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I’m doing a little lunchtime update of my GTTSR pages and noted this photo in my collection from last week. I remember doing a cartoon character extreme double-take when I saw this car. Can you spot the oddity in this photo (and if you can’t, you’re blind!)
It is still sunny here in the Pacific Northwest, but we can tell the wet season approaches as our mornings are getting foggy. I remember snapping this photo one winter of a beater old Triumph I used to see on my daily commute. It was bondo-ed up the wazoo and I imagine its top leaked like a submarine with a screen door. Yet somebody drove it down I-5 every day through Everett.
Yes, I’m backfilling my 2008 GTTSR stories as fast as I can every night before I go to bed, so expect a summary post with links soon. Meanwhile you can go back and view them if you like via the “2008 GTTSR” link to the right, or just scroll down and go back. Once that’s done I’ll have a whole new slew of “name that car” posts and whatnot coming soon. Thanks for your patience.
I have not done a very good job of keeping this site updated during the past week on the Going To The Sun Rally. Not up to my usual standards. I managed to get the JagCam movies posted almost every day, but really haven’t been able to keep up with writing and photo editing. I will admit to having some serious challenges with JagCam footage editing… mostly to do with my now 4 year old laptop and cranky editing software. Import & Rendering times usually stretched to many hours and iMovie frequently crashed. It got to the point where I could not insert any titles or effects for fear of ruining the output, or just having hours of work vanish in a blink of an eye.
So… often I would just give up and go have a drink.
I’m back at home now and have a pile of work to do, most of it lots of finish work involving the deck and painting, plus some BioDiesel processing… but I promise I’ll set aside some time (and the bottle) and plow through the writing and photo editing backlog as fast as I can. Thanks for your patience!
–chuck
Here is the JagCam video from our last day’s journey:
Check out yesterday’s video here.
I’d love to post a Google Map image of our route, except I can’t get our route to work, since SR20 closes over the winter. Go figure. Whenever I try to create the route it sends me south to Stevens Pass. Weird! Oh well.
Continue reading “2008 GTTSR: Going Home. Spokane to Arlington via SR20.”
We’re in Spokane, having driven from Bozeman… the long way. Our day in a nutshell: Triple Digit Autobahn runs, a scenic side trip to a quintessential Montana spot, a roadside discovery, and finally, a roadside rescue. A critical part (a bolt) fell off a critical part (brakes!) in northern Idaho. While we were diagnosing the parts store closed… but we were rescued by a fellow Car Guy. He found us, invited us to his home workshop, gave us the part from his bin, and saved our day. Click the ‘More’ link below for the full story and photos.
Here is the JagCam footage. I’ve tried something new, namely a longer movie (1 frame every 3 seconds instead of 4) with a mixed soundtrack. Too long for YouTube, I had to use Google Video. I’d love to hear feedback on it. Enjoy.
Continue reading “2008 GTTSR: Going Home. Autobahns & Roadside Rescues”
Another touch and go post here from the hotel in Bozeman. Yesterday’s JagCam footage from Missoula, down to Lost Pass, then over to Big Hole, Jackson, Virginia City & Ennis:
You will note it was VERY windy and the cam got wobbled around a lot. In fact it fell off a couple of times too. We eventually shut it down as we drove into the teeth of a big storm.
Continue reading “2008 GTTSR: Going To The Sun Rally, Day Five: Wind & Rain.”
Lots of photos today, as I had a ride in Philippe Reyns’ SS100! None to post yet however, as we had dinner with a friend in Missoula. Until I have some time to edit, post, and write…. here is the day’s “JagCam” footage with a little Rush thrown in:
Continue reading “2008 GTTSR: Going To The Sun Rally, Day Four: Whitefish, Libby, Missoula.”