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Tree traffic and stuff

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New G500/whatever..another missed shot

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Caught this one!

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Porsche 968

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BMW M5 (E39)

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1964 Pontiac Tempest

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Dagger311
If that's an SUV, then my Dads' rogue is a truck.
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Well, the x90 has a real truck/SUV chassis, and the Rogue is...well...car-based.

It's built on the Sidekick/Tracker chassis, so it starts out as a pretty good little off-roader. Any suspension or drivetrain mods for the Sidekick can be installed on it. I had a girlfriend that owned one - really fun to drive. After we broke up, she put a 2" lift on it and she sold it to one of my friends a couple years later. Quite a few out there have been modded and it's always cool to see something unique/weird/quirky on the trail, like these or an Isuzu Vehicross, for example.

I met a couple of these guys at a gathering at Suzuki's US HQ in SoCal a few years ago. http://www.generationx90.com/
 
Johnny_Clash
Well, the x90 has a real truck/SUV chassis, and the Rogue is...well...car-based.

It's built on the Sidekick/Tracker chassis, so it starts out as a pretty good little off-roader. Any suspension or drivetrain mods for the Sidekick can be installed on it. I had a girlfriend that owned one - really fun to drive. After we broke up, she put a 2" lift on it and she sold it to one of my friends a couple years later. Quite a few out there have been modded and it's always cool to see something unique/weird/quirky on the trail, like these or an Isuzu Vehicross, for example.

I met a couple of these guys at a gathering at Suzuki's US HQ in SoCal a few years ago. http://www.generationx90.com/
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I definitely have never seen one :lol:.

Oh, and I was kidding. I very well know that a Rogue is not a truck (but according to emmisions tests, a Quest is).
 
didn't go spotting, just drove out to see the guy with the Moretti to tell him what I'd learned from the experts... and saw a few things along the way.

but first while at work... I was asked to take photos of our cars when a Z32 passed by and pulled over a 100 feet up the street... brake line just broke... had been parked for 2 years and just finally driving it the past 3 weeks... I invited him to join the local Z club since he couldn't even find a service manual for his car!
nissan 300zx z32 1990 by spotterjeff, on Flickr

Then, just getting started on the way to this guy's house, I spy a clone of mine!
nissan 300zx z31 1986 and mine by spotterjeff, on Flickr

Supra that must've been a southern car... and an odd paintjob... great body and interior, though
toyota supra mk iii a70 by spotterjeff, on Flickr

and damn my camera for focus fail on a GT-R I haven't seen before, but I guess I'll take an E63...
mercedes e63 amg front by spotterjeff, on Flickr

mercedes e63 amg rear by spotterjeff, on Flickr
 
Hope you got in to see the GP! Yeah, car guys will go to those events with their cars, all good. Though recently I'm starting to feel, from my Flickr following, that event lots are more like events than wild spots...
 
jeffgoddin
Hope you got in to see the GP! Yeah, car guys will go to those events with their cars, all good. Though recently I'm starting to feel, from my Flickr following, that event lots are more like events than wild spots...
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I had some trouble translating that my friend, not sure what your getting at?
I have a ton of other pictures from inside the event that I was gonna share elsewhere. Along with action racing pictures. These were just walking around the area of the event using my iphone for basic spot pics, and I felt they belonged in here.
 
yeah, not at you in particular. Very happy you actually went in and saw the race in person! I've only ever watched them on my laptop.

But just thinking about carspotting. I started a Flickr group recently, and have developed a lot of followers, and I notice, there's sort of a big middle ground, that I myself have sometimes taken advantage of here. Stalking a car show for a Europa or Ford GT... finding an old Aston Vantage in a parking lot at an event, waiting to be loaded, but not obviously on the grass, or even just the cars in the parking lot for a car show, such easy pickings... and I guess I'm coming to the conclusion that this is not really carspotting, which should be wild and unexpected. Cars on the grass outside an event? Should go in the Event thread, IMO now, and I'll be good about that in the future at least if I haven't been in the past. Wild carspotting is its own exciting thing, and I'd like it to be pure, it's best that way, and that's what this thread is about, and what got me started. Enjoying seeing everything here.

In the Flickr group I started, I had to decide. And delete. Photos of cars on grass that are clearly at an event are not wild, I decided, and are deleted. Because they dilute the wild quality of the group.

So finally, what I'm getting at Scoobie, while your photos weren't on grass... having Aston Martin semis in the background, knowing that it's essentially event parking that you're scouting... for Corvettes and M3's, yeah, not so exciting for me here. I'd love to see the actual race photos that you took over in the other thread, though.
 
Dont get many in my town so it was exciting for me being able to go back to my hometown of LA and seeing some beautiful cars and I just wanted to share. I wish I could have taken more that were just in Long Beach but dont have much time for pics in fast heavy traffic haha.

I see what your saying though, and if mods prefer Im sure they will move it. I do have showroom expo pictures to. Be working more this weekend on them, had over 600 pictures to go through

They are still wild but I just happened to be on safari in a wild game preserve for the weekend. ;)
 
jeffgoddin
yeah, not at you in particular. Very happy you actually went in and saw the race in person! I've only ever watched them on my laptop.

But just thinking about carspotting. I started a Flickr group recently, and have developed a lot of followers, and I notice, there's sort of a big middle ground, that I myself have sometimes taken advantage of here. Stalking a car show for a Europa or Ford GT... finding an old Aston Vantage in a parking lot at an event, waiting to be loaded, but not obviously on the grass, or even just the cars in the parking lot for a car show, such easy pickings... and I guess I'm coming to the conclusion that this is not really carspotting, which should be wild and unexpected. Cars on the grass outside an event? Should go in the Event thread, IMO now, and I'll be good about that in the future at least if I haven't been in the past. Wild carspotting is its own exciting thing, and I'd like it to be pure, it's best that way, and that's what this thread is about, and what got me started. Enjoying seeing everything here.

In the Flickr group I started, I had to decide. And delete. Photos of cars on grass that are clearly at an event are not wild, I decided, and are deleted. Because they dilute the wild quality of the group.

So finally, what I'm getting at Scoobie, while your photos weren't on grass... having Aston Martin semis in the background, knowing that it's essentially event parking that you're scouting... for Corvettes and M3's, yeah, not so exciting for me here. I'd love to see the actual race photos that you took over in the other thread, though.
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I can't help but feel this post is slightly aimed at me, or at least the photos I posted over the weekend.

Whereas I get your point with good cars being expected at events, you never truly know what you'll see in the car parks. It's like a sunny Saturday afternoon. The weather is fine, it's the weekend, so car enthusiasts will be out and about in their pride and joys. You know that there's going to be some decent spots that day. But you never know what you're going to see, do you? You know it'll be something good, but what? An Aston? A classic Ford? A clean example of 80s JDM? You just don't know. Same with the car parks at car events. Car enthusiasts are obviously going to be there. Their nice cars are obviously going to be there too. But what cars? An Aston? A classic Ford? A clean example of 80s JDM? You just don't know.

I for one certainly wasn't expecting the '79 Celica, or the E21 - a picture you requested to have in your group ;). How are the Celica and E21 different? They were both at the same event. The Celica was on grass, the E21 was in the pits. Surely being in the pits was even less authentic?

Not trying to hate here, and I do understand your point, just saying that I think spots in the car parks of events are still wild. :dopey:

Getting back on topic, here's a Beetle I forgot to post from Friday night, tucked away in the car park of a 'Murica-style diner.

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I also saw this Carrera GTS(?), driven like a bat out of hell by a pilot (we were near an airport). The picture's awful though.

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jeffgoddin
@Katiegan aimed mostly at myself, honestly... and even in the group the grey area is okay, especially when the car is freaking awesome! Like the E21 Beemer!
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I posted the E21 on Instagram and the owner actually found me :lol:. She's got a slammed MKIV Golf too.
 
Tell her she deserves to go to jail for crimes against E21s.
 
here are a few more pics! i had to go through quite a few files to find these! the first. well i believe that if you dont know what this is... you havent played gran turismo 5 at all!


An unknown masterpiece!
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everyone calm down..... ITS THE KUBELWAGEN!
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Charger Super Bee?
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Classic Cadillac
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A Beauty of a truck! the fantastic Ford
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I know that this isnt a car or what you are looking for but it is rare to see a boat like this in our area!
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Audi R8. That JETTA THO!!!!!!
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And now.... a Bentley!
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RandomCarGuy17
Like Beef said, those first few pictures look like they're from a car show. All Car Show spots are to go in the "event/showroom" thread:https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...good-today-event-and-showroom-edition.118094/

Also, like ildd said; anything that's not a car goes into the non-automotive DYSAGT thread.
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well. i have just started to go onto the forums. had no idea that there were other threads just for shows and non automotive....:boggled: i will make sure to make that a tab on my browser too. i hit up all the automotive shows withing 100km of here! state side or canadian!:D i will make sure to post these pics again with LOTS OF OTHER ONES in those threads!:cheers:


Perhaps you can tell me on how to get to these other threads. dont see it in the cars in general section


EDIT: just noticed it now. i feel dumb:banghead:
 
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