Random 4th-of-July Strip Mall Car Show in a Chicago Suburb

"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork) 07/04/2014 at 19:11 • Filed to: Car Show, Supercar Saturdays, Portillo's, Subaru WRX

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Boss 302, probably my favorite car there; mostly old muscle cars this one...

Mostly engine shots, sorry guys, but all the hoods were up so I kinda had to...

Transformer's police Mustang. Slogan on the side reads "to punish and enslave," and that's what gave it away to me as fake, yes I missed the Transformer's logos.

Bumblebee was there too somewhere, but...

Oh yeah! This was my favorite car there. It was being crowded by some 11-year-olds with their iPod Touches, otherwise I might have gotten some better pictures (all on my potato phone, you've probably noticed).

Not sure if it was a kit or not; didn't check, but mmmmhhhhhh.

Civilized Nissan GT-R.

wut?

I'm okay with it.

Tasty STi.

Walking back to my truck when all of a sudden... What's that?

Oh my goodness!

Ogled over this car a bit too excessively.

drool.

even more drool!

Sometimes the best cars are parked outside of the car shows.

Then Portillo's!

And I finally found a WRX !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , which I think is the only one currently around the Chicagoland area, but they were closed!

I did go test drive a 2.0L turbo Hyundai Genesis R-Spec and a 3.8 R-Spec somewhere else. Loved the 3.8 the best, but it was my first time driving a turbocharged car and I though it was hilarious (in a good way).

Hopefully I will be testing this WRX tomorrow after Supercar Saturdays (who else is going?).

Racescort666 > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 07/04/2014 at 19:54

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I'll be there tomorrow.

Kat Callahan > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 07/04/2014 at 20:18

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How is the Decepticon Police Cruiser not illegal? 99% of the drivers on the street will see that and think it is real. Heck, while not a fan of the movies, I was a child of the 80s, and even I probably wouldn't get it unless super close. I see that, and I will treat it as the real thing. I've had a perfect driving record, not even a stop, in seven years at least, and I still do "make sure I'm looking innocent" thing when a cop car pulls up behind me. Of course, in Japan, we don't have police cruisers so much as police kei cars:

This is basically the You're Under Arrest car:

Where have all the lightweights gone? > Kat Callahan 07/04/2014 at 21:24

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I'll be there for sure. Contact me through the Facebook Oppo group (Adam Snider). We'll have to definitely link up.

AshleyAshes > Kat Callahan 07/05/2014 at 03:18

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You could ask the same thing about movie police cars. :) They either use semi-perminant decal wraps that can be removed or use magnetic signs to the effect of 'This is NOT an emergency vehicle' when moving scene to scene. And you can put the 'Out Of Service' bag over the light bar.

Racescort666 > Kat Callahan 07/05/2014 at 08:39

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Maybe rules are different here in Illinois. This guy definitely drove away from the last SS with the siren blaring and I don't think anyone said anything.