I find nice when car dealers have this kind of clean old showcars
There is a Lancia dealer near where I live which has an old model in the showroom since years:

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local Subaru dealer have 60's 360 model.

It's a Beta Coupé or Spider

That's interesting Most dealer in our market usually put at the rear or boot. Some dealer sell with the licence plate frame as well. I have the dealer sticker above the 'Aveo5' script on my car.

I find nice when car dealers have this kind of clean old showcars
There is a Lancia dealer near where I live which has an old model in the showroom since years:[/quote]

The Opel-dealer in the next village, where I bring the Vectra for "official" repairs, has even an own, quite large collection of classic Opels, from the 20ies upwards to the GT. Once my wife became slightly angry, when she looked for the new Mokka, an I've shouted clearly through the showroom "Naah, this is Korean made plastic shit. I want to have this nicer car!" and have shown to the black 1951 Kapitän behind

The old-established Fiat/Lancia/Alfa-dealer in my village has a Fulvia Coupé in smooth racing trim in his showroom. But I haven't seen it any more in the last days. Maybe because the classic car-season had started now (with a plenty of weeks of delay due the shitty weather ), hopefuly not, because its place has to be wasted for a Lancia Voyager or Thema or such shit

Other car-dealers around have also own classics in the stock. The VW-dealer here has an Ovali and its colleague in the next town an 1971 Audi 100, the local Ford-dealer (where the owner has the big Mustang-faible) has a 17M [P3] Deutsch Cabriolet. But these three classics are in not really good an acceptable condition, the Deutsch-Cabrio is the worst.

In the past, the 60ies and 70ies, it was common in Germany, that dealers had a little aluminium-sticker as a dealers-logo. Often they placed it at the back, but sometimes at the botton of the front wing, between wheel and door.
These stickers are very nice, much higher quality - but with a terrible disadvantage: you cannot remove them. No chance, they break in every case

@rjluna2: in the 60ies and earlier several large US-dealerships had real badges, shaped from aluminium and mounted with screws on the cars. They are very high-priced collectibes! With those, I've picked up on junkyards at my autodriveaway-trip across the USA in 1993, I could make good money afterwards
@our US-fellows here: if you can find/dig out/swipe them, take them all! The freaks will give you hard money for it.


If this dealer knows, where his cars go around?



Spotted on 16.October 2012 - in Wonsan/North Korea

In Germany this manner is usual in Bavaria and other parts of the South.

Ford Escape Hybrid with diplomatic plates:

In France they do that very often too. In French-speaking Belgium it is less common (nowadays - it was common before).

Few pics from the last few days:

First - small collection of the (obviously) rare today 1970's cars:
Someone's hidden 504:


VW 1302:


Opel Ascona B:


And for dessert, to the "US version cars in Europe" set... the Tempo, Ford Tempo

EDIT: Imageshack lost the pics - dead links have been removed.

Wow, nice find

1988-91 version.

Another Beetle:


I like the colour.

The other day, I followed this 1973 Olds/Hurst in New Jersey. Didn't have classic tags either:


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This weekend was my favourite classic car event, http://oldtimermarkt-bockhorn.com/ (except in 2005 I've been there every year since 1991).

Many cars and people I've seen already in the last years, but this was, IIRC my first sight of a



I think, this car was there for the first time, too. To take these pics, specially for dsl and cl82, I was even very impolite to my fellows! When I spotted it out an eyes' corner, I interrumpted out talk with a "Not now!" and ran away. Otherwise: this is an absolute typical behaviour of the most car-maniacs, running around there every time. It's in fact one of the biggest reasons, to visit this event, not only looking for spare parts.

The only Opel, I could be interested in as a car-connaisseur:

Lots of nice photos on this page

US-specs VW Passat:

I saw a car with an unusual plate this morning:



A Toyota Yaris Verso, but as it was RHD, I would guess that it is a Toyota Fun Cargo, with a Japanese licence plate?

Wasn't able to get a picture but I encountered a red '62 Studebaker Lark just a few minutes ago.