Sunday, March 3, 2013

Armchair tourism, part 2

Todays first street view sighting comes from Houston, Tx. I'm not good at uploading pictures so I apologize if this is too hard to see. Hopefully I'll  improve in due time.
This is an early-80s Toyota Corolla, converted into a pickup.I know Texans love their pickups but this is a stretch.Perhaps he had an old Corolla sitting around and just wanted to do something different. Or he just decided it wasn't "Texas" enough.
The question that must be asked is: How easy will it be to sell when he wants to fund his next project (probably a Corolla on a monster truck chassis)?

I've added 2 more as a bonus! This time, we're going to Centreville,Virginia.
This one is sad. A once-sophisticated porsche 928 sitting forlorn and deteriorated.Many people who bought these cars were unable to give them the careful maintenance they needed.Things went downhill quickly and repair costs added up to the point where it was a better deal to just use the money for the purchase of a new Hyundai.So they found some poor sap to buy it, not realizing what they were getting into.When these were new, they were absolute status symbols.In this condition,it just shows the world that the owner likes to waste money. Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I saw one of these in proper working order.The last one I encountered was on Craigslist with the whole interior missing.These are Porsche's, man.Who lets these things happen to a Porsche?
Just down the street from the pathetic Porsche is an Edsel with rims. Usually I dislike these rims and think they are ridiculous, but here, they don't look bad.They actually seem to compliment all the chrome pretty well. Edsels are not the cars you'd expect to see with wheels like this but actually they look better on this car than most.Again, this car was captured by the Google cam in centreville,Va.

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