Yesterday, I was in bumper to bumper traffic on a four lane (two in each direction) parkway. Out of nowhere, a car comes barreling up the right shoulder and cuts the car off in front of me. What was it? A modded, Florida-plated, tinted-windowed Q50. I assume he must have been SUPER late for church since he then used…

Well some of these stay in the U.S. to be sold to unsuspecting consumers.

Somebody’s grandma and her Camaro 

Back in 1986 I had found a fully intact and all parts accounted for on a 1965 Austin Healy 3000 MK2. The car had been sitting around 8 years. All the parts were there, just needed a good restoration. I has still in high school at the time, and I had a little more than 1/2 of what it would take to buy it. (IIRC he was…

At least four that got away, that I regret to this day:

I would have a Grey on Black BWM 2015 340i RWD right now if the dealership I called saying they had a 100% guaranteed sale at asking price the next day would have waited 30 minutes for me to get there for my appointment.

My first car got sold to one of Dad’s friends kids who drove it until it died and was recycled

My mom’s on her third Q50 (fourth if you count the G37). She likes the plainness of it; wouldn’t even consider the G70 or Stinger because they looked too radical. And she wouldn’t be caught dead in an “old lady car,” like a Cadillac or Mercedes.

I thought I saw one once at a Montgomery Ward parking lot, but was puzzled over the FF on the badge.

During the oil boom, exotics were actually a pretty common sight in Calgary, though seeing a Mercedes SLR in the wild was pretty neat, but the one that really made me do a double take was a ‘60s vintage Hillman Avenger, because you just do not see vanilla British cars of that vintage, anymore.

Driving through the Alberta Rockies on a camping trip years ago, I caught a flash of mustard and chrome that rapidly resolved itself into a Citroen SM and just as rapidly disappeared in the other direction. Haven’t seen another in the metal since.

My cool uncle had a Mangusta for 25 years. I got to ride in it once back in the mid-90s. He said he loved the sound and the looks, but it was so sketchy to drive. He didn’t want to take me in it until my relentless bugging as a young child finally broke him.

It was nuts! He was going probably 40 mph, but it felt like…

I live in a small town that’s filled with brodozers and challenger/chargers with yellow shipping dealys. I saw a BMW i8 driving down main street on Saturday which was nice.

A baby blue Autobianchi Bianchina Trasformabile with a big ass red bow tied to the roof doing just about 45mph (probably about as fast as it could go) going up north on the shoulder I-93 not too far from Boston on the Christmas eve a few years ago.  That just made me extremely happy.

He should have hopped on the Merritt. Much more pleasant ride than that corridor of 95.

Was going to say the same. Saw an F40 at a shop once, when I lived in Geneva, NY. I’ve seen some pretty awesome cars —an Enzo casually driving through the streets of Seattle, a black 1988Lamborghini Countach owned by a Blackwater contractor that broke down in my neighborhood, the Corvette Aerovette prototype at a show—…

I grew up in a neighborhood that had someone that had a lot of money and a lack of sense and self-esteem. Every couple months, he would drive something exotic down the street making lots of noises. The only car I saw him drive twice was a Deloran, which was a common thing to see at the bus stop in the mornings for…

Two truly Jalop sightings recently:

F40 for me too, was in Minnesota during the late fall(winter lite) and had one just casually roll past me on the Interstate, it was the combination of car, location, and weather that did it. I expected to see tons of crazy stuff in Miami, not expecting a low volume Ferrari out in cold crappy weather. I personally love…

I saw an F50 while I was gassing up near Philly. This was around the corner of my (now) in-laws house, very blue collar industrial area. I couldn’t believe my eyes — it was stuck at a light, but when it went off it certainly sounded 100% a real F50. I can only assume that someone from the wealthy areas was driving…