Strela's Car Spotting Thread

[Donward]

Meanwhile on the highway.

 

 

When your $35,000 pickup truck doesn't have a big enough bed to hold a handful of common 2x8s.

 

[StrelaCarbon]

Since photobucket has locked all my photos on the first page behind a paywall, I'll have to dig the originals up out of my old computer. But in the meantime, enjoy this 1957 Plymouth Fury, photographed in the wild in the vast wasteland of southern Snohomish county.  

 

 

And here's some Volkswagen thing I don't know anything about: 

 

 

And I thought riced-out civics looked bad: 

 

[Meplat]

That's a "Type 3",  a "Squareback".

 

Actually not terrible cars, but still a flat four jug VW, with all the associated problems.

[StrelaCarbon]

Here's a big collection of pictures from several auctions I attended at the James G. Murphy auctioneers in Kenmore, Washington

 

Spoiler

Not a car, but it was the first thing that caught my eye: 

 

I'm sure somebody here has something like this in mind as their ideal daily driver. 

 

 

As expected, massive fleet of ex-police and fire department vehicles: 

 

 

Long line of New Flyer CNG buses awaiting sale (or the scrapheap, more likely):

 

 

 

Hey, it's that thing LooSer posted on the last page. Probably owned by a drug dealer in this case though.  

 

 

C5 Corvette; probably also owned by a drug dealer. 

 

 

So what does everyone think; Is the C4 Corvette the worst Corvette ever, or does that title go to the post-1974 C3s? 

 

 

Thankfully, they keep the good stuff inside and out of the rain:

 

 

Well, not always actually: 

 

Don't see too many of these around: 

 

 

Or these: 

 

 

Or these: 

 

 

Though these are pretty ubiquitous on college campuses:

 

 

 

 

[Meplat]

Those old Checker cabs make decent drivers.

[LoooSeR]

 No idea what it is.

[roguetechie]

It's a Russian 4x4 of some sort... I read about it on gizmag awhile ago.

 

If i find the article again I'll link it here.

[Scolopax]

It's a Sherp ATV.  I only saw the trailer wheels at first and was a bit confused.

 

[Meplat]

15 hours ago, Scolopax said:

It's a Sherp ATV.  I only saw the trailer wheels at first and was a bit confused.

 

Assuming it's a hydrostatic drive skidsteer of some sort?

[StrelaCarbon]

On 7/21/2017 at 3:21 PM, Meplat said:

Those old Checker cabs make decent drivers.

 

Yep, tough cars. And much more interesting than the Priuses that are coming to dominate the taxi market where I live.   

 

[Ramlaen]

Dead men tell no tales.

 

[Donward]

Spotted at Long Beach, WA.

 

 

[Donward]

Spotted this on I-90 in Spokane yesterday.

 

 

Boat-Car?

[Donward]

I didn't personally spot this (a friend did) but too good not to post.

 

 

[LoooSeR]

Some less boring cars that i saw on the streets of St.Petersburg.

Last year

 

2-3 months ago. This is some sort of search/inspection complex for law enforcements. This thing is huge, was escorted by 2 police cars, you can see back end of front police Mercedes.

 

about a month ago.