Very cool DS, Mog. Let's get this thread rolling again.
1958 Ford Fairlane 4 door hardtop in almost pristine condition, taken with a dying Canon p&s, hence the weird tones and overbrigthness.
Same car, just driving around:
Mustang ragtop with some chrome wheels, hardly a spot today but I remember I took this when the ragtop was just out. Old pic.
abandoned 1980 Dodge Magnum, a Mexico-only offering that dressed a Dart with high performance US Cop Car components and a stout -for the time- 360 small block. This one seemed pretty savable, even though it has been sitting there for years.
pile of parts on a random roof I managed to see and catch with the S2 zoom... weird:
Awesome mudfighting Jeep, still freaking dirty with mud. Attitude:
FREAKING AWESOME dropped Renault 18 on some stupid-rare 3-spoke wheels by... I think they are Gottis. I was really surprised at how clean this car was and how cool it looked sitting so low. Later I saw it driving and it looks even better. Also, check out the custom fabric sunroof. Awesomeness.
Neat 1971 AMC Javelin in pretty good condition, still sporting the infamous cone hubcaps, captured at night with the camera lying on the ground at a supermarket parking lot. The ghost guy in the second pic is the owner; I barely managed to catch the rear pic before he took off.
The Javelin was before we went into the supermarket, when we were ehading out this Karmann Ghia crossed our paths. I waited for the owner to go away then grabbed this:
Weird Renault 5 is weird: check out the undescribable graphics, the rear wheelwell cover -never seen anything like that on a Renault 5 before-, the chrome stripes and the snow plow spoiler... in the rear. Don't forget the sunroof.
To make up for that thing, here we have the most awesome Reanult 5 I have ever seen in the street. Check out how LOW the thing sits on the cool BBS-type wheels, the colour, the six in-yer-face Hellas, the Le Car emblem -never used here- and the custom fabric sunroof. The interior was just as sick. I tried to find the owner to no avail.
Random M3 sitting in a used car lot, it's still rare to see these things here.
Very cute and well preserved Merc 650? with the Automatic badge; these old Mercs are hard to see in here as they were never officialy sold in Mexico, the company left the country in the midst of the fin-tailed designs and came back in the mid-90s.
Pristine 70s Porsche Targa, heavily rain stained and sitting meters away from the previous Merc. It was for sale too, but I had no pocket change.
1970 Mexican Super Bee that popped up at a friend's shop. The Super Bee option was available in Mexico as a high-.performance package for the Duster, and featured a 318-inch engine with all the 340 parts that could be bolted up. Thus, it gave 270 hp that, for Mexico, were the most HP EVER offered in a car until 1970. It was the fastest car on the street and remained so until the 360 engine took over in 1975. They are really scarce and sought after today.
Random Acura TL with random wheels, nicely dropped.
Random 5-series with more random aftermarket wheels. I took the camera out and blew this picture in a rush thinking it was an M5, but when I checked it later it turned out to be a run-of-the-mill 5.
Ford F1, maybe 1947, poking it's ugly, bondo'ed nose out of a house in one of the richest parts of the city. Check out the 1973 license plate. Finding it there was actually a surprise, but it was the satrt of a day of heavy car spotting.
A few blocks away from the F1 I found this 1957 Cadillac Series 62 four-door hardtop with some missing crhrome trim but in otherwise great shape. I hope it was a resto in progress.
Minutes after I found the Cadoo, this 1967 Impala turned the corner. Nice shape, still used, cool.
I barely put the camera to work in time to get this awful picture of this MINT late-model Karmann Ghia. It was three blocks away from the Cadillac.
Pristine 1965 Mustang ragtop with Torque Thrusts sitting in a pretty upscale used car lot that had Audis and such stuff, but this was the only car that really got my attention. Same zone.
Random Cayyene with Techart wheels. Consider this a picture of the wheels, as it has been the only car I've ever seen with those things.
Horrible, "Eleonorized" Mustang with really small wheels and horribly fitting body panels. Why do people does this kind of things?
Ah, much better. A Mexican Monte Carlo SS, which had some heavy duty components that the US version lacked, such a stronger, 10-second-capable rear end and other stuff. This one seemed to be all original right down to it's paint, that exhibits some wear. But hey, it's only original once.
This 1969 Mustang hardtop with uncaped Torq-Thrusts was sitting meters from the Monte SS, so I presume they belong to the same guy. Cool car, it doesn't have added-on emblems to pretend it's something it's not (GT351), just an honest street bruiser.
I stumbled upon a high-end shop (we are still at the same zone as the F1, the Cadoo and so on) that had these outside. First, this ABSOLUTELY SPOTLESS MG. I don't know what model it is, but it is the real, no-VW-kit-car deal. It's always awesome to see cars as these, as most of the time you only see them at shows. I know it was at a shop, but hey, maybe it got there driving.
Same can be said for this real-deal, no-kit-car Porsche 356. Absolutely pristine, you hardly ever see these cars outside in the street, even more so considering that this car belongs to Porsche Club Mexico, big-money guys who only take these out for shows and daily-drive automatic 911s.
That was it for that day wandering around in that upscale zone. Next day was moving market day and I was surprised to find this awesome, tatty 1962 T-Bird hangin' around. The car looked quite complete and a splendid candidate for a serious resto/custom, as it seemed to be in great shape, metal-wise.
interior was all there too, you just need buckets of money to put everything tidy again and this would be one heck of a ride:
did you see? almost no abandoned cars in this post. And lots of Renaults. Weird.
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