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pagoda roof looking this undignified seriously mercedes benz sl what happened to you back in the day you bespoke a certain masculine refinement an understated glamour a panache not at all frivolous but underpinned by real substance you were the car an aging cary grant would drive today it s easier to picture behind the wheel an aging fabio perhaps it s just a symptom of our age it occurs to me that it s been years since the last time i heard the word that once perfectly summed up your character deployed without snark or sarcasm as if the very concept has become as debased and obsolete as the idea of a hardtop convertible for two cultured grown ups that word classy click for full size booty in the air sl action posted by pph at 10 02 am 2 comments saturday july 16 2011 white whale unspoiled tt remember the o g tt remember how when the mays thomas dynamic duo ran auto union streamliner benz bathtub porsche through their patented fin de sicle neoretropomo design generator the only way you could tell whether the resulting four wheeled ss helmet was coming or going was by the color of the corner lenses that was kinda cool right then i guess there were some high speed accidents or something possibly due to the fact that when you design a car with pretty much the exact shape of an airfoil it might then behave as a lifting body and audi not wanting to watch its brand reputation go down the crapper again quickly slapped a spoiler on that back of that heretofore perfectly symmetrical rear end and just to be safe recalled every car that d been sold to date and spoiled them as well thus was born one of carspotting s great holy grails the unmolested tt a car common enough that it can easily hide in plain view and yet so rare that in ten years of dedicating ridiculously some part of the vast unused acreage of my brain to perpetual lookout duty i had not once encountered it i d come close recently thinking i might ve spotted one in the pages of a fellow obsessive s blog but it was alas a mirage and the box went yet unchecked even by proxy until yesterday meadowbrook parkway long island new york july 15 2011 approximately ten a m nimbus gray convertible no spoiler got im click for grainy bigfoot style full size posted by pph at 9 20 pm 0 comments thursday june 23 2011 day for night insert murcielago batman pun here hollywood and highland hollywood click for full size posted by pph at 5 12 pm 0 comments friday june 17 2011 it stood for limited shoreline washington click for full size posted by pph at 7 44 pm 0 comments saturday june 11 2011 in plain sight metro self storage i ve never been entirely able to get a handle on buffalo in large part it seems about what you d expect busted ass and depressing as hell but here and there amongst the ruins lie relics that whisper of what could only have been a glorious past and one frequently stumbles upon things so at odds with their current surroundings that their presence defies all explanation metro self storage is on main street about a mile past the anchor bar where the city s eponymous wings preparation was famously supposed to have been invented it is to be blunt about it not the best part of town not the worst either not by any means but just your typical somewhat blighted urban post industrial industrial strip lots of decaying signage chain link and buildings doing duty for purposes other than which they were intended looks like this the first thing that catches your eye driving past is the back half of a 1982 buick skyhawk arguably the handsomest of the j cars admittedly that s not unlike calling ________ the noblest of the sexually transmitted diseases suspended over the entry but then in your peripheral vision you might catch a glimpse of what sits just the other side of the glass storefront flashes of chrome grilles gills exhaust and wtf was that a cord it was and next to it on one side a rolls of 1950s vintage and on the other a 40s straight eight buick with original issue plates across the room towards the back an ex little al stocker and three and perhaps four curious etceterini of indeterminate origin working our way down further what appears to be a late 70s or perhaps 80s indy car under a tarp a pagoda roof 250sl a couple newer covered ferraris a c5 corvette and oh hey a maserati 3500 gt and a merak behind it for good measure mind you with the exception of the few that are covered with dust cloths no effort is being made whatsoever to conceal these automobiles they re sitting right there behind full length windows as if in a showroom on a cruddy main drag in buffalo no sign of the rest of that skyhawk however click on the pics for full size posted by pph at 8 47 am 3 comments thursday june 09 2011 black steelies in the hour of chaos click for full size posted by pph at 3 43 pm 0 comments tuesday may 31 2011 scene report great britain it s always interesting as a carspotter getting out of one s native market and seeing the hardware on display in different parts of the world some observations based on a couple weeks traveling around the united kingdom accompanied by wholly unrelated and random instagram snaps from the same period last time over here about nine months ago i saw my first nuova cinquecento one of them now they are everywhere whatever its fate in the u s fiat has a massive hit on their hands the idea of resurrecting the ds nameplate for anything less than a completely revolutionary design strikes me as slightly lame but regardless i gotta say the new citroen ds3 looks pretty great on the road what comes across as slightly gimmicky in photos actually reads playfully distinctive and contemporary irl big ups for the lovely nonmetallic sky blue paint option too color less original perhaps the peugeot rcz might not be much more than a vichy tt design wise but it turns out that s no bad thing either another frenchie head turner likewise while the new renault meganes strike me as less interesting than the funky previous generation they re still reasonably graceful and attractive and refreshingly free from angry car syndrome speaking of which those new sciroccos picture a chopped golf or a truncated cc and you ve pretty much got the picture meh finally while undeniably if blandly handsome the current crop of indistinguishable aston martins are about as rare over here as camaros stateside and elicit in me anyway about as much excitement however twice this trip the sprinter in which i was a passenger was overtaken on the motorway by a rapide aka the new four door aston twice i saw its long and lean and low and muscular flanks slink past with the beautiful and lethal authority of a great white shark and twice i felt my eyes widen and my lower lip tighten under my front teeth to register an involuntary fuuuuuuuck i didn t see it from any angle other than a slightly elevated rear three quarter and like i say i kinda don t give a shit about aston martins otherwise but god damn if that thing didn t look utterly fantastic and provide me with the biggest automotive charge of my trip at least until i saw a woman step out of this bentley and into a kebab shop evidently on her way home from a wedding procession during which her quarter million dollar ride developed a flat is that even possible posted by pph at 3 16 pm 0 comments sunday may 29 2011 americans abroad brighton beach click for full size posted by pph at 12 31 pm 1 comments monday april 18 2011 boomer follies part fifty billion vw introduces beetle for nobody start with a car that is essentially a boutique version of an existing model its sole reason for existing to offer a cute appealing alternative to the increasingly masculine aggressively styled cars in its class take its basic shape strip it of the whimsy and formal simplicity that made people like it in the first place and replace it with well masculine aggression congratulations volkswagen you ve just invented the pt cruiser need further proof that vw s marketers have their fingers on the ever fainter pulse of the sexagenarian set don t miss vw s mtv world stage event unveiling featuring none other than the black eyed peas aka the band that nobody likes either posted by pph at 3 39 pm 1 comments sunday april 10 2011 2011 the year brake bling broke nowhere does brand awareness play a more savage role in defining social hierarchies than on the suburban playground when i was growing up in vapid 1970s southern california every fourth grader understood implicitly that coming to school in something other than vans a lightning bolt shirt and op shorts was tantamount to an open admission of subhumanity good news then for aspiring fashion police in the wastelands of western ontario canada where this kiddy cop car was recently sighted sporting a full complement of polished brembos would your child be seen in anything less click on the pics for full size posted by pph at 9 46 am 1 comments wednesday march 30 2011 file under schadenfreude bowery and houston wednesday morning three a m click for full size posted by pph at 4 43 pm 1 comments thursday march 03 2011 ladies and gentlemen jason castriota and the post functional world remember discipline for a while from the late 1960s through the 80s the notion played a role at least i m talking super concept cars here even the most outrageous impractical designs adhered to a sort of inner logic i mean not to be a total dick about it but there was an element of intellectual rigor at work there an insistence on formal purity that kept these cars from being simply exercises in frivolity or vanity it s possible i guess that this minimalist philosophy represented something of a dead end street that by the time giugiaro rolled out his lotus etna for instance pictured above supercar form had been reduced to a degree whence there was simply no further place to go back on earth the jellybean production cars of the 80s and 90s gave way to the new millennium s slab sided crossovers and vehicles grew ever taller and broader to accommodate their occupants increasing girth and demands of invulnerability vast featureless sheetmetal planes cried out for relief which brought us where we find ourselves today awash in a visual cacophony of comically exaggerated wheel surrounds gratuitous sculptural elements and right flame surfacing it s not surprising that the pendulum has swung back from the form follows function restraint of giugiaro and his contemporaries the current of surfeit of automotive expressionism finds precedent both in the art deco flourishes of french and italian coachbuilders of the 1930s and later in the flamboyant kitsch of 1950s american designers who much like their current day counterparts seemed less concerned with beauty than with achieving a kind of maximum visual volume but something s different this time around too i recall reading about the f 117 stealth fighter back when it was initially declassified about the way its freakishly multifaceted and un aerodynamic radar reflective surfaces were made possible by fly by wire systems capable of compensating for the airframe s inherent instability and i remember thinking well shit if computers are fast enough now to keep that thing in the air how long before airplanes don t have to look at all like airplanes anymore how long until we have planes that look like clouds or birds or toasters or a hot dog similarly the technology of automotive design has seemingly rendered obsolete over the course of the last thirty years the purity of form that the move toward aerodynamic efficiency beginning in the early 1980s had made de rigueur back in the day you wanted a sub 25 drag coefficient you ended up with something that looked like a pregnant porpoise now though mix in a little computational fluid dynamics and you can crank out something as overwrought and incoherent as mr castriota s latest aeromotional nonsense or yes a cadillac that looks like a stealth fighter it s like the shackles that have forever bound form to function have been loosed we are living in a post functional world cars can look like anything for me then it raises a simple question why don t they look better posted by pph at 11 19 pm 4 comments tuesday march 01 2011 in the details saab phoenix concept as seems prudent with most castriota creations i m gonna reserve judgment on his first outing for saab until i can get a better handle on it the old school airplane logo as chmsl however fucking brilliant click through to view full size via autoblog posted by pph at 5 19 pm 3 comments saturday february 05 2011 spotted what s wrong with this picture and please no smart ass it s a corvette answers you don t like a c4 you don t like gatorbacks clamshell hoods and digital dashboards proudly illustrating their motors 4000 rpm power peak well that s your problem not mine my problem one that brings out my inner monk and drives me absolutely batshit is something else here how do people pay this little attention to what they re doing click on the pic for a closer look posted by pph at 10 54 am 4 comments friday november 19 2010 come to think of it it does look faintly like the bell x 1 1980 citroen cx 25 prestige this citroen was once owned by chuck yeager who broke sound barrier i do not have proof of that unless you go through the california dmv system click on the pic to check out the auction posted by pph at 3 12 pm 3 comments monday july 12 2010 spotted the real deal now that we ve all grown accustomed to the sight of two and a half ton parade float neo challengers you d think the visual impact of the original would be diluted somewhat wouldn t you yeah not so much if anything this cuda seems more radical and genuinely exotic in 2010 than it has in its forty year history the rest of us should be so lucky look at that freaking backlight surround will you why did it take a crap re do to make me appreciate what a truly stunning design this is note don garlits museum license plate frame btw big daddy click on the pics for a closer look posted by pph at 12 21 pm 4 comments tuesday june 01 2010 scene report victoria british columbia the 1983 pontiac 2000 station wagon in two tone brown good times at hecklers tonight click on the pics for a closer look posted by pph at 11 27 pm 1 comments previous posts moving truly trivial pursuit gay nineties edition street beat fashion watch custom shades shameless can you picture a pagoda roof looking t white whale unspoiled tt day for night insert murcielago batman pun here it stood for limited in plain sight metro self storage black steelies in the hour of chaos scene report great britain archives july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 december 2006 january 2007 february 2007 april 2007 may 2007 june 2007 july 2007 november 2007 december 2007 february 2008 march 2008 may 2008 june 2008 august 2008 november 2008 december 2008 january 2009 february 2009 march 2009 april 2009 may 2009 june 2009 july 2009 august 2009 september 2009 october 2009 november 2009 december 2009 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