The Unicorn sighting thread.

Not sure if this counts as a unicorn or not, but certainly pretty rare these days.  A few weeks ago I came across a  61-67 Ford Falcon van in a shopping center parking lot in Fairhope AL.  It appeared to be an unrestored survivor and had marvelous patina.  First time I've ever seen it around here, but it was obvious from just looking at it that it's still being driven regularly.  I honestly can't remember the last one of these little vans I saw,  they were pretty common when I was a kid, but the 70's were a long time ago. 

It did make me smile though.  Wish I'd thought to take a picture....

Sweet Swede still being dd’ed in Anchorage.

Sorta sad cause it was in the junkyard, but I saw a red citation x-11 manual recently. And a Quattroporte III at the same place. 

Saw a very nice 1989 Mercury Tracer hatchback today. 

I saw this in a parking lot last summer and am just now getting around to posting it.  I don't think I've ever seen another.

There is a guy daily commuting a red NSX on my morning drive.  A small refreshing mint of sound and vision going by in my sea of blah. 

I was driving next to a FoRS today on I-90.  It was the lurid blue color.

I felt like those guys who go swimming with interesting sea life.  I'm MMOB, schlepping myself home after a successful day at work and trip to the drugstore for groomin' fixin's, and I see something bright blue next to me.  Huh.  It pulls slightly ahead, it's something bright blue with hee-yuuge brakes on it.  Double huh.

Mind you, I was driving teh R when this was happening, and he was pulling ahead awful slowly, so I don't know if he was  doing the thing I did a lot when driving teh RX-7 where I didn't like passing people in rice-rods because I didn't want them to think I was racing them.  Or maybe it was just some guy driving his Focus home from another day at work and he was concerned more with what latest BS that Pandora was feeding him, or something.

Either way, I still want a FoRS.  And still getting used to the idea that I'm driving something that is Really Awesome. 

I've been lead to believe its weird seeing one of these move under its own power. 

8valve said:

There is a guy daily commuting a red NSX on my morning drive.  A small refreshing mint of sound and vision going by in my sea of blah. 

 

I had to check and see where you are from, as if you were in PA, that would be me.  NSXs are too wonderful to not drive 

In reply to Daylan C :

Why?  They're just Audi A6s with Pontiac-grade plastic body cladding.

Daylan C said:

I've been lead to believe its weird seeing one of these move under its own power. 

Ouch dude. 

I saw this ancient Corolla the other day parked behind my hospital.  Gonna have to meet the guy who drives a car from my childhood.  (My first car was a short roof version of this same color and model)

Spotted a C4 Calloway Corvette at a local mechanics shop.  It is the first time I have ever seen one in person.

Not mine, but this is too impressive to not share here. Someone in Japan spotted the only SARD MC8 road-going homologation car on a flatbed. You know, the crazy mid-engine, twin-turbo 1UZ MR2-based GT1 car

^So cool!

Saw a Tesla X this morning, first Tesla in the country. Didn't get a pic, but just like this one:

Considering that there are no Tesla dealerships here, I wonder if it's being shipped out of the country for service, or if some local hacker is doing the work and backchannel-sourcing the parts for it?

In reply to GameboyRMH :

That is pretty cool. What would the cost of something like that be there VS the US? 

singleslammer said:

In reply to GameboyRMH :

That is pretty cool. What would the cost of something like that be there VS the US? 

The full landed cost of a car here is 2x~4x what it would cost in the US, depending on the source, cost, and the exchange rates involved. For a Tesla X you'd be looking at closer to 4x.

I worked out that it's currently the 2nd or 3rd most expensive stock production car in the country (based on US MSRP, behind a Rolls-Royce Phantom and possibly a 911 GT3 RS), but I have inside info that all those records may soon tumble...you'll have to wait until I get the scoop on it

DKW Munga with something else ex-military next to it

APEowner said:

I saw this in a parking lot last summer and am just now getting around to posting it.  I don't think I've ever seen another.

those are pretty rare, but even more rare-er is the VW bus plumber truck

Factory made half cab, it hard to even find more pictures then the ones i've posted, let alone out in the wild.

MazdaFace said:

Nothing new there. Typical BMW owner behavior. I'd laugh if a mall crawler took out the passenger rear corner. 

The Maserati dealer has a new ZR-1 on the lot.

I was parking a car in our front lot today and saw an immaculate '79-ish Celica Supra drive by.  The first generation ones where Toyota went all "I have no idea how to design this car."  Oddly enough I can't remember if it was blue or brown.

In reply to edizzle89 :

There was a video that surfaced a while back of one of those crew cab VW bus/pickup things being thrown through a frontal collision test.  At the time, Germany (note: no longer West Germany) still had a bunch of them in whatever 4 foot long compound word they call their national highways department, so they decided to crash test one with a bed full of gravel/concrete, for whatever German reason.

ACVW fans the world around cringed at the video.  But to the German authorities, they are just some old trucks...

Nevermind, it was a Vanagon crew cab pickup thingy.  Which might be even more rare.

Knurled. said:

Nevermind, it was a Vanagon crew cab pickup thingy.  Which might be even more rare.

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/TPpU5azjCB8?rel=0&showinfo=0

 

' You WILL die. '  Well if a concrete wall suddenly appears in the roadway.