Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: cars

The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is situated on top the former Aztec sacred precinct near the Templo Mayor on the northern side of the Plaza de la Constitución. It was built in sections from 1573 to 1813 around the original church that was constructed soon after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan. It's not your eyes, the building was structurally unstable because much of Mexico City is built upon the dried lakebed of Lake Texcoco. Restoration work beginning in the 1990s stabilized the cathedral and it was removed from the endangered list in 2000

This is not just a shot of random railings in Alexanderplatz, Berlin but my "other" railway photograph taken in Germany in 1972 - I only took two in the three months I was there! Times have changed... My railway interest was at a low ebb & I couldn't even be bothered to walk over to the station to get a decent shot of the Pacifics still steam-hauling trains in the eastern zone although I probably thought I might get arrested if I did. I contented myself with a snatched shot of a train arriving. Lots of interesting cars in the parking though! HFF and keep safe in this second wave of Covid.

My 1964 Minivan AVE308B in the Jura Mountains, France. Three of us spent 3 weeks doing an anti-clockwise circular tour of France & this was on the way back north. The nearside wing is a bit crumpled after a slight accident in Sete on the Mediterranean coast. We were in a line of slow moving traffic & I had taken my eye of the road for a second to look at a train passing on the adjacent railway line. This will come as no surprise to anyone that knows me! Hard braking wasn't going to do it so I had to make a split-second decision - swerve right either into the canal or the line of trees by the canal, swerve left into the oncoming traffic or continue straight on into the car in front. The collision of choice was into the car in front. Fortunately I could pull the wing away from the wheel & drive away although we only had one headlamp. When we tried to cross into West Germany the border guards (no open-borders EU in those days) turned us back & wouldn't allow such a heap of junk onto the pristine roads of the Federal Republic. Two years later I had a similar push-back in the same vehicle from East German border guards who wouldn't let us onto the not-so-pristine roads of the Democratic Republic without replacing a partially worn tyre.