"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
03/15/2014 at 08:15 • Filed to: Cars in the City
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"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
03/15/2014 at 08:15 • Filed to: Cars in the City | 0
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Contained herein are a few things that are either exceptionally rare (locally, that is) or otherwise interesting. I've seen more Lambo Gallardos and Bentley Continental GTs. Seriously. I don't know what it is with the past couple of weeks to bring not one but three (actually four) interesting vehicles found randomly around town, but each one does tell its own inferred story.
Let's start with the Ranchero pictured above. The Ute-type vehicle is one that I've always thought makes a lot of sense, especially if you do a lot of single-occupant commuting. They're lighter than their sedan or even coupe counterparts and you gain a nice truck bed for hauling - then again, at least in America they tend to be addled by a certain stigma too closely associated with, say, the subject matter featured on History Channel's !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . But I digress. I remember El Caminos (the 80s-vintage G-bodies to be exact) not exactly being uncommon in the mid 90s, and when it first came out Subie Bajas were all over the place. I haven't seen much of either car in years, even though the Subie's only a decade old at most, and when I do see a G-Body El Cam it's almost certainly under several coats of Maguire's applied with better intention rather than skill. This is not only the first Ranchero I've ever seen in my life , but it happens to be from the late Muscle Car era and evidently a real daily driver! The interior showed evidence of being treated like any other mid or late-90s S10 or Ranger would be treated - aftermarket seat covers, detritus of every day living strewn around, upholstery that while far from torn has plenty of everyday wear. The back window features miscellaneous trade stickers, more badges of being a "working" vehicle.
The exterior is far from Concors, and yet remarkably intact given such an old DD. Whoever owns this treats it like a valued muscle car, that's for sure. Someone at the same lot routinely parks a '66 Chevelle but given that it's 1.) a four-door and 2.) not nearly in this great a condition, it's not nearly an interesting vehicle. I might not expect a four-door '66 Chevelle, but if I do find one, I do expect it to wear a heavy patina that blends with the mustard brown exterior. A pretty cherry Ranchero is another layer of the unexpected on top of that.
A BMW 6 series may not be cherry Ranchero DD rare, or even Ranchero rare, but this isn't a 645i - it's a legit M6 , baby! What caught my attention enough to warrant the crappy Android Potato pic, however, was the color. I don't know if it's an original BMW color option - maybe it is, maybe it isn't. This is a first-gen M6 on top of it so the color palate may have changed. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! doesn't show anything close to this color. Either way I find it a lovely color - if someone can ID it I'd love to have a car repainted in it one day. It does remind me of what's available on the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
Just about as rare is another Bimmer wearing the 6 numeric, this time with an x in front. Seriously, this is the first X6 I've ever seen. Period. This one was wearing temp tags on the back window from some place called Mountain View Motors which I've never heard of (maybe they're in the 'Springs?)
Of course, this being the Internet and all, I really don't have an excuse to not simply Google it - and lo and behold, turns out they are !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . What qualifies as a "Mountain View" in Colorado can be left to interpretation and can mean anywhere from Boulder to Bennett- the latter locale not exactly being anywhere near the shadow of a mountain.
Speaking of Colorado, you'd think X6s would sell like gangbusters, but everyone seems to be snapping up X5s, X1s or even the AWD options of the regular sedans instead. The X6 may be too esoteric, too much of a round peg slipping through a square hole, even for what at this point is basically California but with snow instead of beaches and minus any real interesting celebrities outside of professional sports. Perhaps you've also noticed the cop car in the background, one of those PPVs that civilians can buy as an SS (I guess Chevy loves letters now). Turns out it wasn't empty, and as soon as I was done photographing the Bimmer and got in my own car, it started following me out of the parking lot. I was wondering if she (yes, it was one of those she-cops - I'll reword that if people find it sexist, which it's not meant to be) was going to pull me over and question if I was casing the X6 for some Grand Theft Auto action, but she ended up going her own merry way. I'm not afraid to admit that my forehead was beading for the good four miles she was trailing me.
Finally, here's some tail art for you. I was visiting the local airport for a write-up I'm planning on publishing on OppoLock in the future when I spotted this. You can plainly see the fence, and this was the best picture I could score after a few minutes of hopping up and down like a spastic moron, which is exactly what you want to do if you want to take pictures of an airplane outside of a chain link fence and not raise any suspicion whatsoever. The idea of tail (or nose) art has a very strong romanticism from a variety of sources, WWII being the most obvious one but the mere fact that planes have a more romantic connection than even M6s tends to bring a stronger temptation to not only personalize, but outright sexualize a transportation conveyance like this. Still, there is an element of exoticism that makes that romanticism strong - and a practically brand-new !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! doesn't exactly bring a lot of exoticism to the tarmac. It's basically a Toyota Avalon with wings. Even the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! bring a little more sky cred, like showing up in a Cressida Wagon with a 2JZ and a five-speed. Plus, you run into too much danger of looking sexist or even douchey with plane art like this, especially when done lazily, sloppily or just plain old incorrectly. To be entirely honest I'm still on the fence on this one, perhaps you can weigh in with some comments. I've seen !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and trying to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the WWII-legacy !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , though even warbirds are not immune !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Plane & Pilot Magazine and the imitable but never duplicable Lyn Freeman (he being a dude, for the record) had a great article years ago about some of the names pilots gave their planes, including a urologist who named his plane Sweet Pee.
Yeah, seriously.
Jayhawk Jake
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
03/15/2014 at 09:50 |
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I like personalized registrations
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