Spotted: Cars to crow about

We got back on the car-spotting project today, as it was warm and sunny, and we had a heckuva good time. Including roosters in the road:

An old Thunderbird known as the "Square Bird"

For obvious stylistic reasons

Then a bright yellow but shabby El Camino

slightly modified

A 62 Chevy Bel Air - thus celebrating its 55th birthday this year!

A slightly newer 1963 Ford Truck (for sale, if you're interested)

with Ford Econoline headlights

This is a Chrysler wagon, very extravagantly decorated

1957 Buick SUPER

A bad roof, a rusty VW squareback, an El Camino, with an old Dodge truck around the corner

A 1964 Datsun / Nissan pickup. The owner was out waxing it when we cruised by and we had a nice conversation about our respective car collections (we each have 8 cars)

The earliest Jeep Cherokee I've ever seen

1978 Buick T-Type Turbo

Lincoln. I'll say nothing more

This purple Lincoln looks tasteful by comparison

1953-54 Chevrolet Low Rider

VW Scirocco (I think)

1966 Corvair

1964 Pontiac Bonneville

I think this is a 1958-59 GMC Apache pickup

Sorry - this El Camino is a bit of a dog

Mismatched wheels, rotten bodywork, etc.

Whereas this Chevy truck is very nice

Now to explain the rooster - we were driving slowly down this road, which was a bit poorly maintained and between two larger streets. I heard crowing and saw a pair of rooster walk out in the road after me.

We stopped, trying to crane our heads around to see them. They seemed angry that we had driven in their territory. An elderly woman was watching from her front yard, and asked "are you looking for an address?"

I replied, "No, I'm looking at some chickens". She said "They're wild - please take as many of them as you want."

We discussed it and decided we weren't up for a chicken lunch, and went for fish & chips instead.

On the way home we came to a road crew, and stopped to take a photo and have a nice chat about earth scrapers. See the size comparison:

Cazalea

Very cool, thanks for all the photos...

By: Emil Wojcik : February 15th, 2017-16:39

...I especially like the Scirocco. I had a '77 back in the day, metallic blue. Funny, I remember it looking a lot more sporty back then... Emil

1964 Pontiac Bonneville looks wicked. Thanks for sharing [nt]

By: Bill : February 15th, 2017-17:36

Yes - door handles and trim shaved off, lowered, big tires - too bad it looks abandoned

By: cazalea : February 15th, 2017-18:03

I like that period of Wide Track Pontiac and maybe a bit Rat Rod ... This wagon looks extremely cool ... ...

The blue picture is totally killer. [nt]

By: Bill : February 15th, 2017-21:52

Sights you don't see in the UK

By: colinwillsher : February 16th, 2017-02:01

No, I don't mean the actual vehicles which Cazalea records in his really terrific series of posts ( which are the first things I look at when one comes up ) but the age of the vehicles. Clearly some of them are parked up, but the majority appear to be in ...

Conservative people, high house prices, lax inspections and moderate weather

By: cazalea : February 16th, 2017-08:16

I've given this a lot of thought over the last 6 months. One can see from the neighborhoods that the owners of these vehicles tend (but not exclusively) to be: 1. older and not interested in current trends, climate change, etc.(Toyota Prius hybrids and ot...