Greetings from Brazil, the land of beautiful women and beautiful Mercedes trucks




I have some nice shots from Uruguay too which I will upload when I return home. (it's a pain to do this fro
IPhone :))

This morning I saw a right hand drive Volvo C30 on the interstate here in Virginia. It still had the British registration plates on it with the paper Virginia Temporary Tags taped over the rear one.

Today I've been on this spare parts market: http://www.historicar.net/ Nothing spectacular, so not worth a longer way. The most sellers are well known from the other events. Anyways, it was not too far away, the weather was nice and I had a bit time to gossip with old acquaintances - and to make some pics. On the big markets, far away from home there's normally no time for that.

So I can present three pics for Sandie:








A pic for rljuna2 (sorry, in the big hall it's always quite dark. With flash the pic was bad, but without not really better



A pic for the DVLA-fans:



And a pic for dsl:



...because it's an Italian import When I read this, I've immediately relized "Ah, this is the Mini, which was not assembled by Innocenti. dsl has said that!"

You've only posted a pic from a truck.

Cheers Ingo! Some nice kit cars there.

I think the first one is a Moss Malvern, second is a T&J Hornet and in the last picture is surely a Spartan and I think a Dutton Leggera.

I agree, this is disappointing

This is the only shot that I could get of the UK Volvo (first the guy was driving to slow, and then he just shot by me):


Then yesterday I went to the junkyaed to get some parts for my step mothers Explorer and I saw these maybe not really rare but they interested me:

This 1987 Chevrolet Nova CL was in surprisingly good condition save for the rust above the wheel arches, the paint was in otherwise good condition and the interior looked brand new! The upholstery looke like it had just rolled off of the show room floor.



Then I saw this 1995 Grand Cherokee Orvis Edition, funny thing is that I just found one of these on the site last week and then i find this one:




The Orvis interior looked nice in it's day especially for a Jeep:



Then I saw this 1998 Grand Cherokee Laredo with body colored cladding. I have hears of these but had never seen one, the story is that in 1998 Jeep was trying to use up the last of the ZJ parts to make way for the new WJ and made these Laredo's with the Limited interior and body cladding (I know all 98s were not this way though as I had a 'normal' 98 ZJ Laredo)

While in Buenos Aires I noticed that many of the buses and trucks have some sort of external (brake?) lines running to each wheel. Seemed to be mainly an Argentina thing. What are they / what's the reason for having them like that? Maybe Gomselmash knows.

Unfortunately I didn't take any good photo of them but here's an example via google images:

I think it's for a self-inflating tire system, or just a monitor of the air pressure.

^ that makes sense.


Chinese cars seemed very prevalent in Uruguay. Here a couple from the old city section of Colonia:

Effa Ideal


BYD F0
and a Yumbo bike. Yumbos are very common.


Lifan 320 / LF7132B
I saw several of these, they must be popular.


Geely something


no photo, but lots of Chery QQ's running around, which was funny because sometimes you see a QQ next to a Chevrolet Spark on the street!

Great Wall Deer


blurry FAW Ario
also saw a few Changan minitrucks, and lots of JAC and JMC larger trucks

Here are a few more interesting cars from Colonia, UY

Ford Victoria


Vauxhall something


Citroen Mehari; I saw a couple of these in nice shape around town


Volkswagen Amazon
What countries used that name?


Opel Rekord in nice condition


Fordson Thames used as a produce truck


Rover 75 45, maybe not that rare but was the only Rover I noticed in 3 days in UY


Ford Del Rey 2-door wagon, working hard. Lots of Del Reys of various body styles are still cruising around Brazil.


Lada Samara, still with Lada mudflaps


1975 Citroen Ami 8 Club (for Gomsel ;))


Studebaker something


NSU Prinz


the best-preserved VW Brasilia I came across


and finally, not Uruguay, but in Brazil I saw several bizarre Ford pickup creations like these.

nice, thanks for these pics

the last one has Focus taillights, right?

They do look like Focus taillights! And you're welcome


a few others I forgot:

nice Fiat 850


Ford Taunus(?) I guess


MB100(?) camper van (Buenos Aires)

The Vauxhall is a Ten or Twelve, between 1939 and 1948. The Rover is a 45, not a 75. (Just saying)

What did you mean?

The Ford is a 20 M (more chrome trims than a 17 M) P7b. It was not called Taunus.

German plates! :wow:



As from Bielefeld (BI), surely a British serviceman. At first he was a bit irritated, when I've honked, when I dove besides him. But than he realized it and smiled

Today I saw an Audi S6 with a Guernsey numberplate and a few seconds later a Dutton Phaeton.

Not the best picture, but here's a Fiat Coupe:

Where was that taken? It is already not so common, but from the plate of the car in background/left it seems to be outside Europe