Volvo never makes motorcycles, but here's a rare image of a Volvo BX60 motorcycle (For the sad biker )

Must be a safe bike..

some guy : " I want the new Pontiac Banshee ! "
Pontiac salesman : " But its a concept car Sir, its not for sale "
some guy : " Ok then, i'll do one myself ! "

And this is how a 1985 Pontiac Trans Am was ...well... introduced to some amateur car plastic surgeon
( ok, its only a theory.. )




not sure if it was for the milleage or the original look ( or mix of both ) but value was estimated to $10,800 according to Copart

It's copy of Knight 4000.
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_6322-Dodge-Stealth-B7-1991.html

On 2018, there was a meme called Thanos Car, it looks like Thanos when he turns into a truck

Fun Fact: The Thanos Car is based on either a Ford F-150 or Toyota Tacoma

Under this horrible mess a poor Toyota Tacoma is suffering...

i wonder what they did with the turn signals.. they were in the bumper for that gen

The pic above reminds me this interesting, nowadays nearly forgotten historic episode:
the coffee smuggling from Belgium to Germany in the late 40ies:

https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/schmuggel-in-der-nachkriegszeit-a-948482.html

because the police used some -very early- Porsche 356 with iron brushes under the front (see pics 2, 3, 4)


@antp, @chicomarx, @Exiv96: what's up with the "Belgian armoured car, make Blendy"? (pic 11)
I've never heard that name.


What make is the large US Limousine on page 12?


To pic 18 and 20: "This Dodge car was owned by the Belgian Jupp Hons, who smuggled over 30 tons coffee to Germany.


Coffee smuggling was a big business back then, because there was a high tax of coffee in Germany.

The tax still exists, but it was lowered
- but it's still worth for Germans, living close to the border to Belgium and the Netherlands for shopping coffee there.


In that Belgian-German border area there still are some funny bilateral topics.
Not as bizarre as in

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau

but stil intersting.
So there is a bicycle route on Belgian ground, going through Germany:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vennbahn

There is also a German federal road for 3 km on Belgian ground, so it has the Belgian speed limit 90.
The road has no connection to the Belgian streets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe_258

When you enter the parking in Konzen and walk in the nature reserve Hohes Venn/Haute Fagne, you are passing 4x the German-Belgian border within 300 meters.

Our doggie made me pondering, when she made a big poo there:
the dog cowered in Belgium, but the poo plopped on German ground - where I had to pay the punishment, because I didn't pick it up?

Surprised to see a dead coffee smuggler there... Apparently you used to shoot with real bullets.
I'm in the border region and they used to smuggle tons of butter from Holland, which was just a cat and mouse game with the police, for any confiscated butter the customs people would get 10% of the value, so they would just be released and continue immediately. But in Germany in the post-war years the customs officers were sometimes ex-Wehrmacht, who weren't joking.

That reminds me of https://imcdb.org/vehicle_412475-Chevrolet-Task-Force-1955.html

looks like that old Chevy could use a cup of coffee... or two...

I typed in 'engrish spare tire cover' on a whim and this was the first thing that came up, without a context, from Aliexpress.

This is how workers paint parking lines in Russia

Not sure if this is taken in Russia or not, but it's kinda hard for me to tell

It's Kazakhstan by the plate in the background. 01 - Astana (or - grmph - Nur-Sultan, as it is called now...)

Was looking up an address near me on Google Street View and got this:
GoogleStreetView-102x

That is one extra-long Chevy Express Van!!

Now they won't be only known for their good service, they'll be known for using long, long unusual vans too..

Not really funny by itself but...

Proof that JDM vehicles were popular in the Russian Far East even in the 1940s. Nissan 180 in the car park of a kolkhoz in Buryatia in 1948.

the David and Goliath story, towing edition

Goliath


David



according to them , its a 1991 Mazda ( or Autozam ? ) Scrum that was reinforced, rear part was custom build and it has a 9,000 pounds wrench

Must have been one of those cars our/Manchurian Army officials rode around that were captured by the Soviet horde in the last days of the War

Apparently that's how the last surviving Toyoda AA ended up in a Siberian farm, and I'm sure this Datsun has a similar backstory...