Did You See Anything Good Today? [Read First Post]

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Few things this weekend
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On both occasions I was driving. Two days ago I spotted a 1997 light duty F-250. I have seen VERY few of these through the years. If memory serves the more common 3/4 ton Ford that year was the 92-96 square body style. Some were built with the "jelly bean" shape, which is what I saw.
I've seen all of perhaps 17 of them. One I saw in 1999 had Cobra emblems.
The vast majority of the Jelly Bean trucks were F-150's. The Super Duty line came out in 1999. When it did, the existing light duty F-250 was renamed the F-150 7700. Those are much more common.
EDIT: Here's a photo of a random 1997-1998 F-250. The way to tell which model year it is is to look at the tail pipe. In 1998 they lengthened the exhaust for that entire generation, it exits behind the right rear tire instead of in front as it did in 1996 and 1997.

The second sighting was a Corvair, pictured below. There are two or three of them around. Only the blue one I saw today looks operational.

Oh and I saw a Gen 2 Ford Tremor. I always see that one though. I think that guy might be stalking my wife and flirting with her some, so I should talk to him about that.
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I was getting back home from the 2025 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance yesterday when I saw this Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX! The driver even gave me a little thumbs-up after I took the shot.

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No idea what that is, but it's a great catch 👍
Aye, I hope to be throwing more in over the next few months. I live in a city that, when the sun comes out, a bunch of older motorheads get their classic cars out. Over the past few weeks I have seen multiple late 60's/early 70's muscle cars and a bunch of older hot-rods.

I haven't taken picture of them yet, but a 2 minute walk from me there is a Hummer EV, and a few minutes drive is a Bayside blue R34 GT-R.

I'll throw some pictures up when I can!
 
Utes aren't common in America, but an HSV in HSV just seems right.

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They're kind of a gray import, a company in Colorado imports broken Utes from Australia and replaces the parts with ones from a Pontiac G8, GTO, or Chevy Caprice. They then sell them for north of $60k as "kit cars" or hot rods. They say they are 50 state legal.

 
They're kind of a gray import, a company in Colorado imports broken Utes from Australia and replaces the parts with ones from a Pontiac G8, GTO, or Chevy Caprice. They then sell them for north of $60k as "kit cars" or hot rods. They say they are 50 state legal.


Yup, he told there's a company in Colorado who converted it.
 
Utes aren't common in America, but an HSV in HSV just seems right.

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I have so many questions. I wonder how this even happen? Is it a conversion? Is Australian emission laws that similar to America's? If so, folks are doing it wrong trying to bring over Kei trucks and GT-Rs.

EDIT: Literally as I was typing this out the answers were posted.
 
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Stumbled upon a menagerie of interesting cars at this small town auto shop.

Nissan Pulsar EX-A

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DB7

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1955 DB2/4

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Jaguar X-Type wagon, just a few thousand sold in the US

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XJS

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A bunch of old Benzes

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XJR

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DB9 Volante

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‘93 Alfa Spider

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Studebaker Lark

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Wow that DB2, and a convertible on top, I think you’ve seen should start playing the lottery having this kind of luck 🍀 😉
 
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