Thursday, December 16, 2021

Friday, December 10, 2021 -- Manhattan Beach Pier -- Relatively cool day after the rain...

Sun poking through the clouds...


The wind pattern is the opposite of usual.
It's blowing out (towards the open ocean) as the flag on the right shows.
Makes it very tough for the last part of the ride home along the Ballona Creek bike path (directly against the wind!)...


The surf actually looked pretty decent...

Catalina Island toward the right...

 

Parana, Brasil -- Early 1970s...


CRMK is in the middle...

 

Sunday, December 12, 2021 -- Long Beach Car Swap Meet -- Part 3







 

Saturday, December 11, 2021 -- Pelican Parts Cars & Coffee - Part 5

It's interesting that cars from the 80s and 90s are of interest now...

Pretty good turnout...

Like this hood badge.

This is a European spec. car (much smaller bumpers, besides other differences...).

I always thought these lenses were kinda strange (being more upright).  This one is more so with the yellow...

It seems the yellow lenses are popular...

Nice color and nice plate...

I forget the guy's name but something Walker.
This Momo wheel has his name on it.
I know they did this but I don't know why you would want it on your car...  I could understand it if it was someone who had won the F1 championship or something...

I get the connection to racing but impractical for a street driven car...

924 steering wheel and instruments.
Cost cutting on the components (no leather and the Porsche logo is just molded in to the horn pad).
The 170 MPH speedo is pretty optimistic!
Also, the tach is on the right, instead of being the center gauge.  At least they oriented it so that you can see the needle approaching the redline through the wheel...

 

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Bicycle phone mount -- The nut-insert in the plastic part is spinning and this bolt won't come out -- now it's trash...


 

Sunday, December 12, 2021 -- Long Beach Car Swap Meet -- Part 2

Rarely see these...
I always liked the round tail lights...


Interesting steering wheel...


The VW group...


Super nice & clean AMG Mercedes...

 

The Maple Tree is at it's most colorful...

The maple tree is to the left of the picture.  Can just see a part of it's leaves...
The magnolia tree is the city tree on the street side of the sidewalk.
It's a very large tree with it's branches reaching out to the full width of the lot.

 

Saturday, December 11, 2021 -- Marina Del Rey

Don't think I've ever seen this gate open before.
There's a truck out on the "break".
The boat show is tonight so they're doing something to get ready for it...


Sailing class going on...




A couple of sailboats coming back in...

 

Saturday, December 11, 2021 -- Pelican Parts Cars & Coffee - Part 4

I didn't like these cars when they were new.
Still not a big fan but they're growing on me...

The convertible version is pretty cool.

The "slats" look was applied to the tail lamps (besides the side air intake)...

I like the badging...

The black panel between the "flying buttresses" is kinda strange.


Do like the flush door release "buttons".
Looks like you can use the air intake opening as the door handle...

Pretty huge front overhang...


This M2 has every window tinted, including the windshield...


Good looking bike...