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BMW E30 324d Strasbourg | Drive-by Snapshots by Sebastian Motsch (2014)

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BMW E30 | An important birthday to be celebrated soon

Taking pictures of the diamond black 318is beauties on Sunday reminded me of something. A couple of weeks ago, while looking for Drive-by Snapshots in Strasbourg, I found an almost immaculate BMW E30 324d in an industrial area. The sign on the roof pointed to a used car dealership I would have otherwise missed. The […]

Just a couple of minutes…

Before writing anything meaningful about the pictures you see here, I must apologize for the bad quality. The pictures have been taken with an old com[...]

Drive-by Snapshots | The first three months

Drive-by Snapshots | The first three months The motivation Yes! I do love traveling by car. It all started when I was sitting in the back seat as a yo[...]

Honda Accord Mk1 | A true survivor

As promised in the last post, Drive-by Snapshots now features a guest blog. My dear friend Hanna currently lives in Beirut / Lebanon and found this Ho[...]

Volkswagen T1 & T2 | Ring Road Smileys

Late Sunday afternoon. We are driving home from a pleasant weekend we spent near Oostende. Passing a couple of vintage air-cooled Volkswagen on the ri[...]

Skoda S100L | Stanced Sunday Sundae

A hot Sunday in early summer 2010 with a thunderstorm looming at the horizon. I was craving a sundae while driving on the speed limited part of the A6[...]

Lost Places | Berlin Dreilinden

Living in West Germany and having relatives in Berlin made it necessary to drive through German Democratic Republic (GDR) frequently. I remember sitti[...]

Nissan Skyline GT-R | Top Secret R34

While leaving Durban on our way back towards Johannesburg, I spotted this neat Nissan Skyline GT-R 34 drift car. The Volk Racing TE-37‘s looked [...]

Porsche powered VW T3 | Triple the fun

Putting up a tent in the paddock at the Nürburgring at a VLN racing weekend isn’t really an option. Instead, you might want to have something m[...]

1966 Chevrolet Impala | Lions’ fast food

The Aepyceros melampus is so common in South Africa, that it is actually called lions’ fast food. The antelopes’ heavyweight namesake immi[...]

Jaguar Mk2 | A red cat purring in the mountains

There might be tales about mountain lions in the area around Pilgrims Rest, South Africa. However, the biggest feline beauty we found was this red cat[...]

Volkswagen 412 Variant | The Ugly Duckling

Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale called ‘The Ugly Duckling’. The story revolves around a little bird that suffers abuse from the[...]

Vita Popcorn

2009 wasn’t such a good year for funfairs. With the financial crisis hitting the economy hard in 2008, many people didn’t have a lot of mo[...]

Hyundai Terracan + Torrential Rain = Fun

We tried to spot the famous Glen Seilisdeir sea eagles at the Isle of Mull, but failed miserably due to cold and rainy weather. Later on the same day,[...]

BMW E32 | Beaufort West Limo Service?

Sometimes location and subject don’t really match. I would have never expected to find a BMW 7-Series E32 stretch limousine in South Africa R[...]

Have a ding dong day!

On the way from Johannesburg to Bloemfontein we found a couple of new livestock trailers parked at a service station. Looked like one of the animals j[...]

Datsun 1200 GX | A vintage petrol pump with a matching car

It just happens sometimes, that you are in the right spot at the right time. Imagine walking past a vintage Shell petrol pump that is blocked by a bor[...]

At the end of the road we found two boats

After looking at the famous Clachan Bridge and checking out the slate pits on Easdale Island, we deliberately took a ‘wrong’ turn on the w[...]

Pilgrims Rest – where a sticker from Germany rests

A sunny weekend at the Blyde River Canyon. We took a little detour to visit the provincial heritage site Pilgrims Rest in the Mpumalanga region. A tra[...]

Ford GT | A rare beauty at the Nürburgring

First seen from a distance across the road. Later on up close in the paddock area. Did I like the Ford GT? You bet! Would have never thought it could [...]