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FIAT Panda Mk1 | The story is often hidden in the details

All of you have have been in this situation before: a long distance, cross-country journey by car. If you happen to be driving through France, make sure to stay away from the Autoroute and use the Route Nationale instead. I bet you – it will never be boring! Driving home from the 24 Heures du […]

Citroën HY S.E.V. Marchal | Carrosserie Le Bastard 1964

In the 1960’s the internet wasn’t invented yet and only a few people had a black and white TV. Apart from advertising in newspapers and ci[...]

Lost Places | Station Service Fermée

There are many reasons why I love France. One of them is the fact, that the French do not immediately dismount the pumps after a petrol station goes o[...]

Le Mans 2014 | Starting grid and first lap

Everybody know about the starting procedure of the 24 Heures du Mans race. The cars are lined up in an angle in front of the pit lane wall. But…[...]

Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 @ Le Mans 2014

One of quite a few Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 models in 1:1 scale that graced the Michelin booth at the 24 Heures du Mans 2014. A stunning car and engine[...]

Matching Backgrounds | Three Flavours of Rover

Over the years, I have taken quite a few pictures where the subject and the background match perfectly – be it color, style or period correct se[...]

BMW 318is E30 | Double the fun

The big portal crane in the Regensburg harbor didn’t only make a great location for the BMW E30 photo shooting, but also paid hommage to the 3-s[...]

Volkswagen Käfer Cabrio | Fasten your seat belts!

My friend Gerd and his wife Claudia started the drop-top season rather late this year. After collecting the Volkswagen Beetle convertible from storage[...]

Sleeping Beauties | Golden Brown

Frequent readers know that most posts here at Drive-by Snapshots feature multiple pictures of a certain subject, most often accompanied by a little st[...]

Ford 20M Coupé | A golden helmet and a matching car

Found this a couple of years ago in Berlin, in front of the MeilenWerk. The place is now called Classic Remise. The BMW K100 motorcycle sculpture itse[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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