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Nothing overly exciting but the first Q5 I've seen. It really does look like a 75% Q7.

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If the wheels on the '56 were , lets say 16" or maybe 17" , and not painted orange , just polished up , it would look ok , but right now , there's is too much of the orange thing working , and not enough rubber showing , at least for that era of a car.

I like the orange accenting.

Shoot me.

With less rim and more tire the orange accenting would not work at all though.
 
Saw an imported Lancer Evo 5 or 6 a couple days ago. No pic; it drove by while I was helping a friend work on his car. I just hope it's owned by someone in town so I can hunt it down later.

Awesome shots recently, from everybody!
 
taken at the boxing day meet, where everyone shows what they imported for xmas, and the chavs try desperately to drive back and forth while noone pays attention to them...heres a few of the best spots
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41 chrysler coupe
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42 dodge, must have been near the end of the production line before they stopped for war effort
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challenger with all the right boxes ticked
and heres a novel thing
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vauxhall hsr, rally homologation thing
 
Yesterday my friend and I were driving around and we saw the biggest truck we've ever seen on the side of the road pulled over by a cop. I didn't catch a picture but a few minutes later he passed us and I just had to take a pic. It's a bit dark so you can't really see but the body of this thing ended where the top of my friends blazer started. Those tires must have been 50s, which would explain why he was pulled over, but it was an amazing sight.

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Nothing amazing.

Saw a Corvette:
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A Z8
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And here on the right, not amazing, but still rather tasty. A Cooper with rather flared wheel arches:
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All of these were within spitting distance from eachother.
 
^ That's a Z4, not a Z8; common most anywhere. Cool Mini! I've never seen one in real life, and that shot really gives perspective on its size.

Sick Challenger, stumpydino :drool:. Those classics are immaculate as well!
 
^ That's a Z4, not a Z8; common most anywhere.

Here's a little jingle I made up to remember the differences:

If the lines are jagged and poor, it's a Z4.
If the lines are smooth and the car looks great, it's a Z8.
If it's small and not creased like it hit a tree, it's a Z3.

:p
 
That's not technically the same thing. That's the Diablo Corsa, a SE Jota R ordered by JLOC to use as a replacement for their Countach. It and 2 others are known under the identification as Jota P-Spec cars. The yellow one is P.02.
 
taken at the boxing day meet, where everyone shows what they imported for xmas, and the chavs try desperately to drive back and forth while noone pays attention to them...heres a few of the best spots
41chryslerbysmevcarsho7.jpg

41 chrysler coupe
42dodgebysmevcarsqn8.jpg

42 dodge, must have been near the end of the production line before they stopped for war effort
72challengerbysmevcarsmc8.jpg

challenger with all the right boxes ticked
and heres a novel thing
vauxhallhsrbysmevcarspp1.jpg

vauxhall hsr, rally homologation thing

MOST AWESOME POST IN A LONG LONG TIME! If only the Challenger was a 1970-71, I’d pick it over the Black Chrysler, but nah… strangely, the Vauxhall wins me!!! Awesome little cockroach.

After the false Lambo, here comes another batch of cars from me, but this time there is nothing flashy here, just rust and rust and more glorious rust! also, strangely, loads of Mopars and Buicks!! we never feature Buicks here.

First this 1958 ford Ranch Wagon found out of the city, near Grandma’s house, in complete abandonement and disrepair. Frankly, t is one of the most “gone” cars I’ve ever seen.
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Then, nearby that car, this poor, poor VW oval window (1952-1957), very rare in Mexico because in these years bugs were imported, not made here. It’s just a shell, but look at it, it’s very restorable as it is not too rusted, but it lacks EVERYTHING!!! I had never seen a VW so picked over, you’d just have to get everything for it, but hey, I’d take it.
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Check out that interior, or lack of it. Cool. Damn I’m weird.
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Some odd big gigantic Chrysler, Imperial or I don’t know, big block for sure, it has vanished since then.
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Very very cool Mexican 1979 Super Bee (think of it as a US Road Runner with ‘Bee tirm) with WIDE, WIDE as they should be, rear tires on Ansen slot mags and original stripes over pale yellow, also an original colour. 4-speed too, wich makes it a very rare car, most of those were autos. Awesome car, I would not change a thing… well, I’d up the compression on the 360, of course, these things came with 7.5:1!!!!!
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Mid 60s Dodge tow truck with… yeah, that is a Challenger behind, 318-auto model, nothing special but it IS special here because Challengers were never sold here and, as you know, they are HOT right now. It went off the city to be turned into a drag car, so its fate was cool. The car was outside the shop you can see in the fourth picture, of which I’ll post more of once I find them, they specialized in Mopars and always had cool rare cars there.
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The green thing is a 74 mexican Super Bee, if you look closely you¿ll see a Challenger shell and of course, a F100.
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In the same place, 1970 Dodge Coronet, I was about to buy this car when I noticed that some dude had been living inside it, so I just passed… it had massive rust but I did not care at that time, today I would not even look at it, too much work. You can see the green Bee and the Challenger hulk in front of it.
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Very sad 1969 Javelin, rust everywhere, and that dismantled face, these were awesome cars but they were never sold with V8s in Mexico:
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Oh yeah, very nicely restored early Karmann Ghia with late 70s wheels, these cars are so nice, I’d love ot own one very cal-look style.
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Very rare in here mid-70s 3-series? BMW pretty picked over, inside the parking lot of a mall! The car has since disappeared, let’s hope it fell in good hands, but I really doubt it… sad.
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Peeking out of said mall’s windows, I saw this!!! A 1964 Buick Riviera, very very rare car that was never sold here, Mexico missed the Riviera by three years (but I doubt it would have been sold here anyway), it was in good condition, I’d drive it just like that, it’s only missing white walls with Astro Supremes:
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Then, another one, really strange, but true: time capsule 1970 Buick Riviera! Check out the psychedelic paint job and real Buick wheels, and also the vinyl top… this car is extremely rare here, Buicks were sold until 1961 then the marke left the country, so this was an awesome find. It looked like it had been there for years but it has now disappeared, lets hope it went to a cool owner that wont paint it.
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Gargantuan early 70s Buick… I think it’s a Wildcat but I´m not sure, also rare because, again, Buick were never sold in Mexico in that era… its weird, three Buikcs in the same post!! This is a 4 door so I doubt anyone will pay much attention to it, but I found it and had to snap:
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At its side, a 1953 Chevrolet 4-door that was nothing special, but it was SO rusty I could not pass it up, DIG THAT TEXTURE!!!
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Then a 1964 Coronet hardtop that has seen better days… it s one of those cars you could fix up transplanting everything off a 4-door and just patching the rear quarters. Altered wheelbase project FTW!
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I think I had already posted one image of this 1958 Chevy 4-door, but here the dual-view version surfaced and just had to put it up, dig the Camaro wheels and general dust:
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There it goes, and also, just to remind myself, I’m at page 8 of my Photobucket.
 
Again , love your rust buckets cano :) 👍


Some more Japanese imports from celbridge :) and some other cars

Evo 4(?)
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Old Man GTS
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Finally got a good shot of the R34 GTT, well a good quailty one, + Dc5-R
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R32 GTS
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Evo 5,6???
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Cano

I like the silver Challenger , yellow Challenger is a very good starter project for someone , nice. 👍
 
Haha i was abouyt to shout at you but then i noticed the GOLF r32 :) thank you , you could probably geuss I wouldn't of noticed the r32 becuase of the two white BEASTS.

Might be a long shot but I'd think the Golf could outrun the 'Tegra.
 
It's always great looking at your posts in here Cano 👍

My friend saw that truck again today and was able to snap a quick photo. It looks much much bigger in person, gotta love big trucks.

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Cano

I like the silver Challenger , yellow Challenger is a very good starter project for someone , nice. 👍

Silver Chalenger was not mine, it was spotted by Stumpy, I was just refering to how awesome it was.

And the yellow car is now a ten second drag car, so yeah, it was a good start (:
 
My friend saw that truck again today and was able to snap a quick photo. It looks much much bigger in person, gotta love big trucks.

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Of course, the fact that they didn't beef up the axles tells me that it's strictly an on-road truck, a poser if you will. :p

Edit: nor did they trim the fenders. I'm surprised the cop that pulled them over didn't impound it for being dangerous to traffic, not to mention the lack of mudflaps and fender-flares.
 
MOST AWESOME POST IN A LONG LONG TIME! If only the Challenger was a 1970-71, I’d pick it over the Black Chrysler, but nah… strangely, the Vauxhall wins me!!! Awesome little cockroach.

i thought you would like it :D
r/t 440 six pack not good enough for ya? :p
and to think those lil vauxhall hsr thingos had 200+hp!

another one i almost forgot...
one man +8 years +basic tools +heap of rust=
neat tech rod nash lafayette cabriolet 👍
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i thought you would like it :D
r/t 440 six pack not good enough for ya? :p


It's a clone R/T , The one pictured ( silver one ) is of '73-'74 vintage , they never made an R/T in those years , the name Challenger stayed , but were refered to as a " Rallye " Challenger , also the 440 six pack was last used in a Challenger in '71 , the '73 - '74 Challengers were also equipped with small blocks,360ci. being the biggest engine you could get from the factory in those particular years of Challengers,but still it is a nice car. 👍
 
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