IT’s been a strange morning for car sightings. Instead of coming straight to work I went to an assembly at my daughters school so I drove through Birmingham this morning. Now all the normal modern exotica vanished from the roads 6 weeks or so ago with the exception of P. cars which stay year round, but the Italians seem to be frightened of the cold and salt. So even though the modern stuff is gone, first I saw an immaculate series 1 or 1.5 E-type Jag, then a few mins later I saw what I’m almost certain was a 32 Lincoln. I think If I had something like that it would be tucked up in its garage for the winter. Now it’s a beautiful sunny day so far, but we had a lot of salt on the roads last week after the snow and there is definitely white salt dust all over the roads.
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Dec. 16, 2011 9:12 a.m. Adrian_Thompson Dork
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Dec. 16, 2011 9:16 a.m. BBsGarage HalfDork
Saw this the other day in the land of salt and potholes (NJ)
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Dec. 16, 2011 9:34 a.m. Javelin SuperDork
Last night on my drive home (in Washington) a 280Z was spiritedly moving through traffic with an MGB behind!
Odd for sure.
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Dec. 16, 2011 10:05 a.m. corytate HalfDork
saw an e30 m3 vert with a massive widebody kit on it last week. beautiful. tried to follow it but charlotte traffic sucks, bad.
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Dec. 16, 2011 10:09 a.m. njansenv HalfDork
Fully restored 1970 Z28 on my way in this morning. There's an R8 DD I see occasionally - snow tires on it.
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Dec. 16, 2011 10:16 a.m. Twin_Cam SuperDork
Whenever I see nice cars out in winter, I really want to shake the owner's hand. Sweet 458, by the way, they look better in person, don't they?
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Dec. 16, 2011 10:30 a.m. BoxheadTim SuperDork
Out here - where we haven't really had any snow since October and the roads are clear, plus they're not trying that hard to preserve them by covering them in salt - all the nice cars have taken up hibernation. The only exotic/nice cars I still see a few times a week are a couple of Teslas.
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Dec. 16, 2011 10:32 a.m. BBsGarage HalfDork
Twin_Cam wrote:
Whenever I see nice cars out in winter, I really want to shake the owner's hand. Sweet 458, by the way, they look better in person, don't they?
it is ! funny thing is it has Fla. plates.
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Dec. 16, 2011 10:44 a.m. jstein77 Dork
That's strange on many levels. Someone would drive a Ferrari from Florida to New Jersey in December?
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Dec. 16, 2011 11:01 a.m. ClemSparks SuperDork
I haven't noticed it this year (I have a new job, home, and different route to work), but the past two winters I would notice a guy driving a Viper, covered in salt/cinder/sludge spray. Cool...if not my ideal of use for a Viper.
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Dec. 16, 2011 11:11 a.m. sachilles Dork
In reply to BBsGarage: We had a red version of that Ferrari here a week ago, and I work at a ski area. Lucky for him he left town just before the snow hit.
Also saw a lovely quigley van up here, that the roof had been converted to a camper, like those old vw busses. Looked damn cool.
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Dec. 16, 2011 11:53 a.m. DaveEstey Dork
The last town I lived in featured a guy who DD'd a Maserati Quattroporte year-round.
It was fun to watch him slide it around in the snow.
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Dec. 16, 2011 12:45 p.m. Grtechguy SuperDork
I see 3000GT's / Stealth VR4's here in Michigan more in the winter than the summer
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Dec. 16, 2011 12:47 p.m. stuart in mn SuperDork
I saw an E-type on the highway last week, not the sort of thing you would expect in Minnesota in December.
A couple years ago I was on the way to work one day in December and saw a Ferrari Daytona... there was a half foot of snow on the ground, the streets were covered in salt and it was three below zero. The next day there was a story in the news about it; apparently the owner had gone off his rocker, and among other things drove the car to his country club where he proceeded to shoot holes in the front door with his .44.
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Dec. 16, 2011 1:23 p.m. a401cj Reader
BBsGarage wrote:
Saw this the other day in the land of salt and potholes (NJ)
My supermodel GF kept asking me WTF you were doing taking all those pictures. I just shrugged...idiots
