Google street view car

[ccookie66]

I was out working on my van and this car drove down my road! It was the google maps street view car! It had this huge a$$ camra! When it came back up the road, me and my friend mooned them! I can't wait to see street view when they update it! This is what it was:

[Big_kid]

Be careful! They published pics of a guy behind a closed gate peeing in the yard!

http://www.google.com/search?q=google%2 ... channel=np

[justsomeguy]

That car sure is colorful! Kind of hard to miss it. Last time I saw a pic of a Google street view car, it was a very nondescript silver Chevy Cobalt, but with that big @$$ contraption on the roof. I guess they've updated their look now.

[ccookie66]

Yeah, it is very colorful. I'm still waiting for them to update Google Maps. I think it would be kinda cool to drive around with that big camra on the roof, just drive on every road pretty much, all day! I would love that. Plus, I think Google would pay for your gas! I love driving, the only thing limiting me is the Astro is unreliable and gas is too expensive. I would like to just drive all the time, across the country.

[Lumpy]

GoogleMaps street view of my van pre-lift. Masked for painting with some primer already sprayed.
Next to what was the world's largest Joshua tree, which blew down in a Tsunami -







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[ccookie66]

Tsunami? In Texas? The World really is changing!

[Lumpy]

I'm in Phoenix. I meant monsoon, not Tsunami. We suffer monsoon winds and rain every summer, followed by Haboob sand/dust storms. That huge Joshua fell over completely one night. Luckily didn't hit either of our cars or anything else breakable. Knocked a bunch of bark scorpions out of the tree that had to suddenly relocate. Grackles took care of a lot of the scorp's but a few of them came in to my shop and the house.


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[ccookie66]

Scorpions? Here in Maine, we have garden snakes....

[DGE73]

Here's my old Safari in 2009. Street view got me a bunch of times.

At home before work

On the way to work

At work

[ccookie66]

Thats pretty cool. Where you following the Street View car or something? You guys will see my van sitting there in the driveway, broke down when they update it.

[DGE73]

No, I wasn't following him. The car was an unmarked slate grey 4 door Pontiac G5, not decked out like the one you photo'd. There was 3 or 4 of them driving around town for a few days. I saw him when I passed him driving to work.

[ccookie66]

Oh, so it didn't have the huge camra on the roof?

[DGE73]

They had the big cameras. Here is a shot of the cars on the highway. Looks like they are Cobalts, not G5's like I stated earlier. My memory is good, but not perfect.