Posts Tagged ‘auto’
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Just as San Francisco has experienced the demise of construction workers, it’s also lost its car show model babes. Things just aren’t what they used to be at the San Francisco International Auto Show, for whatever reason.
Maybe in Europe or Asia they still have something like the Bundy Bounce, but you’re not going to find anything like that at the big family-oriented car show in San Francisco, longstanding stereotypes of car shows notwithstanding. FYI.
Here’s what’s left of that bygone era.
The continuously-improving Kaizen-ettes (改善ettes - Jordan, Marisa and Laura) sing the praises of this 2010 Toyota Prius:
Chatting about a huge Dodge pick-em-up:
Talking to no one at all about the Chrysler 300 sedan:
That’s it.
Also, no beefcake (beefcake!). Maybe they had something like that ten years ago, but not anymore.
Christina Applegate, you gotta put me on/
Tags: 2009, 2010, auto, babes, car show, center, continuously-improving, international, Kaizen, Kaizen-ettes, Kaizenettes, models, Moscone, photographs, photos, pics, San Francisco, San Francisco International Auto Show, San Francisco International Car Show, show, 改善
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Here’s Colma (nee Lawndale until 1941), CA, the West’s #1 necropolis. Why does it have its own BART station and musical? No one knows.
But what it does have includes car dealerships (both kinds – the dead and the living dead), fog, and, of course, cemeteries. Truly, it is the Land of Wind and Ghosts.
A look down Serramonte Boulevard.
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Not too long ago, Tom Hanks got his giant black Lexus from a dealership on this street, but all the Lexuseses are gone now. Will they return? No one knows.
See you there, on the next dreaded sunny day.
Tags: auto, bankrupt, car, cemetery, chrysler, City, closed, colma, county, dealerships, fog, ghosts, Mayor, mr sparkle, musical, nissan, San Mateo, serramonte, tom hanks, wind
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Even with a spotter, trying to park this trailered rig on the left side of Fell Street, well that can’t be a picnic. The very prospect of thinking about which way to turn the stearing wheel gives me a headache.
Didn’t see how this one turned out, but just for the bold attempt, and considering the degree of difficulty, this man deserves to be San Francisco Parallel Parker of the Year, 2009.
¡Bienvenido a San Francisco!
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Tags: 2009, auto, car, fell, fell street, golden gate park, panhandle, parallel, parker, parking, San Francisco, spotter, street, suv, trailer, u-haul, vehicle, year
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
What items tempt you the most when you scan parked cars for Objects in Plain View - would it be a laptop computer, an iPod, maybe a backpack? Well, be careful, cause when the SFPD baits cars for sting operations in Golden Gate Park, they sometimes use all three. (It’s almost like entrapment, or something. So tempting these parcels are, next thing you know, it’s smashy smashy!)
From the Richmond District Blog comes a sneak peek of Richmond Station Police Captain Richard Corriea’s next weekly update for the Richmond District Police Community Police Forum. Read an entire entry below.
Is this a parking lot, a freeway, or Golden Gate Park’s MLK Drive near the Inner Sunset on a recent Friday? Click to expand:
Yes, it’s MLK near the Friend Gate of Strybing Arboretum. Perhaps the cars huddle together for safety?
Here’s why:
“On July 25, 2009 Richmond [District] officers working in plain clothes staked out a car at Middle Drive and Bowling Green Drive in Golden Gate Park. There were several items of value in the car, including, a backpack, computer and an IPOD. The officers knew from experience that an auto burglar would find the car an appealing target. Indeed, several hours into the stakeout an individual burglarized the car, and he was immediately arrested. A subsequent search of the suspect turned up evidence from a theft committed nearby earlier in the day and narcotics. The suspect, who has been arrested forty-nine times, including thirty-one times for felonies, was booked for burglary, possession of stolen property, theft and a narcotics violation. This individual is likely responsible for several auto burglaries daily.”
How many car windows do you have to break to get a rap sheet this long - hundreds, thousands?
On It Goes…
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
The answer is this – a little from Column A and a little from Column B.
Look for this black Lambo barking around the Pacific Heights part of the Presidio.
Or, if the driver gets into trouble on an Army-engineered, seriously reverse camber curve, look for this car among the Eucalpytuseses, and then on the pages of WreckedExotics.com.
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Now I know it doesn’t make sense to drive around in your Lambo on the gridded streets of regular San Francisco, but it also doesn’t make sense to aimlessly drive around the winding streets of the Presidio neither. If the Eucalyptuseses don’t get you then the Federales will.
You’re not on what they call a “sustainable journey,” just saying.
Zoom zoom.
Tags: auto, automobile, black, california, car, chp, exotic, gallardo, lambo, lmborghini, motor, pacific heights, presidio, San Francisco, street, vehicle
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The thing about San Francisco is that it’s crawling with oddly registered or unregistered exoticars. The kind of California license plates that come on Toyotas or Hondas seem to have a hard time sticking onto the rears of Ferraris and Lamborghinis in this town.
This aging Lambo Gallardo (the Spanish word gallardo translates into “gallant,” and from Italian into “striking”) typifies the breed. No license plates, but the infamous get-out-of-jail-free C.H.P. 11-99 Foundation license plate holder, well, natch, you’ve got to have one of those, right?
And the radar detector hanging in the windshield, that’s just the icing on the cake.
Zoom zoom.
Tags: 11-99, auto, automobile, bmc, boulevard, british, california, car, chp, detector, distributors, exotic, Foundation, gallardo, geary, highway patrol, lambo, license plate, lmborghini, motor, radar, registration, San Francisco, street, vehicle, western addition, white
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Now take a look at this full-size Chevrolet Silverado work truck parked on the Streets of San Francisco (a Quinn Martin Production). The driver literally had about one inch of maneuvering space fore and aft, so it was fairly obvious he wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Whose fault is it? Either the driver of the Subaru wagon on the left or the 3-series BMW on the right. The onus is on you, the parker, to make sure others can get out, right?
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In this case, the Chevy owner gave up and the BMW left a few hours later. It was replaced by a MINI Cooper, whose owner actually checked to see if he left enough space.
That’s your transportation-related Lesson of the Day.
¡Bienvenido a San Francisco!
Tags: auto, automobile, blocked, bmw, cars, Chevrolet, chevy, cooper, fail, mini, parallel, park, parker, parking, San Francisco, space, subaru, truck
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Of course you already carry around a small shard of NGK (日本特殊陶業株式会社 aka Nippon Tokusyu Tōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) high-temperature spark plug porcelain ceramic insulator to easily break windows, but how do you determine which parked car has worthwhile booty? Simple, just crane your neck and look into each car as you walk down the sidewalk.
You’ll never know what you’ll find.
As seen on Golden Gate Avenue, checking every last car on this block and the next one too:
NB: Don’t try this in the Richmond District, else you might make the Noteworthy Arrests section of the Richmond District Police Community Relations Forum newsletter and then end up in the hoosegow.
Tags: auto, avenue, break, car, civic center, glass, golden gate, police, San Francisco, SFPD, spark plug, theft, Window
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Even a Mini Cooper would have trouble parallel parking in this space, but a red fortwo from smart had no trouble at all. Now the driver has full access to the Clement street shopping district. And it appears to be parked legally, unlike some other smarts in town these days that park 90 degrees the wrong way.
Hurray!
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Look for the fortwo in the new movie release The Pink Panther II, starring Steve Martin.
Base-model MSRP is now a bit over $12k – maybe it’s for you.
Tags: arguello, auto, cabriolet, car, clement richhmond, coupe, district, fortwo, II, illegal, legal, open your mind, parking parallel, passion, pink panther, red, San Francisco, smart, smart car, smartcar, smartusa, steve martin, street, usa
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