Off Topic » Car pictures

Every Sunday morning I ride to Alice's Restaurant, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco, for breakfast with a couple of friends. In the past there used to a lot of interesting motorcycles to look at and I would take photos of them and post them on-line. Now there seems to be more cars driving up there on the weekends and many of them are worth checking out. So I thought I would start a thread and post photos of automobiles that I thought were interesting and might be of interest to you. Attached are some unusual cars and trucks that I saw today that you probably don't see too often.

Once a month (first Tuesday) , one of my local pubs (Manor House at Quorn) runs a car/bike afternoon/evening. They have the usual spread of MG,s, TR's, E Types etc....but every now and then this turns up - 1974 BMW 3.0CSL "Batmobile". One local owner from new, unrestored condition, 34k km's and only 1 of 2 or 3 finished in Jade Green. Value - circa £300k!

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Richard, my uncle restored and customized one of these high up Chevrolet trucks several years ago. He installed and fitted a 4 wheel drive transfer case with a different rear differential, extended the bed length, painted and re-apholstered the seats, and headliner. I wish I had a picture to include. Your right, you don't see many of these. Stick.

It was big old 1950's Cadillac day at Alice's Restaurant today. Check out these monsters.

If I was Lamborghini I would be sending a Mafia hit squad after this Lambo owner who wrapped his car with a metallic copper finish. I saw this car parked in the highway near Alice's Restaurant this morning. I will toss in a photo of the expensive Porsche parked in front of the copper wonder. No metallic copper on that car.

I like the copper finish!!

I can't get over the number of young men, typically Mediterranean or Middle Eastern in appearance. Dress code - Baseball cap (turned backwards, sideways or even "normal"), t-shirt, necklace, blue jeans, runners, sunglasses, stubble. The cars are frequently seen up and down Chapel Street (a nightclub, clothing and accessories, café and shoe shop mecca) running in 1st gear at a maximum of 30 kph. Often in the company of other flash cars.

I swear I don't know how a fellow under 30 years old could afford one of these things, even a standard one.

The only job that I can think of that would give so much disposable income would be drug dealers....

Oh, I think I have just worked it out....

My BMW dealer is selling Vanderhall auto-cycles. Attached are some photos showing what is under the hood of these contraptions. The shop owner says they are selling reasonably well. They sell for around $30,000 USD. For that kind of money I think I would prefer to buy a Miata (is that right? no help from auto-correct) sports car.

Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #7

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For that kind of money I think I would prefer to buy a Miata (is that right? no help from auto-correct) sports car.

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Tom, you know we have to have a pic under the hood

Mrs GH hs a fine looking MX5 (Miata)........but not the V8.........although trying to convince her that a BBR Turbo kit would work well (230bhp)

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Zitat von duccrazydave im Beitrag #9

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Tom, you know we have to have a pic under the hood

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