Looking through more old files, found some snaps from the 2004 Vancouver Auto Show. 18 years, heading for vintage material now. In no particular order:

Cadillac Sixteen:

Buick Centieme:

Lincoln Navicross:

Mustang concept:

Kia :

Tomahawk:

Dodge Avenger:

Chrysler Airflite:

Jeep Treo:

Souped up IS:

Lambos:

These were a new thing:

Panoz display:

Volvo S40/V50 was new:

I recall the "floating" center stack was seen as something innovative:

Also new, the CTS-V:

STi might have debuted around then? :

XLR was new:

300/Magnum was new, these were a hit at the time:

I think these were new:

GM was trying, and maybe a little too hard keeping it cordoned off:

And its hen's tooth cousin:

Allure, not a Lacrosse, because reasons:

Acura Civic:

This was new, always thought this was a nice design:

Rotisserie, also a new model then:

Forbidden fruit for Murkans at the time:

These too, I remember the hype:

Optra in Canada Suzuki Reno south of the border:

Not sure why this Lupo was on display, maybe an EV or similar conversion:

The beloved high maintenance land yacht was new:

At the time I was driving my W126, I was amused when a G parked beside me. Back then the show was held at BC Place - probably hasn't been there in about 15 years:

That's enough memory lane for now.

@nth256 did he roll coal upon leaving?

Big trucks were once used as tools, now many are used by tools.

I'm walking along thinking to myself "you don't see many old cars here as the climate is hard on them, and most pre-2000 are pretty rough", and then I happen upon this:

That is all.

These images are from roughly 20 years ago, when I lived in Bellingham, and got my first digital camera - a little 3.2 MP Sony unit I carried with me all the time. A few of these were probably taken with very early phone cameras - long before smartphones. I worked for a telco and we were able to test devices, I remember one where the camera was an attachment. In sorting through some files on my computer, I realized I had all of these old images, and thought some may be amused.

In no particular order-

This was at my old workplace - I took the pic to show my W126 in the snow, but I remember that now-rare car beside it, a Dodge 600 I believe, a slightly stretched K-car variant:

A Citroen DS Break/Safari with a GTO convertible behind it and a VW 412 in the distance. No, the pic is not from 1975, this was Bellingham in the early 'oughts:

Toyota Stout:

This pic makes me think of "The Birds":

Porsche club convoy, those were all new cars then!:

Vega-based Nomad, aftermarket conversion:

6 doors (to be fair, this was at a car lot):

If I remember right this was a very low mileage car:

Nice color:

Few cars can get away with pink, these sure can:

I want to say this wasn't Bellingham, but still in the wild:

This was behind Kent Bergsma's facility, back when he still had an indy shop:

This lived next door:

Mudflaps on a fintail, rare accessory:

A BMC landcrab followed by an early Midget:

My friend's 85 Monte Carlo SS after it was hit by a stop sign runner:

Very rare MB microbus, I remember talking to Kent Bergsma about this, he had tried to buy it, no dice, eventually it was gone:

That's all.

@CarsOfFortLangley I'm not doxxing myself with a pic of my house, some crazies around these parts may end up camped in my yard. When I finished some mild updates last year, I took a few non-revealing pics and have some others. I am happy with the way the place turned out. I could never have afforded this house, even as a normal sized 50s ranch, in suburban Seattle, I was lucky and am grateful:

I have a car hole and could probably fit a bike back there:

A hobby room where I trade time and money for sanity:

A living room, where I shitpost/post shit from that very chair and then fall asleep:

A large (~300 sq ft) master bedroom, with an area for one of my lesser known hobbies that has devoured countless years and dollars, old game worn hockey jerseys:

And right now some roses are in bloom, pleasant valley Sunday:

@sam-blockhan Mazda Cosmo , I believe USDM 1975-77 model years. Stupendously rare, due to the somewhat finicky/special dorito under the hood, and not being rust averse.

@highlander A little dirty from the snow a couple weeks ago:

Warming up for the last cruise of the season, on a cold morning:

Finally made it out to a little gathering. Only stuck around for about an hour as I feared approaching rain (someone doesn't like to get wet), and I had a few other things to do. Some unusual vehicles were in attendance: Restomod Camaro was well-done, one doesn't see Mk I Jettas and Corrados/Sciroccos every day, another MB showed up (W124 400E), Nova was an insane apparent drag car, Roadrunner reminds me of Boomhauer's car (I know his is a Coronet), and for the Jeeps, kids will be kids. Not a bad gathering, low-key, which matches with the area, I suppose:

I've always been amused by the random cars seen in illustrations of this type - a few recently caught my eye.

First, this local redevelopment project, some non-USDM material that is unlikely to be seen around Spokane anytime soon. Not sure if the illustrator just found random cars and didn't know better, or is having fun (and of course there's a Tesla):

Then on this blueprint, amusing choice of vehicle outlines - looks like a couple of MB C124 and a 911 with a possibly modified nose (for something listed at over 800K in Spokane, I'd hope for less things being "optional":

And in a listing, I noticed this little guy hiding out:

That is all.

@AestheticsInMotion Wow, talk about unexpected. If it wasn't for AMGTech being involved, I'd have you committed. Now you have something with a rare shape and a very solid engine. What was the donor car?

I was able to get respectable mileage out of my W210 E55 AMG, here are a couple examples apparently from 2008:

This car had the noise you describe - I replaced the resonator with an x-pipe, so there was nice sound at startup, but almost imperceptible at speed.

Congrats, this will make for some fun stories.

@nickhasanexocet LS. GM 4.3 diesel. Busa. Any MB V12. TT Supra.

@bison78 Musk, Thiel, and allied mouthpieces like DeSantis, Trump, Hawley, et al scare me for their desires and brazen mouthiness much more than I am scared of wokeness, communism, socialism, etc.

@Just-Jeepin I remember seeing some old Majorette in their display that I'd have liked to take home.

@Demon-Xanth The newfound far right movement against drag shows etc is really something. It's into their "grooming" thing I guess, which is all projection.

I'd wager at least someone involved was also in DC on Jan 6th.

@bison78 I think some are speaking up a little:

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3761308-top-house-intel-republican-condemns-trumps-calls-to-suspend-constitution-over-2020-election/

While some are still spineless cowards like their orange messiah:

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-congressman-dodges-question-if-he-will-support-trumps-2024-run-2022-12

His white supremacist dinner party garnered a very mild rebuke - I suspect this will have nothing more, overall. It's pretty simple in my eyes, many of the new right have no problem with the idea of a dictator, whether it be Polonius or the one who they lie about being a moderate centrist (DeSantis).

@bison78 In my opinion, if there was some horrific link between Hunter and Joe, which I guess isn't outside the realm of possibility, it would have been broadcast by now, and would have maybe been shown before the election. As Biden likely (hopefully) isn't going to run in 2024, it's all moot now, and they still can't ante up anything other than Hunter behaving no worse than Trump and those regrettable sons of his. But man it works for a distracting story, and that's all that counts these days. The same people who buy into election fraud and child slavery rings existing in the basements of pizza parlors will buy into this.

It will also be telling to see what Musk and his bought and paid for journalist decide to "expose" next. Dollars to donuts it won't be a GOP scandal.

Chain of custody is something I have been curious about, too - and even without it, still no damning information. To quote a foreign asset - nothingburger!

@bison78 In my anecdotal experience, most who drone on about "the Constitution" don't know any amendment aside from the 2nd (and no doubt wouldn't cry about the 13th being repealed).

@tophercrowder I got into them when I was a kid in the 80s - I appreciated the simple but accurate castings and unexpected fine details as seen on this model. Maybe oddly, I also really liked the grey and silver wheels. Later 60s models (newer than what I generally collect) could also be very finely detailed castings. Fast wheels never did much for me, as I didn't play with my vehicles on tracks.

https://www.thebulwark.com/no-you-do-not-have-a-constitutional-right-to-post-hunter-bidens-dick-pic-on-twitter/

To play the whatabout/distraction game the new right so adores, why hasn't Musk released data about Trump campaign requests? Will he publish his communications with China, Russia, Saudis? Maybe the child of apartheid friend of Peter Thiel bought Twitter to protect his own material. Also on that note, waiting for privileged contrarian grifter Taibbi to go after FOX who also initially declined to air the laptop "story" for reasons. No holding of breath here, of course.

I lost, so everything must be fraud, even if I have no data behind my claims!

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-terminate-constitution-election-fraud-truth-social-1234641097/

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3760916-trump-calls-for-termination-of-election-rules-in-constitution-to-overturn-2020-election/

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/12/03/trumps-pre-runoff-message-terminate-the-constitution-00072059

And so on.

Buttery Males.