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

[jeffgoddin]

@ the M, Indeed! Well, except for the street sign coming out of the roof...

 

[gjeff12]

Although my neighbour does have a Nismo 370/50z. Now that I think about it there must be more nice cars per capita than Cleveland. My other neighbour has a Viper. I know, I know, I have no proof but it's winter and not nice car weather.

 

[Doog]

Today, on the way to school, in the midst of the daily traffic filled with silver Camries and black 3 Series Beemers, I saw something. As it drove by, I craned my neck to uncomfortable extremes to see it. It was white, with shiny chrome wheels. It had an aggressive, but understated face. The profile was business as usual; sedanlike. But it was a coupe. And gracing the trunk was the large factory wing. And on the car's hindquarters were four circular tailights. It was a R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R. The fact that it was an R34 was only a small part of why it excited me so much. What really captured my interest was that there was an authentic, right hand drive, imported R34 right here in Arizona. Plus, being so rare in the US, it was the first one that I've seen. Sure, I occasionally see R35's puttering around, but I don't give a crap about those. But man, seeing that R34, it made my day. 👍

 

[gjeff12]

They're barely legal anywhere in North America. You're lucky.

 

[RocZX]

It was a R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R.

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> Um...

GT, parking like a boss.

Saw this GT3 RS today

^ Parking like a boss!? I'm sorry, but in the world of Jalopnik this is a asshat parking like most Bimmer...

...Fanboi...

M3, parking like a boss.

^ I rest my case...

Saw this bad dog today. Callaway C16. Spoke to the owner, said it puts out 652HP. Nice fat 335 tires out back...

^ That is one nasty juicy Callaway! 👍

-> I used to see an ad of those Callaways on DuPont Registry and these babies cost 'round USD$90K-200K.

 

[SuperShouden]

Okay....the only way I could've gotten pics myself of this thing is if it were parked. But it's one of those vehicles that when it passes you, you just go "WTF was that" and by the time you realize what it was, it's gone. But..luckily...there's a news article on it:

http://www.khq.com/global/story.asp?s=11979413

I have to say, that made my day.

EDIT: For those who don't want to click on the link, here's a picture of the car boat:

It's a '94 Le Baron with a fiberglass boat body on it.

 

[land sea air]

-> Um...

not all of us park like asshats

 

[TheCracker]

not all of us park like asshats

O Rly?

 

[land sea air]

HAHAHAHAHAHA


ok you got me there, but it's my wife's car technically so...

 

[MedigoFlame]

O Rly?

Shall there be a horrible parkers thread coming up soon? I was actually thinking of that, after seeing how many awful parking jobs I've seen at my work... Had no pictures to start one off though. One common way of finding horrible parkers here, is at the local park, where soccer moms really enjoy parking ON sidewalks. Just an idea. >_>

 

[Ibonibo]

When you see expensive cars parked liked that it's not that the driver can not park, but of fear of getting scratched or door-hitting, they park it so the neighbor parker needs to hold it's distance.

When I park at a public parking I usually take 2 spots. People hitting their door against an other car are the asshats.

When my car came fresh out with a new paintjob it took 2 days to dent it on a parking.
So I rather take 2 spots, get weird looks, a ticket or whatever but my car is dentfree since.

On the callaway pic, it is pretty obvious that he feared the mighty Rabbit

 

[land sea air]

In my opinion there is no excuse. You are just as likely to have someone mess up your car in anger for for parking like a moron or have some idiot try and fit there car in the space anyways and have even more risk of damage to your car. If someone is to worried about there car to park it properly then they shouldn't drive it.

 

[SuperShouden]

People who get mad at other people for parking crappily....have never been to college.

 

[Madertus]

In my opinion there is no excuse. You are just as likely to have someone mess up your car in anger for for parking like a moron or have some idiot try and fit there car in the space anyways and have even more risk of damage to your car. If someone is to worried about there car to park it properly then they shouldn't drive it.

Amen to that.

Hummer H2:

Saw this Focus RS a few days ago:

And a couple of shots of a Nissan GTR:

Now that's a nice one - I was taking pictures of this magnificent GTR and suddenly its owner decided to have a bit of fun on my cost - he turned on the car's alarm. Then he laughed with his 2 awsum palz at me, standing 20 meters away. I don't know if his mind is so small that he doesn't understand someone taking pictures of half-a-million (in Polish currency) worth car, and I don't care really. But the way he treated me was just mean, and he really p****d me off. What do you guys think about that?

I swear, if he was alone back then, someone would have to sweep him of the sidewalk.

 

[poolhaas]

Kick a dent in it and run

I'd just ignore it and walk away.

 

[Madertus]

Kick a dent in it and run

Good one

You should hear them laughing, it was 'Bahaha, look at this poor douchebag!' way. And I did walk away, ignoring it. But I'm irascible, so someone thinking he/she's one step higher than me won't get past me that easily ;p

 

[poolhaas]

Guess you just met the wrong kind of rich people that wanted to show off, I'd be honored if someone took that much interest in my car. Hasn't happened so far

Haven't seen a GT-R in the wild, but I know there is one around... a matter of time.

 

[Kamuifanboy]

Guess you just met the wrong kind of rich people that wanted to show off, I'd be honored if someone took that much interest in my car. Hasn't happened so far

A lot of people ask to take pictures of my fathers car, and often they like talking to him about it as well. He said he likes it, it makes him feel better about the car he bought.

On the topic of parking. I always parked my MazdaSpeed 3 sideways and way away from everyone else. Before I did that, I once came out of the grocery store with a massive Toyota Tundra half on top of the hood. Said he didn't see it and back into it. 4k in damage repairs for him. So there is a reason to it, yeah you may look like a douche. But I think it's absolutely ridiculous how some people treat their cars.

Another story about how people treat there cars, getting on a tangent. At a mcdonalds, this guy drove into our trailer hitch on our Nissan Armada. His bumper was stuck on the trailer hitch. The front bumper was over the trailer hitch. We were going to have a tow truck get it off since his car was less than a year old. Nope, the guy decided he would rather just rip the bumper off... wth.

 

[NISM0_SKYLINE]

, some guy set the alarm off on his Mugen Civic I was taking pictures of.

Saw a 7 today.

 

[oskierox]

2012 GTR parked next to me

V8 Vantage at church

Love the 500's, and the reindeer thing... bahaha

MGB (thanks beeblebrox237)

3 Spyders

Sweet Z8

Awesome looking 430 Spyder

Old and from a meet, but amazing F50

F50

Epic 599 on my trip in Paris

All for now

 

[Beeblebrox237]

2012 GTR parked next to me

Nice RX-8 👍

Anyone? Some sort of MG?

That's an MGB.

 

[oskierox]

Thanks to both comments man:tup:

 

[gjeff12]

I think I'm going to take pictures of any somewhat nice car now. Even if it's common to me others might think it's cool. I like the cars in the backgrounds of European pics because we don't see them here.

 

[Vince_Fiero]

A post for Cano?

Very early car: Bugatti

Early Car: french. Peugeot or Panhard

Seems US to me: Daimler Conquest Century Drophead Coupe

Borgward:

Old Lancias:

Citroen DS Break:

 

[Ibonibo]

Epic 599 on my trip in Paris

All for now

Wow Paris,TX looks a lot like Paris in France. Even the details

Vince:
Nice spotting. The gray Lanica looks fabulous

 

[RocZX]

Very early car:

I think that's a Bugatti Teal Type 59

 

[Crash]

On the other hand, I did see this a while back at an intersection (long before I got on GTPlanet). Its a Pick up truck pulling what looks like a massive barrel of beer like its Oktoberfest or something. But this was in America.

That looks like a giant promotional truck. But you don't know Deschutes Brewery? They do some great beer.

-> Um...




^ Parking like a boss!? I'm sorry, but in the world of Jalopnik this is a asshat parking like most Bimmer...

...Fanboi...



^ I rest my case...

Hey now, you didn't HAVE to find a picture of a BMW with Washington plates on, let alone one that was bought in Bellevue. I drive a BMW and I promise I don't park like that.

A post for Cano?

Very early car:

That looks like a Bugatti!

 

[TheCracker]

👍 I think the Bugatti is a Type 43 (Although it could be one of the better Teal replicas)

 

[Beeblebrox237]

It's definitely a Bugatti or a replica. It's quite beautiful.