Car Sightings This Past Week

I've been thinking about how we might all share something like this for a while, but then it occurred to me that it was just too much trouble to shoot photos. So here are photos found online of cars I saw in the past week that I would have pointed out if we'd been riding in the car together.


No the Citation I saw didn't look this good, but it was an X11 in these colors. Can you believe an X-body is still running? These things were junk when they were new (sadly, this is an ironic reflection of today's news from GM). WFMY had a bunch of Citation 5-doors as news vehicles, and Joni's parents had a maroon 5-door Pontiac Phoenix.


I'd just been talking to Mike about how scarceness didn't lead to value in unloved cars. I saw a very low-mileage Thing on a Barrett-Jackson show that sold for a pitiful amount of money. The one I sighted in Costco Burbank was pale yellow.


Joni still refers to my "Green Maverick" example about visual template matching and cognition: You meet someone who has a green Ford Maverick, and over the next week you see another green Maverick - or more. Not so easy to do these days with a Maverick. This week's was a dark blue 2-door.


The '67 'Vette I saw this week in Burbank had an L-88 hood, but that hasn't meant there was a real L-88 under the hood since the early '70s. It was in this condition and color - no stripe.