Toyota Stalking, er...um, SPOTTING with Charlie™ (Cars, vans, SUVs, Lexus, Scion, and brochures)!

1989 MR2


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

2004 Lexus IS300 with a PlayStation 2 in the glovebox, and it's a stick shift!


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

Same car with new wheels...


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

2017 Toyota 86


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

1994 Supra Turbo


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

1995 Supra Turbo


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

1988 MR2


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

2024 GR86 Trueno Edition


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

1990 Toyota Celica with only 132K original miles!


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

I happened to have one of my favorite CDs of all time in the truck, and the owner of the Celica let me test out the car's original CD player (from 1990; 34 years old as of this post)!

https://youtu.be/C_tP7fYQt0Q?si=1_Q-gNDBZQQDiib6

 

Second video, filmed with my phone so I could text it to friends and family so it's lower quality, but the owner lets me sit in the car in this one...

https://youtu.be/Aj9ajr8Mnlc?si=X6WQeI6jQG-MXbk6

 

The factory 10-speaker system with both cassette and CD was a $1,284 option in 1990!

 

Less than 133K original miles!

 

The A/C has been converted to R134a and works great! The owner of this car also owns a 1993 Celica, which still uses R-12, and the A/C works better...

Why does it seem like the worse something is for our health or the environment, the better it seems to work?!?!

 

This car was special ordered back in 1990 by a female attorney, with the top GT-S trim and pretty much every available option including leather seats and the aforementioned $1,300 stereo system. The current (second) owner bought it from the woman who bought it new. Aside from the A/C being converted from R-12 to R134a as mentioned above, and the wheels as seen in the pictures, the car is totally stock and in impeccable condition. The pop-up headlights even still work!

 

2022 GR86 Premium


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

And yet another 2023 GR Corolla Core, this time from the Empire State...


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

2014 Lexus GS350


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

1987 Supra


May 11th, 2024:

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

 

2014 Lexus IS250 on the wholesale lot at CarShop; I suspect that this car ended up here because it is ten years old and likely has well over 100K miles. Standards have been lowered since the various shortages, and the oldest vehicle I've seen for sale at CarShop in the last couple years was a 2004 Tacoma; I forget how many miles it had, but it was low...


May 19th, 2024:

Hatfield, Pennsylvania

 

2011 Lexus IS250; I thought that the Lexus IS came standard with a backup camera, until I saw this car...


May 19th, 2024:

Hatfield, Pennsylvania

 

I saw this when I picked up a hot tub cover for my neighbor and realized just now that I forgot to post it...




May 15th, 2024:

Jamison, Pennsylvania

 

2014 Scion IQ


May 19th, 2024:

Hatfield, Pennsylvania

 

Only 25 of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania require emissions testing, but all vehicles not registered as antiques require a yearly safety inspection. If a vehicle fails an emissions test, it automatically fails the whole inspection, but it is possible to pass the emissions test with flying colors and fail the safety inspection; I've heard that it is technically illegal to do what has been done on this orange Scion IQ, but I see vehicles with two different stickers all the time. My truck technically failed a safety inspection last year because one of the sway bar links had rusted completely through, but it passed the emissions test. My mechanic put a new emissions sticker on it and put a safety sticker on it the next day when he replaced the sway bar link. The orange sticker is the safety sticker, and the blue one is for emissions...

 

I do not believe that the IQ ever came from the factory with a backup camera, and this one is obviously aftermarket; I also believe that this car had an aftermarket touch-screen radio that the owner kept, because it had the factory stereo...