Topic: Interesting things seen on the way to work thread

[KD]

Yesterday, I saw a Subaru Forrester parked on the highway shoulder with a shredded rear drivers side tire.  I mention this becausthor another thread created on here about a recent blowout and how rare they are these days.  This was during rush hour traffic, so it could be that he had to drive on it for a while before getting a chance to pull over, but the tire looked to be in shreds.  The rear wheel looked a mess as well.  Had the larger sport wheels so likely an XT model. 

Also saw someone driving on the wrong side of the divided highway yesterday..  I was coming down a long strretch of highway and noticed the car on the other side going the same way as me.  Wtf!    This was down by the US border and during mid-morning and luckily not much traffic at the time.  The driver must have clued in as I got closer as he pulled over to the passing lane shoulder, then did a u-turn, and then scurried back down the highway in the proper direction. 

You really have to be pretty clueless to do something like that around here. If there's one thing we do right around here it is highways.   

[Gurgie]

^that reminds me, this morning while looking out the front window of my house I could hear a car coming down the street & making a strange noise... clueless fack was driving on a flat right rear tire... a black Honda Accord coupe... didn't get a good look at the driver.

[blur911]

^that reminds me, this morning while looking out the front window of my house I could hear a car coming down the street & making a strange noise... clueless fack was driving on a flat right rear tire... a black Honda Accord coupe... didn't get a good look at the driver.

Years ago with higher sidewalls you could really tell when a tire was low or flat, now with harder and shorter sidewalls and clueless drivers it happens more than you would imagine.

[tenpenny]

A GMC Diablo (GMC version of the El Camino), probably this one:  I hadn't remembered that GMC made this thing, too.  I don't think it is for sale, I just found this ad when I was a-googlin
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/saint-john/1978-gmc-diablo/1381020707?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Diablo was a package on the GMC Caballero.

There are a couple of Caballeros rolling around here. I've never seen a Diablo though.

[blur911]

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/napanee/1984-el-camino-choo-choo/1375678322?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true



This one is for sale near me, passed by it the other day and Lynn liked it, but not $25k liked it

[Gurgie]

^that reminds me, this morning while looking out the front window of my house I could hear a car coming down the street & making a strange noise... clueless fack was driving on a flat right rear tire... a black Honda Accord coupe... didn't get a good look at the driver.

Years ago with higher sidewalls you could really tell when a tire was low or flat, now with harder and shorter sidewalls and clueless drivers it happens more than you would imagine.

With the noise this facking thing was making... the whole neighbourhood knew 

[Bubba]

Also saw someone driving on the wrong side of the divided highway yesterday..  I was coming down a long strretch of highway and noticed the car on the other side going the same way as me.  Wtf!    This was down by the US border and during mid-morning and luckily not much traffic at the time.  The driver must have clued in as I got closer as he pulled over to the passing lane shoulder, then did a u-turn, and then scurried back down the highway in the proper direction. 

You really have to be pretty clueless to do something like that around here. If there's one thing we do right around here it is highways.   

https://youtu.be/bAomKp9hfs4

[Bubba]

Rust-free, first-gen, Pontiac Montana, short wheelbase van.  Spotless.  Looked like it had never been outside.

[random006]

A lovely old Citroën:





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[Sir Osis of Liver]

^Just awesome.

[Scaerio]

^Just awesome.

Very much so.

[Arthur Dent]

A lovely DS

[tpl]

looks like a car that never sees winter.  Just beautiful.   If it were mine I'd find a set of proper headlights.  Why should a French car in Quebec have to have headlights specified by Americans

[mlin32]

Très belle !

[Blueprint]

Signature Montreal cones there 

Followed a shiny black Civic sedan, DX or LX, this morning. What's special?

Emergency lights on the parcel shelf and visible equipment up front. Tell-tale fleet plate.

Yup, there are cop-car "detective" Civics around Montreal 

[sailor723]

Signature Montreal cones there 

Followed a shiny black Civic sedan, DX or LX, this morning. What's special?

Emergency lights on the parcel shelf and visible equipment up front. Tell-tale fleet plate.

Yup, there are cop-car "detective" Civics around Montreal 

I saw two plainclothes guys in a similarly equipped Corolla here not long ago.

[Scaerio]

looks like a car that never sees winter.  Just beautiful.   If it were mine I'd find a set of proper headlights.  Why should a French car in Quebec have to have headlights specified by Americans

The DS below has US-market headlights.  The one in the pic random shared likely has European export-market headlights.  Most European countries forbade the yellow headlights that were de rigeur on French cars until the EU banned them.

[OliverD]

I'm a huge fan of the DS, it's probably my favourite "attainable" classic car.

[tpl]

OK. They did not look like the swivelling lights. But yes the pic you posted with no shields over the lights would be a true USA version.   As for the yellow, as sealed beams were not required in Europe a lot of French cars just had yellow bulbs.  I remember people in the UK would buy them and fit them together with the black shield to dip down not to the left.


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