And it's also what would like to do Peugeot Design Lab, which makes until then strange furniture (among other things) to show its skill.

Yesterday my wife and me went to the area Frankfurt/Main to pic up her new car.

Two sights from that trip:

- probable an original "Deutsch"-conversion:




-something for the DVLA-checkers



and -by the way- my wife's new car:



A propos "never seen before": Has anyone here ever experienced "Maxxis" tires, made in Thailand?



Aha, Google helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Shin_Rubber

I remember, that I had Cheng Shin-tires 20 years ago on my NSU 1200. Good stuff, I was satisfied. They were robust, longlifed and in that size (145 R 13) they even had the 70ies-style bead on the side (known from Benzes from the 70ies).


@Weasel, @130rapid: these two items I found on the Bockhorn-market:



The brewery "Kinderhof" ws in the village of Gerdauen, since 1947 named Железнодорожный

The logogram "EB" (@the others: a very popular Polish beer-brand) comes originally from this name, "Englisch Brunnen"

P.S. The van of the seller of these items is already known by my plate-spotter-fellows: because it has one of the last known old-style black Polish plates from Elblag. The seller is always on the large "Veterama"-Market in Mannheim in early October.

Today, I spotted at the wild on my way back to work from lunch:

1986 SAAB 900 Convertible:


About 300 were made. It is my understanding that they were made for every SAAB dealer in USA for 1986 model year.

Wikipedia says that 900 were made. Or you mean 300 for North-America ?

I'm not quite sure, Antoine

I may need to go through the SAAB Sounding booklet that I still have in my collection.

Not very important to me though I just checked Wikipedia to see what was special for that year

What so special for me is that the first model year with factory made convertible and last year for classic first generation 900 before the soft bumper/composite headlights

My neighbors like old cars:
 
Simca 1100 x2 + Citroën Acadiane // Fiat 500 L - Click to see more pictures...

 
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint // Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider - Click to see more pictures...

The cars of the first pictures are in a parking area 300 meters away from my house. I met the owner several times, he has 3 or 4 other Simca 1100 and at least one old Mercedes-Benz, all cars being "spread" in several other park lots of the town.
The Fiat 500 is 200 meters away from my home (opposite way from the Simcas ). And the Alfas are in the underground park lot just beneath the Fiat 500.
And there is at least 3 Renault 4 (including the 4L Trophy one) in a 500m circle around my house.

I think I like my neighbors
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By the way, I have made some progress with the photo albums about the monthly classic cars meetings in Toulouse. Almost 30 to 40 pictures are missing in each album, but there is already 149 pictures to be seen in the 3 sub-albums.

Not a classic car, but I "met" a strange vehicle 2 days ago:

(Click for bigger and rear view)

This Renault 21 phase 2 has mutated in a kind of post-apocalyptic swing, but has still its steering-wheel. Made for the carnival, or just for the fun? I didn't meet anyone able to say it.
Ars gratia artis...

(@ antp: this car would fail the French technical inspection for sure)

Seen two hours ago in Dortmund. Yes, the hubcaps are from a Renault 4






The Opel Astra F on the first pic was used by the waterworks or an public electricity company in its first life.



FUCK!!!

...must I say, since I realised now, how rare WESERHÜTTE-vehicles are: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=weserhütte&model=

We even don't have any excavator listed - and such an Westerhütte-excavator I've spotted on the way back. It was standing on a trailer-truck of a building company, parked on an Autobahn-parking besides - so still in regular usage!
I really have thought, "Hmm, shall I turn at the next exit, go back, turn again and stop there for a photo, but then I dropped that idea, because I was quite tired an hungry after a long day in the office. If I would have known, what a rarity that was, of course I would have done that. Well, I'm an idiot...

Yesterday night I've passed the location again - and the trailer with the "Weserhütte"-excavator was still standing there
Sorry for the terrible quality, but with flashlight you cannot see anything, only without a little bit.

Oldtimer drive here in the neighborhood. I caught a few but missed some of the best.

Brits


Americans




Italians




Nice Van Hool






The Porsches actually slow down to have their pictures taken




Quite a few registered as daily, although with the new relaxed oldtimer laws in Belgium there are less restrictions, and more are appearing in everyday traffic.

A Maurizio Garage Typo A and K-Armanni Ghia Typo 14?

About the 2 356 speedsters you shot, just keep in mind that only 1900 were made (fr), and most of them were sold in USA (the Speedster was due to another Max Hoffman's brainwave, like the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider or the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL / W198). So most of the Speedsters you will see in European classic cars meetings are just replicas, but few owners acknowledge it clearly and easily...

Oh. I was in a hurry for the match against Russia... For the MG I have no excuse.

I've just returned from the grocery store...and saw a US-Spec Mercedes W116 pickup with Peugeot-esque Alfa Romeo (can't remember which one but they definetely were from an Alfa wagon) tail lights.

@Gamer: it's recommended always to have your camera with you, even when you go to the supermarket. In the past I loughed about the licence-plate-spotters, who do that always, but now I act in the same way. But more for the pleasue of IMCDb-ists than for plate-reasons.

About supermarket- and grocery-parkings: the hardcore-plate-spotters swear, that this is one of the best locations to discover true rarities.

It's easier to have a smartphone with a good integrated camera rather than a normal camera that's always running out of batteries... I'd prefer to use an old Nokia if it weren't for the scheisse camera.

Recent sightings from the wild:

Bottom level of a garage in Washington, DC, two blocks from the White House, Mercedes-Benz 300CD, Lotus Exige, Mystery Car (I'm guessing Jaguar XK120/140/150, but only a guess because I didn't look under the cover), two variations on the theme of Land Cruiser:


Same garage, one level up, Rolls-Royce:


Merrifield, Virginia, 40-series Land Cruiser with a distant descendant:


Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, when was the last time you saw one of these Corolla wagons (with wood no less!)? If I'm not mistaken, this grille is 1979 only:



Staunton, Virginia, 1986-1988 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country Turbo:



Still in Staunton, Jeep J-10, for sale (registration expired in 2008):


Still in Staunton, 1936 Dodge:



Gas station in Orange, Virginia, Tanom Invader TC-3 Red Rocker Edition; Tanom Motors (http://tanommotors.com/) is based in Culpeper, Virginia, I'd never heard of them until I saw this one:

And now, not in the wild:

In Staunton, Virginia, there's an antique and classic automobile dealership with some very unique and eclectic inventory. Just a couple highlights.

1953 Riley sedan:


1968 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu, described as "the only six-figure four-door Chevelle you'll ever see." Why is it listed at $110,000? This one-of-one car was custom built by Indianapolis 500 winner Jim Rathmann at a dealership in Florida for William A. M. Burden, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, with a 472 cubic inch 375 horsepower Cadillac V-8 and a ton of performance options (including, uniquely, rear window wipers). It's a black four-door hardtop with plain steel wheels, a real wolf in sheep's clothing:



1969 Pontiac GTO The Judge - not just any The Judge, but the The Judge. This car was the first The Judge built:

nice pics series