If there were a website that were nothing but DOTS and similar finds, I would get nothing done at work.

Thanks Murilee - this is a great, great series.

To Murilee, the hardest working man in the auto blogging biz!

The Alameda Chamber of Commerce and Visitor's Bureau should be paying you a fee for this fine service. You could sell DOTS maps to tourists at points of entry into the city.

I love DOTS! It's my favorite part of the day, and the photos make excellent iPhone backgrounds. Currently using the 77 Lincoln Continental.

@WorkingOnYourInvoice: That Lincoln parks right near my house- I see it every day (along with the GTO and the '67 912).

DOTS is the feature that got me hooked on the Jalop. Coincidentially, I'm currently doing work on digital maps of the streets and parcels of Alameda at this very moment!

MM- Kudos and congrats on your first score of DOTS. May there be many, many more!

@ret3: somehow, I have the feeling that there will be 100 'spurious' DOTS on those digital maps...

MM- lovin' the DOTS. Keep up the great work. It's built an appreciation for early American iron that'd I'd never really had before. I tended toward the European imports.

Yeah, keep it coming.

However, I regret to inform you that when you run out of cars in Alameda, we will require you to move to another locale also saturated with vintage rolling machinery.

Thanks for this awesome series! I was just looking at Alameda on Google maps. It's right up the road from San Leandro - That's where my little brother's '68 Merc Monterey is from. We've never seen another one like it here in WI, but I suppose they're as common as dirt out there in automotive utopia!

DOTS and PCH are without a doubt my favorite parts of this fine corner of the interwebs. The Unofficial Car Pundit Drinking Game is pretty good too.

DOTS would make an awesome coffee table book...I can just see it now, with one of the Malaise Era Lincons or Caddy's grille on the cover it all it's chromed-plasitc glory.

(just a thought...in case you wanted to expand your literary repetiore (sp))

@junkman: I think you mean five-score.

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Still, it's amazing that there's so much classic iron there... I'm sick to death of seeing the droves of identical 3-series Bimmers driven by the low-rung corporate climbers where I live.

It's like a mini-Cuba. You know without the dictator or health care. Well, health care anyways.

I would be tempted to do a DOTS of the roads around the Tendrng Peninsula here in blighty, but after a while you'd be bored with 1991 E36 3-series' with rear wheelarch rust and 3 spoke alloys....

Thanks Murilee, I cant wait to see all the sweet rides down on park street this sat. Maybe i will see you out there.

@Bumblebee: At that point I'll just branch out into Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, etc. But I'm nowhere near running out of Alameda cars.

@clank-o-tron: I stand corrected, thank you. I would have known that if studied more than car magazines in school.

This has always been my favorite part of this site. Love the old Detroit Iron, and really love the quirky early Japanese Makes. How about some vintage trucks (and by that I mean something bigger than an F-100, of a C-10)?

@UDman: Hmmm... actually plenty of 60s-70s Detroit trucks on the island, but I haven't photographed anything newer than mid-50s. Think I should add banged-up old work trucks to the series? There's a cool-looking early-60s Dodge right by my house.

I know, I'll have a poll!

Murilee, great job. While DOTS is my favorite, all of your stuff is great and it's the reason I keep coming back here. And at this point the morning coffee wouldn't be the same without the latest DOTS. Thanks again!

Well I'm heading down to SF for a few days at the end of November anyway - think I may pack the good lady off to a spa and spend half a day in Alameda with a camera or 3!! Cheers for the '50 Pontiac convertible in particular!

@Five10er: I'll probably be hanging out at Lee Auto, but since I live a block from the show I'll be around all day.

Just wanted to chime in and let you know that there really are more Alameda Classics to be found... My husband's got a '54 Mercury Monterey over on the other side of the island. We'll be at the car show this weekend, too!

I'm surprised you haven't come across the genuine ww2 kubelwagen. I've seen it drive around east end a couple of times.

DOTS is awesome!

Thanks Murilee and Jalopnik!

Really good stuff! It makes me reevaluate everything. I used to think Datsuns were ugly. Now they're downright bitchin'.

Sweet. A car show in Alameda? Why haven't I heard about this earlier on the Jalopnik? I'll definitely be there.

If the DOTS posts are any indication...I'd wager that postcard photo above was taken merely last weekend by Mr Martin himself!

It's simply amazing to find so many pieces of classic iron, not just existing but RUNNING somewhere outside of Cuba, etc. Simply amazing I say.

@KingRoyale: As a matter of fact, that block (Park Street looking south at the intersection with Santa Clara Ave) looks pretty much the same today; I was standing in about the same spot when I shot the '85 Quantum. The car show will be on Park Street this Saturday.

@MM: You planning a special DOTS for the Park Street Show this weekend? I wonder how many of the cars we've seen here will be attending the show.

Congrats on the 100 DOTS post! Here's to the next 100!

@hyperocky: Actually, odds are most of the DOTS cars won't be at the show, because their owners don't think of them as particularly rare or special- just good cars made Before Everything Went To Hell, sonny! This is the Island That Time Forgot, you see.

I'm working on a feature about Lee Auto Supply, sponsor of the car show, so maybe I can get the Lee guys to line up a few DOTS cars in front of the show for a few photos.

YES!
I'm going to it tomarrow for sure
i live local too-im in alameda too!!
hopefully next year i can enter my peugeot 505 to the show