Car (or bike) Doppelgangers?

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Have you ever had someone with nearly the exact same ride as you who parked in the same area you did? Did you ever meet them?

This was common in my yuppie high school because I had a silver Volvo then.

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

this was in Curb Your Enthusiasm the other day. Larry was running down the street and yelled out, "Hey Prius!"

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

just yesterday the wifee ran into a wall turning a corner too tight. brand new car.

there's another car in our garage, same model and color. we were hoping they'd trade with us

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i own a black honda civic, so this never ever happens.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think all the idiots with Trek bikes at my school and Kryptonite locks are having this happen a lot at the library.

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

strangely enough there were a couple of other 64 novas that i crossed paths with during high school. both of them were so beautifully primered.

― dean! (deangulberry), Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

there's a few GIANT bikes on campus...

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Saturday, 29 January 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I went into a large bike shop a few months ago to get some crap and looked over and saw a bike that was similar to my first good racing bike, a blue and white '89 Bridgestone RB-1. It had been customized for cx, before cx frames were available in US, with canti braze-ons, added for me by a local builder. I sold that frame about 6 or 7 years ago.

I went over to reminisce, and HOLY SHIT THIS WAS MY BIKE. New fork, profane stickers removed, but the rear brazeons were still there, same scratches. I kept my eye on it to see the owner but finally had to ask the register guy whose it was. The guy who owns it, develpmentally disabled and kinda hard for me to communicate with, had it looking sooo good, spotless, tuned-up, I could tell he loves it. He insisted I ride it, but I said "no thanks." I learned that the bike had been owned by at least two other people in between him and me.

I still get goose bumps of joy from the experience.

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 29 January 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

that makes me happy!

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― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Saturday, 29 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a white MB1 jacked from me via the back alley. I had gone inside momentarily to get help carrying it down the back stairs. i had a broken collarbone and could not lift things.

I see twins of that bike occasionally. Whenever I do, I fantasize about somehow finding the jackass who stole mine and beating his head in with a torque wrench. And so the cosmic balance of twee is preserved in the world of Hunter.

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw this thread title and wanted to tell the Curb Your Enthusiasm "Prius" story, and then realized i already had

― El Janko (JasonD), Sunday, 30 January 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the old beige Toyota Corollas I see driving around LA are (like mine) missing a hubcap or two.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 30 January 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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