love to have that car now as a collector car as I always thought it looked so sharp.

[W-409]

I agree with Bill that I prefer the earlier '73-'77 Malibu body style (Not only because I race a '74 Malibu in Stock Eliminator). But I've always liked that later body style too. I think it would make a great daily driver for myself, but they're not easy to find in good condition anymore around here. And most importantly, if I find one in good condition, the price tag is a bit too high... Well, luckily I don't need to change my daily driver as the '92 Chevy S10 is working great all year round.

[carman1]

My son drug this monster home over the weekend,   no clue as to what he is going to do with it yet.

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 9, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[misterNNL]

We were stopped in interstate traffic behind a black Porsche Panamera (?) Coupe. This was south of Columbus,Ohio were I see a lot of high dollar rides.

[Luc Janssens]

On 8-12-2017 at 1:57 AM, Junkman said:

Yesterday at The Junktowers(tm).

Back in the late 70s an uncle of mine drove one, his next car was a Honda Prelude.

[Luc Janssens]

On 8-12-2017 at 11:23 AM, W-409 said:

Saw this '82-'87 El Camino on the parking lot a while ago. Here in Finland these G-Body Caminos are unfortunately pretty often in quite poor condition as back in the day they were used as a daily drivers for a long time... And especially the Finnish winter doesn't treat daily drivers very well... So seeing one in this nice condition was really cool, I had to park my daily driver (1st gen Chevy S10) and shoot a picture.

Like this model, there's one for sale at a classic auto dealer near my folks, he's asking 17,000.00 for it, but with a dented bed and in need of a paint job, I don't think so.

He has also a '68 Firebird, that one has a very nice paint job, aside from tiny rust spots just below the rubber from the backlite, and one on the header-panel, so also a no-no to me, cuz what else is hiding?

[Lovefordgalaxie]

This one was filling up. Mint!!!

[peter31a]

Wow! That's a beauty, Tulio. I can't believe I took my drivers test in a monster like that. A friend once likened driving the Country Squire to trying to pilot the U.S.S. Enterprise.

[Luc Janssens]

13 hours ago, Lovefordgalaxie said:

This one was filling up. Mint!!!

Yes, I love these mid to late Ford wagons....I'm sure many of you already know

 

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 9, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[gotnitro?]

71 olds cutlass out riding in.the sun