Visited friends on N. Beachwood Drive (Hollywood hills) and went up to the local coffee shop for lunch…saw a classic Tbird (61-63? I’m not sure of the year, I just remember my sister used to have a red one…)…with a for sale sign on the window parked on the street between the market and the cafe. There was another classic car, also with the for sale sign on it, across the road. Beautiful day, nice lunch, and I think about “I have to let frazgo know what I saw today! Sorry, I only have a regular phone, so no images, but it looks like they’re putting the cars out on the weekend…no doubt people who work in the entertainment industry who have been laid off and can’t afford the car toys. The Tbird was an off white or light cream…I think the other one was light colored also…sorry, my friend was talking to me so I didn’t pay full attention to the car. (I know, shame on me…)

No shame on you. Its hard to get all the details on a classic as you go driving by let alone grabbing a pic.

These old beasts still in use is really unique to LA. Our climate is so dry that with exception of immediately on coast we don’t have a rust problem. We don’t have the sub-zero stuff either to wreak havoc on the mechanicals and suddenly its not uncommon to find cars 30-40-50 years old still in use. Not as some show car or trailer queen, but in use. Hence the name of the informal series “Found on Road Alive”. I actually started tracking them on flickr before I even started posting them here.

Huge parking tard, too. :) That’s a very expensive ticket, blocking a handicap egress area.
It seems each of the cars in your series is also an unnoticed-by-frazgo parking tard. :P

I remember my dad had an MG convertable when I was young. i loved that car.

benh57…its not a handicap space AND the business owner stashed it there a second so my wife’s car could go into the smog check stall. Really, read the post. Could have been a tard but its just the employees swapping cars around. Really. I mean a Superior Court judge would never park his car in a handicap space now would he!

I *love* MGs. So damn cute.

We had an MGB when I was a kid. At age 5, I thought it was the coolest car in the world, but my dad always said that any time you went for a drive you needed to carry a wrench and a hammer for roadside repairs.