Miss January 2006

Winter is just around the corner.

Roger called me yesterday looking for a high-res copy of a photograph for his 2008 XKEdata.com calendar. Next years contribution will not be a photo of my car (though he is holding one in reserve in case he can not contact an owner for permission to use his photo) but will instead be a car I photographed from the passenger seat of my car. Well, technically I was hanging out the passenger DOOR of my car but that is a mere detail. 😉

Anyway it reminded me of my car’s FIRST calendar appearance, as “Miss January” of 2006. I love this photo.

To those that do not know the story it was taken on Super Bowl Sunday of 2004. I had just replaced the leaking cam cover gaskets on the car and took it for a test drive up the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River near my house. This spot below Whitehorse Mountain is about 12 miles from my house and a convenient spot to turn around. The view isn’t bad either. I stopped here to check for leaks, and sure enough found one and tightened up the acorn nuts on the cam cover just a wee bit. Sharp eyed observers will note the drops of oil on the road from my (then)leaking engine. I then closed the bonnet and took some photos.

The original photos posted upon my return home can be found here. The weather looks ominous, but it was actually a “nice” day by Seattle area standards for winter time.