Happy #HalfBirthday to all the #WeirdAutos bunch and everyone in #WeirdCarMastodon !

For today's #DashboardsAndCoffee I offer up my very own i3, and two other vehicles that some may consider cheating but who cares.

The i3 has held up quite well, surprisingly for a RWD in Canadian winter.

The other two are: my 2003 BMW K1200GT summer ride, and my 1974 Honda CB550 which I hope to restore someday. Cheers to all!

Happy half birthday to #WeirdAutos :wa: also happy unofficial birthday to #WeirdCarMastodon. I’m taking this picture from and actual cars and coffee.
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Let’s recognize @dan, our first member, who signed up before I realized the server was up. Also someone claims to have tooted #WeirdCarMastodon a good month before I joined. Was it @wheeljack? I can’t recall.

Finally, here’s the budget-elegance (it’s all metal, but painted such lovely colors!) of my beloved ’65 Corvair, which has been languishing awaiting accident repair for the last several years 😢
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To be fair, I did put them both back together, too.
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I don’t drink coffee. If my dashboards end up looking like this without it, imagine what I’d do on caffeine!
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We made it 6 months. Good job. Looking forward to many more.

#WeirdAutos #WeirdCarMastodon #CarsAndCoffee #VWGTI #OmniGroveParkInn

I can’t get out today to take some cute pictures of Swedish Dashboards (I called that band name), but I snuck away to post some old shots of the 240’s dash restoration .

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#DashboardsAndCoffee The coffee machine on this Bufori demo car is in the back... #WeirdCarMastodon #weirdcartwitter

To the Weird.Autos community,
Congrats on reaching six months! Let's hope for a real Cars & Coffee event in the future, but until then, keep sharing your love for the weird and wonderful world of cars.
Cheers to another six months and beyond!

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here are 4 of my favourite dashboard from cars I’ve owned over the years.

1 Triumph Herald, like my mum’s car that was handed down to me to learn to drive in. As a kid I’d sit in the car in the garage dreaming about hitting the open road for hours on end.

Then there are two very different digital dashboards from the ‘80s.

2 analog Citroen BX and

3 Astra GTE 16v.

& my Fave
4 Tonka-toy-like Iveco Daily van dash from about 2000.
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For @Mark and #WeirdCarMastodon's six month anniversary, I have some dashboards!

My first is this crumpled and cracked seventies something-akin-to-cardboard but not dashboard in my 1979 VW Passat. They never stood up to the Australian sun, so cracked is pretty standard fare by now. It's so wide and has a glove box you need to be an octopus to reach from the driver's seat.

Buttons and gauges. Simple and effective.

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@Mark
A quick thought about #DashboardsAndCoffee:

Not sure if this was the idea all along, but we should all post POV pics of us sitting in our cars, looking out the windshield with the dashboard and coffee visible in the frame. Gives it a community feel I think.

(Pic attached as example) (and for those in the know, no, I didn’t drive for a good while after this pic was taken)

What day are we celebrating #DashboardsAndCoffee? Monday is the official half birthday, but sunday is the best day for #carsandcoffee