OT: Good Thread - What is the most obscure car you've seen in the wild?

[Coffee Rider]

The most “obscure” I’ve seen and recognized was a Bugatti.


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[martl]

Originally Posted by PTinz

Cool pic-A visiting Porsche from Worms? (by the license plate). Speaking of Munich spent two years living in Perlacher Forst-many, many decent trails back there, at least in '88-90'. As for Schwabing, are all the popular spots still named after fruits/vegetables, I can recall the Tomato Bar and the Peach, etc., ja?

Close but no cigar - WM is Weilheim-Schongau, Area between the lakes south of Munich aka where very wealthy people live
Funny I never noticed the fruit connection in the clubs, you are not wrong but I think it was a coincidence.

[jlwdm]

Originally Posted by 9tubes

Was that 1930s Alfa the 8c? I saw that once at a car meetup. What a machine. Straight 8, with dual overhead cams and supercharged too. I was standing there looking at it and thinking about the Chevy V8 in the early Corvette in the 1950s. Over 20 years later Chevrolet still hadn't caught up to 1930 technology. When did Chevy finally gave up pushrods in the Corvette, was it 10 years ago?

- Brian

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Jeff

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by Blue Jays

Pontiac Aztek is pretty obscure.

Thankful for small blessings...

[kppolich]

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[JAGI410]

I saw a silver Plymouth Prowler tonight, first one I've seen in ages. I don't think silver was one of the popular colors but it looks pretty cool still.

[merlinmurph]

Riding down a hill the other night, I saw a cool looking red car in a driveway, stopped and turned around to get a better look. I heard it start up and the owner was moving it into the garage. When he got out, I yelled out to him from the road and asked what it was. He invited me down to take a look.

1969 Marcos GT - a first for me

Get this - a wooden chassis

Very nicely restored by the owner. He bought it in the early 80's, tore it down around 2000, and life got in the way for awhile. He got back to it in '13 and did the restoration.

The following pics are NOT the car I saw, but rather, pics I found of another '69 Marcos.

[Mark McM]

Just down the street from my home, I saw a 2nd generation (2017) Ford GT. This is apparently owned by someone in a neighboring town:





At a car show one weekend a little further down the street I saw the one and only Chromaro:

[tuscanyswe]

I saw one of these yesterday at the shop when i had to send my own car into the same. Not a good feeling leaving a car at a garage with cars like these in them. It makes me shutter thinking of the bill..

These are super rare and very nice irl. Perhaps a bit to old to really enjoy as a driver but very beautiful.

I think there were only 100 made or similar. First gen ghibli spyder

[tuscanyswe]

Originally Posted by merlinmurph

Riding down a hill the other night, I saw a cool looking red car in a driveway, stopped and turned around to get a better look. I heard it start up and the owner was moving it into the garage. When he got out, I yelled out to him from the road and asked what it was. He invited me down to take a look.

1969 Marcos GT - a first for me

Get this - a wooden chassis

Very nicely restored by the owner. He bought it in the early 80's, tore it down around 2000, and life got in the way for awhile. He got back to it in '13 and did the restoration.

The following pics are NOT the car I saw, but rather, pics I found of another '69 Marcos.

Nice!

I always heard the Morgons had wooden chassi but its actually just the frame that is made of ash. The chassi is steel. Are the chassi really wood on this one?

[merlinmurph]

From the article where I got the pics:

However, the chassis sets the Marcos GT apart. Frank Costin had worked on the De Havilland Mosquito, which had a largely wooden frame, during the war. Applying that concept to an automobile, he devised a chassis of bonded plywood which, in those days before carbon fiber, was rigid as well as lighter than steel and the car tipped the scales at under a ton.

[pdmtong]

600LT



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[dumbod]

This collection was in front of the hotel at Rowe's Wharf in Boston this morning

[ibis]

I just got passed by one of these in Sausalito

[jlwdm]

Saw a friend driving through the neighborhood in a 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB 3 weeks ago.

Jeff