rare sightings Options

[6gcpr]

It has come to my attention that there are a number of cars that are what you might call practical that aren't seen everyday. For instance where i live in puerto rico, what i call normal cars like our 6gc isn't seen everywhere but i every now and then i see a mkIV supra.

Exotic cars a see often in the street:
Supra
rx-7
GTR
s2000
350 370 Z
Mr2

Normal cars which i rarely see anymore
6gc
240sx
Miata
eclipse

These cars are more or less the same vintage as a integra, civic,corolla,camry,sentra etc but i rarely see them. Is it only here or is this same thing happening elsewhere? I just find it odd to see a car like the supra more often than a 6gc.

[Xander_X]

I know I've said before and I'll say it again, the 6gc is unheard of in my parts. It's a mystery like they all vanished. They're not on the roads and not in the junk yards. I have seen 3 other 6gc in the last year, 2 nice shape verts and one SUPER beat ST hatch with a 2x4 for a rear bumper. I rather like having a car that you don't see. Problem is getting used parts if you need them. I would have to source them through here, ebay or a junk yard in another state.

That being said:

Supra - See a few MKIII's (neighbor for one) never seen a MKIV outside of a car show
RX-7 - See a few 1st & 2nd gens around, only seen one 3rd gen outside of a car show but I see it all the time
GT-R - Never seen one in person at all
S2000 - Starting to see less and less of these
350/370Z - See these all over, including their Infinity counter part
MR2 - Can't remember the last time I saw one, but used to see them quite often
3000GT/Stealth - See about one a month
300ZX - See 2 or 3 times a month (thought there are a couple running around my town so it's hard NOT to see them)

5gc - See one 2 or 3 times a month
6gc - See one 2 or 3 times a year
7gc - See one 2 or 3 times a week
240sx - Have a couple friends with them, but otherwise a car you never see around here
Miata - See all over, usually the older ones rather than the newer ones.
Eclipse - Unfortunately, I still see DSM's around ... I just threw up in my mouth a little bit

Actually starting to see less and less Civic's and Integra's as well. The "tuner" scene has, thankfully to some degree, really died around here. The only unfortunate repercussions to that is few to no import car shows locally and no one to really sit around and talk cars with anymore. I'm going to take a stab and say that the scene isn't just dying most everywhere, it's in cardiac arrest. Some of my friends went to a couple shows out of state this summer that are usually some of the East Coasts BIGGEST Import shows (Carlisle Imports, Hot Import Nights, etc) and they said they all sucked. It's getting extremely hard to find anyplace that sells a general import performance magazine and when you do, they may have ONE. On one hand it's kinda nice to drive around and not have every punk with a 2 door think they have a sports car and PepBoys the **** out of it, but it's sad to not see the nice cars really either anymore. 10 years ago I could go park in the local BK parking lot on any given night and it would be filled with other tuned cars and we would all just get out, talk cars, eat, have a mini car show, blow stuff up. Now, I'm lucky if I get a punk kid in a lowered on stock steel wheels, rusty, 1995 four door Accord, with the SH!TTIEST bumble bee sounding PepBoys muffler and a pizza delivery light on the top trying to race me on a two lane street in the city (Happened just yesterday). I actually get kinda sad thinking about how much fun I used to have and how it's no more. I wonder if a lot of the reason is a lot of the cars that are/were "tuner" worthy/friendly are smashed up or rusted to hell in a junk yard and they're just physically not available to people anymore and there was such a large gap where most manufacturers weren't really making any vehicles aimed at performance. Most of the ones that were, were very expensive to the majority market of people who would want them (ie, STI, EVO, RX8, S2000, 350Z) all over $30K starting price, that's over $600/m payment at 5% interest @ 60/m plus higher insurance. Maybe there will be a resurgence when these cars are all 15 years old and the younger generation can afford them like the old Civics and Integra's.

This post has been edited by Xander_X: Sep 13, 2012 - 9:32 AM