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Street Sighting ~ Mazda 323

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January petered out and the start of Feb fell off a cliff so back to some regular programming starting with a plastic Japanese survivor car on some wheels. Oh and relax it's a Mazda 323 GTX so it's actually special. Not so much special because a partition of these are 4WD-turbocharged cars homologated to go group A racing, but more such a rare and curious machine to be street parked in the eastern suburbs. Now I guessing this specific car is an AU-delived FWD DOHC turbo simply because it it was 4WD it would likely be sporting more decals to say so. That aside I loved walking around this 2-door economy hatch and taking notes of the little ways Mazda tried to hot to body up to match the 1.6l turbo4 under the bonnet. Turbo decals, tick* Spoiler/s, tick*  no way, sunroof too. It also had a chin spoiler (lip), side skirts and a real schmick looking interior that is likely a high trim variant. It's a level-headed hot hatch if there's such a thing. Kind of boring, probably ...
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Street Sighting ~ Volkswagen Beetle

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Like the plates say in German, Bug. 911 alloys, for flatroddin style. Autotechnica race harness belts to backwardly announce secret performance. Classy wood-grain shifter and steering wheel, sporting a Wolfsburg horn button to add Volkswagen motherland respect (and maybe German engineering superiority complex) . The early beetles look the best.   Prime for a run around, past the Adelaide vineyards, and all to sounds like Dancing On My Own by Flight Facilities & Drama .
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Street Sighting ~ Lincoln Continental

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January   has inadvertently become a month of eyeing off chrome-cars. A side-effect of this being alot of interrupting errands or running late. So when I clocked this so, so obviously yank machine, I deferred my Bunnings visit for a sec. There's two components to when I look at a car - the first being initial impressions, often informed by influence. So in this case the preprogramming of watching the hosts of Top Gear mock American cars. So naturally I think to myself, fuckin hell this things ridiculous. But ignorance and dismissal doesn't last long and curiosity then appreciation takes over. How lucky to be me, getting a can of WD-40 and having the opportunity to see a machine that has no business rolling around Adelaide. I was so heavily distracted by what can only be labelled as coach built elements that it wasn't until I crossed the road to get some angles I realised it's a coupe. Mental. Designed with a notion that size plus detail equal grandeur. And it works, the...
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