What's the rarest car you've unexpectedly encountered?

"MegaSuper" (megasuper)
04/10/2015 at 17:49 • Filed to: None

Keyword here is "unexpectedly," so I'm going to say that car dealerships and car shows don't count. Parking lots and driveways are fair game though.

My top 2 (sadly these all occurred before cameraphones were widespread, so no pics, sorry!)

1) Just out walking in a quiet, not particularly wealthy suburb. Mostly just Lexus RXes, Priuses, Camries, etc, in this town. I walk by a REALLY quiet stretch of a not-busy road, where there's just a church on the corner and a few houses. This is on a cloudy weekday at like 2pm. I hear a low rumble...burble-burble-BURBLE-BRAAAAAAAP. It's a Ferrari F40 pulling up to the stopsign and racing away. Left me speechless. Still to this day have I never seen another one.

2) Saw a Vector W8 in just your typical shopping plaza once. It was the real deal; the weird CRT screen, the strangely-offset driving position. I remember it being very wide, as well as not having an immediately obvious way to see behind you. When you stand right behind the car, the way the rear decklid slopes up is almost directly at the same level as the driver's rear-view-mirror line-of-sight. Crazy car in every sense of the word!

What about you Oppo?

DISCUSSION (52)

JR1 > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:51

So basically the rarest car I have seen in the wild? Same as you F40. Tried to compliment the owner when it pulled up but I didn't have words.

dogisbadob > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:52

The IS300 wagon, and an unmolested EG Civic Si

HammerheadFistpunch > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:54

LM-002. driving along on a back road 2 minutes from my house. It was green, it was lovely.

bob and john > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:54

well, in thunder bay, waying along the street, i saw (at an acura dealer) a RED delorean. Its unexpected because A: I didnt see any online add for it
A: its was in thunder bay
C: it was RED.

I did see a Saab 9-4x at a gas station once

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:55

polaris slingshot out shopping, and a suzuki sambar jdm mini truck and kei van sitting in a parking lot next to each other (rare for America) and an audi R8 on the freeway.

Anima > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:55

I think it would have to be when this car parked across from my house a month or so back.

Kinja'd!!!

CaptDale - is secretly British > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:58

I was walking down town and there was a guy getting out of his white Toyota 2000GT. That was super awesome.

cuts_off_prius > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 17:59

Kinja'd!!!

I just spotted this Datsun 210 today, which is incredibly rare up north.

crowmolly > HammerheadFistpunch
04/10/2015 at 18:00

Was it a lighter shade of green?

MultiplaOrgasms > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:01

Kinja'd!!!

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:01

An Eunos Cosmo... In Alabama and Tennessee.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:01

I didn't expect to see these cars when I walked into this Porsche shop:

959, 964 Turbo S(1 of the 80 made in 1992 I believe), 993 GT2, and an RS2000 not pictured here.

Kinja'd!!!

Ferrero1911 > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:01

Mine would probably be a Veyron. I've seen 2 in the wild not including the one on a trailer on the freeway.

HammerheadFistpunch > crowmolly
04/10/2015 at 18:02

Dark green like BRG. So hot.

crowmolly > HammerheadFistpunch
04/10/2015 at 18:04

Ah. Years ago I saw an LM002 in the lighter shade of green. It was Malcolm Forbes' car.

The Real Dacia Sandero > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:05

A few weeks ago I saw...

Santana Defender 110:

Kinja'd!!!

Land Rover Series 3 109:

Kinja'd!!!

Citeron 2CV:

Kinja'd!!!

I was at my grandmother's house, and we pulled onto her street coming back from lunch and saw the 110. I about crapped my pants. The 110 was fresh off the boat from Spain. Guy who owns them is super cool too.

While none of these are rare around the rest of the world, they are pretty rare in the US. I used to live in Jacksonville, Florida, so I'm sure there's some rare exotic I've seen and can't remember right now. These are far cooler to me though.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
04/10/2015 at 18:13

God, K-Roll I still lust over that black 959

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/10/2015 at 18:15

My friend snapped this picture of it last summer on Woodward. :p

Kinja'd!!!

Jack Does Cars > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:16

Probably an illegal Porsche 997 Sport Classic, at a Cars and Coffee event, in Cary, NC. Or a hyperblurple-esque Lamborghini LM-002, when visiting my father on Bainbridge Island, WA. Or a Subaru GL convertible (might've been a custom job) while also in Washington. Or a SAAB 9-7X Aero, 9-4X, and 9-3X all in the same parking garage, in Downtown Durham, NC.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
04/10/2015 at 18:19

Do you have any more large sizes? I would love to have a decent wallpaper of the best looking Porsche of the 80s and 90s

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:20

This one is the one that I remember best. 457 made. Your F40 is common.

Kinja'd!!!

Rico > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:21

Back in 2006 I was working on location for The White Rapper Show on VH1, one of our guests had an amazing grey NSX. I remember I was on a the phone walking around the parking lot when I stumbled upon it, I told my girl at the time I would call her back and proceeded to take a bunch of pictures on my Treo.

Cé hé sin > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:22

Santana PS 10

Kinja'd!!!

505Turbeaux > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:24

Kinja'd!!!

my new Goliath. I thought I was going to look at "an old Peugeot wagon"

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/10/2015 at 18:25

Not sure, I'll have to check.

BorkBorkBjork > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:28

Kinja'd!!!

Both of these were encountered at random in DFW. Pretty rare, but nowhere near as rare as the Mercedes-Benz R63 AMG I saw once but never managed to get a photo of.

Kinja'd!!!

However NOTHING is as rare as what I just saw today! It MUST be a one-off test car. I present the BMW C78! Which posted at the top, because of course it did

Mikeado > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:45

Hmm......

Locally I've found a Matra Murena and Renault Alpine GTA, both of which are probably pretty bloody rare now! I've also seen supercars on the motorway a few times before, including an Enzo. There used to be a GT40 (could've been a replica) but it must've moved away a few years ago :-(

Kinja'd!!!

Oh! And a Renault 4 Plein-Air. I can't find the photos of that though......

wkiernan > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:45

The other day I was driving in North Tampa and I saw a 4-door Skyline GTS4 ahead of me in traffic. It was such a unicorn that I grabbed my cell phone and snapped a couple of shaky, low-quality photos. I had never seen one of these on the road before.

Kinja'd!!!

Sam > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:53

I saw a MKIV Supra Turbo at a gas station in the middle of the night yesterday.

I also didn't know our dealership was getting these so early, so it was kind of unexpected. Range Rover Sport SVR

Kinja'd!!!

Jay Lewis > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 18:55

Mitsubishi Delica (I live in a small town in Canada.)

Oh, and a Suzuki Equator.

Mikeado > Mikeado
04/10/2015 at 18:58

Found the pics! There's also a red Renault 4 hatch that lives here more regularly.

Kinja'd!!!

pip bip - choose Corrour > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 19:28

McLaren MP4-12c in Collins Street Melbourne. same time F1 was in town.

Jared E > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 19:29

I saw a 918 and BMW i8 outside a bathroom at Daytona international Speedway parked next to a 90's Legacy Outback.

Trunk Impaired 318 > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 19:54

I saw a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport parked at a casino. Granted is was the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco but still, Veyron Super Sport.

I too saw an F40 unexpectedly, Berchtesgaden Germany, pouring rain, and I hear something racy start up and rev, Im expecting something like a 360 or 430 but nope, it was an F40, that owner is a hero.

Kinja'd!!!

404usernotfound > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 20:09

Ok, so my Neighbor has a Prowler, and a first gen viper (though I haven't seen it in years), also in my neighborhood I saw a Lamborghini Countach parked while i was on a run. The same guy also had a Old Bentley, a 2CV and a old Mustang fastback.

Kinja'd!!!

Also I've seen two separate ford GTs in my area, one with a Gulf Livery and one that I was able to take a picture of.

Kinja'd!!!

I also have a post about a DeLorean that was parked in my school parking garage.

I don't know which one is the rarest, but I've a good selection of awesome automobiles.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 21:35

Jenson Interceptor at West County Volvo in St Louis.

Also, for a few short weeks, St Louis (St LOUIS!!!!) had a Lamborghini Reventon. But it wasn't really a surprise. I read about it in the newspaper.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 21:45

Kinja'd!!!

DipodomysDeserti > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 22:55

Kinja'd!!!

I saw this at a local car meet. I also saw a Z8 while dropping my wife's car off for service once.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 22:58

Kinja'd!!!

I once spotted a 1-of-1,100 BMW ActiveE, an all-electric version of the 1-series.

haier2 > MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 23:14

I was on highway 78 in north Mississippi recently and got a chance to see my first Rally Fighter. Unfortunately it was going in the other direction, so I couldn't get a picture. I'm not sure exactly how rare these are, but I sure hadn't seen one before.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > MegaSuper
04/13/2015 at 16:41

On our way to Colorado several years ago, we took the back roads in, and were passing through some random small town, and I spotted... a black Ferrari Enzo.

This is not my photo of that car, because, you know, no SR20.

Kinja'd!!!