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Another race car from the Indy 500 display at Amelia Island Concours a few years back. Know what it might be?
(should be easy as there’s a couple of badges and labels here. 😉 )
Working on the deck today… expect an update about the car show and a reveal of the other British car soon. Keep on guessing in the “going against the grain” post though!
I’m thinking about bringing the 65E to a small car show this weekend. It is not a big-time Concours d’Arrogance. It is not a serious round of competitive car washing. I doubt any q-tips will be harmed. It is just a little show put on by my local NAPA store, Stilly Auto Parts. (“Stilly” is short for “Stillaguamish” the name of the river valley we sit in… say it three times fast and you’ll understand why everyone shortens it to “stilly” from “stil-la-gu-wa-mish”!) The staff there are true “car people” and are very helpful. Despite the fact that several discount chains inhabit the valley, I always go to the NAPA first. Great people, so I’m happy to support them by showing my car there, despite my normal aversion to car shows.
So, by “going against the grain” I was thinking of specifically NOT washing my car before I brought it there. Mind you, it is not looking as bug-splattered as it does in the photo above, it still wears it’s Monte Shelton rally tag decal, and a nice collection of road grime. The last time I washed it was the brief hose-down at the end of the rally.
There is a good chance that it will be the ONLY non-American car at this show. But I’m thinking that showing up looking a little saddleworn might lend it some gravitas… a bit of street-cred. On the flip side though, some folks might see this as “slumming” or just being disrespectful.
Do you have an opinion? I’m all ears.
I sat down at lunch today, fired up iPhoto to grab a particular image out of my archive (posted momentarily) and this happened. I can’t imagine this is very good. Once I okayed the dialogs iPhoto ran fine, but we’ll see how things go.
Any iPhoto experts seen this before? Is my world about to get ugly(ier)???
From the days when a padded cockpit served as a driver’s seat. I seem to recall that this car was in a section of the lawn at Amelia reserved that year for Indy cars, but I might be wrong. Do you know what car this is (because I sure don’t!)
Update: I think I found it, via Google. Sounds like this is the car.
No guessing games should be required here, as the 917 is a legendary machine. However in their old age it appears they have become the playthings of very small children!
Go figure.
Got any 917 stories? Did you see the “Can-Am Killer” in its heyday? Tell them us the comments.
I never participate in these things, but this one was just too goofy to pass up: “Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister”
Apparently the Prime Minister’s office in the UK has an website where the Queen’s subjects can request favors and allow others to vote for it. Somebody wanted Jezza as PM, and they actually ran it. Mind you just to prove how lame the system is it allowed me to vote – using nothing but my old address in Wiltshire as “proof of eligibility”… hell I was merely a resident alien and that was a decade ago!
Well, yesterday I received an email from the PM’s office stating:
From: “10 Downing Street”
To: “e-petition signatories”
Subject: Government response to petition ‘PMClarkson’
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:10:11 +0000You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to “Make Jeremy Clarkson
Prime Minister.”The Prime Minister’s Office has responded to that petition and you can view
it here:http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16590
Prime Minister’s Office
The page they reference points to a YouTube Video:
Unlike our government, at least the brits have one with a sense of humor, or humour, as the case may be.
In the midst of the Monte Shelton Rally I popped online and posted a “Car Photo of the Day: Name that race car” picture. It was one of those ironic twists of entangled coincidence that lead to that post. Let me unravel it for you.
I have a bunch of photos I’ve collected over the years of various cars, and among them is a bunch of race cars. I’m not intimate with many of them, and figured I’d post them here for fun. One group of them were a collection of Indy cars presented at the Amelia Island Concours a few years back. I attended this Concours as part of the Forza Amelia Vintage Rally. I have one photo which I thought matched a model car I have, that was presented to me at the conclusion of another rally, namely the 1999 Cannonball Classic. The Cannonball Classic was a goofball idea hatched by two insane men, namely Brock Yates and Martin Swig. It combined the passions of both of them into a crazy week of old cars, driving insane distances. My Dad & I participated in the Cannonball Classic together and you can read my whole report here.
The guest speaker at the Monte Shelton Rally was Bill Warner, who is the chairman of the Amelia Island Concours, and a frequent participant in the original Cannonball Baker Sea-to-shining-sea Memorial Dash back in the 1970s.
So I posted that photo, as I thought all the events and people were somehow linked.
Then I looked closely at my model and it is similar, but not identical. This appears to be very similar, if not identical chassis to me previously posted race car. Can you name it? Hint: It won the Indy 500 in 1963 (the year I was born)… which adds yet another layer of coincidence here, so lets just all shiver with a bit of deja vu and get back to regular daily life.