The Unicorn sighting thread.

morris mini 1000

millions in the UK. 17000 led in the US

In reply to EricM :

That's not a Mini. It is a Morris Minor 1000. They never bothered to make a "Minor" logo for them and often after the engine upgrade to 1000cc the Minor name was allowed to fade away long before production ended.

This is a stock Lumina under the Earnhardt paint.  Drivers door window has a "window net" made from window tint. It's a pretty accurate representation. My son texts me every time he sees it on the road. 

MAYbe it's not a unicorn, but at 37k miles and with all its interior door pulls in place, I sure thought it was. 
 

Side note: a worn out version of this was in my stable of cars when my wife and I got together. And it took no small part in delaying that coupling by a few months while she tried to come to grips with it and someone who would own it.  

Have I been sleeping for a while?? These are now a thing here in the states??

P3PPY said:

Have I been sleeping for a while?? These are now a thing here in the states??

R33s have been legal for years and R34s are now legal too. 
 

Honestly with RHD imports in Atlanta I see a few a week (Crowns, Soarers, Cappuccinos, Laurels, the occasional Supra and Rx7 etc) to the point where it's not really as exciting anymore to me.

Even in this thread there are a ton of Japanese imports and I'm at the point if I see a RHD Supra at a gas station or a 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T , I would geek out over the Spirit way more. It used to be such a rare thing but importers coast to coast now it seems so saturated to me.

Was out on a ride and spotted the home of a man of culture:

Nah, that is his wife's 300Z, he drives the shaggy Chevy

Spotted in the local supermarket parking lot,  very nice looking, almost in showroom condition 

East Cobb, Marietta GA. 

Somebody making a lunch run in an early 1960s Ford Ranchero.

On Minilite clone wheels, too.

French Quarter NOLA

4400 miles. How?

Cobb Parkway Marietta GA 

Peachtree Industrial Blvd  Norcross Ga 

Good to see this at a restoration shop. It's got junkyard writing on the roof

Monroe.  Ga

Saw a guy wrenching on this while out on a bike ride and had to stop. It's a Fiberfab Avenger, a Beetle-based GT40-looking kit car. Under 50HP with the stock-spec Beetle engine but also under 1500lbs. When you look at the height of this thing you might wonder if it's shorter than a GT40, but it's actually 43" tall. I managed to get into it and with a quick-release wheel, it would be easier than getting into an Elise.

He was taking it on a first test drive around the neighborhood when it had a breakdown, he'd like to take it on track eventually but it's far from ready for that. It was on 20+yo tires, some bigger diameter wheels would be handy for fitting modern performance rubber but there aren't a lot of affordable options for the Beetle bolt pattern, he was saying the best bet is finding some old 16" wheels.

Also this may be cheating since it was at a track day, but, an FFR 818R:

I wasn't sure if it was an 818 at first, turns out the R version and later 818s have different bodywork on the front than the earlier 818s with the wider headlights. The driver said it had a 2.5L turbo Cobalt engine.

In reply to GameboyRMH :

2.5 WRX motor? I didn't think a Cobalt motor would fit, nor did a 2.5 Cobalt motor exist. 2.0L turbo and 2.4 NA.

In reply to fatallightning :

Seems to be a custom swap, you can see where the rear engine cover was cut for the intake to stick out. I'm assuming it's a mix-and-match of parts using the 2.5L LTG block, or maybe an overbored 2.4? When he confirmed that it was an 818 I asked if it had an EJ25 and he didn't seem to know what that was