Car Spotting

[morninggents]

With all this talk about mpg don't forget a US gallon is approximately 3.85 litres whilst an imperial gallon is 4.55 litres.

[Gerard C]

Something the airlines companies learnt on the hard way.

[broadrun96]

These things are so God awful ugly. And yes, yes that line behind him is the stop bar and that's not a flashing yellow turn arrow, it's solid red. And the grey dust on the ground in front is speedi-dri from yet another left turn guy trying to beat the light. There were at least 5 bumpers on the grass earlier in December, good Atliens will know the intersection



This was a lot of colors, does the red really go with the rest? All the badges were red replacements. And do they let you up size tires so use an aftermarket plate hanger on the rear? Better solution than many of the jeeps who kinda sorta hang it inside the tinted back glass

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Something the airlines companies learnt on the hard way.

Not quite, Gérard because aviation fuel is calculated by weight, not volume. What you may be thinking about was the incident where the pilots miscalculated the conversion between pounds and kilograms, when an airline ended up actually gliding without power into an airport because they hadn't loaded sufficient fuel.

Nowadays, the standard is that all countries, bar very few like Russia, I believe, now deliver fuel weighed by pounds not kilos.

[broadrun96]

Yup, and no temperature conversion needed for weight either

[Gerard C]

Correct Mike, sorry. Happily things have gone more clear and simple over the years: "One pound is the same as 16 ounces (oz) or 1 2 0 0 0 ton (short ton). This also means that one ton is the same as 2000 pounds. There are other units for measuring weight that are less commonly used, such as stone and quarter."

[fieldodreams79]

State Government Vehicles

[joeb]

Non factory wing alert

[broadrun96]

Sweet wing for Wing Wednesday

And the factory "retro look" Bronco II, sorry Sport, at the right too

[morninggents]

I quite liked the Zakspeed Capri colours of the SUV on the far mid right of the shot.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by morninggents

I quite liked the Zakspeed Capri colours of the SUV on the far mid right of the shot.

The one on the cross street?

That's one of the retro Bronco Sport paint jobs. It was better on the 70s version. Plus those were real trucks and not the rebodied 3 cylinder Escape nonsense

[morninggents]

Yes, that was the one. In close up it doesn't now look so much the Zakspeed colour scheme.

[Gerard C]

May be its a matter of ride height? I remember that those so particular Capri's off-road abilities were somewhat limited…

[broadrun96]

I'm thinking they might be more off road worthy than a Bronco Sport though

[joeb]

Brown on brown

[broadrun96]

Man Ramchargers are making a hella comeback on the road, came close to buying a couple different ones in Virginia and cheap as chips, they are not that way now.

Saw a unicorn truck, not many left and they're either factory perfect or questionably road worthy. Yup, that's a white 2dr, 2wd Tacoma. Spent a lot of college riding in one of them with a bench seat, my roommate was 5'6 so yeah it was a sweet comfortable ride

300ZX with Ferrari taillights? Swear the factory lights were full panel not multiple single bezels



And this guy was factory like I'm a regular sized human. I could smell and taste how aggressive the cam was in her, it was aggressive

[E.B]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

300ZX with Ferrari taillights? Swear the factory lights were full panel not multiple single bezels

Definitely after market. Here the 300ZX was as you say a full panel rear cluster each side with horizontal bands for stop/tail, turn and reverse lamps. Comme ci

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by joeb

Brown on brown

It's beautiful.
Guts. Glory. Ram.

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

300ZX with Ferrari taillights? Swear the factory lights were full panel not multiple single bezels

Those are 180SX type X or "Kouki" style tail lamps. It's a JDM/Nissan thing. I learned this from Mightycarmods. It's a legit thing and very expensive mod in the Nissan world, whatever you think of it. It doesn't rustle my jimmies, but to each their own. Nevertheless, it's cool to see a Zee car on the road!

Originally Posted by broadrun96

And this guy was factory like I'm a regular sized human. I could smell and taste how aggressive the cam was in her, it was aggressive

As it's just a GT, it's probably an auto, but the VE Commodore is my favorite sedan of all time. It's so cool that Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a GXP completely converted a G8 to Commodore SSV spec. His is yellow and has a Tremec T-56.

[fieldodreams79]

Calling Colin McRae

[JHamilton]

2.5 RS! Super cool! That's got to be a really rare color too!

[broadrun96]

Probably less uncommon elsewhere but can't say I've seen many here. Bet it was a rough start this morning on a diesel given it's 18 in old money out this morning

[Gerard C]

You wont believe it Broad but spotted a white one this morning rather rusty and true diesel with no fume (yours seem to be a 528 i). Was a spotting day, could follow a new ugly and massive Capri plus an Xploder (ilictric).

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

You wont believe it Broad but spotted a white one this morning rather rusty and true diesel with no fume (yours seem to be a 528 i). Was a spotting day, could follow a new ugly and massive Capri plus an Xploder (ilictric).

No wonder it was rather rusty....its an E28 which makes it about 40 years old.
Mind you the one that Broad snapped looks pretty good for its age. Shame that I think its a 528e which was the economy engine (still straight 6 but low tune) and gave about 90kw but decent torque low down. Not a performance car by any means and a long way from an M5. I always wanted one of them

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

You wont believe it Broad but spotted a white one this morning rather rusty and true diesel with no fume (yours seem to be a 528 i). Was a spotting day, could follow a new ugly and massive Capri plus an Xploder (ilictric).

528e if the badge is correct, I didn't hear it leave so can't confirm either way

And for some reason my brain is still on the idiots in NJ I knew who had replacement rears, yes common enough there were multiple I knew, and e badging hung on a few diesel 5s. So I see e and it still says diesel in my slow brain. Same group of folks who had Saabs back then too, and MB diesels that could be outrun by a kid to 60. Were some weird cars folks in Princeton but also a few Bricklins, no no they did not ever run right.