landmark cars

How about a series on "Landmark Cars"? Not cars that are landmarks in design or technology, but cars that are used as actual landmarks. This is not the same as "ran when parked." Landmark cars are cars that stand out visually and are in the same place so often that you start expecting to see them there every time you pass by--you know where your are when you see the car. You even use them to give directions. These cars may be running (or not) but always seems to be in the same place. It may be something spectacular a business uses to attract attention. It may an old heap that someone dressed up. I can think of a teal panel truck and a Mater I see pretty much everyday. Or it may just be that weird old car on the corner that is always in the same spot.

Well a body shop near me has a frogeye sprite as a planter (yes it has dirt and plants grow in it like it were a pot) out front. It actually looked pretty good when he first made it into a planter. Now it's getting pretty rusty. I never could guess why a body shop would want potential customers to think they think that little of automobiles!

And for those of you who always complain about no pictures. GO TO RAN WHEN PARKED 4 JULY 2010 THERE ARE TWO PICTURES OF IT THERE.

Rupert wrote: Well a body shop near me has a frogeye sprite as a planter (yes it has dirt and plants grow in it like it were a pot) out front. It actually looked pretty good when he first made it into a planter. Now it's getting pretty rusty. I never could guess why a body shop would want potential customers to think they think that little of automobiles!

OTOH... it might be a very impressive advertisement for the shop if one day it suddenly appeared out in front looking ready for a car show.

MadScientistMatt wrote:

Rupert wrote: Well a body shop near me has a frogeye sprite as a planter (yes it has dirt and plants grow in it like it were a pot) out front. It actually looked pretty good when he first made it into a planter. Now it's getting pretty rusty. I never could guess why a body shop would want potential customers to think they think that little of automobiles!

OTOH... it might be a very impressive advertisement for the shop if one day it suddenly appeared out in front looking ready for a car show.

In fact that's what I first thought their objective was. Since I put it in Ran When Parked photos of 4 July 2010 and it's still sitting there, it's pretty apparent that's not their intent.

A local wrecking yard has a Honda S800 coupe mounted on the building roof....

wspohn wrote: A local wrecking yard has a Honda S800 coupe mounted on the building roof....

For a wrecking yard, that makes sense. But I wonder why anyone would take their treasure to a body shop that made a flower pot out of a Sprite?

Rupert wrote: In fact that's what I first thought their objective was. Since I put it in Ran When Parked photos of 4 July 2010 and it's still sitting there, it's pretty apparent that's not their intent.

I was pretty sure it wasn't, but that would be a good way to salvage the scenario.

Of course, if it was put out in 2010 and is already rusting, that also isn't a good advertisement for the quality of their work...

So you are thinking like Cadillac Ranch or something? I remember driving down the freeway one time and seeing an RX-7 that had crashed into a commercial building, was sticking in a window. They had a nice picture in the paper the next day.

Im pretty sure there are a tiny number of locals for whom my house/yard is some kind of landmark.

There's a craptastic junkyard around the corner from my parents' place that has an original mini up on their signpost. I always wondered what was wrong with it back when they decided to do that.

Vigo wrote: Im pretty sure there are a tiny number of locals for whom my house/yard is some kind of landmark.

My father in law was a Model A guy. He had so much Model A stuff everywhere the neighbors banded together and went to city hall over it. He ended up having to completely enclose his back yard with a 8' tall privacy fence and gates.