I’ve been spending the past couple of weeks working like a mad man to clean up the property and prepare for selling the house. We’ve cleaned and painted the house and barn. We hired a handyman to rebuild the last un-rebuilt deck. Now we have to paint it. I’m brewing up as much of the remaining WVO into BioDiesel as I can so I can dismantle the brewery and clean and repaint that part of the barn. I’ve basically been running non-stop. Part of the barn-cleaning process involved moving the Jaguar – a drive from the barn to the garage. As I pulled the cover off the dirty car I realized that it has sat unwashed and unused since the Northwest Passage Rally in June(!) I resolved right then to wash the car, and take it for a drive, even if it was just a run into town for the local cruise-in. So yesterday when I finished the runs to the dump and recycling I pulled the 65E out of the garage and gave her a good sudsy washing… and zipped to the Burger King on Highway 9.
I’m always pleasantly surprised when I slide behind the wheel of the E-type after a hiatus. It sounds so good, feels so good – in fact it is always better than how I remember it. It isn’t neck-snapping, or awesome… just very very good.
Along the way I saw a pair of Morris Minors driving north – obviously returning home from the ABFM in Bellevue. At the cruise-in was the usual collection of yank tanks and muscle cars, plus a few machines I’d never seen here before. I wandered around, chatted with a few guys, and snapped some photos…
Two for the die-hard CPotD car-spotting geeks:
Unfortunately I didn’t see many of the folks I usually run into, so I missed my chance to bid them farewell. Oh well.
Black cockpit looks to be some sort of Alfa, perhaps a spider, and the Yank tank could be a Chrysler product, what with the “Selectric III” tranny!
🙂
The first is an Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate, circa ’85 to ’90
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/1986-alfa-romeo-spider-graduate-review/
The second is a ’64 Dodge Dart
http://jim.medding.net/blog/2009/08/17/flash-from-the-past/
As always CorvairDad nails it, on both.