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Car spotters

A Car spotter is a person who is typically strongly interested, in an amateur capacity, in car spotting, which is observing or photographing interesting, vintage, rare, modified, and/or exotic supercars on public roads.[1] Car spotters can be found worldwide.

A car spotter may also log about his or her "spots" on an internet forum, such as Cardatabase.net,[2] Autogespot.com,[3] ExoticSpotter.com,[4] CarSpotting.com,[5] streetfire.net,[6] madwhips.com[7] or various groups on Facebook.

Car spotters can often be found in large, wealthy cities and areas such as London, Dubai, Geneva, Zurich, Monaco, Singapore, and Beverly Hills, where exotic cars are most commonly found.

Car spotters usually carry a DSLR camera and rely on social media to direct them to the nearest "spot".

References

  1. ^ "Chasing Exotic Cars Is Their Pursuit", Los Angeles Times, May 17, 2006, reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle May 26, 2006
  2. ^ Cardatabase.net
  3. ^ [1][permanent dead link]
  4. ^ ExoticSpotter.com
  5. ^ [2]
  6. ^ StreetFire.net Archived April 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "MadWhips | The Worlds Hottest Cars". www.madwhips.com. Retrieved 2016-07-16.

Further reading

  • John Dudley (1952) ABC of motor car spotting
  • Greenwood Graeme (1949) ABC of Motor Car Spotting 1935-1948