I don't know if this counts as weird, but here's one. When I worked at my last job, there was a guy who showed up one day in the parking garage with this old Lotus 7 clone. V8 engine, decent shape, the engine really barked when he started it up. I talked to him just once, found out what make of engine it was, and that was that. Fast forward several months, after I'd moved out of town, I was thinking about cars like his (I'd read an article about building a Caterham) and I did a Google search to see if I could find info about Lotus 7 clones for sale in the US. The second link I clicked took me to a forum that had a regional section that included Virginia, and so I posted there wondering about owners in the Richmond area. The owner of the forum emailed me and talked about his car, in Northern Virginia, and invited me to come see it sometime. Turned out that it was the owner of the car at my old job, and he remembered me (and my Contour).
