Tarlan's US F1 race photos

Lucky guy.

1996 champion Damon Hill.

2018 Williams driver? Paul DiResta. How does he fit in an F1 car?

Two Virginia Museum of Transportation cars

On the way back from the Duncan Collection, I stopped at the Museum of Transportation. It contained mostly train and bus stuff and some pre-war cars. These two caught my eye.

The GM EV1, subject of a documentary. The funny thing is, the only electric charger I saw in Virginia last week was in the museum parking lot.

And this, an old Chevy Caprice cruiser. It was used a few weeks ago in a TV show.

Latin American taxi crash tests

First of all, can anyone identify the make and model of these Medellin taxis?

I first noticed these microtaxis in Nicaragua, which had tons of them. They might have been more noticeable due to the lack of private cars on the streets (as compared with other Latin American nations).

I'll be using these quite a bit in Colombia: Cali, Medellin, Turbo, and Bogota. It would be funny to see me fit in the back of one of these with my big backpack. It would not be funny, I imagine, to be rear-ended in one of these.

I present to you: Latin American crash tests of typical taxi models.

Do they still sell these old Nissan Sentras as new cars, Ramon?

Chinese Cherys.

Not requiring frontal airbags in new cars is as anachronistic as restaurant smoking sections.

These are not the Sparks sold in America. These are teeny.

I think these Indian-made Suzukis were what I saw a lot of down there.

Contempo Camaro

Apparently, Contempo (which converted vans) had a body kit for these Camaros in the 80s. Has anyone seen these in real life?

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Macho Trans Am

Last weekend, I went to the local car show. In the parking lot was this Macho Trans Am.

I assumed it was just a tongue-in-cheek custom sticker job. In fact, a few hundred of these were sold by a couple of brothers. It has more power and handles better than the original. It cost $2,000 more. Looking at the sticker on the spoiler, this was Car No. 59!