R3d

my gf's dad in new york has an amazing car collection..

Ferrari Enzo
Ferrari 360 spyder
Ferrari 550 Barchetta
Aston Martin Vanquish
Ford Lighting
MBenz S55 AMG
MBenz CL55
BMW x5
96 Porsche 911 Turbo S
Porsche Carrera 4
Mini Cooper S

the list continues..

he's also getting
Porsche Carrera GT
Ferrari 612 Scagliati
MBenz SLR Vision

when i was there visiting with her.. he would take me crusing in them.. all i can say... as much as i love Ferrari's.. the sound of the Vanquish's engine was immaculate..

wrongfullyaccuzd

That's just silly. What does he do for a living?

bundy

is his name Jerry Seinfeld?

i like this thread.


i wish i had had a camera when i worked at the bar.
down in the carpark there were always amazing vehicles.
from memory the regulars were a few Rolls Royces, one GT2 (i think) Porsche and a Lambo.
sexy cars.



oh! just remembered, the weirdest car experience i had there was when i stood too close to a new Maserati (i was peering in the window) and this voice told me to back away from the car... it was part of the fucking alarm system... scared the shit out of me.


edit - those Unimogs seem very like an army style of vehicle we have here, called OKAs.

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qtpye4u84

2004 Acura RSX Type R, Is the car I want but its only in japan. When I was in high school I saw a kids dad picking him up in a DeLorean it was pretty cool.
I have seen lamberginies while driving on the freeways.
OH yea lol I saw a streatch VW bug it looked funny, and I saw a very very old pacer, It was so old that it is not very safe to drive the back seat of the car was just like a 2 seater with out a back on it and it is right up against the glass window, the back of the car it looked very dangerious.

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clonmult

I used to live down the road from the TVR factory in Blackpool (England). There was a road about 1 minutes walk from our house where they would open the cars up for a few minutes - the sound was awesome.

Kinda wish I lived back there now - Speed 12, Cereberas, etc. etc. TVR is the ONLY totally british car company left, and they still compete in performance and looks with the worlds best.

Jeeze, childhood memories of walking to school and passing their workshops ... kinda like kids living near Maranello (but on a slightly smaller scale!).

DeLoreans - 9,000+ made. Most people automatically think of the shiny bodied V8/Back to the Future models. I think most were V6 plastic bodied models, kinda crappy in comparison. Seem them on E-bay for a few thousand.

Scorps

marry that girl.....NOW!

BoCo

There is a yellow Ferrari F355 targa and a white Lamborghini Countach with red interior in my town. We also have a few Vipers, one which was always in the driveway of a duplex and never garaged. It sat there for years until the guy either moved or sold it. It was definitely driven, though, and looked it.

Other than that, there is a red Ferrari 512TR, a DeLorean and a Lotus Elise (which is also always parked outside in some guy's driveway).

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I think I might know who this is. Except I know he has a white BMW M5 and a Supra as well and you didn't mention them...
Do you know what he does for a living? That's quite insane!

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madsenj37

Saw a Maybach the other day, see Ferraris all the time and a few months ago I saw a Qvale Mangusta. I liked the Mangusta.

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R3d

doesnt have the m5 or supra.. he owns an insurance company in Long Island


yea it is silly.. but he drives every car.. last time i talked to him he was up around 18 cars.. when i went there the first time to visit.. i bought an automobile mag.. and they had the 6 dream cars at the time.. he owned 4 of them.. lol.. i also told him that hes the only person that i think i'll ever meet who can get into a traffic jam in his own driveway


Car Magazine did an article on him with his Enzo.. they took it through Manhatten.. if anyone reads Car mag tho..

Scorps

I remember last summer I saw an old Harold Harvey if thats what they are called!

I can't find a pic, but Stacy on Trucks TV used one as a project truck about 6 months ago.

TheClarkster

I saw one of these pass by my work today.



Quite rare considering I don't think anyone in town even owns a lambo of any sort.

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brandon11983

I saw a DeLorean on the highway today. That was cool, as I had never seen one in real life before. And the crux of my day happened on the walk back to my apartment. I was dragging my wheeled suitcase and heard a sort of throaty rumbling in the distance. I dismissed it, thinking it was one of the million wannabe ricers with fart cannons on their stock Civic's, but after a few seconds I could tell it was something else. I stoped walking so I could hear better, and what passes right by me but a brand fucking new, dealer plated, midnight blue Ferrari 360 Modena!! It had an exhaust note like nothing I've ever heard. The driver held it the meat of whatever gear he was in, so it was making a little noise.... Throaty, but not honking like a muscle car... more refined. I took off running like a mad fool, suitcase in tow, to hear it accelerate away from the intersection. Driver takes off and gets after it a little, and kept it in the meat of 2nd gear to give it that sweet sweet exhaust rumble.

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joshibahn

I got to see Rasheed Wallace cruising Portland (before he left) in his Maybach, Damon Stoudamire has an Aston Martin Vanquish, one of the local car dealers has an F40, F50, Enzo, and several other high end goodies...There is a BADASS Twin Turbo Diablo that rolls around everyonce in a while, when it sunny of course, rumour has it thats it's somewhere over 1000hp...Murcielago's are starting to be more common.... those look wicked coming up in your rearview.....

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tkkfan

I used to go racing all the time in Nevada--Silver State Classic and Pony Express. Just about every rare car u could imagine. I was driving a Shelby Cobra, well, replicar.

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telekinetic

Saw a silver Ferrari 360 Modena today. Not that they're THAT rare, but there is a pair of NSX's at a house on my street, one of which is supercharged (their other car is an Element, silly Honda fanboys)

I'd say the rarest car I've seen is a GT2 that the owner of our Autocross race track drove to a race a few months ago. He drove that there (had less than 3 grand on the odometer) and then pulled an Evo 8 off a trailer to race. Crazy stuff....then again, he does privately own a race track. That he had built for him to play with his cars on.

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onetime2

Saw a Ferrari Mondial and a Lamborghini Diablo within about twenty minutes of each other last weekend.

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joshibahn

OOH, OOH!! I just saw a new 911 GT2@!!!! TODAY, ouch

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telekinetic

Saw three Bentley GT coupes with manufacturers plates earlier this week.

W12, twin turbo, 500+hp. Mmmmmm....

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DEI37

Saw a '57 'Vette the other day. There's a DeLorean in the area. I know of a couple of Viper's, one being a GT-S. There are two Saleen Mustangs, and one Lingenfelter Corvette. I've seen those, and rumour has it there is a Callaway 'Vette around here somewhere. BTW, the town I live in...12,000 people.

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lazyaznguy

I saw a Silver Nissan Skyline the other day. I wish I had my camera, that car was looking good.

noblejr

I got to see one of these up close almost every day for 2 months. Vector W-8

ftp://ftp.team.net/ktud/pictures/Vector/vectrwx3.jpg




I came very close to getting to drive it too. Unfortunately, another employee got first dibs since he had worked there a lot longer than I had.

bobo27

I live in Ann Arbor so its close to the auto capital of the world and i've seen a lot of sweet cars. Also the Car and Driver editorial studio is next to my house.
Here is a list and i got pics if anyone doesnt belive me.
Ferrari 360 Challange Stradalle
Acura NSX (2 of them)
Lotus Elise
Caterham
Porche GT3
Merc SL 55 AMG
Ferrari 575M
Lotus Espirit

For pics go to the Car and Driver section of my Yahoo album

Ive seen others around town and in Detroit
Ferrari Enzo (Sergei Federov)
Ferrari 360
Ferrari F355
Lamborghini Diablo
A few Testarosa's
Vipers

I've also seen cars on the streets before u could buy em.
The new Vette
Dodge Magnum
New Mustang

I'm yet to see these
Porche Carrera GT
Ford GT
McLararen F1
Koineggseg CC8

Ramega

I'd say that Vector is about as rare as it gets, nice find.

chef001_2003

I see viper's every few weeks, with the leading viper dealer in the country a mile away.
along with prowler's (a little more rare)
found 4 viper's with keys in them one weekend.
saw a ram srt-10on the road today
and also saw a chevy SSR today
saleen mustangs on ocassion

brandon11983

I see a silver Audi RS6 on a somewhat regular basis. Its a beautiful machine with a nasty exhaust note for such a refined car.

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Scorps

does the new Mustage look nice in person?

BrassSteve

almost every italian car ever, and tons of other exotica's. I've seen lotta F40's, F50's, 3 Enzo's, McLaren F1, couple Saleen S7's, Porsche 959, etc etc so many at car shows. but by rare sightings, you mean on the road, not as much

couple lambo murcielago's
that italidesign corvette concept
NSX's
porsche GT2's
lotus elise
lotta mercedes SL55's
TVR Tuscan
and more

Tester123

I saw a Alfa Romeo GTV from the early 70s today, nice car!

MSD

You forgot to list the Lotus Super 7
edit: nevermind, looked over it again and saw the Caterham. I missed it with as little sleep as I had.

BeBogus

around my area here in chicago there is a prestigous leasing place were you can rent an aston martin DB7 so i ahve seen it on the road every once in a while. sweet looking car when its crousing along

Scorps

I saw a Old Gremlin the other day...looked mint, it was parked and looked damn nice for its age...don't know the exact year this one was made...not good with years!

kcross

i live in southern california in a place called huntington beach. newport is right next to me and my fathers friend is a race car driver and a collecter so ive seen nearly everything including:

ferrari 365 gtb
lambo merchalanjfa... i cant spell
two (count 'em two) nissan skyline r33 gtr's (one belonging to my ex-neighbor paul walker)
a few limited edition bently's
more ferrari's than you can shake a stick at (newport is filled with them)
many porsches including a new gt3
my neighbor has 2 pantera's
a billion classics from '32 roadsters to hemi-cuda's (i go to a place called Donut Derilicts saturday mornings, look it up)
a few vipers (today that is)
and about anything else you can think of (no mclaren yet though)

and i have a 2002 corvette Z06 myself

admh

This is a funny story. My wife went out for lunch one day when she said she saw a really neat sports car. I asked her what kind (Vette, Viper, Porsche maybe even a Ferrari or Lambo) She said that it wasn't any of those that it began with an Mc. I asked do you mean an MG or some little roadster like her dads car (Austin Healey 3000) No it was new and looked very fast. I racked my brain (this goes back about 5 years). I asked her if maybe it was McLaren? She said that was it. I told her she had probably seen one of maybe 20 of these in the entire United States. She just shrugged and said it was nice. Yeah their OK.... women!

Scorps

Oh man days you wish you had a camera in your car

ikewando

In Nasvhille, TN:

2 - 360 Modena's - One silver, one red

Last year the Vette Anniversary was here and there was a parade with one from every model year. My favorite: 1973.

See a few NSX's around

H2's are all over. I see people that drive them that probably spent more for the H2 and the gas than their house. Weird.

Porche Cayenne is not seen much around here, but saw one the other day. Don't see much of the 7 series BMW's either, but caught a glimpse of one the other day. On a smaller scale, a first for me was the new Scion xB. Some guy had it a killer system in it.

Favorite car is that McLauren F1 above. Absolutely breathtaking.

clonmult

The McLaren F1 is my all-time favourite too.

Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean, Blackadder, etc.) has (had?) one years back. He was driving somewhere north of my sisters place, and drove into the back of an Austin Maestro (old pile of rust). It got taken into a garage near my sisters place.

It was in the local press - half a million quids worth of car drives into the back of something worth less than a pack of cigarettes.

A friend worked at a car tuning place many years back - they were running around a circuit here in the UK testing some suspension mods to the bosses Bentley ... and McLaren were doing some of the early production testing for the F1. It blew their minds at the time, and its still probably the all-time greatest road/race car. Nothing beats it. Period.

brandon11983

I saw an H2 stretch yesterday on Michigan Ave. Booooring. About another block down I did see a mid 90's (??) Lambo go by me. Nice exhaust growl that machine has!

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.........and Wyclef Jeans owns about 3 of them

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BadNick

I was driving past the local Ferrari dealer in Rosemont PA a couple weeks ago and thought I saw something that I was not expecting to see for a long time if at all. So I went around the block, pulled into their front lot, parked and got out to look closer and lo and behold, there it was, a new Porsche Carerra GT, silver, gorgeous. This is one of my favorite cars of all time. I walked around it about ten times just oogling all the stuff I could see, the top was open/off. Nobody even came out to see what I was doing so I just said wow a lot and left. One of those times I wish I had a camera. My 9yo son was with me and asked if he can get me one for Father's Day ...so I got my fingers crossed