Saw it a lot in the Beaumont area after Hurricane Rita/Katrina.

Homes with FEMA tarps on the roof, but had a brand new truck or ATV in the yard.

The car under the Koenigsegg is an Audi R8 in a purple chrome wrap. It’s how I saw the garage in the first place a few weeks ago. The Audi was in the drive way, the sun was behind me as I was approaching it from a mile away (maybe a half mile). All I could see was this bright purple. As I got closer, I realized it was a car and thought “That car is really PURPLE!” The garage door was open and I saw the other cars as I drove past.

I’ve been hoping it would be open again to get a picture to show my son for a couple of weeks. The garage was open with the lights on when I went back last night to pick my daughter up from her thing. There’s no dust on the yellow car and I think the lower front bumper is blacked out. My crappy picture was taken with my phone through my windshield as I drove past at 30mph.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
looking at this photo, the mirror shape & side scoop ahead of the rear wheel seem to match. I'd put a 90% shot at it being a Koenigsegg

Pure sex.

Yup, I've been a Koenigsegg fan since the CCX was on Top Gear.
The stuff they come up with is really amazing & they do almost all of it in house, making their own circuit boards. There was a documentary that featured them heavily, ad they more or less said they make almost everything in house except glass & tires.

The Regera being a transmission-less monster
Jesko with it's LST transmission with something like 9 clutches
Gemera performance out of a tiny engine & seating 4
Freevalve (camless valves) and it being open source. There was a guy on YT that built a Freevalve head for a NA Miata & had it running/driving.

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Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:
Years ago when I still lived in New Jersey I traveled around the state as part of my job. I used to go into some economically depressed city's a lot.

I always found it amazing that parts of towns I would work in, had a lot of run down homes, with a lot of people standing around doing nothing during the middle of the day, this was back in the 80s and 90s.

The one thing I did notice was the number of very expensive cars in the driveways of those run down homes.

Very common sight in most any 'hood .

South of the OP is Everglades City.They are/were classic of the car worth more than the house with an exception. In the mid 70's almost every house was a new pick-up, a 20,000 house and a 150,000 speedboat, mimicking any cookie cutter neighborhood ever seen. Fishing regulations changed and their livelihood as fisherman was regulated out of existence.The area was in the Ten Thousand Islands and if you did not grow up navigating those waters you were lost, period. Perfect for smuggling.
The Feds raided the entire place 3 times over the late 70's/early 80's. Read Here:

https://www.amazon.com/Totch-E...-Brown/dp/0813012287

Wow that is alot of exotic cars.

Love the Lambo Urus SUV for grocery getting.

A local Urus thread drift, wife and I are at the local Firehouse subs enjoying a sangwhich.

Through the windows pulls up a red Urus and in walks Joey Kramer (Aerosmith). My wife had her back to the door so I told her who it was and that she should say something to him as he walked out with his sangwhich (he had to pass us to exit).

She mentioned she likes his music and he was a little caught off guard but pleasant enough.

He lives a little north of us I already knew.

Nice SUVs,- resume thread

Did your son erase the street number on the mailbox?

The one on the lift might be a McLaren?

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Originally posted by dave7378:
The one on the lift might be a McLaren?

Lines & mirrors don't match up with either a MP412C or 650S

Friend of mine had an Agera RS or Regera he ordered new - said it was junk and traded it for a Bugatti - got me - life is good.

MDS

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Originally posted by Harleysbluff:
Friend of mine had an Agera RS or Regera he ordered new - said it was junk and traded it for a Bugatti - got me - life is good.

MDS

That's crazy. A Bugatti wouldn't be in my top 5 in that bracket.
First I've heard of the Koenigsegg being 'junk', but for a handbuilt, low production numbers car, I'd almost expect a few inconsistencies.
Of the higher-tier cars, I've heard McLaren's are surprisingly less reliable than the cars from Italy.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

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Originally posted by Harleysbluff:
Friend of mine had an Agera RS or Regera he ordered new - said it was junk and traded it for a Bugatti - got me - life is good.

MDS

That's crazy. A Bugatti wouldn't be in my top 5 in that bracket.
First I've heard of the Koenigsegg being 'junk', but for a handbuilt, low production numbers car, I'd almost expect a few inconsistencies.
Of the higher-tier cars, I've heard McLaren's are surprisingly less reliable than the cars from Italy.

Maybe he said it had “gremlins” - I can’t remember - he’s got quite the collection.

MDS

Perhaps he/she is a big automobile enthusiast who doesn’t care about having a compound, mega-house, luxury home, etc and prefers to stick their money in their car collection. I see zero problem with it.

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Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:
I always found it amazing that parts of towns I would work in, had a lot of run down homes, with a lot of people standing around doing nothing during the middle of the day, this was back in the 80s and 90s.

The one thing I did notice was the number of very expensive cars in the driveways of those run down homes.

Back in the early 80s working for university money while going to junior college, I had a job that occasionally took me to South Central Los Angeles, Compton, etc. My co-worker one morning drove me through a very low rent ghetto neighborhood; 1200-1500 sq ft homes, weeds growing in the yard, paint peeling, not a single house exhibiting any kind of maintenance. But my co-worker was showing me the cars parked in some of the the driveways, shiny, brand new Mercedes, BMWs, Cadillac Eldorados, and amazingly enough, a Bentley. It was truly a bizarre sight. To us, black ghetto house with a shiny Mercedes = crack cocaine dealer.