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Saturday, November 29, 2008

What's not to trust? - Vehicles as billboards

I frequently visit San Diego's Mission Valley, as it has lots of dining and shopping options, and also good places for exercise walks. Oh, and it's also reasonably close to home.

Now, for quite a while I've been noticing in that area vehicles being used as billboards, but a new one (for me) that I saw today was the impetus I needed to take photos and write an entry here.

(All phone numbers displayed on vehicles intentionally blurred to protect the guilty.)

That vehicle was this:

Now does that inspire trust or what? Eh? Eh?

Sheesh. I did a double-take when I initially drove past this and just had to go back and get the photo. (It was parked close to the southeast corner of this intersection.)

And after taking that first photo I was reminded of the variety of vehicle as billboard that I have been seeing for quite some time in Mission Valley. Which is this:

I seem to recall once reading somewhere (don't recall just where) a comment about this van that went along the lines of: "What's the deal here? Get in the van and five minutes later you're divorced?" Indeed.

When I took that last photo, parked just ahead of it was this:

At least this is a real nice paint job! (619 is one of the phone area codes in San Diego area. I can only assume that is related to the use here.)

And here is a view of both of these last two vehicles, which were parked next to the building seen in this Google Maps view):

A little later I checked another corner that I have previously seen billboard vehicles at and found another "Fast Divorce", which was almost at the southwest corner of this intersection):