Car Spotting in OKC

[RadicalModerate]

This all reminds me of that old Jay Leno routine before he became famous . . .
(with apologies for the inaccurate paraphrase) . . .

"What's with these new cars today? They aren't anything like those old roadbarges with the solid steel dashboards and no seatbelts . . . You could have a major head-on collision in one of those, hose it out, scrape the Hundais and Kias out from under the wheel wells and resell it for more than you paid for it . . . The only airbags involved might have been your Father-in-Law in the back seat waxing all nostalgic about the lack of spokes on the wheels . . ."

(new cars are better . . . in too many ways to count)

[RadicalModerate]

You can do that even more so with today's cars. Or at least with today's engines. You can go much bigger on the cam due to the flexibility afforded by the sensor array and the computer's ability to adjust to it. Most hot rodders these days remove the catalytic converters as well...So you can even get that stinky exhaust that smells up your clothes and your woman's hair while your car lopes and shudders like it's trying to hit an 8 on the Richter scale.

. . . and "trying to hit an 8 on the Richer scale" is code for what? =)

"I want a Hudson-potamus for Christmas . . . only Hudson-potamous will do . . ."

[rezman]

You can do that even more so with today's cars. Or at least with today's engines. You can go much bigger on the cam due to the flexibility afforded by the sensor array and the computer's ability to adjust to it. Most hot rodders these days remove the catalytic converters as well...So you can even get that stinky exhaust that smells up your clothes and your woman's hair while your car lopes and shudders like it's trying to hit an 8 on the Richter scale.

No doubt newer cars are safer and faster. But the feeling of riding around in an old muscle car with glass packs and a 3/4 race cam is hard to beat.

Let me add to Mel's comment that taking a ride in a big block Mopar, or 302 Camaro, back in the day, rowing through the gears, keeping it straight in the lane and getting it shut down in time took skill, and many times, guts. .... and style.

Here's to the king of the Gear Rowers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3cnc-77ZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJpnzIZjY7E

[RadicalModerate]

Let me add to Mel's comment that taking a ride in a big block Mopar, or 302 Camaro, back in the day, rowing through the gears, keeping it straight in the lane and getting it shut down in time took skill, and many times, guts. .... and style.

Here's to the king of the Gear Rowers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3cnc-77ZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJpnzIZjY7E

That looked like a Garcia y Vega cigarillo in the first clip.
No sense in wasting good money on an expensive cigar.
On the bright side . . . it could have been a Garcia y Pinto.

The term "Gear Rower" is new to me . . . Yet, it sounds Marvelous . . . =)

To add layers of texture . . . This is the first 45 I ever bought.
(I sold the other .45 to pay some utility bills right after the fallout from the Penn Square Fiasco)

[Mel]

All this talk of old muscle cars has me thinking back. Jungle Pam! Best member of a pit crew ever!

[rezman]

That looked like a Garcia y Vega cigarillo in the first clip.
No sense in wasting good money on an expensive cigar.
On the bright side . . . it could have been a Garcia y Pinto.

The term "Gear Rower" is new to me . . . Yet, it sounds Marvelous . . . =)

To add layers of texture . . . This is the first 45 I ever bought.
(I sold the other .45 to pay some utility bills right after the fallout from the Penn Square Fiasco)

Well,... That's a term I've heard off and on over the years.

Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins was not only one of the best tuners, but was known as having some of the fastest reactions off the line, and one of the best and most acurate with a four speed.

Sorry about taking us so far off topic.

[RadicalModerate]

I finally managed to figure out how to transfer pictures from my Dumbphone (Rugby Flip Version) . . .

[RadicalModerate]

I can't decide if this is Cool!!!! or Ironic . . .
(you'll probably have to click the pic to get what I mean)

[RadicalModerate]

It may not be a "car", per se . . .
but I spotted it parked in front of a Toys R Us . . .

[Mel]

I can't decide if this is Cool!!!! or Ironic . . .
(you'll probably have to click the pic to get what I mean)

I don't know Rad, Have you been in their shop and looked at their bike prices?

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

Those vans are badass.

[rezman]

I took these shots at the Walmart, 15th & I-35 in Edmond a while ago. 1977-79 T-Bird with a very high quality paint job.

[RadicalModerate]

Speaking of Fords . . .
(I once owned one of about the same vintage,
but it was a faded maroon color and not a convertible.)








Oops . . . I had a T-Bird. That was a Falcon.
(my bad . . .)

[rezman]

I captured this little jewel ... a '62 Oldsmobile F-85 Convertible,.. at a car lot on the corner of Park Pl. and Broadway a couple months ago while on a scooter ride. I went by there again a couple weeks later and the whole lot was empty.

[RadicalModerate]

I don't know Rad, Have you been in their shop and looked at their bike prices?

Frankly, I haven't yet checked out the little Boutique Restaurant--Peloton?--attached to it yet.
(It: The bicycle shop . . . not the Bicycle Transport Van (from Germany, btw. =)
I guess the Van pictured is Ironic in a Cool Way . . .
("Buy Local" . . . =)

[Mel]

Speaking of Fords . . .
(I once owned one of about the same vintage,
but it was a faded maroon color and not a convertible.)








Oops . . . I had a T-Bird. That was a Falcon.
(my bad . . .)

My first car was a '65 Falcon. The 289 in it was an easy engine to work on and dependable.

[RadicalModerate]

My first car was a '65 Falcon. The 289 in it was an easy engine to work on and dependable.

Now I'm pissed off . . . My humble VW (with the EuroTurnSignalnonFunctionalSemaphoreTurnSignals) (that could barely approach the "ScenicBoulder Overlook" on The Federal Paid HIghway to-and-from Boulder/Denver survived the Honking at 45mph. (yet, somehow, didn't required a lot of anti-freeze =) Dang . . . I recon it ran on Magnetism.

[RadicalModerate]

Those vans are badass.

Yes. Yes they are. Yes, for sure.
(and where, herein lies the truthful comedy punchline?)
(link the observation to carbon footprint/planetary concert and wait for the check)

PS: I scoff at Material Envy. Frequently. (scoff)

[RadicalModerate]

OK . . . I'll admit it: I'm OLD. If I cared about a Pet Lawn I'd probably holler at kids to get off of it (or maybe suggest, in a semi-kindly manner, that there might be other alternatives).

Driving back home, just today, after running a couple of errands, I encountered someone in the inside lane, northbound on May, going about 20 mph. In a Benz. I couldn't resist the urge to honk and I never honk. I figured it was a Texter, but No: It was someone at the wheel of this Luxury Car who probably started driving back when automobile wheels still had spokes.

It reminded me of a similar encounter on Penn the other day except, in that case, it was a Lexus piloted by someone who might have graduated with "Ms. Benz" back in the day. Unfortunately, I didn't take my hands off the wheel to take photos of either of those two Space Invaders but I did take a few Car Spotting shots of others of their ilk. I'd caption the captures: "Hey You Kids, Get Out of My Space--and/or My Lane!"--but I'm too old and feeble to know how to do that . . .

So . . . Simply call these: "Reminders for The Parkingly Challenged":
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I had a couple of others, but apparently they exceeded the allowable bandwidth . . .
Thanks, in advance retrospect, for allowing some venting (a.k.a./co/ Pressure Solutions)

(and, after reviewing the evidence . . . it's probably a good thing. =)
(obviously, it's better than an old fart. =)

So . . . (the rhetorical question, here, might be):
If one is "rich" enough to drive a Benz or a Lexus . . .
Why isn't hiring a driver or shofer (sp?) a cost-effective answer?

[Mel started it . . . With that "Voices in the Head" deal . . .]
(not to mention the most recent Sonic Commercial)

[rezman]

Mel,
Funny that you should mention a 60's VW bug, there is one in the parking lot of the garage on the Northeast corner of Edmond road (2nd) and Broadway. I believe it is pre-1960. It is definitely pre-1964 because it doesn't have the round bumper that was on the 64 and later models.
C. T.

I haven't seen this VW on the corner of 2nd & Broadway in a while and figured it sold until I came across it on Craigslist still for sale. .... $15k.

[RadicalModerate]

If you're going to dream . . . dream big.
(Fifteen K, indeed . . . geez)

[stratosphere]

[Bigrayok]

I am curious to know what cars Thunder players and others associated with the team drive? I think Russell Westbrook used to drive a white Lambo. I wonder if any of them drive some of the high dollar cars seen around town?

Bigray in Ok

[Plutonic Panda]

Is that yours?

[Chadanth]

I am curious to know what cars Thunder players and others associated with the team drive? I think Russell Westbrook used to drive a white Lambo. I wonder if any of them drive some of the high dollar cars seen around town?

Bigray in Ok

I think Westbrook has an orange Lambo now, KD used to have an Audi R8, and I think I've seen Ibaka in a white camaro.