Heavy metal for the real offroad-experience











Other unusual sights from around a local spare parts market, I've visited yesterday:








No chance to survive (legally) the next TÜV-inspection in April 2014 with such sills:




no.311 of 2500:





@rjluna2: this -original!- badge I've never noticed before:




The Benz behind is just a shabby poverty-spec 450 SEL, without 6.9





Let's say "semi-mint" condition:




Can we call this "upgrade"? The owner, an acquantance, hade an Audi 50 before:








nice couple:





"Pizza you buy at an Italian" - and the Italian buys Vespa at the market






My purchase besides some old plates. Now I hope, smuggling it to Japan will work...

@dsl: one contains "kansasbeige" - you know, the colour, which looks like puked-up porridge:





Skoda? Skoda!

One of my older photos:

I saw this Bug (can someone help with the specs?) in Berlin with a mysterious plate? Where is it from?
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Why aren't our IMCDb pics recognized when we type in the link?

Because they're just for use in comments on the site.

A surviving Geo Metro



Is that the one of the last batch of Typ 2 / T3 made in Germany?



Even the plate tells all

Well, here it was named Suzuki Swift, but it's extinct, too.

Officially yes, but in fact not. As a friend, who actually restores "Redstar" http://el-gigante.blogspot.de/2012/11/re-entry-redstar-story.html has found out, Volkswagen has built -completely in Graz/Austria at Magna-Steyr-Puch- some more T3 after the 2500 "LLE", "Limited Last Edition". This was caused by the complaints of many VW-workers, who had been upset, that the T3-production was stopped, but who still wanted to have one own. There were enough protesters, that the production was continued for a short while.

It's actually a Suzuki Swift Cabrio.
Quite rare on the site: http://imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Suzuki_model-Swift+Cabrio.html

Last week I went to tour the Morgan factory. Of course, a lot of Morgans were to be spotted being made. Most interesting of them was possibly this spotted in the PDI bay:



It's a one-off commission from an American collector who wanted something that aped the art-deco designs of the thirties. We didn't find out how much he paid but it would have been a hell of a lot. I also went to Solihull but we weren't allowed to take pictures there.

It must have been an interesting visit

Last week the only surviving primary family member, Charles Morgan, was sacked from the company ....... Sandie the hatchet man?? Did you also perform similar assignments in Solihull?? Land-Rover perhaps .....

And in a totally unrelated tease "Sandie, Sandie, what's the score? Sandie what's the score?" (0-2, I seem to remember).

Ha! I was at the game funnily enough. We're getting better saying as we lost 4-0 the last time I went...

I do seem to bring good luck wherever in the West Midlands I go what with CM getting sacked not long after I booked Morgan and Land-Rover announcing the end of Defender production not long after I booked a tour mainly to see the Defender line.

I found both Morgan and Land Rover very interesting. Morgan was so good I'd honestly have placed an order for a car there and then had I had the money as I was so impressed with what I saw. The contrast was interesting, Morgans being handmade with the aluminum chassis and panels over the wooden (there was a fantastic smell of the timber round the factory) frame and the current Range Rover and Sport being made by robots which rivet the alu together (no welding). That said, on the Defender line I did see a man adjust the door trim on a 90 with a hammer so it was not all high tech machinery.

On a website dedicated to the New York Central Railroad, more specifically their affiliate Canadian Southern Railway, I found a 1964 Ford C-500 Maintenance-of-Way truck with an extended cab.
http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/nyc-g6145.jpg
It's still not a crew cab, though.

Take into Consideration that I have one of only 10,000 Saabarus made, so they're hard to come by. I spotted this one not long ago near the beach. I own the silver one.

Nice Saab MBSL65fan, I bought a 9-5 wagon just last week

I have passed this car a couple of times but it wasn't until recently I noticed that there was something strange about it...

nice

(and you didn't post pics of your 9-5 ? :p)

Spotted today in the next street nearby my home. The little squarish sticker besides the British MOT (8/2013) says, that it has been at the paddock of the 2013 http://www.reisbrennen.de/

Although it has the MOT-sticker, it's a JDM-car, or?

JDM MR2s are not uncommon in the UK, so it could be a JDM car imported here some time ago that has now moved across to Germany (probably to escape being fitted with one of those shite GRP Ferrari bodykits that is the fate for many MR2s).

It make sense to take the camera with you even around your home. Yesterday I've made the pics above and this morning, on the way to the post office to send the stuff for tonkatracker, I did it again.

Parked side-by-side ( http://www.lueg.de/ is the biggest Mercedes-dealer all around here). These Mustangs are not a too rare sight. Our local Ford-dealer has a faible for them and have sold quite a few.








Well, this motif can be placed in the thread "pics made for IMCDb-fellows", too

Poor caged Impala, yearning to run free

Last weekend I was in the Shenandoah Valley. Saturday night I saw a small, finned roadster parked outside a mechanic's. I assumed it was a Sunbeam Alpine, but when I saw it again in the daylight Sunday it turned out to be a Daimler SP250.

A Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG in downtown DC:


And I did a doubletake when I saw this bumper sticker