Car hunting

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Every once and a while my fiancee and I will go "Car hunting" to kill time. It started one day when I needed to show her a 599. We found one, and a Dino, two Californias, a 456 and a few other Ferraris. It turns out there was a large Ferrari meet going on in town, and living in South Florida helps lol. Anyway, so we now need a ranking system. Points would be confusing and debatable. Im thinking since its a hunt, why not liken them to animals? Kinda weird and nerdy, but you get a sense of accomplishment like, sweet. I went looking for one, and I found it. Good find. So far it seems Bentleys are most like deer. A lot of them, but still worth hunting. As a point of referrence we got 12 the other night, and not at the dealership. Rolls-Royces are more rare and a little cooler. Moose? Then getting into the exotics - Ferraris, Porsches, Aston Martins etc etc.

I figured this was difference from the "Did you see anything good today" thread because we go out on purpose to find these cars, not just I saw one on the way to work. Thoughts?
 
We did a scavenger hunt type of thing two years ago, it worked well till we ran out of categories and Doug ended up winning everything.
 
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So far it seems Bentleys are most like deer. A lot of them, but still worth hunting.
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Easy for you to say Mr Palm Beachian ;)


Uhhhm, not sure what I think of the idea. I like it, but I've got a feeling it could get painfully complex trying to work out points based on each individual car.

Taking Aston Martin as an example, you can't just give a standard number of points for all of the models they've ever made. DB9s for example are a hell of a lot more common than DB7 Zagatos. Issue is even worse with spotting a Ford - is a GT worth the same as a Ka or an F150?

If there's a way of getting past that, then I'm in. I'll lose, but I'm in.
 
I thought you were looking to purchase one of those cars. I was going to ask if you could share the wealth. :lol:
 
Yes, but Doug's dead*, baby.




*I'm sure he's actually alive, but he abandoned his account after a discussion about diesel and now resides entirely on F-Chat
 
Doug is alive and kicking, runs his own website now dedicated to car spotting.
 
He's dead to me. DEAD! YOU HEAR ME?! DEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!


Anyway, I support this idea. In fact, I support a revival of the GTP Scavenger Hunt, and I support some other sod running it.
 
I too support it a reinstatement of it, using a similar set of rules and parameters as before since that seemed to work out nicely.
 
It doesnt have to be a competition, just a way to pass time and judge my (or yours)sense of accomplishment. No, Makes would be a type of animal, models would be certain species. For example, a Continental Super Sports would be a 12pt buck, a Flying Spur a doe. Neat to see, but nothing special. (Again, relatively speaking.) Maybe we should skip the animal system, and create a points system.
 

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