Nice (I'm waiting for the check, if the car is known).

Probably these two weren't somewhere else and not at the National Danish NSU-meeting ( http://nsuclub.dk/kalender.html ), as this was hold on the other way of the country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mors_29

Probably a ride of annother clssic car club.

Saw a Volvo S90 stretched limo pass by on the highway. Very unusual in America.

It was probably this one for sale nearby 2 years ago: http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/12/2012/07/stretch_1998_volvo_s90-bu.jpg

Don Beyer Volvo dealership in Falls Church, Virginia, has had a stretched 960 for as long as I can remember. The license plate used to be UNLIMO but now it's something more generic. I'm so used to seeing it around I never really think of it as unusual.

Today, while parking in front of the emergency-service-pharmacy (my wife has a heavy cold) in the next town:

This afternoon, when I had a view on this terribly cobbled and grotesquely overpriced clunker:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Volkswagen-K-70-Oldtimer-mit-H-Zulassung-/351166543928?pt=Automobile&hash=item51c3283838





I could spot a few other unusual cars/clunkers

Here I think to be sure, that it is a former Bundespost-parcel-delivery-van, later on converted to a Camper. It has a walk-through behind the seats, this higher plastic roof was taken for those transporters, not for Westfalia- or other Campers and the windows are mounted later on:






decoration at the garage, where the marvellous K 70-cobblework is placed:




A spasti-clunker on the other side of the little street in Oberhausen:






On the way back I thought to take some pics for you at
http://www.brabus.com/en/startpage.php
but I have seen, that the area is fenced and attentively guarded. For that reason only a few through-the-fence-snapshots:






Anyways, if some of you is interested in BRABUS-stuff, I can go there and ask for that.

Seen some days ago in my town:




A Polish van for asiatic VIPs in a French town??? Most certainly Chinese engineers visiting the Airbus facilities.
But does anyone have an idea about what is the use of this additional trunk?

From the photos it looks very good though...
lots of rust under that?

Rust is not the main problem here (there is some, but not that extreme), it's more the incredible cobblework everywhere
Masses of filler are smeared around the back wheel arches, the paintwork looks not bad on the first view, but is an unoriginal tone and the paint-dust is everywhere (it was badly taped), and the cobblework at the technic is worst!
An electric fuel pump was mounted somewhere, where it doesn't belong, a cooling-water-pot of an Audi 50/Polo was screwed on the ventilator-box and connected with washingmachine-hoses, and the broken start-automatic was smashed off the carburator and replaced by a handmade (bicycle-bowden-cable, wood-screws, plastic-bag-zippers) manual choke. The handle of the choke was a lawnmower- or chainsaw-starter...

Although the K 70-prices increased slightly in the last years, for nearly 5000 EUR you can expect a real good, nearly mint-condition car (if one appears) - and not such a cobbled shitbox. O.k., the TÜV is still valid one year and the car shall be roadworthy - but this is not enough for that price.

Another "backpack for van" on a... Czech VW Crafter:

(from Wikimedia Commons)

Is this really just an "extra-trunk", sold as option for Eastern Sprinter vans and derivatives?

Yes it is extra trunk. Common in small buses (or even necessary in some), but not hard to meet also in bigger ones: http://priv.gtlodz.eu/img-bialy_polski_bus,30125.html

In case of this Sprinter with Asian guests, it has Polish AutoCuby bodywork, by what I see they offer these extra trunks as extra option: http://www.autocuby.pl/zabudowy/wyposazenie/bagazniki.html

To be honest, to me these backpacks (in Polish they are litterally called this way) are to meet in buses from various parts of Europe and IMHO aren't common only here.

Thanks for the links, weasel1984. To be honest too, it was the very first time I saw one of this trunk, although I watch carefully for vehicles since 30 years. And your links are... Polish ones. So it will be hard for me not to believe it is only eastern stuff

Belgian plates it seems (bottom of page): http://www.quo-vadis.be/en/
German company: http://neoman.0fees.net/neoman/neoplan/n122.3/photo12.html
Netherlands: http://www.motorstown.com/imgs/52147-van-hool-coach-8.html
Switzerland: https://www.flickr.com/photos/retokurmann/1349570327/

All doubledeckers, where extra space for luggage can be welcome sometimes.

I can't say that before this discussion I devoted much attention to these extra trunks , so who knows, maybe for some reasons they are indeed more popular here (especially in small busses) or for "some reasons" they are not common in France (?).

Very rare in Italy!
Renault Vel Satis (what an awful car...)

Very rare in Italy: Renault Vel Satis ( What an awful car... )

Don't worry, I was just joking. As said once for something totally different, "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence": the fact I didn't see one so far doesn't mean there is none in France.
And now that I noticed one, I'll certainly see a lot of them

Rare not only in Italy: 62,201 cars built, but only (more or less¹) 30,000 still present (fr) in France. One can see more Renault 4 in the French streets
(And in fact I see 2 R4 each week while "meeting" 1 Vel Satis in a month...)
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(1): technical inspection takes place every two years. So I extrapolated from the 15,946 cars that had their technical inspection in 2013.

^1936 Buick

No picture, but I saw a DeLorean this morning.

For Lateef: About a year ago I saw a Smart CityCoupe/Fortwo on the highway with a "Where's Waldo?"-esque MLP paintjob.

Jeep Compass with Virginia plate (and parked across two spots):



Volkswagen Passat Variant II with quad headlights!



Buick LeSabre with an exotic plate (Syria?) spotted in a minuscle town in the middle of the countryside

The "Passat Variant" is a US VW Quantum Wagon!