Subject: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
10/01/2020 @ 01:40:57: Baube: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
They should offer an electric version and call it Watt The.. :grin:
11/01/2020 @ 02:53:31: Exiv96: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
It's from Subaru Singapore.

https://jalopnik.com/the-subaru-fucks-is-a-sweet-little-sport-wagon-1840906483
11/01/2020 @ 03:48:43: Exiv96: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Imagine that these won't be so unusual to North American posters, but they weren't sold here and I suspect the EU-spec (this one is from NL by the plate) ones have all but died out now:
https://i.ibb.co/7n0f7MJ/IMG-20200105-121117.jpg


What is unusual is the headlights. For once, ours were flush and the European version were not. Same with the Grand Prix of that era.


I suspect some custom work, as ours had composite headlamps by that point like night cub said. Also looking at those screws(?) and blue tape over the sealed low-beams.


The blue tape over the headlights might be a crude attempt to correct their LHD geometry for british roads. The reverse of what british drivers did when holidaying on the continent, using black stickers over the headlights of their Cavaliers, Ambassadors and Sierra Sapphires (all towing caravans, obvs).

As for the car, it is indeed a Euro-spec Beretta. I remember the early ones, around 1990-91, kept their original headlights, but for some reason, when 1992 came, most EU-spec GM cars got uglified with sealed-beams their north-american brethren never got.

But here's the odd thing : the dutch "AH" plate series is for imported oldtimers ! And yet there it is, issued on 28-03-2000 for an eight-year-old car. The first registration dates from 20-01-1992.
11/01/2020 @ 21:27:10: Gamer: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Something for dhill_cb7 perhaps?
https://i.imgur.com/7JE5SCQ.jpg

Didn't think much about it from afar, but somehow it looked more US spec than German, and it appeared to have amber indicators and no repeater. Good thing I checked...
12/01/2020 @ 19:06:32: Baube: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Nintendo fan ? :grin:
20/01/2020 @ 10:04:33: Skywatcher68: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Look at all these tons of vehicles reenacting a WWI British military convoy!
09/02/2020 @ 20:35:38: Gamer: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Some older pictures I didn't get around to posting until now.

When was the last time I saw one of these? 2011? 2012? Doesn't matter, main thing is that this one is still alive, and in fabulous condition at that:
https://i.imgur.com/rITJXWY.jpg

I still see the facelift a lot, but the prefacelift caught me so by surprise that I had to take a picture:
https://i.imgur.com/y6WjjIC.jpg
10/02/2020 @ 22:47:29: 3loader: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
https://thumbs2.imagebam.com/0c/ab/6e/ec4fc31333691631.jpg
https://thumbs2.imagebam.com/19/35/51/a1b1a41333691626.jpg
17/02/2020 @ 17:22:18: chicomarx: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Spotted this afternoon... a johnfromstaffs doppelganger. Right-hand drive. Silver Cloud?
http://home.scarlet.be/jdc/pics/WP_20200217_14_28_41_Proa.jpg
http://home.scarlet.be/jdc/pics/WP_20200217_14_28_41_Prob.jpg
21/02/2020 @ 15:21:06: Terra: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
https://i.imgur.com/jPdWUue.jpg

Spotted this rare Mitsubishi Raider yesterday while out. Haven't seen one in years.
03/03/2020 @ 18:33:24: Sandie: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Canadian spec?
https://i.ibb.co/Y7qP5G5/IMG-20200303-140640.jpg
03/03/2020 @ 19:18:15: Mystery Man: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Two different rear lights. This looks quite ugly.
https://i.ibb.co/wMhRbpf/c3e4bf6a-c45a-4111-89c9-fe5068abacf6.jpg

Which Toyota model is it? Is it JDM-spec?
https://i.ibb.co/Vmct7FF/75905272-0271-450d-bfa0-b7bf0fadcb40.jpg

Found by chance in very old, non-digital, photos: 1999 Škoda Felicia Fun
https://i.ibb.co/4S21w6n/849a3c1f-8213-4ae3-99f6-7633c77406c1.jpg
04/03/2020 @ 17:29:31: Exiv96: interesting/funny/special cars sightings


It's a "general export" spec Land Cruiser [J76]. Not officially sold in Europe by Toyota, but some grey importers sell them.
05/03/2020 @ 00:33:29: dsl: interesting/funny/special cars sightings

Probably about 1980 - I'd guess either CDN or J spec - both were fairly similar and there are comments that the final batch due to go to CDN that year was pulled, tweaked, and sent to J instead. The bigger sidelights and wing reflectors were shared, and I think after CDN got strange mid-70s high-level bumpers they may have reverted to more normal ones at the end. Is it RHD or LHD?? (although I'm not sure if J Minis were always RHD, such as that final re-assigned CDN batch which in a small book photo looks LHD).
05/03/2020 @ 00:35:50: dsl: interesting/funny/special cars sightings


Yes - SC1 or SC2, Standard Steel Saloon as jfs likes to say.
15/03/2020 @ 19:32:10: MisterZ: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Never seen one of these before in Australia: https://i.ibb.co/2jcVcXG/thumbnail-20200316-010310.jpg

Registration plate says it's a 2008 model, imported into Australia in 2012.
17/03/2020 @ 00:38:48: MisterZ: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Just saw a *brand-new* Diamond Reo truck!
17/03/2020 @ 15:04:21: opal: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
1989 Eagle Type 20R
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1n21qs9To

Not a single unit sold, only one ever made for Japan. It's now abandoned somewhere in Saitama.
https://twitter.com/634CB_Synthesis/status/533237589428293633
18/03/2020 @ 05:33:38: Ddey65: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Just saw a *brand-new* Diamond Reo truck!

Is there any chance it might've been that last Diamond Reo "Red Giant?"



https://www.flickr.com/photos/156303665@N04/40460802184
18/03/2020 @ 08:04:32: eLMeR: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Or a T-line truck?
https://tlinetrucks.com/glider-kits-2/
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