OT - For Car Lovers: Some Recent Exotic Spottings

Langner91

saluki2007 said:

WeberWho said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

WeberWho said:

lousubcap said:

So much for leather.  Going down the road of vegan meat...

The crazy part is that it costs the same or more to mimic real leather. I don't get it. I guess it makes a group of PETA members happy. 

And you use oil (fossil fuels).

I knew a person once who swore up and down "vegan leather", was real leather.  She said it came from vegan cows!  I started to argue, then decided against it, and just nodded.

How could you not start laughing. A vegan cow? Yeah, not worth the time. That's pretty damn funny though.

Aren’t all cows vegan?  I’m not aware of any meat eating cows…

No.  As babies they drink cow's milk.  They can choose to become vegan later in life, I suppose.

fishlessman

vegan leather  is leather from texas

saluki2007

Right hand drive. 5 speed. 

kl8ton

saluki2007 said:

Right hand drive. 5 speed. 

Beautiful.

Botch

That would be an experience, shifting (and clutching) with the opposite limbs!  
 
EDIT:  Actually, I don't know; do British vehicles have the gas pedal under the left foot, or the right?  

fishlessman

Botch said:

That would be an experience, shifting (and clutching) with the opposite limbs!  
 
EDIT:  Actually, I don't know; do British vehicles have the gas pedal under the left foot, or the right?  

Can't imagine the peddles being backwards but never drove a right sided vehicle. Is that for real....makes zero sense😁

Foghorn

Stick shift is on the left.  Gas is on the right, brake to the left, clutch further to the left.  I drove one in South Africa for 15 days.  A Corolla anyway.

fishlessman

Foghorn said:

Stick shift is on the left.  Gas is on the right, brake to the left, clutch further to the left.  I drove one in South Africa for 15 days.  A Corolla anyway.

Figured that....going around a rotary in the Bahamas is just so wrong though going clockwise. Would never get used to that

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

Foghorn said:

Stick shift is on the left.  Gas is on the right, brake to the left, clutch further to the left.  I drove one in South Africa for 15 days.  A Corolla anyway.

Figured that....going around a rotary in the Bahamas is just so wrong though going clockwise. Would never get used to that

fishlessman

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

Foghorn said:

Stick shift is on the left.  Gas is on the right, brake to the left, clutch further to the left.  I drove one in South Africa for 15 days.  A Corolla anyway.

Figured that....going around a rotary in the Bahamas is just so wrong though going clockwise. Would never get used to that

Exactly, except I did it at five mph. The front bumper of the African jeep I rented was the gas tank

WeberWho

That was one and only request I had when going to Europe was that our rental car was in manual transmission. I've always wanted to drive a right hand drive manual transmission car. The shifting pattern is the same as here in the US. Except you're using you left hand and 1st and 2nd are now the furthest gears away. You would think it would take some time getting used to but it was really second nature if you come from a manual transmission vehicle. 

The car was easy. Going through my first tight two lane roundabout driving on the opposite side of the vehicle and road was pure chaos. That's something I won't forget. 

alaskanassasin

WeberWho said:

That was one and only request I had when going to Europe was that our rental car was in manual transmission. I've always wanted to drive a right hand drive manual transmission car. The shifting pattern is the same as here in the US. Except you're using you left hand and 1st and 2nd are now the furthest gears away. You would think it would take some time getting used to but it was really second nature if you come from a manual transmission vehicle. 

The car was easy. Going through my first tight two lane roundabout driving on the opposite side of the vehicle and road was pure chaos. That's something I won't forget. 

So much to work with here.

fishlessman

WeberWho said:

That was one and only request I had when going to Europe was that our rental car was in manual transmission. I've always wanted to drive a right hand drive manual transmission car. The shifting pattern is the same as here in the US. Except you're using you left hand and 1st and 2nd are now the furthest gears away. You would think it would take some time getting used to but it was really second nature if you come from a manual transmission vehicle. 

The car was easy. Going through my first tight two lane roundabout driving on the opposite side of the vehicle and road was pure chaos. That's something I won't forget. 

Does the rotories run clockwise like the Bahamas, that just messed me up. Seems like the movie European vaca ran in the same direction as ours.
As an aside, the black hotel owner had me pull over to tell his friends he had a white driver. Good friends with nasty aka earnest flowers. Lots of late night back gammon and after I learned the crooked shade out front meant white guys in the bar I fixed that and ran the bar a week for seven years. I don't think he ever made so much money.  Biggest fore arms I ever seen, covered with stab wounds when the Britt's ran😁he took over the hotel and bar and it was by force.  He was a great guy though. Miss him, died a few years back. I could leave a 2500 dollar rod and reel outside and nobody would dare to touch it, that was twenty years ago

lousubcap

The key to opposite side of the road driving with a car set up in that fashion, is to always turn to position the driver toward the center of the road.  (Same concept here).  Spent a year is Australia and sorted that out right quick.  

fishlessman

lousubcap said:

The key to opposite side of the road driving with a car set up in that fashion, is to always turn to position the driver toward the center of the road.  (Same concept here).  Spent a year is Australia and sorted that out right quick.  

I like the rules in a boat. I don't care, I pull a hard right or hard left at 2.5 mph and f you don't figure it out....we have problems😁

GrateEggspectations

Actually happened….. After many delays and not knowing whether it would come to fruition, B-I-L got his GT3. Haven’t yet seen it in person, but he just shared these pics. 

Ozzie_Isaac

GrateEggspectations said:

Actually happened….. After many delays and not knowing whether it would come to fruition, B-I-L got his GT3. Haven’t yet seen it in person, but he just shared these pics. 

Me thinks you forgot the pics.

GrateEggspectations

Ozzie_Isaac said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Actually happened….. After many delays and not knowing whether it would come to fruition, B-I-L got his GT3. Haven’t yet seen it in person, but he just shared these pics. 

Me thinks you forgot the pics.

I use this site exclusively on mobile. For some reason, I often can’t post pics in my original message. I have to post with the text only and then use the edit function to add pictures. Damn Vanilla!

TEXASBGE2018

Anyone else find it odd that a $400k car can't even get a working brake light?

kl8ton

TEXASBGE2018 said:

Anyone else find it odd that a $400k car can't even get a working brake light?

Mo money mo problems. 

alaskanassasin

I thought he was turning left 

JohnInCarolina

I would’ve gotten out of the car, walked up to the driver side window, tapped on it, signaled to roll it down, and then asked him if he had any Grey Poupon.  

HeavyG

I guess "Lucas the Prince of Darkness" can even effect RR's.

alaskanassasin

He probably parks it on his lawn.

kl8ton

TEXASBGE2018 said:

Anyone else find it odd that a $400k car can't even get a working brake light?

Also me: "sweet! A Bentley!"

Approaches said Bentley on the right hand side.

Me: "never mind it's just a Hyundai"

WeberWho

alaskanassasin said:

He probably parks it on his lawn.

There is a Bentley owner a few miles down the road who parks their Bentley in their front yard. I'm not sure the house has a garage though. 

Ozzie_Isaac

@GrateEggspectations that is an amazing car.  A trie dream car.  Thanks for sharing.

alaskanassasin

WeberWho said:

alaskanassasin said:

He probably parks it on his lawn.

There is a Bentley owner a few miles down the road who parks their Bentley in their front yard. I'm not sure the house has a garage though. 

 On my drive to pick up feed there is a small house that had a 2023 Orange Corvette in its driveway, easily worth more than the house. A month or so later it was replaced with a new jacked up chevy truck, I thought maybe he traded, then a Demon, maybe hes a salesman or something, just thought it was funny.

WeberWho

alaskanassasin said:

WeberWho said:

alaskanassasin said:

He probably parks it on his lawn.

There is a Bentley owner a few miles down the road who parks their Bentley in their front yard. I'm not sure the house has a garage though. 

 On my drive to pick up feed there is a small house that had a 2023 Orange Corvette in its driveway, easily worth more than the house. A month or so later it was replaced with a new jacked up chevy truck, I thought maybe he traded, then a Demon, maybe hes a salesman or something, just thought it was funny.

Similar situation with the Bentley/house value. The girl who dives it is maybe twenty years old. It's a nice Bentley but it sits out in the yard when parked. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Now might be a good time to pick up a dream car ...

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