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Well while i'm away from home, I missed numerous cars including an Audi R8 and BMW M3's. So far here's what I was able to capture. I

I start with our Airport, here's a Mercedes AMG GTS. Last year had BMW i8 in it''s place.

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(my phone's camera was smashed a bit so it caused all those foggy effects)
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Audi (RS7 or S7?)
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BMW i3
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Rusty beetle
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I also spotted a more clean Beetle and some other cars but it's on another phone. I also spotted cars like AE88 and MX5 Na/Nb, while it might not be a big spot, it''s rather big for me considering how rare they're back in my country.
 
When I was in Chicago.

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(The guy in the i8 said to his passenger about how cool the car is and how everyone's taking pictures of them)

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(This was at my hotel)


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(I didn't realize there was someone in the car while I was taking this. When I stood up the woman inside asked why I was crouched down and if there was something wrong with the car. :lol: )


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Oh I forgot about these pictures. These Vipers were having a photoshoot at the end of a street. I got to talk to one of the owners. He just bought his ACR from Florida a week before that day and he drove it all the way from there to Chicago, where he lives. Here's his Instagram


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You gotta love the Dodge Viper. They look so evil and badass...
 
Finally went spotting on Wednesday, not a great day for spotting, especially not when it's 90 degrees, but I just haven't had the chance for the past couple weeks. A few things have come into work, or spotted between home and work, just starting to upload them now to Flickr after a hiatus uploading there. Check it out if you're curious.

But just wanted to drop this here. Something I found in a driveway (turn around and pull in and knock) on fairly major road out in the country, first time driving there. 30-something bearded tattoo'd guy answers after his big dog jumps on the fence and barks like maybe he can intimidate me or something. "Can I help you?" "Well, thing is, I'm a car nut, and I was driving by, and..."

@ilikewaffles11 can you identify the engine? Anybody want to guess on the model?


He was a real nice guy after that! His dad found the body with a tree growing where the engine should be, saved it, and built a car under it, torsion bars and double wishbone front and back. Fair amount of custom sheet metal work, tasteful, base model still clearly recognizable.
 
@jeffgoddin Looks like some sort of R Series engine, I was thinking maybe an 18R or something. After Googling a little bit, the valve cover looks like it's from an 18R but the intake is on the wrong side, but a 20R has the intake on the passenger side like that. Maybe some sort of mash up, know some other Toyota engines can be mixed and matched a little bit like that.

I'll look into it a bit more, might be even older than an 18R and I'm not super familiar with anything older than that. :p

Edit: Think I found it! Looks like a 21R
 
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Didn't realize how Japanese heavy this months spots are. Spoiler tags to avoid clutter

Wasn't gonna post but eh, why not, only 105k miles on this little '86 truck
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Maybe at least @jeffgoddin will appreciate this little old lady owned 80s Accord! Was completely spotless
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One of my favorite finds, an FJ62 Land Cruiser with a turbo diesel B series engine and 5 M/T swap with an FJ60 front end. This thing was gorgeous
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Same day found this first gen Celica GT lift back by chance when we turned around here!
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We were right down the road from Pocono raceway so plenty of neat cars going by, missed an awesome old Opel Manta but got this SL63 AMG with some XJS
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E-Type at a shop with an Elise I didn't notice until I was taking the photo
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Realized this was a car show entrance headed back, but Mustang and VW transporter
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This came into work for some oil.. We didn't have any for it
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Truckload of SS!
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Rolls Royce in a tiny town 3 hours away from home
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And a Beetle
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70s Corolla with some sort of rotary swap
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Dealer service department spot, clean AW11! Automatic though..
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Made a wrong turn headed back from a junk yard and found this mint early MK2 Supra!
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And a topless first gen 4Runner!
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Love it! 👍 I'm always checking out the 80's Accords etc, but have yet to find a mint one... nice find! And I love wrong-turn spotting! As you say, lots of great Japanese stuff in these! And man would I be kicking myself over missing the Manta, but that 1970s Corolla about makes up for it.:)

Oh, and I found this today on my lunch break:
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Recent Spots from the past week:

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Yay, I saw a green Hellcat! I'm seeing SRT cars a lot more often lately, I think it's because I now live near a Dodge Dealer and it had a couple of Charger Hellcats in the front. I might go buy there this week to look.
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It's been a while since I posted a X-Runner, here's one in red!
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A first for me, a Volkswagen Fox that's for sale. I found it interesting as I don't think I see that many older VWs on the road aside from the Beetle and Bus.
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An Oldsmobile 442 that was outside of a seafood restaurant that I was trying out. That's where I saw the Challenger.
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This Chevrolet Impala was in the same area.
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Finally got some cars from the west side. I always feel spoiled when I go to Detroit for spotting.
911 turbo S
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Dodge Charger Daytona
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And a nova and corvette
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Something a little different from a recent trip to India.

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Considering there are so many of these TATA 2515s in India, they're incredibly diverse.
 

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