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Tk8398
Tk8398 New Reader
3/10/17 10:17 a.m.

Probably a rover SD-1, the only one I have ever seen.

keethrax
keethrax Dork
3/10/17 9:20 p.m.

Saw a BMW Isetta a few times while living in KS. On a 70mph road. I don't know how fast they go, but it sure as hell isn't 70mph. 45 maybe? With the rest of traffic doing 80.

jh36
jh36 Reader
3/11/17 1:00 a.m.

In reply to kazoospec:

I was taking my daughter to college...so I'm not from around Pittsburgh. It was shocking. And I saw it far ahead of me in the distance...and the closer we got, the crazier it got. I was laughing too hard to get a pic of the driver.

SVreX
SVreX MegaDork
3/11/17 1:34 a.m.

This one is local. I see it regularly on the streets.

snailmont5oh
snailmont5oh HalfDork
3/11/17 2:14 a.m.

I'm so happy that a Fairmont made it onto this thread, even though it was the lamest strangest car.

BrokenYugo
BrokenYugo MegaDork
3/11/17 2:31 a.m.

Running around Michigan on bike plates.

Furious_E
Furious_E GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/11/17 8:36 a.m.

I've seen the Weinermobile a handful of times, but the most wtf??! thing I've seen was a badly rolled fox body Mustang. Every panel was mangled and half the roof was caved in, but here's this dude just driving along at 45mph on a country road like everything is fine

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 UltraDork
3/11/17 9:38 a.m.

This can't hang with the banana-mobile, but this dude lives in the next neighborhood over from me...

We used to have a van running around town with the top cut off and a speed boat grafted in its place.

stuart in mn
stuart in mn UltimaDork
3/11/17 10:36 a.m.

I've seen Weinermobiles driving around three separate times in the last couple years.

There's an art car parade in my neighborhood every summer that brings out some weird vehicles. My favorite was a motorized sofa.

BrokenYugo wrote: Running around Michigan on bike plates.

A local vegetarian, eco-friendly pizza shop here used those for deliveries for a while, I can't imagine they were very good on snowy roads in Minneapolis in the winter. They've moved on to Nissan Leafs, I think.

Jay_W
Jay_W Dork
3/11/17 1:28 p.m.

This. By long margin,. this. Wish I could have gotten closer. Note the hanging lanterns. Closest guess round here is that this is a Russian-owned mobile wedding chapel. I think, looking at the decklid, that it used to be a Jag Xtype, which just adds to the WTFness.

Grtechguy
Grtechguy MegaDork
3/11/17 2:10 p.m.

I would say a Morgan threewheeler

jh36
jh36 Reader
3/11/17 2:14 p.m.

In reply to Jay_W:

That's amazing, because it looks like it's meant to be taken seriously. That's insane.

Kreb
Kreb GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
3/11/17 2:29 p.m.

Whenever I'm customizing a car there's a place in my head which wonders if I have no sense of taste. I have nightmares where I think that I'm building this:

Only to find that I'm building this:

Datsun310Guy
Datsun310Guy PowerDork
3/11/17 2:59 p.m.
kazoospec wrote:
jh36 wrote: This was as exciting as a Bigfoot spotting. Near Pittsburgh. [URL=http://s349.photobucket.com/user/jack127/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2017-03/B5A84229-2E8A-4AD7-946F-B85E0E6B96E5_zpsjlxssmhf.jpeg.html][/URL]
The banana car is local. I see it every few months. I've always thought it needed a supercharger so it could, you know, peel out.

Oh come on. I've read this book a million times to my kids. The banana car is old hat.

AClockworkGarage
AClockworkGarage Reader
3/11/17 3:37 p.m.

Whats the weirdest car I've seen rolling down the street? I guess whatever this was.

If that doesn't count It'd probably be this thing...

curtis73
curtis73 GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
3/11/17 5:37 p.m.

I saw Jay Leno driving his Stanley Steamer in Burbank one day.

Wall-e
Wall-e GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
3/12/17 1:32 a.m.

One of the perks to working outside in Manhattan is I have had quite a few oddities pass by me at work.

Plenty of foodmobiles:

Wall-e
Wall-e GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
3/12/17 1:35 a.m.

Some Dutchmen passing through as they drove to Brazil for the World Cup:

A Man 4X4 camper with French tags:

A Cessna:

And a rolling Banksy piece.

It drives my wife crazy that my Instagram and facebook pages are filled with cars I see on the road instead of family and friends

kevlarcorolla
kevlarcorolla Dork
3/12/17 10:54 a.m.
Keith Tanner wrote: There was a guy in town who was in a wheelchair, so he built a sidecar that basically consisted of a ramp he could roll on to and lock down his chair. He could somehow control the bike from there, so you'd see him driving around town with a riderless motorcycle and a wheelchair sitting beside it. I applaud the creativity but man, did it look weird.

We also had one of those up here,guy crashed his sportster that put him in the chair then built the sidecar deal from the wrecked bike.

Sadly he crashed it all over again and didn't survive that one.

spitfirebill
spitfirebill UltimaDork
3/12/17 11:02 a.m.
keethrax wrote: Saw a BMW Isetta a few times while living in KS. On a 70mph road. I don't know how fast they go, but it sure as hell isn't 70mph. 45 maybe? With the rest of traffic doing 80.

A really hot chick high school classmate of mine used to drive around in two Isettas. I met her on the interstate one during but couldn't tell how fast she was going. Her father owned a pawn shop and her dad got them for hock.

ihayes
ihayes New Reader
3/12/17 11:12 a.m.

This guy who created this was semi local to me and you would see it on rare occasions.

jh36
jh36 Reader
3/12/17 11:41 a.m.

In reply to Wall-e:

Ahhhh, the spirit of lemons. We "raced" against that at cmp one year. Randy Pobst was a driver. We ran the 944 Bluesmobile. I was The Penguin. Ed was a "Good Ol' Boy". Good times. Going through tech in a nun's habit is one of the high marks of my racing career.

NGTD
NGTD UberDork
3/12/17 5:46 p.m.

I saw one of these once (not my pic):

jh36
jh36 Reader
3/14/17 11:43 a.m.

[URL=http://s349.photobucket.com/user/jack127/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2017-03/D67F12D1-B682-4233-B6A5-0753826BA123_zpsp0lmei7y.jpg.html][/URL] Saw this Corona taxi in Jakarta today. Not The the weirdest thing I've seen, but it surprised me.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
3/14/17 1:05 p.m.
NGTD wrote: I saw one of these once (not my pic):

Used to be one parked just up the road from me every day, many years ago. Belonged to a young woman, don't know what the ownership arrangement was. There were at least two by me, haven't seen any in a while though.

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