Yeah, mundane… an LF-A. incredible spot Rue. And beat me with a stick but I strangely like the two tone orange and black Bentley… I think working for the ricer mag has really softened me up… or maybe I like it because it’s a good photoshop idea, I need to pick inspiration from wherever it comes…
Anyway, I uploaded more pics the other day, so now you get to see them, most of them are two-pics-in-one as I usually try to take both ends of a car.
Lets start with a nuke-your-retinae-yellow 1948 Chevy pickup with horrid wheels and 4x4 stance, quite funny.
Rare 1954 Mercury 4 door wagon just abandoned over a pretty fast avenue, seems in good shape but I’m afraid it might be a pile of rust, and not an easy resto as there aren’t that many parts for these things.
Same goes for this gigantic Monaco Wagon, Iremember when I snapped the pic this thing was starting its abandonement process; why? I could hear the air coming out of the front tire as it slowly turned into a flat. Has been there since.
1958 Coronet 4-door in astounding shape, I talked to the owner (who saw me when I was taking the pic) and he told me he already has a lot of the parts it’s missing… the front of this thing kills me, it looks awesome, soooo evil.
Awesome looks! This CLS was wearing Brabus bits including the wheels and body kit but was a normal CLS Merc, cool nevertheless, I LOVE this design.
I was amazed to find this on the street, because it seemed it had not moved in QUITE some time, A110 Alpine (French car, not Mexican Dinalpin); check out the rollcage and aluminum Gottis with severe camber, this thing seems serious!
Rusty and patina’d 1947 Chevy Suburban… I’d just put in the missing pieces and paint flames over the rust, add a 454 and some interior with a stereo, and off we go.
Then this way freaky and very cool 1966 Mustang hardtop with Cragar Keystones and those weird taillights, and check out the hood tachometer!!! It’s a treatment I had never seen in a Mustang and It’s what called me the most, it needs freaking big rear tires and a tunnel ram poking trough the hood, with side pipes. Yeah, pure 70s.
Stark contrast, an A3 more-door with freakish elegant wheels and low low low, nice:
The Valiant ragtop was everywhere in the world, but in here it was called Valiant Acapulco and was all the rage in 1963, the commercials were cool, and this one seems very restoreable:
Gigantic and rare here Mercedes but unbadged, and as you may guess, Mercs are not my thing, someone ID it:
Mint Renault 8!!! And I’m not saying mint because of the state but of the colour, but it was in pretty neat shape anyway, the match-painted steel wheels add up:
What’s this? No, no 70 Mexican Super Bee because it lacks hoodscoops, turned out to be a normal slant-6 Duster with thehood tach, dah.
Being a Coronet fan I almost cried when I found this very derelict and vandalized 1969 two-door car serving as attachment point for the shade of a street food place; its engine (318 ci) was missing as was the entire frontend, it had rust everywhere and the interior was a garbage can; I was told it had been there for the best part of 20 years; incredibly, it is no longer there. No doubt it has gone to the crusher now.
Could anyone tell me what Toyota is this? I bet its common as heck but over here is a rare sight, Toyota came to the country about7 years ago, so any old Toyota stuff is rare:
A first-gen 300ZX!!!! These things are superrare here, Nissan never sold this sportster in Mexico so there but a few of those, this seemed in pretty good shape and all stock, very cool car with a mean demeanor, it looks evil.
Finally for now, a really, really destroyed 1969 Plymouth Satellite; I went to see this car because a friend of mine is restoring a same-year, über rare in Mexico 440-4 speed Road Runner, so I wanted to see if anything could be salvaged from this car. NOTHING, not a single part of this car could be reused, I have never seen a more bondo’ed car in my life, and every chrome part was broken, missing, or just plain destroyed or crooked. Inline six car, nothing really special.
And finally, for tradition! A very improbable ricer:
. As I mention in the video, I've also seen an Aston Martin Vanquish on that same road. Very awesome car to see.
Amazing spot Rue. 👍
