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Old 10-27-2004, 03:33 PM   #16
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

porsche carrera gt, lamborghini diablo, lotus espirit, gallardo, porsche gt3, honda* nsx, ac cobra, ferrari enzo, maranello (bunch of ferraries some nice old once too), bmw z8, bmw (the 12 cylinder sport one), bunch of vipers, few maseratti s. Yeah i have seen a lot of rare cars, the reason is where i live there ae ferrari dealership, porsche, lotus, lambos and almost every othere car you can think of. Some where prolly test driven, but still seen it on roads.
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Old 10-27-2004, 04:27 PM   #17
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ferrari testarossa, a bently of some kind, lotus elise was going the opposite way on the highway.. that was cool
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Old 10-27-2004, 04:54 PM   #18
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

Green Lambo tearing it up multiple times
Ferraris (360s and the occasional 550)
Vipers-rt/10 and GTS and a new RT10 a university professor
Hummers (h1) including a border patrol wagon
The guy up the street used to own a lambo (dunno what kind), but his software company tanked and he had to sell most of his cars, or so his kid says.

i see alot considering we have no ferrari, lambo, hummer or high end dodge dealer in town. They are all 100 mi away in phoenix, AZ.
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:16 PM   #19
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Re: Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

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Whats that super rare porsche from the mid 80's or early 90's? I saw one of those at a gas station once.
The 262 unit strong Porsche 959 is the car you're probably talking about. Rare in europe and only a dozen or so exist in the states, most are going through legalization but there's at least 4 or 5 on the road, including a red 959S.

As for my rarest... hmm.. GT2, pulling out fo dealership and followed it on the street (only 15 or something in Canada) or Bentley Continental S/C I saw in LA, there's a bunch of Continentals, but who ever sees them drving around? Saw an Azure once too.
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Old 10-27-2004, 08:25 PM   #20
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

Does a Dinan M5 count?
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Old 10-27-2004, 10:06 PM   #21
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

Man it must suck for those who dont live in a bid city. I've seen plenty of examples of just about every car listed except for the Enzo and the S7. The rarest car listed so far is probably the S7 and CarreraGT with delivered road cars in the low double digits. Though I haven't seen an S7 on the road, I did get to sit in one at the Houston Auto Show.
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Old 10-28-2004, 03:37 AM   #22
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ok I live in detroit (the subburbs) and I saw a car there that was super rare 1 of 1 an early 70's can't remember the year ford country spire station wagon with a factory 7.0L T-bird engine the only one every made saw it at the Woodward cruise
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Old 10-28-2004, 03:56 AM   #23
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

sometimes I see 3 Z8s a day. I always see m5's and m3's... oh btw, it was that porsche 959 that I saw. I didn't know it was that rare!!! I must've seen the red one you mentioned.
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Old 10-28-2004, 01:47 PM   #24
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

rolls royce silver ghost. there was only ever ONE.

Bugatti from round 1910. there are THREE in the world.

Gold Lamborghini Diablo SE, 40 built.

on the outside of rare Ferrari F40, 1200 built.

Subaru 22B, actually, i wouldn't count anything where there were more than 500 as rare.

Maserati Barchetta.
Lamborghini diablo VT, and a VT roadster.
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Actually, there were only 20 gold Diablo SE's made. 20 gold ones and 20 brown ones. I have seen a gold one a few times.
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yeah i know, i meant there were only 40 SE's, wasn't really worried about the colour, theres plenty of gold paint in the world. A friend wrote off the last of one type of right hand drive ferrari dino. NZ roads suck, he drove it off a bridge. forgotten what year/shape it was. something about pinniferina cars and bridges, another guy i know drove his detomaso pantera off a bridge too.
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

Anyone remember a Zonda?
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Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

couple of SVT lightenings here in australia, they are all imported so i guess that theres about 200 in australia
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In recent weeks I've seen a 1961 Goggomobile Dart (sports car) two fwd DKWs (1937 roadster & '54 van) an Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire (1950s) and a 1990-ish Giacottolo (V8 mid-engined supercar)
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Re: Re: whats the rarest car you've seen on the street?

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rolls royce silver ghost. there was only ever ONE.
The Rolls Royce Silver Ghost was produced from 1907 to 1925 and came with either a 40 or 50hp. Most certainly not a one off. Though there is something in the back of my memory about that car being rare, maybe there is only one left with it's original bodywork or somethig? I cannot remember right now. The one I have seen was built in 1909 and was discovered in in the mid 50' as a recovery truck. The bodywork was then restored and replica panels were made to transform it to the 'classic' shape.

As for rare sightings, I think I am like Racingnut who sees a lot. I live on the outskirts of London and there are plenty of F360's, Marinelo's, a few Diablos, guilardos, murcilagos. Saw Chris Akabusi's 959 convertable....now that really is a rare car. The 959 in itself is rare but I think they only ever made something like 3 conertables as a special.

I guess seeing all the current Formula 1 cars racing round the streets of London must be pretty rare too.

I dunno, I can't really think of one car in particular that I thonk "oh wow, that is rare". I see these exotics and just think of them as 'less produced than the mass produced cars'
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