Excellent examples of cars you kind forgot about

I caw a Cadillac Allante the other day on the road. It looked OK. Every time I see one I think: "Het!! Somebody bought one" Just like the Chrysler TC by Maserati".

Flying the shells to Italy and back has to be one of the silliest manufacturing schemes I ever heard of.

http://www.allante.4t.com/history.html

I see a Chrysler TC in the local supermarket parking lot every few weeks. I haven't figured out who owns it, but it seems to be a regular driver. There's a Vega Kammback that shows up pretty often too.

David S. Wallens wrote: As I walked out of the office yesterday evening, an early, clean-looking Porsche 928 drove by.

Hey,

You weren't driving or stopped at a light. Where's the picture?

mndsm wrote: Goddamn cabovers!

You should have seen that coming.

Rupert wrote: In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:That's probably because truckers consider the hood ornament on a cabover tractor to provide about the same level of accident safety as the hood ornament on a VW bus. Either way, the driver arrives at the scene of the crash way too soon!

Well I think it's more that they weren't necessary anymore because there aren't length restrictions anymore. I believe Freightliner was the last ones to produce one in the US.

Rupert wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: As I walked out of the office yesterday evening, an early, clean-looking Porsche 928 drove by.

Hey, You weren't driving or stopped at a light. Where's the picture?

I know, I should just mount a camera to a hat and wear it 24/7.

On a semi-related note, I saw a clean first-gen Corvair while driving home last night.

David S. Wallens wrote: On a semi-related note, I saw a clean first-gen Corvair while driving home last night.

I see them everyday, but thats me.

I saw a guy in the Target parking lot trying to load a huge flat screen TV into a Ferrari 458 a few months ago. While not old it was an interesting sight. I finally had to leave, and not sure he completed his hauling task.

This has been sitting at a used car lot for a while now:

I just about whipped my head around on a swizzle when I saw it. Too bad they want almost 30K for it.

Wow, that you don't see everyday! Recently saw a Mitsubishi Starion, an old Maverick and ...(was typing in "old" necessary?), and the car that came after the gremlin - the one with the thinner C pillar., Oh, and an AWD AMC EAGLE wagon.

Dodge Shelby GLHS. Amazing how Shelby/Iacocco made a tin econobox Omni go so damn fast.

maseratiguy wrote: and the car that came after the gremlin - the one with the thinner C pillar.

AMC Hornet?

Pretty much any car is interesting just for its continued existence after about 30 years, especially if it's in great shape.

bmw88rider wrote: This has been sitting at a used car lot for a while now: I just about whipped my head around on a swizzle when I saw it. Too bad they want almost 30K for it.

I've only seen those in Europe.

Yeah Woody, It was originally sold into Japan actually but is still left hand drive. It was in a private collection over there and then sold and imported to the US. The crazy 80's seats were replaced with Mazda 3 leather seats but other than that it seems pretty original.

French Turbo cars from the 80's scare me though.

racerdave600 wrote: I saw a guy in the Target parking lot trying to load a huge flat screen TV into a Ferrari 458 a few months ago. While not old it was an interesting sight. I finally had to leave, and not sure he completed his hauling task.

Haha that's awesome. I don't see how there is anyway that is possible though I barely fit a 60 inch in my four door focus hatch back with the seats folded down.