Did You See Anything Good Today? [Read First Post]
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A decent camera, lots of ambient light, a somewhat steady hand and plenty of practice. A handy postbox, lamp-post, step or wall are always handy to lean on too
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Thanks mate. Actually I could have got better photos of the Macca, but I was all fingers and thumbs with my camera. I turned it off, on and off and on again before I got the photo and almost missed it and the 275 GTS altogether. Imagine that, two of the rarest cars I have ever seen anywhere driving together and you'd have to take my word for it that I'd seen them! That's what happened with the two F50's I saw driving together.
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Been a while, and while I don’t think anyone will pay any attention after Rue’s F1, here it goes anyway. I miss posting.
I had posted this car before, when I found it like 6 years ago, it was in amazing shape but slowly decaying. These are pictures of about three years ago, same car, same place, more tattered but still, incredible condition, I cant fathom why someone would let a car this nice to just sit and rot. You should have seen the wood interior in this thing. It gleamed like new. So sad.
Ditto for this Nissan, I found it the exact same day I found the Benz (they were a few blocks apart) six years ago and it seemed to be a running car, and three years later I again found it, like this. Its just not fair.
Same neighborhood (behind a golf club, no less) yielded this, a Ford F1 street-rod style, complete with steelies and Mickey Thompsons over retina-searing yellow, cool little truck, coolest truck front end ever:
And then, this, oh man THIS!!! Check this out and tell me it isn’t the coolest thing you have ever seen. You’d get all the stares, even if its because its soooooooo odd. A mid-60s Ford Econoline so customized it now sports dual front axles that turn, mind you, custom front grille treatment, custom windows and custom sunroofs, custom everything. Damn I wish I owned it, I’d so daily drive it. Attention whore FTW.
Now this mid-50s Chevy Apache pickup street-rodded with such a colour and false Cragars, I found it in the very same neighborhood as the above cars, what a place, haha; later, about a year ago, it popped near my work where it has lived for the past few months, I see it every day.
An adjacent neighborhood brought this nice looking 1957 Ford Fairlane 4-door driver in peach and white; however, this car was just the tip of the iceberg.
I turn to the right and sure enough there is this fence, opened, with this inside:
First, a low 1956 Chevy ragtop with American Torq-Thrusts, in pretty damn good condition and very rare here, as it was extremely expensive in the era, only a few thousands were sold; it had a nice street rod vibe:
In front of it, a very Trans-Amose 1967 Mustang Coupe, even painted like some Terlingua Shelby racers that ran in the sixties, also with Torq-Thrusts with no caps as was correct of the Trans-Ams, and also pretty low, it was missing some hood trim but was otherwise cool as heck (:
In front of it, an even rarer 1957 Ford Rairlane ragtop, also wearing Torq-Thrust style wheels (these looked like ETs), cateyes headlamp covers and missing bits; I suppose the ragtop was in bad shape and so it was covered, it was obviously being restored.
In the adjacent street, there be this, a way, way rare here 1966 Mustang Fastback, rare because fastbacks were never sold in Mexico until 1971, so this was like the needle in the haystack, and in very good shape too, it just needs a severe drop (and Cragars and a big block, but that’s just me) and off you go.
And finally, a virtual twin minus the fastback bit, a 1965 Mustang Coupé also in canary yellow, and also with Torq-Thrusts and some panel fixing here and there, missing the rear bumper.
All of them I presume, belong to the same guy, and it was very very cool to find a place like this, I recently passed by this street again and they are all still there, I’ll as soon as I can get closer and see if they got fixed, specially the 57 Ford (:
Well, enough, enjoy these and later I’ll bring more rustbuckets.
I had posted this car before, when I found it like 6 years ago, it was in amazing shape but slowly decaying. These are pictures of about three years ago, same car, same place, more tattered but still, incredible condition, I cant fathom why someone would let a car this nice to just sit and rot. You should have seen the wood interior in this thing. It gleamed like new. So sad.
Ditto for this Nissan, I found it the exact same day I found the Benz (they were a few blocks apart) six years ago and it seemed to be a running car, and three years later I again found it, like this. Its just not fair.
Same neighborhood (behind a golf club, no less) yielded this, a Ford F1 street-rod style, complete with steelies and Mickey Thompsons over retina-searing yellow, cool little truck, coolest truck front end ever:
And then, this, oh man THIS!!! Check this out and tell me it isn’t the coolest thing you have ever seen. You’d get all the stares, even if its because its soooooooo odd. A mid-60s Ford Econoline so customized it now sports dual front axles that turn, mind you, custom front grille treatment, custom windows and custom sunroofs, custom everything. Damn I wish I owned it, I’d so daily drive it. Attention whore FTW.
Now this mid-50s Chevy Apache pickup street-rodded with such a colour and false Cragars, I found it in the very same neighborhood as the above cars, what a place, haha; later, about a year ago, it popped near my work where it has lived for the past few months, I see it every day.
An adjacent neighborhood brought this nice looking 1957 Ford Fairlane 4-door driver in peach and white; however, this car was just the tip of the iceberg.
I turn to the right and sure enough there is this fence, opened, with this inside:
First, a low 1956 Chevy ragtop with American Torq-Thrusts, in pretty damn good condition and very rare here, as it was extremely expensive in the era, only a few thousands were sold; it had a nice street rod vibe:
In front of it, a very Trans-Amose 1967 Mustang Coupe, even painted like some Terlingua Shelby racers that ran in the sixties, also with Torq-Thrusts with no caps as was correct of the Trans-Ams, and also pretty low, it was missing some hood trim but was otherwise cool as heck (:
In front of it, an even rarer 1957 Ford Rairlane ragtop, also wearing Torq-Thrust style wheels (these looked like ETs), cateyes headlamp covers and missing bits; I suppose the ragtop was in bad shape and so it was covered, it was obviously being restored.
In the adjacent street, there be this, a way, way rare here 1966 Mustang Fastback, rare because fastbacks were never sold in Mexico until 1971, so this was like the needle in the haystack, and in very good shape too, it just needs a severe drop (and Cragars and a big block, but that’s just me) and off you go.
And finally, a virtual twin minus the fastback bit, a 1965 Mustang Coupé also in canary yellow, and also with Torq-Thrusts and some panel fixing here and there, missing the rear bumper.
All of them I presume, belong to the same guy, and it was very very cool to find a place like this, I recently passed by this street again and they are all still there, I’ll as soon as I can get closer and see if they got fixed, specially the 57 Ford (:
Well, enough, enjoy these and later I’ll bring more rustbuckets.
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Why can't GM sell more Vauxhall's like that here? If they can sell the Astra here under Saturn, surely they can sell more.5
Dont care if its a dealer spot but i badly want the black vectra.
sadly even with my staff discount they wouldnt accept a £10 for it
What's that blue one, btw? I like that.
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Dont care if its a dealer spot but i badly want the black vectra.
You actually desire a Vectra estate? i thought people were just lumped into running them through company car schemes?
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Yes
the black one is also a VXR.You have to remember it is also faster than an M5,Audi RS and Merc AMG (this will do over 155mph
)2.8 Litre Turbo charged V6 and would cost £2200 a year to insure.......im having bad thoughts
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darrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (that originally said something way more inappropriate but the filter didn't censor it)
An Elise is not exotic... an Exige, however, which that is... IS very exotic... and that one has IOWA plates (one of the 22 states I still need to see an exotic from). DAMMIT!!!!!!! You should've texted me. Haha
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Elise, with a hardtop. Or an Exige without the rear wing. But more likely an Elise.
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You have to remember it is also faster than an M5,Audi RS and Merc AMG (this will do over 155mph
2.8 Litre Turbo charged V6 and would cost £2200 a year to insure.......im having bad thoughts
And £2200 a year in front tyres
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Mmmm, I doubt it modding an Elise would have meant that that person removed the vents by the rear lights, added a front fender vent, added a cover on the rear forward-facing fender vent, installed the rear engine cover, and installed a roof air scoop. Removing the rear vents alone seem like an awful lot of work to make it look right.
Or take an Exige and cut off the wing.
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Definitely an Exige. The 'sill' bodywork, C-pillar, engine cover, and roof scoop are all different. the S2 Elise has vents to the side of the rear lights, the Exige does not. I'd say it's an Exige without the wing.
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-> I was at the L.A. Auto Show. But everyone saw it on the news so my post is irrelevant. 
