This fall I had occasion to make numerous trips to Lane Community College (“LCC”), due to my son breaking his foot. Paul’s taxi service; and the xB does make a rather good taxi, almost the next best thing to a Checker. One day I decided to make a quick tour of the various parking lots and see what students drive these days, other than the usual boring semi-recent-vintage sedans and CUVs.
Because I didn’t want to arouse suspicions or the campus security, I shot very quickly, and as a result, a few of them turned out to have bad focus, as my old iphone 5S takes its time doing that. But you’ll still recognize them. And I’m also saving the best two finds for the end, to make you at least scroll through them all.
A representative cross-section: Japanese, old and new
Ford Escort; these gen1 versions are getting scarce
Have to have one A-Body
And a B Body
EVs charging at the free solar-powered charging station. This is the smart way to commute. Used leafs are going for peanuts, and no fuel bills.
Toyota Previa
Mazdas; vintage and newish
’68 Barracuda, parked at the very end of the lot, for obvious reasons
Fuzzy, but unmistakable
Toyota Tercel
Gen 1 Acura Legend
Nova, 1975-1979
Always can count on a few of these
And these
Infiniti M30 (Nissan Leopard)
528e
The first two hybrids keeping company
Two gold Sables
Gotta’ have a FWD A Body
VW (Golf) Cabriolet
Another Nova
The second best find turned out to be very blurry. I’d seen it driving in earlier, and was glad it was still there when I made my loop.
In case it wasn’t obvious, it’s a Ferrari 458. At a community college? Well, its driver was a young Chinese man, one of quite a few very rich students that find their way to Eugene from China, for a number of reasons. We covered this subject here. True to form, he drove it exceedingly slowly.
And here’s the best for last. A ’75 or ’76 Chrysler New Yorker, formerly known as an Imperial. I will share the rest of the shots in a post before long. And whoever drives it, presumably also has a ’76 Eldorado, as I’ve seen it parked on other days in almost the same spot. And said Eldorado is the very one that was for sale a few years back, and I posted it here. Someone is a lover of ultra-big Brougham coupes.