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bodypainter 09-22-2005 02:06 PM

I'm pretty sure the Hertz Shelby Mustangs were all black and gold and all but a very very few were automatic transmission cars. They were called the GT350H.

LoganSnake 09-23-2005 07:49 PM

Saw Ford GT today. The car looks pretty sweet in person. Also saw, and could hardly believe it, a Porsche Carrera GT driving past me. Pretty spiffy car to see in the suburbs.

Scorps 09-23-2005 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bodypainter
I'm pretty sure the Hertz Shelby Mustangs were all black and gold and all but a very very few were automatic transmission cars. They were called the GT350H.

oh thats a auto trans...cool!

bodypainter 10-02-2005 04:13 AM

Shelby Series 1 seen at a local cruise-in last night. I didn't even know what it was - had never heard of it. Some googleing this morning has filled me in. Nice car!
http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0570c.jpg]
[http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0559c.jpg]
[http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0561c.jpg]
[http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0562c.jpg]

hcg 10-03-2005 10:51 PM

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a red Ferrari F430 on I-5 S in Portland, OR. It was flippin hot!

Scorps 10-05-2005 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bodypainter
Shelby Series 1 seen at a local cruise-in last night. I didn't even know what it was - had never heard of it. Some googleing this morning has filled me in. Nice car!
http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0570c.jpg]
[http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0559c.jpg]
[http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0561c.jpg]
[http://sarasotadetail.com/gallery2/m...IMG_0562c.jpg]


OMG they sold them..I though it was just a concept:eek:

Halx 10-06-2005 12:11 AM

My mom's cousin has one of them. Shelby Series 1. Loud fuckin' things. He's a lawyer.

LoganSnake 10-06-2005 12:07 PM

Are they expensive?

BadNick 10-06-2005 12:15 PM

I think they were priced around $175,000 but that doesn't include any dealer incentive discounts ;)

I saw one drive by our local playground this past summer, the loudness (as in good sounds, not noise ;) )caught my attention and then I couldn't believe I was looking at one! But I've heard some negative vibes about them ...not sure on the details though. Anybody know anything more ...good or bad?

THGL 10-06-2005 12:50 PM

Looks too much like a Vette body kit. I was totally unimpressed when I first saw them.

powerclown 10-15-2005 04:07 PM

FORD GT

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...rclown/GT4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...clown/GT11.jpg

Diffusers (downforce) on a road car...always a good thing. :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...rclown/GT2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...rclown/GT3.jpg

bobby 10-15-2005 06:16 PM

FOUND THESE ON A PROPERTY I'M WORKING ON...
 
WHOA..HOW DO I POST MY PICS???? :crazy:

Anxst 10-15-2005 09:54 PM

I saw one of these just the other day:

http://www.shelbyamerican.com/carPics/4000BG.jpg

Beautiful car, driven by the CEO of the company I work for. I think he should sell it and give us all raises.

castex 10-16-2005 12:04 PM

Even around here, an hour from their birthplace, these Alpine Renault a310's are rare as hens' teeth! I saw one last week, parked, pristine.

http://www.alpine-renault.net/images.../a310-10_g.jpg

Want one!

Cycler 10-24-2005 04:30 PM

BMW 650i
 
http://www.carpages.co.uk/bmw/bmw_im...e_06_08_05.jpg

Damn saw one of these in white today, looked like a soroity girl driving it in the middle of Oklahoma. It looked awsome!

rideough 10-24-2005 06:26 PM

I've seen almost all of the cars mentioned including about 40 Deloreans in one parking lot...DMC convention at the hotel I was staying at.

But the rarest are these 2

1964 Ferrari GTO- 36 made and worth in the 10 digit range. I parked beside it in my buddies P.O.S. Mustang at the 97 Montreal Grand Prix

1967 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C- 31 were made and it was selling for 4 MILLION Cdn! when I sat in it when I was 17. I dunno how much that is now but 13 years ago I was impressed.



So can anyone beat that? I don't think so.

castex 10-25-2005 10:19 AM

:hmm:
A GTO in the ten digit range? Blimey!
Let's see; $10,000,000 - ten million dollars. Eight digits, and not far off the world record GTO price. Ten digits makes for a car worth well over one billion dollars.
In addition to which, the fact that you were able to pull up next to one means it was almost certainly a fake - re-bodied 250 GTE or glassfibre datsun-based lash-up, it matters not a jot.
Can anyone beat that? Almost certainly.

However, if you really saw a real GTO, and a real Shelby - so many replicas - then you win the thread. Bravo!

rideough 10-25-2005 12:05 PM

I have no clue as to the authenticity of the GTO but the company it kept in the parking lot said much about its heritage...numerous Ferrari's, a Miura and a XJ220 were all present.
I am certain the Cobra was real as it was at a reputable exotic dealer.

castex 10-26-2005 01:55 AM

Right you are then!:thumbsup:

IanSturgill 10-26-2005 04:38 PM

Lotus Elise, Black

Cynthetiq 10-27-2005 06:57 AM

http://www.microcar.org/carspecs/nissanfigaro.gif
1991 Nissan Figaro

when i was in the UK I saw one of these....

cute car

Scorps 10-27-2005 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
http://www.microcar.org/carspecs/nissanfigaro.gif
1991 Nissan Figaro

when i was in the UK I saw one of these....

cute car


That thing looks no bigger then a mini

Scorps 10-27-2005 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by castex
Even around here, an hour from their birthplace, these Alpine Renault a310's are rare as hens' teeth! I saw one last week, parked, pristine.

http://www.alpine-renault.net/images.../a310-10_g.jpg

Want one!


Omg that looks like a Corvette...WTF!

Spanxxx 10-27-2005 10:21 PM

Powerclown - That GT is BADASS! Damn I want to drive one of those.

I haven't seen anything fantastic in awhile unfortunately.

As far as rare though, does rarity count as frequency of sightings? If so, my dad and I have had several rarities over the years. He's always liked unusual cars. Jags, Rolls, MG, Opel, etc. Probably common fair in Bristol or something, but when you grow up in a small town in KY, they suren't common.

When I was in high school we had a 1971 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. Definitely stood out in town. Now he has a pristine 89 Jaguar XJS hardtop. My first car (in 1992) was a 1970 Opel GT (looks like a little tiny foreign made corvette or something).

Probably the most unusual vehicle we had though was a mid 70's model International Pickup Truck. I've never seen another one since anywhere.

Of course, the most rare privately owned vehicle I've seen was a friend of my dad's who owned a Half-Track military vehicle. Sure don't see those every day.


Back to the exotic though...
I did see a sweet Ferrari a few months back just cruise by me in traffic in downtown Memphis and I was just like, "wha, who, holy, sweet jesus that's awesome" and I had no idea what the model was. I just stared at it dumbly while my consultant rep was driving me to lunch. She just laughed at me like I was a silly little boy. Oh well. At least some women get it :).

theguyondacouch 03-30-2006 05:48 PM

I saw a black bentley continental gt with black wheels going north on 146 a while ago. Damn fine looking machine. I also saw an ev1 on several ocassions, though I haven't for several months.

Scorps 03-30-2006 11:37 PM

There is a Ford GT in town the guy that bought it will pick it up this weekend or he did yesterday....I hope to have digi on me when I see it:)

ozahs 03-31-2006 01:40 PM

A neighbor used to own THE white Ford T-Bird from the movie American Grafitti. Kept it in his garage under a sheet. It always won awards at the local car shows.

Don't know why, but I tend to gravitate towards the oldies. Saw a Chrysler 300G a month ago, decided I want a convertable 300-letter car of my own some day.

theguyondacouch 03-31-2006 02:36 PM

saw a porche 911, a vw thing, and a meyers manx today. Nice days bring them all out.

oberon 04-05-2006 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by powerclown

:lol: Northbound Woodward at Maple in Birmingham, presumably. What a stereotypical place to see a FORD GT in. I should know, I used to live within a mile of that junction. ;)

Cynthetiq 04-06-2006 02:28 AM

saw a Maybach yesterday...

Tech 04-06-2006 09:52 AM

don't know why i didn't think to post this earlier... seen over christmas break at the mall

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5...nmartin2py.jpg

swmnkdinthervr 05-05-2006 05:41 AM

Way too many posts for me to look through to locate one but I owned one of these in the middle 70's...one of those barn finds, a buddy and I came up with the $350.00 required to purchase it...yeah it needed some restoring but we got 5k for when we got it running: Facel Vega

http://www.math.washington.edu/~perkins/f612.jpg

Ours was the hemi, automatic with 2 4bbl carbs.

Scorps 05-05-2006 09:43 PM

Is a new Corvette Z06 rare?

if so there is 2 in town now a blue one thats already modded and a stock red one...damn they look sexier in person!

Cynthetiq 07-06-2006 07:26 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...eptor-Dirk.jpg
Jensen Interceptor MK II in the Lower East Side before we left for Iceland

Cynthetiq 06-17-2007 02:30 PM

Last friday after leaving Halx and zkara in the Village, I came across a Aston Martin DB9 convertible

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...te_Conv_DV.jpg

punkedjask8er 06-20-2007 06:58 AM

i see a Lamborghini Murcielago every once in a while. On the way to the train station I pass by a CL63 AMG, and if I get lucky, I see a Nissan Skyline GT-R on Tuesdays. There is a local car show about 2 miles north of me, so thats where the GT-R is going. Remember, I'm in the USA, the Skyline GT-R was never sold here.

BadNick 06-20-2007 10:38 AM

I guess this question is sort of the opposite of what this thread is about:

I don't recall seeing it mentioned in this thread, and I just used "search this thread" above with no hits, so I'll say it:

Though they are extremely rare, I'm surprised no one has seen a McLaren F1 yet on the street.


my bad, not paying attention. I was just going thru this thread again and in fact, the McLaren F1 was already sited in earlier posts.

Cynthetiq 06-20-2007 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick
I guess this question is sort of the opposite of what this thread is about:

I don't recall seeing it mentioned in this thread, and I just used "search this thread" above with no hits, so I'll say it:

Though they are extremely rare, I'm surprised no one has seen a McLaren F1 yet on the street.

It was before the inception of this thread, and when my wife was still talking to her father who lives in Sarasota, FL. I saw 2 of them there in 2001.

Scorps 06-21-2007 12:11 AM

where do i start I totally forgot about this thread, seen so many new and old rare cars the list is huge and well I forget most of them.

- 1967 Ford Mustang Mach 1
- 2006 Dodge Charger SRT8
- and 3 different Cuda's( not sure years)
- 6 Different Corvette Z06 (06/07)
- last gen Viper (getting its ass handed to it on the highway by one of them Z06's:))
- Ferrari F430 Spider
- 2 Ford GT's
- and couple exotics I have no idea what they where...lol

bodypainter 06-22-2007 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scorps
- 1967 Ford Mustang Mach 1

1969 was the first year for the Mach 1.
/quibble


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