West Coast Spottings

[MK1GTI]

I've just moved back to Calgary after living in Vancouver for a couple years and thought I would post up some of the more interesting cars I saw there.

Big ol'hearse spotted deep in suburbia
http://i50.tinypic.com/2rfy4n7.jpg

Great big holyshitlookatme truck. Sadly no matching chrome dangly testicles on this one.
http://i48.tinypic.com/2s9socn.jpg

Wood bodied hot rod (apologies for the shit rolling shot)
http://i47.tinypic.com/2pt1fmq.jpg

RHD MK3 VW Golf GLI wagon. Wait what?
http://i47.tinypic.com/2r738nn.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/ao4yvp.jpg

A Ford parkedtoofuckinglong hoarder wagon.
http://i47.tinypic.com/2w20ga9.jpg

Eyelash adorned Beetle, not surprisingly parked in front of a tanning salon (bear with me these will get better)
http://i45.tinypic.com/fd9cut.jpg

Badass Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible
http://i46.tinypic.com/2emzfco.jpg

Vette (see they're getting better)
http://i49.tinypic.com/fc90uw.jpg

Porsche 550 Spyder. Immediately after this spotting I raced home to Google Porsche 550 kits.
http://i45.tinypic.com/1hhcn.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/11maiqs.jpg

E30 BMW M3 convertible. Again apologies for the rolling shots but I was chasing the poor guy down the highway trying to get shots of his car.
http://i45.tinypic.com/2ptt310.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/161ntwx.jpg

McLaren MP4-12C inexplicably parked in the faculty lot of a college. When this car started up and drove away I fell to my knees, wept and thanked the sweet baby J for giving me ears.
http://i48.tinypic.com/1088nyb.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/2dqk8ht.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/2m6mv15.jpg

[zipdoa]

golf wagon lol wut. the m3 vert has to be a replica right? Didn't the factory only produce a couple m3's as convertibles? Nice thread.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Really like the 550!

[MK1GTI]

Originally posted by zipdoa
golf wagon lol wut. the m3 vert has to be a replica right? Didn't the factory only produce a couple m3's as convertibles? Nice thread.

To my untrained eye it certainly looked genuine but honestly before that I didn't even know they existed.

Found this on bmwmregistry.com


How many versions of the E30 M3 convertible were there?

There were three versions of the E30 M3 convertible, all in left-hand drive and all built to European specification. Cars produced in 1988 and 1989 use the standard 2.3-liter S14 engine in either non-catalyst (200 hp) or catalyst (195 hp) form. After nearly a year out of production, a second batch of catalyst-equipped cars was assembled starting in March, 1990. These have the later 215-hp version of the S14 engine.

How many of each version were produced?

ECE (non-catalyst): 136 produced from 06/88 through 09/88 & from 04/89 through 06/89 ECE (catalyst/195 hp): 174 produced from 07/88 through 09/88 & from 03/89 through 06/89 ECE (catalyst/215 hp): 476 produced from 03/90 through 06/91

[Hallowed_point]

It's all about that Lincoln for me :drool: :hitit: