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Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione

Typical Sunday traffic on PCH yesterday, only took about two hours to cover the 27 miles from my condo to Santa Monica. However, witht he requisite Lamborghini, Porsche, and Bentley sightings, I discovered this Alfa Romeo 8C a few cars behind me in line:

They've apparently been available for sale for a little while (at least if you've got the quarter-mil $$ necessary to park it in your garage) but this is the first example I've seen in person. So near and yet so far....it certainly looks great, with lines that are an hommage to what's been done before with super coupes.
  What with the traffic, it was impossible to get better photos, but it's a magnificent automobile to see in person (but likely excruciatingly frustrating to drvie in traffic that's only moving about 15 mph). More photos in a Jalopnik post from a couple of years ago.

Porsche 550 Spyder

About a week after returning from seeing the Porsche 550 (replica or otherwise) in Austria, I was passed by an equally loud Porsche 550 (replica or otherwise) on PCH. I couldn't get a close-enough shot of the old CA license plate to know whether this was an original or replica, but the car seemed nicely done either way. No bumpers, louder than hell, and it looked like a lot of fun.

A Couple of Photos from Vienna

I was in Austria in mid-June and got some shots of a few interesting cars while there:

This Smart Roadster is so much better looking than the rolling boxes on sale now here in the USA. I hadn't seen a fastback version like this before, but I like the look a lot. (Here's another from earlier this year that I rode around in while visiting Australia)

On the other hand, if a boxy Smart car its good enough for Niki Lauda (and Lauda-Motion mods), it should be good enough for me, right?

This Porsche (or replicar) had a low-frequency note in its exhaust that seemed as loud as the sounds made by Blue Whales (although they'd be kind of raspy Blue Whales):

And finally, proof that even the most mundane econo-car can look racy when shot with the wrong camera setting while passing through a tunnel: