Both crashes happened in New Hampshire - so a perfect base for a conspiration theory - I LOVE conspiration theories! It's so funny to read all this bullshit, these clowns are writing and blogging - and it's really marvellous to diss them!


And it's not new. Photographed by a motorbike-trans-Sahara-traveller in 1993 in Mauretania:

Exists also without a car accident


The Cadillac Ranch in Texas.


The "solar car" of L'Île, an association near Toulouse, here in the old "color".
(Sorry, just for Francophone readers as I don't know how to translate the anagram: the door writing says "Picole nationale" )

Edit:
What a shame, I was about to forget the Citroën DS of the Musée automobile de la Sarthe (but in the other way around), in Le Mans:

I lived 17 years in that town, I should have remembered this car first...

A few cars I saw today (very rare in my country);
1)The new Citroen C1 begins to be seen on our roads:

A Volvo wagon of the late 70s (can someone tell me the name, please?)

Opel Calibra (1990 model);

Front view (with a Subaru Forester on the right);

Front of the Calibra (with a Subaru Forester on the left);

Another Opel, even more pretty: the Ascona...

Volvo wagon is a 240. Actually from the early nineties, I'd say.

Yes, 1992-93

Another Opel, even more pretty: the Ascona...

The front:

The Jeep Wrangler of the 80s:

Another off-road (rare in Italy): Suzuki Samurai

The wonderful 450 SL

Fiat Regata:

Finally, I found this crossover (rare in Italy!) near a junkyard: it was a 1998 Ford Explorer (with Italian plate!!!)

Seen once again while walking the dog, maybe 2 km from my home:

(1953-64 Hanomag AL 28 - As usual, click to see the bigger versions on my web album)

My camera is an old one, so not that good for night shots. I went back the morning after, hoping to make better photos, but the truck was gone.

Does anyone know the use of the gate on the cab roof? Could it be related to the fact that these trucks were used a lot as riot police vehicles?

Yes. It was for the observation* of demonstrations, football-matches, large events etc., also for border-patrolling**
Not only the riot police had them, also the Bundesgrenzschutz, the West German border patrol.
The roof-top looks "Aftersales market", but the basic body like an original "Polizei-Koffer" (= "police suitcase" or "police box")
Until the early 90ies these trucks were sold via
www.vebeg.de
(even nowadays you can find some there. But then Mercedes L59-based, no Hanomag or Opel Blitz anymore)
The 4x4-versions were -still are!- popular for World-travellers, espacially the freaks, who are crossing the Sahara or travel to India or across South America.

*the possibility for observation is the reason, why all VW T2, T3 and as I've heard, also the T4 and T5, which are in use at the Bundesgrenzschutz (now named "Bundespolizei") so have the large sunroof - which makes the VW-freaks very keen on a former "BGS-Bulli"



**Before Schengen in 1993 there were border-patrols not only along the DDR-border, also at the others.
Recently there was an interesting article about the "Broomstick-Porsches", the German police had used in the early 50ies at the Belgian border:

http://abload.de/img/869259b424b433ba980fbnosxz.jpg

The brushes were neccessary for the iron cramps, the coffee-smugglers have thrown on the street at the chase with the police.
Between 1946 and 1953 there was an extreme high-coffee-tax in Germany (ca.15 € per kilogramme!!), so coffee-smuggling was a big business along the German-Belgian border.
The smuggler prepared a plenty of special vehicles, even self-made armoured ones

http://abload.de/img/249dde12f1a72616cbe89kkst0.jpg

There was a thriller-movie about that:
http://www.media-dealer.de/DVD/Drama/Suendige-Grenze-DVD.html
(no listed on IMCDb yet )

Thanks for all these explanations! I now understand why the sunroof of the T2 of one of my friends is so large (and why the canvas is such a pain in the ssa to clip or unclip )...

About the coffee smugglers: I find this really crazy, as all smuggling stories, and somewhat similar to what is done nowadays with the "Go-fast" cars (I don't know how it's called outside France. It's more or less the same thing as Go-Fast boats during the Prohibition, but with cars, for drugs, and today )...

Anyway the 356 is awesome with these brushes. If appearing in a movie, should we classify this car as a Sweeper/Resurfacer?