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Posted: 3/30/2013 9:24:59 PM EDT

[#1]

ran a club in north dallas, so got to see a number of exotics roll through. top was a bugatti of some sort, but my favorite is still the '88 lotus esprit that came slinking in one night. typical exotic car owner--55, balding, and fake-tanned--but the woman with him was downright awe-inspiring.

it's like she was born to ride in that car.

*shiver*

Posted: 3/30/2013 9:27:07 PM EDT

[#2]

Being in L.A., you'll see a lot of exotics, but I'd have to say the rarest one I've seen is a Porsche Carrera GT. Pre-PDK, and the guy stalled it out in front me.

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Posted: 3/30/2013 9:32:18 PM EDT

[#3]

Porsche Carrera GT going down I-20

Posted: 3/30/2013 9:33:32 PM EDT

[#4]

Took this pic last week.

Also had a murcielago pull up next to me at a rest stop up north. A big fat lady asked the driver if she could sit in it, he said sure, she changed her mind when she realized she wasn't gonna fit.

Posted: 3/30/2013 9:52:41 PM EDT

[#5]

A real bugatti.

Posted: 3/30/2013 9:54:12 PM EDT

[#6]

I remember running across a Rolls Royce on the 210 a few years back. No idea what year or model, though.

Posted: 3/30/2013 9:59:02 PM EDT

[#7]

Ferrari F40, Maybach 62 S, Spyker C8 Spyder, Lamborghini LM002. The sheep didn't notice the Maybach but the rest caused a stir.

Years ago I almost bought a Lamborghini Jalpa. Total production run 410 units. It was white with white wheels from the factory (big look in the 80's) and AFAIK there were less than five made with white wheels. I don't know what constitutes rare but I would consider that exceedingly uncommon. My mechanic talked me out of it. Probably did me a favor.

Posted: 3/30/2013 10:07:41 PM EDT

[#8]

In Monte Carlo, Monaco

ETA another one

Posted: 3/30/2013 10:09:48 PM EDT

[#9]

NOT counting the Mercedes, BMW and Porch (sic) museums...

I've seen some very rarefied Italian steel in the Viagra Triangle (Rush street, Chicago).
Some Bentleys. (look like chrysler 300s)

Drooled at, near, but not on, a Mercedes SLR McLaren in a show room.

Posted: 3/30/2013 10:31:19 PM EDT

[#10]

A lot of pre-production domestic cars do winter testing here. Once saw a mildly camouflaged Viper ACR trying to navigate a snowstorm.

Otherwise, quite a few Ferraris in other locales, Ford GT40 (new one), 427 Cobra, Yanko Camaro....more I'm forgetting.

Most expensive stuff I typically see on the road where I live are quarter million dollar tractors pulling big shit that takes up the whole road.

Posted: 3/30/2013 10:52:51 PM EDT

[#11]

I saw multiple Maseratis, Bentleys, Aston Martins, Paganis, Bugattis, etc in Spain while I studied there.

I got to ride in a Porsche Carerra GT, owned by my mom's boss (this is me)

The same boss now owns a Ferrari Modena.

I regularly see Audi R8's at my school. The rich asians have them.

I saw a new Maserati a few weeks ago on campus, owned by a guest speaker.

My dad bought his 1940 Ford from a guy who owned a Ford GT.

Posted: 3/30/2013 10:55:48 PM EDT

[#12]

when I worked in scottsdale I saw them all painted a few of them too. veyrons ferraris lambos bentley ect.useless fact, some asshole who spent all his money on a 5 thousand dollar accord is more picky about his paintwork than people who spend more than 100k on a car.

Posted: 3/30/2013 10:57:38 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
I saw multiple Maseratis, Bentleys, Aston Martins, Paganis, Bugattis, etc in Spain while I studied there.

I got to ride in a Porsche Carerra GT, owned by my mom's boss (this is me)

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/32029_1318771296792_1885140_n.jpg

The same boss now owns a Ferrari Modena.

I regularly see Audi R8's at my school. The rich asians have them.

I saw a new Maserati a few weeks ago on campus, owned by a guest speaker.

My dad bought his 1940 Ford from a guy who owned a Ford GT.

I always thought it odd that wealthy Asians tend to gravitate towards German cars. I noticed that even in Japan....the wealthier business-types tend to drive BMW's. It's odd because the culture there seems to be very centered upon the pride of their own products and the auto industry is extremely important for their economy.

Posted: 3/30/2013 11:03:19 PM EDT

[#14]

Not the most expensive compared to some of the cars posted, but this is the most rare that I have seen in person.

Driving west on Pacific Street in Omaha:

Random internet photo

Posted: 3/30/2013 11:10:07 PM EDT

[#15]

There is a guy the next town over that has a barn full of Mustang Shelby's, all fully restored. I've been by the property, kind of funny as he lives in a trailer but probably has well over 3 million tied up in cars. You see him now and then driving one around town.

As for the single most expensive car I've ever seen, probably an Audi R8 GT or the Lambo that always seems to be running around town on a tow truck. I actually know the guy who owns it, says it's always breaking down on him. Blames it on the fact that he can't drive it like it is designed to be driven.

Posted: 3/30/2013 11:30:42 PM EDT

[#16]

Saw what looked like an original GT-40 pass by while I was at a redlight last weekend. Not to many of those around. This was NOT a Ford GT.

Posted: 3/30/2013 11:37:04 PM EDT

[#17]

This was probably the nicest with the rarest engine combo I have seen

1961 Ford Starliner with a SOHC 427

Posted: 3/30/2013 11:40:12 PM EDT

[#18]

Probably something like this:

Although I did see a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport in the parking lot at the race last year.

Posted: 3/30/2013 11:40:40 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

There is a guy the next town over that has a barn full of Mustang Shelby's, all fully restored. I've been by the property, kind of funny as he lives in a trailer but probably has well over 3 million tied up in cars. You see him now and then driving one around town.

As for the single most expensive car I've ever seen, probably an Audi R8 GT or the Lambo that always seems to be running around town on a tow truck. I actually know the guy who owns it, says it's always breaking down on him. Blames it on the fact that he can't drive it like it is designed to be driven.

bullshit. Lambos are mechanical junk. plenty of power but constant service. I used to work a couple doors down from a lambo tuning shop.

Posted: 3/30/2013 11:42:59 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Last time I was in Chicago I saw a few Ferrari 458 Italias and a Lexus LFA. On the way home I saw a '67 Shelby GT 500 on the interstate, but I have no clue if it was legit.

When I was in Chicago last August I saw a green Lambo pulling out of a gas station up in Lake Zurich on a Friday night when me and my friends were heading to Schaumburg

Posted: 3/31/2013 12:15:14 AM EDT

[#21]

There's a business owner in my home town that has a few, one of them is some fancy Bently... didn't pay much attention as to what kind, not my thing.

Did pass a Ferrari on my way to drill a couple years ago, otherwise a handful of Vipers and a GT40 down towards Milwaukee.

ETA: if I dig around I have a photo from a couple years ago of myself sitting in perfectly restored Jag E-type at a Christmas party. My wife knows some cool people (interned at Road America for a few summers in high school. She's plotting to get me down there for one of the classic car races when I get home.)

Posted: 3/31/2013 12:39:38 AM EDT

[#22]

Saw this car driving around at one of my past jobs. They had trailered it to the airport and wanted to take it out on the runway to see what it could do.

Kinda interesting to watch it fire up and drive out across the ramp to the taxiway, but the 'high speed run' down the runway was not the least bit impressive.

At the same airport, there was a Jag XKE that was a one-owner car. The guy had bought it new, when he was a student at Vanderbilt, and supposedly led the Nashville police on a high speed chase through the Vanderbilt campus, in that car.

Posted: 3/31/2013 1:10:00 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Saw this car driving around at one of my past jobs. They had trailered it to the airport and wanted to take it out on the runway to see what it could do.

Kinda interesting to watch it fire up and drive out across the ramp to the taxiway, but the 'high speed run' down the runway was not the least bit impressive.

At the same airport, there was a Jag XKE that was a one-owner car. The guy had bought it new, when he was a student at Vanderbilt, and supposedly led the Nashville police on a high speed chase through the Vanderbilt campus, in that car.

The Wisconsinite in me just has a mental image of hitting a deer with that thing...

Posted: 3/31/2013 1:32:29 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Saw this car driving around at one of my past jobs. They had trailered it to the airport and wanted to take it out on the runway to see what it could do.

Kinda interesting to watch it fire up and drive out across the ramp to the taxiway, but the 'high speed run' down the runway was not the least bit impressive.

At the same airport, there was a Jag XKE that was a one-owner car. The guy had bought it new, when he was a student at Vanderbilt, and supposedly led the Nashville police on a high speed chase through the Vanderbilt campus, in that car.

The Wisconsinite in me just has a mental image of hitting a deer with that thing...

Just imagine if it was following you, and you had to slam on your brakes.

Posted: 3/31/2013 1:33:29 AM EDT

[#25]

1971 Hemi Cuda convertible. They made 11, this was one of two export cars made for Europe.

Posted: 3/31/2013 2:16:35 AM EDT

[#26]

Back in 2004 or so I saw a Ferrari on the highway ahead of me. I was driving a modded LS1 Trans Am, and my first thought was to pick a fight. As I got closer, I realized it was an Enzo, and knew my place.

Posted: 3/31/2013 2:25:57 AM EDT

[#27]

I used to live near a guy with an Aston Martin db9, sweet little ride.

Posted: 3/31/2013 3:06:29 AM EDT

[#28]

i saw and drooled on a 1963 Ferrari GTO AT A GAS STATION! The dude was just driving it around western Georgia.

Posted: 3/31/2013 3:18:11 AM EDT

[#29]

Either this 1956 Pontiac Safari wagon (one of just over 4,000 made):

or this 1909 International Harvester Auto-Wagon, driven 22 miles under its own twenty horsepower to the show yesterday:

Posted: 3/31/2013 3:36:49 AM EDT

[#30]

It was the Rolls-Royce that picked me up hitch-hiking in Erie PA when I was headed west.

Posted: 3/31/2013 3:38:13 AM EDT

[#31]

most expensive? No Idea. Rarest: 1904 Cadillac unrestored that was a running and driving car.

Posted: 3/31/2013 3:50:17 AM EDT

[#32]

In 1970, I was at a body shop trying to get estimates on fixing my 56' Chevy.
(I had slightly tweaked the frame going of road driving at 60mph.)
The owner asked me if I wanted to buy a Maserati. It was a 65' 3500GT.
He had done some body work on it and the owner bailed on the car.
He said he would take $3k for it.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the money.

Posted: 3/31/2013 3:57:25 AM EDT

[#33]

We've got a 1970 Dodge Super Bee at the shop that is the only black Hemi, only one with a red butt stripe, and the only one with a vinyl gator skin top in 1970. 1 of 1....I'd say that's pretty rare.

Posted: 3/31/2013 4:21:33 AM EDT

[#34]

Fully restored 1932 Packard Phaeton

Posted: 3/31/2013 4:32:56 AM EDT

[#35]

Lamborghini Murcielago.

Posted: 3/31/2013 4:34:16 AM EDT

[#36]

Just last Thursday I was leaving work in Lafayette, LA and headed down Pinhook toward I-49, when I passed up a white Rolls Royce.

I guess there's a pretty good bit of oil money in Lafayette. Or some personal injury attorney made a shit pot off of a case involving an oil company. I'd bet the farm on one of those.

LC

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:17:27 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
1971 Hemi Cuda convertible. They made 11, this was one of two export cars made for Europe.

We have a 71 Cuda convertible at the shop....383, factory air, 4sp car....1 of 17.

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:23:29 AM EDT

[#38]

Aren't Bentley's pretty expensive? I saw one last week in a little hick town. It looked sharp.

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:27:48 AM EDT

[#39]

Koenigsegg CCX

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:30:33 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
A real bugatti.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn164/ingobwetrust/441d5d62.jpg

Bugatti didn't build cars with Volkswagen Beetle front suspension.

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:34:34 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Saw one of these in the grocery store parking lot in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Got a pic on my phone to prove it. . .but this is just a stock photo.

MSRP is north of a quarter mil. . .and goes up rapidly from there.

Sure, I've seen other cars in a museum or dealership, but this is the most expensive I've ever seen in the wild.

http://www.earthroamer.com/wp-content/uploads/wp/1/3.jpg

I saw one of those in Alaska.

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:36:53 AM EDT

[#42]

I saw a Rolls-Royce Phantom at a gun range near Ft Lauderdale, FL

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:37:00 AM EDT

[#43]

Seen a couple Ford GT's in Miami area on the street , one in an Oklahoma showroom .

Seen a few dozen or so Ferraris over the years ,including a Daytona in Michigan that looked real (although Im hardly an expert ) and one Lambo in LA near Rodeo drive -Hollywood area .

But a customer had a 66 Dodge charger , all original , Hemi power , less than 40k on the odometer .....paid 35 K for her in 1988 .......it was gorgeous . I have no idea what something like that would pull at an auction today .Somewhere I've got a picture of it .

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:38:45 AM EDT

[#44]

Every time I go in the garage. Only 2399 of these made the last year Pontiac made the convertible.

CSF

Posted: 3/31/2013 5:44:56 AM EDT

[#45]

a fellow that lives in my Miami Condo parks his toys next to my heap. As of last week, he as a lamborgini, a Rolls, and an Aston Martin Vantage. Down from his spot, there is a new Ferrari, and there are several Masseratis, Porches and AMG Mercs.
If you can't spot 15 million dollars worth of exotic cars in an hour in Miami, you just arn't looking.

Posted: 3/31/2013 6:33:09 AM EDT

[#46]

Put gas in a Maserati once. Work on an XJ12 once too. But the rarest most expensive cars had to be touring the garage area at the Watkins Glen Grand Pix in the early 70's. F1 was a passion back then,

Posted: 3/31/2013 6:44:18 AM EDT

[#47]

gumball 3k count?

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/acalles1/gumball3k/DSC01500.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/acalles1/gumball3k/DSC01544.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/acalles1/gumball3k/DSC01454.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/acalles1/gumball3k/DSC01530.jpg

the Mclaren Mp4-12c is the shizz.

Posted: 3/31/2013 6:50:15 AM EDT

[#48]

Someone I used to work with had one of Harley Earl's old one-off design test cars, whatever those are called. It was a driveable convertible, and it was beautiful.