I spotted this rare bird while out over the memorial day weekend with my friend Paul. In order to protect the location of this exceedingly rare car, I’m going to refrain from providing any specific location. Suffice to say, it’s somewhere in Raleigh.
I almost forgot to share this slightly depressing automotive experience from the Great American Road Trip with you all! Shame on me. These photos were taken in charming Grand Island, Nebraska - which is neither Grand, nor a freaking Island. Oh well. All four of these weird cars were sitting at the local “u park it, u sell it” location… which I love.
This shot shows all four masterpieces, sitting and rotting away. From left to right: an MGB-GT, two Triumph TR-7’s, and an ancient Porsche 924.
Spotted this gem while I was sitting outside my local Starbucks today, sipping on a cold beverage. This is, apparently, a prototype for the upcoming “Short Bus” edition Mustang Cobra.
Rumor has it that it’s powered by a twin-charged Honda F20C from the S2000, has all-wheel-drive from the Subaru WRX STi Type RA Spec C 5.9 Cummins Type-R LSD R1 Turbo, and that each door comes complete with a poorly made vinyl silhoutte of an utterly retarded Horse on the side. This will be a serious performance car - Lotus had better watch it’s puny little back. Those Elise’s are going to be littering the sides of the road, doors blown clear off, like so many dead leaves during the cold nights of Autumn…
I was on my way to class the other day when i spotted this parked next to a curb on campus at UNC Chapel Hill. I so rarely see them that I figured it warranted a few pictures. It’s an early-90’s Subaru SVX, known in it’s native Japan as the Alcyone SVX. It was the replacement for the unsellable but loveably strange XT coupe of the 80’s - the one that looks like a door wedge, has a one-spoke steering wheel, electrohydraulic steering and some bizarre adjustable ride height feature. Coming from that perspective, I suppose the SVX was a bit normal. Compared to most cars, though…
The PCA (Porsche Club of America, as opposed to the SPCA) has a relatively strong presence in my locale of Raleigh, NC. Maybe it’s because Raleigh is one of those booming up-and-coming towns, but when there is an “exotic car show”, the turnout is always impressive. I’ll begin with this little gem of a picture:
The Antique Automobile Club of America hosts a show every year at historic Oakwood Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. Although this year’s turnout was smaller than normal (probably due to the ever-rising price of gas), the turnout was still quite impressive. Here are a few of the gems from the show.
Saw these two behind where I work the other day. Almost drove past the Smart, then saw the second car and figured this warranted some pictures.
Got a flat tonight on my way home from Denny’s. I figured it would be a nail or a sidewall puncture or something. But no. It was half of a freaking Leatherman Multi-Tool. Holy crap. Check out the carnage. More pics after the jump, plus a bonus.
Many people consider Raleigh to be somewhat of a dead town when it comes to exciting or interesting cars. But if you keep a sharp eye out, you occasionally find some gems in amoung the thousands of Camrys and Explorers. For instance:
