My first thought was about a Fleur de Lys too. Or any replica builder.

@ Gamer:
Don't forget that

You used the main server to store your personal pictures for this post. Don't complain if the pictures disappear from it within a short time...

My picture of the US Vanagon has survived for a long time...

Normally I run the cleaning script every month, but I tend to forget so it happens to be only every two or three months

saw a few cars yesterday.following Ingo's suggestion, i bring my camera everywhere now, except that i can't use it while driving ( regular camera is illegal too ). got pic of a 1984-1985 Honda Accord , a 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T ( would look so much better if it was MY licence plate on that rear bumper ) but totally missed the Ford Falcon ( at least, i think it was one, was 2 doors 60's Ford about Mustang size )
saw also this one, did not saw one of them in years and i totally forgot that there was another name to the 5000. Might be a common sight in Europe but getting more rare every day here

I think they became rare here too, at least in western Europe.

A Lateef-car? Trophy or Trend? Due the second badge on the right not a regular GT (as the former Ingo-car)


P.S. No car-pics from me the weekend. There are some car-events around, but I will not go there, especially not with my K 70. Yesterday we had 40 degrees here and today "only" 30 degrees, but with humidity and constand thunderstorms over hours.

I believe it's a Syncro. I wanted to take a closer look, but it was on private property and I didn't want to trespass so I just zoomed in on it with my iPhone. The Trend and Trophy had stickers underneath the Passat-badge rather than a conventional badge as on the GT and the Syncro. Also not a Trophy as they have body-coloured bumpers - which in my opinion look just beautiful.

My Passat is a Trend with a 2.0 litre mechanical fuel injected five cylinder Audi engine. Needless to say, it's in much better shape than this one still very nice to see a fellow B2 in the flesh

(taken last year)

The 200 was never a common car when I was a kid, and now, even a 100 is a rare sight. I saw one a few weeks ago ; it had an Oldtimer plate. How time flies...

Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, your photo was taken in the parking lot of the Canadian Tire store in Laval, boulevard Le Corbusier. I recognise the Tim Hortons from the Quartier Laval mall, in the background.

The reason is, I went on a short holiday in Montréal, back in 2012, and paid a visit to a scale model boutique in another mall, Le Centre Laval, just behind from where you took the photo.

Spotted today, a Sherpa:

Exiv96, you are right. the picture comes from that parking lot. its not very far from where i live, funny that somebody actually know the place (and even better than me,didn't even knew the name of the mall where the Tim Horton is ).

The boutique you are talking about is Passion Diecast. i know that place very well, a big part of my 1:18 cars are coming from there ( or the previous store, located in the Galeries Laval, just on the other side of Le Corbusier ) and still going from time to time to in front of the huge amount of cars that i can't buy anymore by lack of space

Sure hope you enjoyed your trip here and here is a little something to remember it, was taken last week in the Centre Laval parking lot ( the big red store was a Target, that was briefly here between late 2013 and early 2015 )

the VW is at least 1994 ( has a CHMSL but almost invisible on the pic and the guy took off before i got out of my car so i did not took a better pic ) was already rare when new so 20 years later sure didn't gave them a bigger presence but on a funny note, i saw 2 more since i saw this one )

A Rover wannabe



Some old pictures I dug up (taken around Christmas)

Nice find, Lateef. European version of 1987-89 Buick LeSabre

1988 according to vegvesen.no

These Hondas were related to the 600 and not the 400.

It's the opposite of the French market Honda Concerto diesel which was the Rover that wanted to be a Honda:

I admit, I checked Google Maps before posting, because it's just mall after mall after mall there, and they all have "Laval" in their name.

Since Honda is today's subject, i saw this one on the same day i saw the Audi 200. this one is usually on the property of a used car dealer not very far from one of my friend's house ( funny thing is that they are full of BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar and Land Rover so i really don't know how the Honda landed there, like i don't know why they had put it ( and the Mercedes behind it )in the street but anyway...

@ Lateef, nice little VW, fun to see that some are still alive. And the Buick is sure a nice find too, rare even here as time has done his work on them....

@ Exiv96, you are right, there is a lot of malls and store in that area. There was an humorist who was telling a joke about Laval getting a mall per inhabitant and sometimes i feel that they took him seriously

Fun fact: there's often a red Honda Concerto parked in the same parking lot (might get a picture of it someday). I only recall seeing 2 or 3 Concertos in all my life