Noted. The takeover continues to make steady progress ..... Greece is proving difficult at the moment, however Agent Merkel is determined to overcome all resistance. All this stuff about bail-out loans is just a smokescreen for the real objective.

A few years I saw something I thought I'd never see in Germany:

A Geo Metro!

And it was really not a Swift, but an 89-94 Metro!

Somewhere in Maryland, a gray Ferguson and a red Massey-Ferguson MF-65 randomly in a parking lot:


Somewhere else in Maryland, a very sad 1967 Mercury Cougar:



In Staunton, Virginia, a 1983.5-1984 Nissan 720; it caught my eye having both Nissan and Datsun on the tailgate:



Also in Staunton, a 1971 Buick Skylark Custom convertible:


Still in Staunton, an Opel Manta Luxus:




In Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, a 1970 Pontiac Catalina convertible (you're gonna have to take my word on this one):


Also in Waynesboro, a somewhat unusual Mopar minivan; it has a Chrysler-style grille and Chrysler-style wheels, but carries Plymouth Voyager badging (including on the grille), as if these vans weren't hard enough to pin down already:


Same parking lot, right-hand drive Jeep Cherokee [XJ] used for mail delivery:


And finally, the way I drive, I always figured if my car got dented it would be my own dumb fault. Instead, my car was parked and I was nowhere nearby when this happened:


Fortunately, the guy left his information and his insurance is taking care of everything. While my Bimmer is in the bodyshop, they've paid for a rental:


Take your time, bodyshop man.

nice replacement indeed
(good that they guy didn't just leave without info!)

About the postal Jeep, I find funny how they had to cut the sticker for the door handle, rather than just put that sticker a little lower, under the handle.

Spotted a Citroen Saxo Electrique today!

Why the Cadillac is registered in Nevada? Lower business/car ownership taxes?

Secondly, why use a Jeep for delivering mail? Here for letters they uses a Piaggio Liberty, which if I'm not wrong is a 150cc, if not even a bicycle regardless of weather...

Well, in America there a other distances than in pittoresque Italian towns with several hundreds years of history

Probably the Cadillac is registrated, where the headquarter of the company sits.

Couldn't say for certain why it has Nevada plates. I'm renting from a national chain; maybe it was originally purchased for an outlet in Nevada and then a renter drove it cross country.

Waynesboro is a relatively rural area in a valley, with a lot of farms around. There are also probably a lot of places around here only accessible by dirt roads, and people expect their mail regardless of weather. A rural mail route can be anywhere from 10 to 175 miles (16 to 280 km) a day, so a bit much for a bike.

Not, if you would have capable bike messengers...


Annother question: the Opel Manta, is it the company car of gift/souvenir-shop? If yes, the owner should buy a "C": "Geschenke" is correct.


P.S. The postman (now retired) for some of the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halligen

uses a self-made draisine for his daily 10km-trip across the North Sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8M8zHkcak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqrmYyrLr6Y


In the last video he is referring about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1962

Spotted yesterday, when I went to the general meeting of the umbrella-association of the German classic car clubs.

The ZX belonged to that party, too, but at the location, the Opel test range, photographing was superduperhardcoreforbidden. Two of the camouflaged prototypes looked by the size like the Insignia-successor, a smaller one was something Corsa-ish.





Afterwards my club-fellow showed my his brand new (and US-origin) tin-barn in the Westerwald.

Semi-mint condition, purchased and digged out of the dirt for 50€:






Italian car, made in 1974, original 28.000 km:










also origin Italy, slightly pimped and upgraded with original extras. This article was before:

http://www.autobild.de/klassik/bilder/vw-k70-40-jahre-1206867.html#bild1

















My friend's wife said once: "Hey, you own a plenty of cars, now I want to have my first own car back, too!" So they did:




Something unique. Here his name is remarked in the papers as manufacturer. Selfmade on the basis of an old drawbar and axle, he found in the backyard of his former employer:

Actually in the countryside they always use the Panda or even the Doblo

Yes, I've forgot how much "urban" I am...

Meanwhile, in France...

I have the model of that Poste R4 van, bought in France during an holiday

I could post some cars I saw at some of the recent Spring Hill Car Shows, but instead I'd like to post something else. Publix supermarkets has an ice cream flavor called "Chocolate Cookie Quarry," and the carton they usually sell it in has a 2004 or later Ford F-750 dump truck.

Is this posh 2.8 Ghia a special edition? Two-tone-metallic paint, alloys, tinted windows, sunroof. The plastic sticker on the right is just a footballplayer-pictogram

Today on the way back from my office. No idea, if there was an official import.

Not official import by Ford I guess, I don't see why they would do that for a "normal" car like that even on request, unlike for cars like the Mustang that do not have an equivalent in their range here.
Usually cars like that seen in Belgium have diplomatic or EU plates, I guess people can import easily the car they were using abroad.

When I went to pick up my BMW, this was out back behind the shop:

Can you buff carbon fiber?

In Reston, Toyota FJ Cruiser convertible conversion:


In the parking lot at the local Safeway, 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS 327:



And this, on the Beltway. I... I never would have thought this was possible:

Mercedes-Benz SL500 [R129], Little Guy trailer, motorcycle. All you'd ever need, I suppose.

A rare Mercedes W124 parked in front of an institute.