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Saw '60 Chevy Convertible, a sporty late 80's Mercedes roadster/convertible of some sort and a Lamborghini Gallardo today but wasn't carrying a camera 
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Thanks! Most of those I will put on Flickr in a much higher res soon.
Like this.
(56k click at your own risk) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4490544518_1f85790ba0_o.jpg
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Wow! That looks so nice.
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I've been a bit preoccupied with a new lady friend, so car spotting has been down for me lately. The weather's been epic too.
Land Rover Range Rover Country, I love these things.
Convertible M3, I think the fog looks cool.
Porsche 911
Alpina B7
Ferrari 360
C5 Z06
Nissan GT-R, it was with the Vette
Random old car
Bright green Dodge Viper
Chevelle I think
Land Rover Range Rover Country, I love these things.
Convertible M3, I think the fog looks cool.
Porsche 911
Alpina B7
Ferrari 360
C5 Z06
Nissan GT-R, it was with the Vette
Random old car
Bright green Dodge Viper
Chevelle I think
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I saw a few things while driving on the freeway, but they weren't on the freeway, so I couldn't get a picture.
A Maserati GranTurismo infront of a Gym
And a Bentley Continental GT infront of an insurance firm.
A Maserati GranTurismo infront of a Gym
And a Bentley Continental GT infront of an insurance firm.
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Thanks, my dad and I were going back on forth on what it was. He kept saying a Chrysler and I was thinking, well I don't know what I was thinking.
And yes, those wheels on the Chevelle are fairly horrid. But it was in a thug nation part of town so it could have been a whole lot worse...like 22" donked out worse.
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I saw a really lovely Aston Martin in London's rich Hampstead area today, never seen one like it before so I snapped a very low quality shot (through the guy's gates). After trawling through the internet and wikipedia and Aston Martins.com, it turns out it was an INCREDIBLY special and rare car...
Aston Martin Vantage Special Series II (or I?)
Now if you look this up on Google images, you'll see a number of pictures of this EXACT car in this precise location!! Clearly a lot of car buffs recognised it as something tremendously rare, and according to the AstonMartins.com website it is one of a frighteningly small number made. It is on the driveway of a mansion on one of London's most prestigious roads, The Bishop's Avenue.
Here's the page from the AstonMartins.com site:
http://www.astonmartins.com/virage/vantage_special_series_II.htm
Later, same day, didn't get the phone out quick enough to snap a picture of a stunning rosso corsa ferrari 348 Berlinetta, one of my all-time favourites.
I did however finally get some snaps of the nutty orange V8 Vantage that parks near my flat regularly...
I have a few better pics of it on the other phone, but you get the idea 👍
Sorry for low pic quality, not up to the standard of the others posted. That's what you get with a poxy Blackberry-wannabe
All the best
Maz
Aston Martin Vantage Special Series II (or I?)
Now if you look this up on Google images, you'll see a number of pictures of this EXACT car in this precise location!! Clearly a lot of car buffs recognised it as something tremendously rare, and according to the AstonMartins.com website it is one of a frighteningly small number made. It is on the driveway of a mansion on one of London's most prestigious roads, The Bishop's Avenue.
Here's the page from the AstonMartins.com site:
http://www.astonmartins.com/virage/vantage_special_series_II.htm
Later, same day, didn't get the phone out quick enough to snap a picture of a stunning rosso corsa ferrari 348 Berlinetta, one of my all-time favourites.
I did however finally get some snaps of the nutty orange V8 Vantage that parks near my flat regularly...
I have a few better pics of it on the other phone, but you get the idea 👍
Sorry for low pic quality, not up to the standard of the others posted. That's what you get with a poxy Blackberry-wannabe
All the best
Maz
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sick colour on the Aston! and Rue, please slap Paul in the face for the amazing first picture of the BB.
ok enough, time for some mundane post.
old Mercedes 280SEL chugging along traffic in almost flat gray paint... which I think is the faded original paint. It looks great.
fairly nice all-black Caribe (or MKI Golf if you prefer) with some wheels and engine bits... bleh:
ML63 AMG alongside the previous Caribe/Golf...
one of those werid three-wheeled things and a bonus Solstice:
haha this was neat, a 1968 Impala SS ragtop, extremely rare in Mexico, but not only that, turned into an awesome frame-scrapping lowrider... then left for dead. I mean I'm sure the owner lives in the house adjacent to it, but it's been there for at least 2 years decomposing... last time I saw it it had a heavy dent in the door. Poor car, it could be an awesome daily driver.
trash bulking up under the car:
1947 Chevrolet made into a ragtop and turned into an ugly street rod... then, again, abandoned. I found this car about 7 or 8 years ago and it has been sitting in the exact same spot since then, just getting worse.
I'll post the original 8-year old picture when I find it and link back to here.
an old, cool and minty Mercedes seemingly left for dead in this house's parking spot. Not good.
then, blam. An indecently rare in here Ford Anglia abandoned inside a building's parking space, seemed someone had started to fix something under it and just left it there...
Seat Leon turbo with some nice wheels:
ah, this is dramatic. altough the picture is blurry, you can more or less make up what used to be a car, all turned into debris and burned down. It was one of several cars that was involved in the fiery secretary of government's plane crash in downtown Mexico city that cost a lot of lives... well, you may have heard about it like a yer and a half ago.
Absolutely pristine Renault 12 Routhier in eye-searing orange and with classic plates, it had the "power dome" in the hood, which I think meant that the car was something extraordinary, but I dont really remember... awesome car, tough.
Along the same lines, a random abandoned Renault 5:
Then, a 1971 mexican Chevelle, which means six-pot power, but still, it looked cool with the magnesium slots.
what I managed to catch of a new-gen WRX STI:
very very nice VW Brasilia! most of these have turned into rust clouds by now, soo it was cool to see this one in such good shape, and rocking a good slam, Empi Soider knock-offs, and general awesomeness.
Same parking lot held this off-roady Cherokee.
generic M3 being washed up, hence the windshield wippers put up:
1948 Chevy pick up just abandoned there... it has since disappeared:
in the same spot as the chevy was this tube-frame baja Bug, abandoned in the middle of something. Sad, as it seemed to be a cool car, haha:
awesome 1969 Chevelle at a shop I usually stalk because they always have awesome cars. This seemed to have a V8 swapped in even tough it was a mexican version... and some 17 inch American wheels to boot.
And finally, the newest Mustang I've seen abandoned. Shame.
rice this time consists of a Hyundai Atos that took on a very strange effect because of the low light of the pic. I really like how it looks, haha:
There goes. dang, a lot of abandoned cars in this post.
ok enough, time for some mundane post.
old Mercedes 280SEL chugging along traffic in almost flat gray paint... which I think is the faded original paint. It looks great.
fairly nice all-black Caribe (or MKI Golf if you prefer) with some wheels and engine bits... bleh:
ML63 AMG alongside the previous Caribe/Golf...
one of those werid three-wheeled things and a bonus Solstice:
haha this was neat, a 1968 Impala SS ragtop, extremely rare in Mexico, but not only that, turned into an awesome frame-scrapping lowrider... then left for dead. I mean I'm sure the owner lives in the house adjacent to it, but it's been there for at least 2 years decomposing... last time I saw it it had a heavy dent in the door. Poor car, it could be an awesome daily driver.
trash bulking up under the car:
1947 Chevrolet made into a ragtop and turned into an ugly street rod... then, again, abandoned. I found this car about 7 or 8 years ago and it has been sitting in the exact same spot since then, just getting worse.
I'll post the original 8-year old picture when I find it and link back to here.
an old, cool and minty Mercedes seemingly left for dead in this house's parking spot. Not good.
then, blam. An indecently rare in here Ford Anglia abandoned inside a building's parking space, seemed someone had started to fix something under it and just left it there...
Seat Leon turbo with some nice wheels:
ah, this is dramatic. altough the picture is blurry, you can more or less make up what used to be a car, all turned into debris and burned down. It was one of several cars that was involved in the fiery secretary of government's plane crash in downtown Mexico city that cost a lot of lives... well, you may have heard about it like a yer and a half ago.
Absolutely pristine Renault 12 Routhier in eye-searing orange and with classic plates, it had the "power dome" in the hood, which I think meant that the car was something extraordinary, but I dont really remember... awesome car, tough.
Along the same lines, a random abandoned Renault 5:
Then, a 1971 mexican Chevelle, which means six-pot power, but still, it looked cool with the magnesium slots.
what I managed to catch of a new-gen WRX STI:
very very nice VW Brasilia! most of these have turned into rust clouds by now, soo it was cool to see this one in such good shape, and rocking a good slam, Empi Soider knock-offs, and general awesomeness.
Same parking lot held this off-roady Cherokee.
generic M3 being washed up, hence the windshield wippers put up:
1948 Chevy pick up just abandoned there... it has since disappeared:
in the same spot as the chevy was this tube-frame baja Bug, abandoned in the middle of something. Sad, as it seemed to be a cool car, haha:
awesome 1969 Chevelle at a shop I usually stalk because they always have awesome cars. This seemed to have a V8 swapped in even tough it was a mexican version... and some 17 inch American wheels to boot.
And finally, the newest Mustang I've seen abandoned. Shame.
rice this time consists of a Hyundai Atos that took on a very strange effect because of the low light of the pic. I really like how it looks, haha:
There goes. dang, a lot of abandoned cars in this post.
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Actually these are all taken by Rue, I thought I'd wait till he post his and then decide which ones from my collection to post. That BB512 really is stunning.
You got it, its a replica, the registration paper on the car said it is a Volkswagen, most likely a Bug conversion. Rue and I was wondering if we should tell the truth but I guess its not easy to fool you guys
Okay, Some spots from the same day plus a few more:
Great looking Impreza, complete with two spoke rally steering wheels and one piece Recaro bucket seats.
My first white face-lift Z4, I like these above any other colour because it hides the awkward side indicator that sticks out like a sore thumb in every other colour.
Elise 111R
Finally, a Decepticon Suzuki Jimny Sierra
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A little more on the Special Series Aston I posted about last night, it turns out it is one of 3 made in the world, all 3 of which were made for the Sultan of Brunei. This one belongs to his brother Prince Jeffri who now lives on that road in London, having been ostracized for embezzling in his home country!
Today brought some more great car-spotting luck. I didn't snap pics of yet another Maserati GranTurismo or a white Gallardo with numberplate "SNO8 ELJ", but I absolutely had to photograph this, an extremely uncommon site in London:
Avro "720 Mirage" Ford GT, simply stunning. And only TEN made worldwide??
http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/220638/avro_720_mirage.html
Also here are a couple of better pictures of the similarly-coloured Aston Martin V8 Vantage:
I simply can't believe the luck I've had with spotting rare cars around my area these last few weeks.
All the best
Maz
Today brought some more great car-spotting luck. I didn't snap pics of yet another Maserati GranTurismo or a white Gallardo with numberplate "SNO8 ELJ", but I absolutely had to photograph this, an extremely uncommon site in London:
Avro "720 Mirage" Ford GT, simply stunning. And only TEN made worldwide??
http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/220638/avro_720_mirage.html
Also here are a couple of better pictures of the similarly-coloured Aston Martin V8 Vantage:
I simply can't believe the luck I've had with spotting rare cars around my area these last few weeks.
All the best
Maz
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Haha.
Okay. More today, dude.Cano
Ah, cool. 👍 Thanks, guys.
Cano
Oh, maybe, I don't know. I found out more this yesterday. It's not just a car in a barn near a house. There's more to it. See below.
Alpina B7
As discussed earlier, this is not a true B7. It's missing the dual-twin exhaust. As far as I can remember, only the Pagani Zonda has a quad exhaust.
I have about 200 photos from NYIAS that I'm trying to get posted. I should be able to get them up soon (along with my usual 'get-off-my-lawn' commentary).
On with the show:
BMW bike & sidecar ~1955
I'm not sure of the year, but I wasn't the only one taking shots of this. Some other guy held up his girlfriend for at least 10 minutes. He took photos, made phone calls...all in Italian. He didn't make a big fuss about it, but he just kept hovering around this thing. Just get your pics and move on.
Ford Thunderbird Convertible 1966
That's not paint flaking on the back, it's stickers. I guess since it's a restomod, I'll let it go, but at least try to have some taste.
Lincoln Continental convertible 1966
I love images of old New York. Anything older than 1985 gets my attention, and I was even there for quite a while before then. Move the Beetle out of the way and you'd have a perfect period shot. That gallery entrance is so choice.
Chevrolet Impala 1966
A fixer-upper, being fixed-upped.
Dodge Challenger R/T Convertible 1970
Just cruising through town. I kept missing him, but he definitely made at least three loops in the span of 15 minutes. The sound was happily hard to miss.
Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale ~1975
The name was right there, clearly visible. I had seen it, tried to remember it, then promptly forgot it. My memory sucks.
-->Fixed via buickgnx88!
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
I could have sworn the photo was better than this when I took it. I have to be more careful.
Toyota Prius HYBRID
Methinks he doth protest too much.
Audi Q7 TDI
For some reason Audi, who does quite excellently with diesel sales in Europe, is doing just about nothing in the US. That makes this just a little more rare, if not exactly special.
Volkswagen Beetle Turbo S
About as masculine as the Beetle ever got. Well, barring the barely-produced RSi.
Chrysler Crossfire SRT-6
Sleepy is right; good engine, sloppy car. Seen on the way out of NYIAS.
Nissan 350Z Nismo
"Hello, Nissan? I'd like to talk to you about how diffusers actually work...."
Lotus Elise 2007
For some reason, the exhaust was super loud. He kept revving it, too. Dude, it's NYC traffic; give it a rest. You're heading to midtown anyway. Be prepared to wait even more.
Porsche 911 GT3 997
Cell phone photos. Not bad, actually. Better than some others. Good timing, too, as the GT3 is a wonderful sight.
The Barn Yard
I finally got to get a good look at the 'barn find'. It appears to be part of the property of an auto body shop (imaginatively named "County Auto Body"). I had posted an old Mercedes SL (~1956) that was inside, and it appears that they do repairs and restorations. However, I'm not sure if they consider the heaps next door lost causes or not. There appears to be a pair of Thunderbirds there, and possibly more just out of view. I felt hesitant to go traipsing on in as it was the middle of a workday. However, they are definitely closed on Sunday. So all I have to do is find a free Sunday....
And now, your moment of zen:
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