What Do You Do When You See A Car Like Yours On The Street?

How cool that you now own this car! What a great story! Sometimes it pays to just take a minute and leave your card. Nice work once again!

well since here in belgium american cars are rare. and all who drive them here are fanatics, we all blink are lights or honk when we see another US car.
if you pass another car like yourself on the freeway or something, you just keep driving next to it or behind it or something so that you can check eachothrs ride out.

( btw, thirdgen camaro’s are so rare here that you get VIP parking when you go out.)
in the most expensive club here in belgium ( Carre ) i stand on the parking next to the ferrari’s , porsches and lambo’s.
got I love my camaro.

I had a great encounter with a newer (2003ish) Monte Carlo SS right outside of my home town. I leveled off with him on the 4-lane and he did a double take when he looked over and saw my 86 SS. I followed him through town a bit and we both did a few burnouts at the traffic lights. Good times… still have no idea who it was or where he was from though.

I’ll always wave to someone with the same car, even if they don’t notice. Hell, I’ll wave at just about anything that I can see is nicely modified. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen another Fiero while driving mine yet.

Its rare for me to get overly excited about a car after you’ve been to as many shows as I have. I’ve seen all sorts of cars that I like or admired.
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The one car I do pay more attention to was my first. If I see a Pontiac Parisenne on the street I do feel a little compelled to go check it out. Im not ussually interested in talking the owner.
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People feel compelled to talk to me though. “Sweet rims” must be tattoo’d on my forehead because its the only thing people ussally say. Once and a while I get an old man who likes the car but will say, “why did you ruin it by putting those stupid wheels on it”. Its pretty rare for anyone to say anything about the car itself.

When tCs were new, I’d often wave or at least catch their eye. The downside of having a successful model thats been produced for 4 years now is that they’re everywhere! I’d still be up for a wave and a nod, but I don’t think that other people out there are looking. If I see one that’s had work done I’ll pay more attention, but I don’t think my car quite rates… maybe if I do a little more to it first!

I usually wave to the “Honda” owners as well as CR-V owners. I usually only warn my make of vehicles about cops by flashing my headlights, but I won’t do it to dodge or ford cars and trucks lol.

If im driving and I see another CRX on the road, I usally just give the other person a wink, or a smile. However, if im in a parking lot, I always try to park ner them so I can get a picture with my camera phone… cuz if there is no picture, it didnt happen. I have not put a sign on anybodys car yet, but if im parked in a quaint parking lot with very few stores, I have had a couple people come in a store and ask “who’s CRX is that?”… and then ask me a whole bunch of questions about the cars. I have also had one person follow me about 15km’s to a superstore, park beside me, exit their vehicle, rush to mine, and ask me where I got the body work done on my car. Unfortunately for them (and me), I didnt have the info as I bought the car the way it was about 4 months beforehand. But I really dont mind people asking me questions, and I always try to give the right info… I have not yet gone out and seen someonw standing beside their vehicle to get a chance to talk to them (other than @ the CRX meets), but im sure my chance will come one day!

I will do anything and everything to get try to talk to the owner of an EXP or 1g Escort. Right now I am trying to contact the owners of two EXPs that I found this weekend. There is another one I found that I have been meaning to leave a note on. I don’t seen enough Merkurs to have to do anything when I find them, however the last one I saw was in Seattle, and we did leave a note on it. I see too many Jeeps around to worry about, but I wave anyways when I pass them. Have not seen another Capri on the road, and the only other one I know of around here I already tried to buy, and talked to the owner about it then. Any time I find an RX-4 I try to locate the owner, and I have bought two of the four I have seen. I will contact the owner of another one after I get moved closer to it.

I only knew of 3 71-76 Impala’s in town and sadly I’m the last one. The first one was a 73′ that the frame snapped in half after an accident. Guy tried to sell some parts off of it, but didn’t have a title and hence I didn’t want them.
The second was a 75′ that some old lady drove around and I haven’t seen it in years
The third was I think was a 71′ owned by some kid that worked in a body shop and got rid of it to buy a mustang.

I freaked when I saw a ‘74 Firebird Esprit down the street.
I nearly shit myself when I noticed the fresh ‘76 T/A.

I am obsessed with shitty misfit cars.
I drool over Tempos, Escorts, pre 1998 hatchbacks of all makes. Huge rusted out american boats, VW golfs. Anything that no one in their right mind would want, is something I want.

I drive Astros (own two) and my wife a Liberty. We both offer up friendly waved to drivers of the same.

If I’m driving my Roadmaster when I see another RM, I will wave.
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I stopped and talked to an owner who had a mint condition black sedan.
We swapped stories about how great we think these cars are.
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I saw a slightly modified one last week, with vanity plates that read “Roadie” on them. It was Dark Cranberry Metallic with Impala SS wheels. It was beautiful.
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It’s the first modified one I have seen in person, other than mine. I wanted to stop and leave a note, but wasn’t sure how it would be received…so I didn’t.
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I wish I would have.

Usually I don’t do anything. The vast majority of people around here that own GTP’s are either young kids looking for a race, or older folks who probably view it as just another car. Although, coming home from work today, I pulled up to an older gentleman in a white GTP who kept staring at my car as we drove along, I gave him a friendly wave, but I don’t think he saw, as he turned off and drove away. I usually try to give a thumbs up to anyone I see with a nice car or bike I drive by though.

The same with my car, bu thten again, I’d leave a frown on faces upon whipping out immortal facts in the name of god. And then I am the crazy one. Er hum. The only cars like mine lately are parked. or the old lady versions, making thier way back into pretentious victory, but because they can. The eagle ius interesting, there was a 2wd cream puff grandma drive around. the oil blew back into the vents every throttling with all debugging a failure, and the 10mpg was the last straw. I would still drive it. It sat up nice, the 6 is quiet to run.
Leaving anote is kinda weird. but may try it on a parts car I found in a driveway…