Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Snap

My silly answer to David Benson's comment got me checking older photos...

And this from last Sunday:

Motomachi cars

looks strikingly similar to this from exactly a year ago:

vintage cars on Motomachi 

It's not just the same car type, but the number plate is identical too! So I don't know what that means - either the plate was swapped over, or the bodywork has been switched or resprayed. I'm not sure what is least likely. But either way, there may not be quite as many different people independently parking odd cars in the same place on Sunday morning. And it would help to explain why they don't all turn up on the same day.

5 comments:

Layzej said...

My wife suspects a marketing tactic on the part of Starbucks.

David said...
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David said...

I'm not familiar with that version, the hard top saloon, but Excalibur and a few others did the old Mercedes Roadsters in the 80s and that looks like a different copy. The Japanese have the biggest retro market in the world so if it's been produced the chances are they'll have it first. Here in Britain you can check the number plates online to read the car details, I don't know if you can as well. But that's the same car, it's just been resprayed.

David said...

Just checked (as the badges were clear to read), it's a 1930 or so Ford V8, and by the badges appears to be a restoration rather than a copy, but knowing the Japs that wouldn't have stopped them putting the badges on anyhow ;)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54519541@N04/5438198359/

crandles said...

Maybe it implies there are lots of people who want to park and therefore there are restrictions so there has to be at least a year and a colour change before being allowed to park again.