Alex, the Hearth Fire
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1963 Ford Galaxie. #classiccar #ford #weirdcarmastodon
1963 Ford Galaxie. #classiccar #ford #weirdcarmastodon
Greg Lloyd
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This may be the swoopiest automotive photo I have ever taken, a Jaguar XK120.
October 18, 2025. Livonia, Michigan.
#car #cars #ClassicCars #Jaguar #photography #michigan #WeirdCarMastodon
This may be the swoopiest automotive photo I have ever taken, a Jaguar XK120.
October 18, 2025. Livonia, Michigan.
#car #cars #ClassicCars #Jaguar #photography #michigan #WeirdCarMastodon
Today, one of the best-known Morris Minor variations, the half-timbered Traveller estate. The Traveller was introduced in 1952 but this is a post-1956 1000 model, the 1000 being a reference to its 948cc A-Series engine, an increase compared with the capacity of the original 803cc of the version of the ‘A’ inherited from the Austin A30. Snapped at the Bremen Classic Motor Show in 2014. The wooden bits are structural rather than merely decorative.
A few days ago, I posted a van that had been converted into a black London taxi cab - the Mercedes Vito. This vehicle has undergone the opposite transformation. The VN5 is a van from the Geely-owned LEVC, based on the same company’s TX London taxi cab, although the rear bodywork is more boxy. It uses the range-extender electrified powertrain found in the taxi too. Spotted at my local leisure complex car park.
Greg Lloyd
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Bjørnar (he/him)
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I've had this car for ten years and this is the first time it's been charged at a charging station.
I've had this car for ten years and this is the first time it's been charged at a charging station.
80 km in one charge was too much, but with a small shot I got it home again! Thats life with an EV from 2013. 🙃
I've had this car for ten years and this is the first time it's been charged at a charging station.
@relistan Interestingly I work on buildings as well, and I haven't yet found one that regularly does trips up and down the road at speeds in excess of 80kmh.
You're starting to sound like a "free man", "Sovereign citizen" or "Libertarian"
Feel free to subscribe to #weirdcarmastodon where I do regular posts on the horrors that get wheeled into my workshop
Greg Lloyd
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This Franken-Triumph is a Triumph GT6 body on a Chevy S10 pickup frame with an Oldsmobile 440 V8. When we asked the guy why he built this he said, "Because those were the parts I had."
Battle of the Brits. Sept. 14, 2025. Camp Dearborn, Milford, Michigan.
#photography #car #cars #ClassicCars #Triumph #GT6 #michigan #WeirdCarMastodon
Photograph of the rear of an old red Triumph GT6 body. There are GT6 and Triumph logos and a European style license plate "FD HL 970."
Photograph of three stickers on an old red Triumph GT6 body. 1. "Speedcult Detroit" with a hot rod photo. 2. British flag. 3. "Restored with Parts from Owosso Tractor Parts 89-729-6567."
Photograph of an Oldsmobile 440 V8 engine with an engine scoop in an old red Triumph GT6 body. The car is on grass in a park.
Photograph of an old red Triumph GT6 body with an engine scoop sticking out. The car is on grass in a park.
This Franken-Triumph is a Triumph GT6 body on a Chevy S10 pickup frame with an Oldsmobile 440 V8. When we asked the guy why he built this he said, "Because those were the parts I had."
Battle of the Brits. Sept. 14, 2025. Camp Dearborn, Milford, Michigan.
#photography #car #cars #ClassicCars #Triumph #GT6 #michigan #WeirdCarMastodon
Photograph of the rear of an old red Triumph GT6 body. There are GT6 and Triumph logos and a European style license plate "FD HL 970."
Photograph of three stickers on an old red Triumph GT6 body. 1. "Speedcult Detroit" with a hot rod photo. 2. British flag. 3. "Restored with Parts from Owosso Tractor Parts 89-729-6567."
Photograph of an Oldsmobile 440 V8 engine with an engine scoop in an old red Triumph GT6 body. The car is on grass in a park.
Photograph of an old red Triumph GT6 body with an engine scoop sticking out. The car is on grass in a park.
@luis_in_brief @glyph @mycorrhiza It’s a good analogy, because all of the above can be true (as I believe it is) and still allow for the sublime existence of a ‘67 Giulia Sprint GT Veloce.
@adamgreenfield @glyph @mycorrhiza I follow #weirdcarmastodon here, and suspect the single strongest childhood influence on my adult writing style was Car & Driver. And still at times miss my stick-shift forest green 1994 Cherokee.
And to come full circle by tying in my other obsessions: pre-car big-city tenements sucked! Every YIMBY and Moses-hater should have to visit the Tenement Museum to better inform and texture our activism.
So cars: not all bad. Just, you know, very very bad.
Greg Lloyd
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Today, a third photo I’d have posted earlier if I’d realised I had it - and this is an interesting one. The BMW 600 was basically an extended four-seater version of the Isetta. The big front door was retained for the driver and front-seat passenger but the rear seat occupants entered via a single side-door on the right. The missing link between the BMW Isetta and the much more car-like BMW 700 I posted recently. Pic - Classic Motor Show Bremen, 2014.
Today, a third photo I’d have posted earlier if I’d realised I had it - and this is an interesting one. The BMW 600 was basically an extended four-seater version of the Isetta. The big front door was retained for the driver and front-seat passenger but the rear seat occupants entered via a single side-door on the right. The missing link between the BMW Isetta and the much more car-like BMW 700 I posted recently. Pic - Classic Motor Show Bremen, 2014.
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A second helping of Goggomobil today with the fancier TS coupé model, which joined the standard TS in 1957. Both cars were available with 250, 300 and 400cc two-stroke engines over their lives. This one was spotted at the NEC Classic Motor Show near Birmingham in 2024. The Goggo was made by Glas in Dingolfing in Bavaria (‘das Ding aus Dingolfing’), where BMW, after acquiring Glas in the 1960s, now has one its main plants.
A second helping of Goggomobil today with the fancier TS coupé model, which joined the standard TS in 1957. Both cars were available with 250, 300 and 400cc two-stroke engines over their lives. This one was spotted at the NEC Classic Motor Show near Birmingham in 2024. The Goggo was made by Glas in Dingolfing in Bavaria (‘das Ding aus Dingolfing’), where BMW, after acquiring Glas in the 1960s, now has one its main plants.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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The day before yesterday, I posted a small round orange car, an electric Microlino. Here’s another tiny round orange car, the Mini Outspan Orange. A small number of these were built in the early seventies to promote Outspan oranges. At least it wasn’t a lemon. Based on components from the Mini. Seen at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in 2023.
