Hey Taxi!
03-20-2015, 12:16 AM
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Hey Taxi!
It's amazing what you find when you look through photos you downloaded into your computer a year ago and then forgot about, like this pic of the elusive HHR taxi cab that roams around Charlotte.
It's a quick i-Phone grab shot through Paddy's windshield while cruising home in rush hour traffic.
Now I need to get a shot of the equally elusive HHR taxi that I've spotted twice in Raleigh.
It's a quick i-Phone grab shot through Paddy's windshield while cruising home in rush hour traffic.
Now I need to get a shot of the equally elusive HHR taxi that I've spotted twice in Raleigh.
03-20-2015, 07:40 AM
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That HHR taxi was hard to catch, and I can't believe I forgot that grab shot of it, can you dig all the stick-on chrome everywhere?
Someone had tons 'o fun at Pep Boys raiding their "Tacky Stick-on Stuff Department", all it's missing are the chromed nekkid ladies for the mud flaps.
The HHR cab in Raleigh has proven to be even more elusive than catching Elvis at the Burger King.
Someone had tons 'o fun at Pep Boys raiding their "Tacky Stick-on Stuff Department", all it's missing are the chromed nekkid ladies for the mud flaps.
The HHR cab in Raleigh has proven to be even more elusive than catching Elvis at the Burger King.
03-21-2015, 06:32 PM
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We used to have a local company with a mini-fleet of HHRs, I saw 3 on a taxi stand one day.
That was a couple years ago, the county I saw them in has life time laws.. 100K must rebuild engine, 300K must retire car.
That was a couple years ago, the county I saw them in has life time laws.. 100K must rebuild engine, 300K must retire car.
03-22-2015, 10:46 AM
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Ya know, it's a shame that Chevy never offered yellow on the HHR's, because if you mentally strip off all the "Taxi junk & Pep Boys chome bits"...it actually looks pretty nice.
SERVPRO Green on the other hand, yikes!
SERVPRO Green on the other hand, yikes!
03-22-2015, 11:01 AM
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google has a bunch of HHR taxi images: clicky here 
03-23-2015, 12:34 AM
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Our local cab company here in Kannapolis had an HHR cab for all of two weeks last year, they slapped lettering on it(it was maroon, their cabs are black, so it was put in service before getting a quick blow over with new paint), and it promptly blew its guts out on I-77.
I know most of their drivers, and I've seen them get a "hole shot" with a ten year old Town Car that would leave John Force in their dust.
Being that particular HHR was a trade in at my Chevy dealer of choice, and it was showing 299,000 miles when traded, I'm surprised that it survived two weeks of 24/7 full throttle running. I looked at it with an eye towards a cheap additional daily driver, but a five minute test drive told me to run away, even for $1,700.
I never did get a photo of it, but I grabbed some bits and pieces for a song when they scrapped it.
Unless it's an ex-police Crown Vic or Town Car, they've given up on other makes and models.
The list of their failed experiments reads like a wrecking yard inventory, Caravans, Voyagers, Astros, Safaris, Siennas, Sedonas, Luminas, Impalas, LeSabres, Lucernes, and one Toyota Prius that comitted suicide by burning itself to the ground.
I know most of their drivers, and I've seen them get a "hole shot" with a ten year old Town Car that would leave John Force in their dust.
Being that particular HHR was a trade in at my Chevy dealer of choice, and it was showing 299,000 miles when traded, I'm surprised that it survived two weeks of 24/7 full throttle running. I looked at it with an eye towards a cheap additional daily driver, but a five minute test drive told me to run away, even for $1,700.
I never did get a photo of it, but I grabbed some bits and pieces for a song when they scrapped it.
Unless it's an ex-police Crown Vic or Town Car, they've given up on other makes and models.
The list of their failed experiments reads like a wrecking yard inventory, Caravans, Voyagers, Astros, Safaris, Siennas, Sedonas, Luminas, Impalas, LeSabres, Lucernes, and one Toyota Prius that comitted suicide by burning itself to the ground.
