Your Z on Street View in another life

[Jam03]

I was looking through my car’s history file and thought it might be interesting to see where it lived in the past. I managed to find a view of it a few owners back parked on their driveway in 2012.

 

[IanA]

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I got caught on Google Street View

A few weeks ago, as I was driving to the unit where we work on our cars, the Google car pulled out behind me. Now the pictures are live. I got caught a few years ago as I went for a walk one lunchtime. Anyone else been spotted?

zroadster.org

 

[Jam03]

It was very easy because my car has a large history file with invoices for services going back to the early 2000’s. Names and addresses are all there, so I just looked them up on Google maps. The key to it is that you can usually see historic street view images going back almost 20 years.

 

[AntStark]

…I am now going to spend all afternoon looking on street map instead of mowing the lawn !

 

[SV8Predator]

The key to it is that you can usually see historic street view images going back almost 20 years.

Street View was launched in the UK in 2009.

 

[Jam03]

Our area seems to have been covered for the first time in July 2008. Almost 20 years, but not quite. I guess most of the original owners of Z3’s wouldn’t have been spotted.

 

[SV8Predator]

Our area seems to have been covered for the first time in July 2008. Almost 20 years, but not quite. I guess most of the original owners of Z3’s wouldn’t have been spotted.

Yes, the photo-cars first went out in 2008, with Street View being launched the following year. But it's hardly "almost 20 years ago"....? But it's an interesting idea, none the less.