I have pretty much dedicated buying my next car with the requirement that it must be a manual. Plus I don't want to see scissor doors on an econobox or whatever...

Agreed. a stick may seem fun if you want to "throw the car around" a little bit, but having to deal with a manual while in stop and go traffic every day (to and from work) it gets old real fast. I did that for a year with a Mitsubishi Eclipse. Fun little car but I got tired/bored of having to deal with the clutch…

Ok guys... Let's be realistic and replace #10 with nonstandard doors. Clutch and gear shift are disappearing from new cars... We have to accept that. Nonstandard doors will make boring cars pretty damn unboring...

"The carrier group USS Tupac, escorted by the USS Post-It Note"

Battleships were named after States, the Nimitz class and Ford class aircraft carriers after named after presidents, the latest Aegis class destroyers are named for war heroes and medal of honor winners.

You should do a little research on those "dead people." Alot of them did more in one day than you will do in a life, sweetie.

Thanks for the confirm, I've heard of another Long Beach on the east coast.

How scary! What generation Mustang do I need to be on the lookout for?

I was kind of thinking they'd get a Police Camaro first given the precedent... but we've had fox Mustang CHP cars...

Well, kiddo, there are lots of reasons.

They are also named after famous battles (such as the USS Ticonderoga and Gettysburg), geographical locations (such as the USS Mt. Hood and Lake Champlain) , historical locations (such as the USS Mount Vernon), fictional locations (USS Shangri-La), insects (USS Hornet and Wasp), fictional characters (USS Bonhomme…

After all those NSA fucked-ups? I don't think it means much anymore.

I give you:

Except for the USS Kearsarge (even that is named after another ship, which in turn is named after a mountain), no United States battleships have ever been named after people or artifacts. C'mon, Rosetto, you can research better!

They've got an unmarked Camaro running somewhere around here, and I can only imagine the number of (idiotic) people who've challenged it to a street race and been rewarded with a royal beating...and a nice, pricey speeding ticket to go with.

Long Beach as in California, site of the Grand Prix Long Beach?

Exactly. A few unmarked mid 2000's Trailblazers. Thanks Northern Colorado.

There's not much you can do to spot non-standard cars.

As others have said, I do not think those were Schwimmwagens:

Perhaps you have stumbled across some reenactment . The VW Schwimmwagen actually never was used by the Bundeswehr - they are using the Mercedes G-Wagen since the eighties - and before they have used the 'Iltis' ( which means polecat):

Maybe you are mixing them up with the VW 181 aka 'the thing':

Intensely beautiful and horrifying at the same time.