Toyota Stalking, er...um, SPOTTING with Charlie™ (Cars, vans, SUVs, Lexus, Scion, and brochures)!

No; I didn't even notice that. Probably an original JDM one, and probably with factory A/C since that's pretty much obligatory in Hong Kong!

 

Toyota HiAce; I am embarrassed to say that I didn't even realize UPS did business in Hong Kong...

 

Tokyo last week. Saw an old Toyota crown

 

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I saw this when I went to the body shop for an estimate on painting my grille; 1990 Corolla DX doing what old Toyotas do best, and that's continuing to run like new while rusting like the Titanic! Butch is doing some rust repair on this car so it will pass PA safety inspection...


December 8th, 2022:

Danboro, Pennsylvania

 

Still a Toyota!


December 12, 2022:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

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1998 Lexus ES300; I rarely see an ES of this era that hasn't been beaten to shit. I ran a Carfax report on this car and was amazed to discover that it was totaled in January 2020. It also shows a minor accident with moderate damage to the left rear, three days after the total loss declaration; I have no idea if these two events are linked. I would not be surprised if they were, and if they were then it was probably because the car had almost 200K miles and the cost to fix it exceeded the actual value. If you look at the car, you will see some minor imperfections and some minor damage to the right front fender, but the damage that led to it being declared a total loss appears to have been repaired very well. What's very weird is that the car still seems to have a clear title...


December 19th, 2022:

Warrington, Pennsylvania

 

Is that a Crown or a Century? It looks a lot like a roughly 1993-1995 Century...

 

I want this...

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1986-toyota-camry-4/

 

In Destroy All Humans! 2, there is a fictionalized version of Japan, specifically Tokyo, called Takoshima Island. There is an obvious parody of Toyota called "Toymoto"...

 

The Toymoto compact seen on various billboards around Takoshima Island, with a red pickup that looks a like a Datsun, and purple 3-wheeler that resembles a Daihatsu Midget...

 

Another Daihatsu Midget...

 

This car strongly resembles a late 1960s Toyota Corona or Crown, though I don't know if either of these came as a 2-door. There are both police and civilian versions in the game...

 

Civilian version. There is a side mission in this game where your primary objective is to destroy one of these coupes that belongs to an egotistical and materialistic Toymoto executive...

 

The car from the billboard is clearly based on a 1966-1968 Toyota Corolla...

 

A couple more of the luxury coupes...

 

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It was a nice day today, so I drove over to Selden Motors; I found, among other things, a Toyota Hiace firetruck!


January 6th, 2023:

Willow Grove Pennsylvania

 

One clue that this was not purpose-built to be a fire apparatus...

 

It's got an AM radio and no air-conditioning, but it does have intermittent wipers...