I saw one of these

yesterday at my store. It's a mid-60's Mercury Meteor. I didn't get a photo though because the guys who looked like they owned it were kinda deep in conversation so I didn't want to interrupt them. Also the other day I spoke with a man who drove into the gas station in a '65 T-Bird. Beautiful car. He said he had a '61 in baby blue at home too. I saw that just the other day. I'll try to get photos up.

Today I saw them again:
http://imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=140306#AddComment

And a few kilometers later, a guy on a -probably Indian made- Royal Enfield.

On a short shopping trip today to Holland I've smiled, when I saw on the supermarket-parking an Aixam-microcar. Quite smashed and damaged, but pimped! Pimped with a faked license-plate "YAMAHA" (blue with black letters) over the regular plate, the NL-typical small yellow scooter-plate. And pimped with a lot of "YAMAHA" and "SUZUKI"-stickers.
The owner was a proud Dutchman - he weared "Klomps", the classic wooden shoes.

On the way back, in Germany again, I wondered "Where the hell this strange oily smell is coming from?". Then I saw the reason, a MZ ETZ 250 with sidecar.

@Ingo: off topic, but do you still cross into Holland to shop? I remember back in the late 60s, before the EU sorted out food prices, not only Germans from the Ruhrgebiet but also British forces wives from Mönchen Gladbach used to flock to Venlo on Saturday mornings to do the weekly shop (our hotel was on the way into town from the Keulse Barrière border crossing). Registrations from Essen, D-dorf, Neuss, Köln ...
I bought some biscuits at the Twee Gebroeders van Venlo supermarket and mentioned this to the guy on the checkout. 'Did you notice?' he said with a big smile. 'The prices in D-Marks are about a third higher than the guilder prices. The British, of course, we charge the guilder price whatever they pay with.'
Well, it was only twenty-three years after 1945 ...

@chris: yes, we do. But I go to Winterswijk, because it's closer for me. When I visit my sister's familiy near Neuss, I usually go back by passing Venlo - to fill up Diesel.

Every Saturday Venlo is full with German shopping-tourists, other towns in the border-area, too. But for people from the Ruhr-area Venlo is most popular. On Saturday there is a big food-market, in Winterswijk and Roermond, too.
The shop "De drie broeders van Venlo" still exists.

The main reasons to go to Holland for shopping are: Diesel, LPG-Autogas, coffee, cigaretts -yes, Marihuana, too- , some clothes, and also fresh fish, cheese, flowers, plants, and other Dutch specialties, too.

But you must look on the prices, not everything is cheaper. So regular fuel is more expensive than in Germany, alcohol, some kind of food and restaurants, too. So there are several Dutch people going shopping in Germany.

To that location:
http://www.designer-outlet-roermond.com/
the people are coming from far away. So the street from Mönchengladbach along the British Army Barracks to Roermond stucks with traffic every weekend (the Autobahn is still in work)

In the other direction a ot of Dutch and Belgian people go there: http://www.centro.de/
Forget to go there on Saturdays, it's horrible.


To both locations I have personal memories:
a) before the outlet in Roermond was built, there was a dark parking lot, besides an abandoned factory. In 1998 my K 70 and some others of my friends were broken of, while we've made a visit in the old town of Roermond

b) a mistake by the erecting of the Centro Oberhausen has destroyed original NSU-spare-parts in the value of 100 000 D-Mark. There was only one small open channel, in which all the rain-water from the whole construction-area could flood out. Once around 1994 or 1995 there was a big rainstorm, so the channel was overfilled - and the water had filled the cellar and the garages of a friend of mine, one of the bosses of a NSU-club, who was living besides that channel.
Later on, he had to fight at the courthouse, to get a compensation for the mistake of the planners. Finally they paid it.

I saw a nice Mexican VW Beetle today.

Nice. It looks like a model from the 80s or 90s

I was in the city over the weekend, but unfortunatly didn't get any pics:
Maserati 2000 coupe-red, very nice condition
Ferrari 360 Convertible-also red, looked very cool
Citroen 2CV-white, okay conditon
Audi R8-also white (okayit was at the Audi dealer)
Morris Monor 1000-another white car, it looked like it was a very early model
Rover unkown-looked cool, 3.5 litre
Citroen DS-grey, looked very cool, as DS's do

Yesterday I went to Goodwood Festival of Speed and the pictures I have will blow away everything else mentioned here!

Tucker Torpedo


THREE Bugatti Veyrons in the same place! (16.4, San Noir and FBG Par Hermes)


2008 Maserati GranTurismo S


2008 Gumpert Apollo Sport


2008 Spyker C8 Laviolette


2008 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione


2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8


2008 Weissmann GT MF5


KTM


Ariel Atom 500 (500BHP!)


2008 Ferrari F430 Scuderia


2008 Ferrari 599 GTB


Mercedes CLK63 AMG Black (the same one that was on Top Gear a few weeks ago) and Mercedes SL63 AMG


2008 Aston Martin V12 Vantage RS


2008 Aston Martin DBS


2008 Concept Climax


Ferrari (don't know which one)


1971 Lancia Stratos HF Prototipo


1927 Mercedes-Benz 680S "Torpedo Roadster"


1968 Bizzarrini Manta


1970 AMC AMX/3


1930 Mercedes-Benz 38/250 Tourer


1930 Mercedes-Benz 710 SSK "Trossi Roadster"


Ford GT90


1999 Bugatti Chiron 18.3


1997 Volkswagen W12 Syncro Coupe


1986 Peugeot Proxima


Every year at the Festival of Speed they put a big metal structure with cars attached to it.


Pagani Zonda


Koenigsegg


Mercedes concept car


A Porsche 4x4, never seen this before


A hardtop version of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead, due to be released later this year. People kept crowding around it so I couldn't get a very good photo.


Ferrari F50


Peugeot 308 coupe


Tesla Roadster


Alfa Romeo


McLaren Formula 1 cars from over the years


Mercedes McLaren SLR Roadster


Morgan concept car


Citroen high-performace hybrid car


Ferrari F1 cars


1967 Ferrari 312/68
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1971 Porsche 911 RSR and 1968 Porsche 910


Bentley


Jaguar SS


Jaguar


1969 McLaren-Cosworth M7C


Parajet Skycar


And in the car park on the way out I saw this Alfa Romeo


I have a few pictures but that's enough for now.

Nice cars!
I also wonder what is that Porsche 4x4...

About the Tucker, it is the nr 1049, as it is the only one in Europe and with matching color: http://www.tuckerclub.org/html/see_a_tucker.php
http://www.tuckertorpedo49.com/

The Porsche 4x4 is a 597 Jagdswagen. They designed them for the military, but it ended up being too expensive.

Are all those concept cars (Ford, Volkswagen, Peugeot, Bugatti) privately owned? There's no displays or even tents around them, which seems like the minimum their manufacturer would do if they were exhibiting them.

I was very surprised to see they had an AMX/3 there. There's 47 Tuckers remaining, but AMC only made 7 AMX/3s, and one of those doesn't run.

The concept cars belong to the car companies. There no tents or displays around them because they've been entered into a group which is kind of like a beauty pageant for cars, they all sit on a lawn outside Goodwood house. Each car only has a plaque in front of it with information about the car.

I don't know G-MANN, this Hyundai with hood-scoops might blow your doors off!

Some unusual vehicles I've photographed:

Sterling 827 in Sausolito, California 2006:


Interesting VW in Ensenada, Mexico 2007:


VW "Citi" Golf in Alloway, Scotland 2005:


Datsun Laurel in Sudak, Ukraine 2008:


This offended me. I thought of starting a thread dedicated to it, but figured it better belonged in here:

I thought this was an interesting assortment of taxis.

I should have had my camera on me, but last night I saw a Subaru 360 in the grocery store parking lot.

Check this out,a Nissan S-Cargo

There was a purple Porsche 911 "964" parked at the other side of my office's building, with a "RS.964" licence plate (such personalized plates are less common in Belgium than in USA), but I was too lazy to go back there to take a picture (maybe tomorrow if it is still there)

mmmm... wonderful, thank you

But I fail to see the interesting part? Crown Vic- of course, Voyager- of course, Intrepid- more rare, but not unheard of.

Saw one in Hamilton a month or so ago, a man in a mascot suit was driving it around.