"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
06/02/2019 at 13:47 • Filed to: DOTS
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"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
06/02/2019 at 13:47 • Filed to: DOTS | 3
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A few very cool spots from me this week, oddly enough with most being within minutes of each other!
First - on Thursday last week, I saw these two bad boys while driving home on Highway 103:
A new Acura NSX and a Maserati GranTurismo! The GranTurismo sounded glorious...I know it’s long in the tooth these days, but I still think I’d take the Maser if given the choice between the two...even if it is the worse car...
Fast-forward to today....you Europeans continue to invade Mahone Bay! Saw all three of these cool Euro RVs within 30 seconds of each other!
First was a Euro-spec Merc Sprinter RV on German plates just across from the first of Mahone Bay’s well-known Three Churches:
Well...actually, technically the Sprinter was second because I had to drive past THIS to get to it:
A cool older Mitsubishi van RV on what I think were Swiss plates! I’ve never heard of this particular model of Mitsu van in my life, so this was a cool spot! I actually saw it first, then saw the Merc, pulled in and turned near the Merc and came back to get this thing in shot. I called out the window and told the fellow he had a cool van and he gave me the thumbs up. :) Can anybody give me an ID on what this Mitsu would be...? At least I am pretty sure that was the Mitubishi badge hiding behind that front guard....
After I turned back around again to continue on my way, I went another 20 seconds down the road in front of the third of the Three Churches and saw this! A very new !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on French plates! Very cool! :D
This was about 5 minutes down the road as well - rougher but pretty Karmann-Ghia! :D
...followed by the same JDM import Toyota Hilux Surf I’ve posted before, though now with aftermarket LED driving lights installed:
Not a bad week! :D
SpeedSix
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
06/03/2019 at 00:48 |
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Can anybody give me an ID on what this Mitsu would be...?
It appears to be a 3rd-generation Delica van, which was sold in North America for a few years in the late 1980s as the ... Mitsubishi Van.
Europe probably had it as the L300. This generation is the basis of the fancy diesel 4WD Mitsubishi vans popular as used imports from Japan, but this one is more basic in trim.
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> SpeedSix
06/03/2019 at 06:51 |
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Very cool! I don’t think we ever got ‘the Mitsubishi Van’ in Canada then if they were sold in North America, as I’ve never seen one!
pip bip - choose Corrour
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
06/03/2019 at 06:58 |
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that first Mitsu van, we had one of those as a work van when i worked in Hamilton, 200km from where i am now.
slow, on gas. put some weight over the rear though, and it felt like a sports car!
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> pip bip - choose Corrour
06/03/2019 at 08:22 |
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It looked like a pretty basic and reliable thing...very cool! :D
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
06/03/2019 at 08:25 |
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basic is one way to put it.