I’m an admin on a local carspotting Facebook page, which means I’m constantly getting sent pictures of fancy cars in my area -and as you may have seen, taking some of my own. On Saturday, I found a neat grey 2002 Dodge Viper RT/10 double-parked outside a Twin Peaks.

Update: definitely a LWB. I like it better than I did in pictures.

Double parked outside a Twin Peaks because Viper.

Headed to Chicagoland, but first a stop at home where I found this Alpina B7.

Bonus spot for the keen-eyed.

But look, a Phaeton!

I got an offer of a $40 Visa Gift Card to test drive a new Hyundai (here’s the link to do that if anyone wishes) and the Honda dealer across the street from the Hyundai dealer had a grey ‘05 S2000 identical to the one pictured. I’ve always sort of liked the S2000, but never driven or ridden in one, and since the day…

As the graphics would it’s a Ram SS/T, a limited edition Ram made for the ‘97-’98 model years with a souped-up, 245hp version of the 5.9 Magnum V8. Apparently less than 6,300 were made, and I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that way fewer survive in 2018.

And she’s repping her Alma Mater on the plate, which also just so happens to be my school.

Taken from a local FB page, this happened on a road near my house where I drive all the time. Looks like somebody’s getting reassigned to an old Crown Vic.

I genuinely thought they stopped selling these in like 2014, but nope, you can get still buy a 2018 and they’re gonna continue making it for 2019. As much as I want to love it, being an oddball and all, it’s still a big, ugly, outdated smudge on Lincoln’s otherwise excellent and improving lineup.

This year’s MidCoast Road Rally t-shirts feature the logo (green shirt) and hood ornament from one of my favorite car companies. I wonder how many other people on the rally recognized them?

Over the summer, in addition to running Cars & Caffeine, I also worked for an area magazine publisher as a sales & marketing intern (no writing). One of the editors asked me to put them in touch with some people with cool cars that one of the magazines could profile. I connected them with a friend of mine, since he…

Even if the weather sucked and we got lost more times than we could count. Also, due to the aforementioned weather we ended up leaving the Alfa and using this instead: