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Saw one of these a couple days ago with Utah plates on it:
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That S2000 is ace, Rue.
OK, post time. First, a really hot hatch, a Seat Ibiza Cupra R, which is a pretty limited production run of the Ibiza with the 1.8 litre turbo engine off the Seat Leon Cupra R; the thing puts down 180 hp and weighs as much as a Polo, so it GOES. It also sports Leon Cupra R wheels and some body stuff to look the part.
Amazing, absolutely pristine –and award-winning, I know the car- 1959 Plymouth Valiant that has been restored beyond belief. I in fact loved to see it in the street as I thought the car was never used. You should smell the interior of this thing.
1959 Ford languishing inside a building’s parking lot, but it is absolutely pristine, however the guard of the building wouldn’t let me take it’s picture, so this will have to do until I catch it out in the street.
Check out that shape, that is a 1962 Volvo 544 under that tarp, of course without it’s front end on, even the hub caps said “Evolve”; the car belongs to a guy who, in the building outside of which the Volvo is tossed, has about… what? 40 classic cars ranging from a 60s Corvette to a MG TC and a wood Chrysler Town & Country. No pictures allowed whatsoever, of course.
Nearby sits this 1952 Chevy hardtop in pretty decent shape with steel wheels, I’d instead rock the stock hubcaps with steelies, then lower it to an insane level, and leave the rest alone.
Pretty and number-clad MGA in a lift getting its guts checked. It’s obviously not a race car but I approve of any street car that wears numbers.
Not really rare but I freaking love the front design of this model Suzuki GSX:
Ah, this. This Porsche 911 wears a custom Turbo setup fed by a 48 IDF Weber carb, it goes 12.6 in the quarter and has around 350 hp, it’s quite cool and I know all of this because I know the owner, he is quite the Porsche enthusiast and has two more vintage 911s, including a Targa. These pictures, however, were shot around a flea market we both frequent because we both collect die cast cars.
1954 Chevrolet Station Wagon from the days before two-door wagons and nomads, it was in pretty good shape considering these things are very prone to rust, and it’s also a relatively rare car to come across.
This car truly blew my mind. A cousin tells me “lets go see a Cadillac nearby” and takes me to this thing. Just check out how good it is. It’s pristine. And it’s just sitting there, decaying. 1964 Seville as I recall. It doesn’t need a thing. Just air the tires, hop in and drive. Or let it sit and rot -_-.
Art trough rust:
Nearby the Cadoo, we turn a corner and find this:
It was a very pleasant surprise. I later found out this place is called “the Peugeot block” by those who know it, and all the cars belong to one guy. They all are Peugeots 403s and 404s from the late 50s to the mid 60s in various states of preservation, including a pretty damn rare station wagon.
Heartbeat-paint 1955 Chevy pick up truck with stock wheels and hubcaps, which was a surprise considering the horrid paintjob on the thing. I’d drive it.
Finally, here goes a cool story, the next three cars (and others that’ll appear lateron) turned out to be owned by a guy who I later ran across in the website of the local Hot Wheels club, to whom I sold some cars and when he told me where he lived, I told him “ah yeah, by the Cadillacs”, and he said yeah, they’re my dad’s”. First one is a 1970 Cadillac complete with 472ci or 500ci power, the biggest engines ever put into a production car, 500 lb/ft of torque to your front wheels.
Next up is a cool 1962 Cadillac 4 door which is complete although it appears otherwise in the pictures, they have all the stuff that’s missing, and the engine runs.
And finally, an incredibly rare Borgward coupe, rare in two door trim. This one is lacking everything.
And now the sad story: as the city’s government is conducting a cleaning program that takes away the abandoned cars in the street, about a month ago a row of tow trucks came and took away the 1970 Cadillac, the Borgward and other cars they had (like the Chevelle behind the 62 and the Econoline you can see in the background, wearing Kelsey-Hayes wheels) to an impound lot. They need to pay some heavy fees to retrieve them, but I was told they’re gonna save them. It’s gonna be like usd $3000 to get them back, but what the heck. The 62 Cadoo was in their garage (along a 1955 Cadillac two-door and a 1974 Monaco ex-California-Cop-Car with a 440) and was saved of this untimely destiny. I hope I’ll be reporting soon here that the cars are again embellishing the urban scenery.
OK, post time. First, a really hot hatch, a Seat Ibiza Cupra R, which is a pretty limited production run of the Ibiza with the 1.8 litre turbo engine off the Seat Leon Cupra R; the thing puts down 180 hp and weighs as much as a Polo, so it GOES. It also sports Leon Cupra R wheels and some body stuff to look the part.
Amazing, absolutely pristine –and award-winning, I know the car- 1959 Plymouth Valiant that has been restored beyond belief. I in fact loved to see it in the street as I thought the car was never used. You should smell the interior of this thing.
1959 Ford languishing inside a building’s parking lot, but it is absolutely pristine, however the guard of the building wouldn’t let me take it’s picture, so this will have to do until I catch it out in the street.
Check out that shape, that is a 1962 Volvo 544 under that tarp, of course without it’s front end on, even the hub caps said “Evolve”; the car belongs to a guy who, in the building outside of which the Volvo is tossed, has about… what? 40 classic cars ranging from a 60s Corvette to a MG TC and a wood Chrysler Town & Country. No pictures allowed whatsoever, of course.
Nearby sits this 1952 Chevy hardtop in pretty decent shape with steel wheels, I’d instead rock the stock hubcaps with steelies, then lower it to an insane level, and leave the rest alone.
Pretty and number-clad MGA in a lift getting its guts checked. It’s obviously not a race car but I approve of any street car that wears numbers.
Not really rare but I freaking love the front design of this model Suzuki GSX:
Ah, this. This Porsche 911 wears a custom Turbo setup fed by a 48 IDF Weber carb, it goes 12.6 in the quarter and has around 350 hp, it’s quite cool and I know all of this because I know the owner, he is quite the Porsche enthusiast and has two more vintage 911s, including a Targa. These pictures, however, were shot around a flea market we both frequent because we both collect die cast cars.
1954 Chevrolet Station Wagon from the days before two-door wagons and nomads, it was in pretty good shape considering these things are very prone to rust, and it’s also a relatively rare car to come across.
This car truly blew my mind. A cousin tells me “lets go see a Cadillac nearby” and takes me to this thing. Just check out how good it is. It’s pristine. And it’s just sitting there, decaying. 1964 Seville as I recall. It doesn’t need a thing. Just air the tires, hop in and drive. Or let it sit and rot -_-.
Art trough rust:
Nearby the Cadoo, we turn a corner and find this:
It was a very pleasant surprise. I later found out this place is called “the Peugeot block” by those who know it, and all the cars belong to one guy. They all are Peugeots 403s and 404s from the late 50s to the mid 60s in various states of preservation, including a pretty damn rare station wagon.
Heartbeat-paint 1955 Chevy pick up truck with stock wheels and hubcaps, which was a surprise considering the horrid paintjob on the thing. I’d drive it.
Finally, here goes a cool story, the next three cars (and others that’ll appear lateron) turned out to be owned by a guy who I later ran across in the website of the local Hot Wheels club, to whom I sold some cars and when he told me where he lived, I told him “ah yeah, by the Cadillacs”, and he said yeah, they’re my dad’s”. First one is a 1970 Cadillac complete with 472ci or 500ci power, the biggest engines ever put into a production car, 500 lb/ft of torque to your front wheels.
Next up is a cool 1962 Cadillac 4 door which is complete although it appears otherwise in the pictures, they have all the stuff that’s missing, and the engine runs.
And finally, an incredibly rare Borgward coupe, rare in two door trim. This one is lacking everything.
And now the sad story: as the city’s government is conducting a cleaning program that takes away the abandoned cars in the street, about a month ago a row of tow trucks came and took away the 1970 Cadillac, the Borgward and other cars they had (like the Chevelle behind the 62 and the Econoline you can see in the background, wearing Kelsey-Hayes wheels) to an impound lot. They need to pay some heavy fees to retrieve them, but I was told they’re gonna save them. It’s gonna be like usd $3000 to get them back, but what the heck. The 62 Cadoo was in their garage (along a 1955 Cadillac two-door and a 1974 Monaco ex-California-Cop-Car with a 440) and was saved of this untimely destiny. I hope I’ll be reporting soon here that the cars are again embellishing the urban scenery.
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Awesome pictures Cano, lot's of cool old cars!
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Art trough rust:
ME LIKE 👍
Here's some of mine from the last 2 days:
CT-R & Jägermeister coloured BMW
BMW E30 M3 wannabe (or converted to RHD)
And the surprise of the day for me, I've never really been taken by the Audi Q5, but this ABT model really pressed the right buttons for me. I absolutely loved it:
And then this morning, an even bigger surprise, the last "Alfa Romeo" made Alfa Romeo (before Fiat took over), in MINT COND
Alfa Romeo 75
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I can not make out the make, but splendid restoration:
It looks a lot like a Wartburg (311 or 312) to me, but neither the grill or the badge seem to match
The emblem on the badge also looks to have the shape of France on it. I wonder if it was also made and sold in France as something else?
I fear the shape of France looked very unintentional, its just a bunch of scratches that avoided to see what is underneath.
There was a emblem inside, but also there no luck to read anything on it.
It's a 1954 Renault Frégate - hence the France map over the brand's typical losangle
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More interesting stuff from today:
A really really mint CR-X, could have been restored, it had a brand new bucket seat in with the wraps still on... This is possibly the best looking CR-X I've ever seen.
Just when I was done drooling over the photos of the CR-X, this came by
Later this evening, a nicely kitted MR-S
And a sexy Italian in a red outfit
A car from Stuttgart
And a car from Bavaria
A really really mint CR-X, could have been restored, it had a brand new bucket seat in with the wraps still on... This is possibly the best looking CR-X I've ever seen.
Just when I was done drooling over the photos of the CR-X, this came by
Later this evening, a nicely kitted MR-S
And a sexy Italian in a red outfit
A car from Stuttgart
And a car from Bavaria
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I wish I knew the legislation a bit better, because if that were true half the cars in HK will be impounded. Traffic problems, air and noise pollution would be solved! 👍
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Firebird
Cayman, I liked the wheels
Old Chrysler?
SVT Cobra with free hand pinstripe
Z06
911, I like moving shots
Joey, you need this wing
Barracuda
SSR
I wish I could of got more pictures, but this was it
New Mercedes something
Maserati GT
Bentley Conti
Viper, pro at parking
Pretty nice G37S
M6 with a nice lip, and sounded good
Camaro
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A few more from my phone at work.
RS6
Old Bel-Air
Cayman, I liked the wheels
Old Chrysler?
SVT Cobra with free hand pinstripe
Z06
911, I like moving shots
Joey, you need this wing
Barracuda
SSR
I wish I could of got more pictures, but this was it
New Mercedes something
Maserati GT
Bentley Conti
Viper, pro at parking
Pretty nice G37S
M6 with a nice lip, and sounded good
Camaro
Edit
A few more from my phone at work.
RS6
Old Bel-Air
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Nice 1960 Chevrolet!
there's a red convertible one parked outside a classic car garage here in Mumbai, that i see very often, but the guy who owns the garage doesn't like pics taken.
there's a red convertible one parked outside a classic car garage here in Mumbai, that i see very often, but the guy who owns the garage doesn't like pics taken.
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
No, no nonono, that is not a "Firebird", that is a 1969 Trans Am!!!! you dude, have spotted one of the rarest cars in this entire freaking thread. Acoording to Wikipedia:
If that one is real, that is an incredible, INCREDIBLE spot, Nismo!!!! got dang awesome. If it's a clone, it's still cool.
About the others: yes, it seeems to be a Chrysler, awesome 80s-hangover pro-street Dart, cool 69 Camaro and the 60 Chevy hass loads of potential... awesome post yet again, man. Bravo.
