A CPotD just for Paul Wigton! Why? The fancy “filters” on those Weber Carbs of course. 😉
They’ll keep out rocks, but that is about all. Whoever can name this car gets the title of “Car Geek of the Year”.
Author: chuck goolsbee
Car Photo Of The Day
Going fast, somewhere on US 101.
The worst nurse in the world.
My wife had some minor surgery today, and it is her fate to be married to a guy that is completely lacking in the whole “nurture” gene. I mean… I can barely take care of myself, and a neon tetra in a bowl at my office – thankfully one is a cold blooded animal requiring very little care, and the other is a fish.
Somehow I managed to not kill my kids when they were babies (but let me tell you, there were a few close calls when I was left alone with them!) I am just not really cut out to care for anything… sorry. At least not anything actually alive. I’m fine with inanimate objects. A car, a computer, a network, my right leg… all will do fine under my not so watchful eye. But a human being, and especially my wife? She’s doomed.
Thankfully, she’s pretty self-sufficient and is not so bad off. She is on pain meds, and has tasked me with monitoring her medicine intake. Now THAT is something I can do… read the labels, enter the intervals into my Treo, set the alarms, etc. The key will be whether the Treo alarms will actually wake me up in the middle of the night. I sleep through everything but earthquakes greater than 5.4 on the Richter scale. For some inexplicable reason, I’ll snooze through a 5.3 and under, but once the wave or shake hits 5.4 I am bolt-upright and ready for action. Go figure. We’ll see. Hopefully she’s back to her high-functioning self again soon.
If she were to ever become incapacitated in a major way, we’d have to make polygamy legal so I could pick up a spare wife to take care of her (because I’m too cheap to actually pay somebody to be a caretaker!)
Seriously.
Wewease Woger!
OK, I’m hoping this one will finally stump Roger a good one, and then when I reveal (or perhaps some really smart reader names it) he’ll slap his forehead so hard I hear the echo off the Cascade foothills.
Name that car.
Hey, I’m famous!
OK, so not really, my CAR is famous. The 65E has been selected to grace AutoBlog this morning. They chose it for the “Reader Ride of the Day” I’m honored.
Last time I was linked from there (the photo of the aston martin up on blocks sent by my friend Jerome in New Zealand) my traffic shot through the roof, and I picked up a few new readers. Welcome folks. I’m a Network Geek who works for a Web Hosting and Colocation company headquartered in Seattle named digital.forest. We’ve been around for over 12 years, which in web-time is a geological time-scale. I rarely talk about work here though, as this is my personal site. I mainly talk about, and really more often just SHOW PICTURES of cars. I attend vintage rallies in my Dad’s old Jaguar, and love to photograph old cars. The most common “feature” here is a “name that car” photo of the day, where car geeks look at things and display their depth of obscure car knowledge. The reigning big-brained car geek is Roger, who knows (almost) everything. So if you know your stuff, hang around and see if you can outwit him. 😉
Thanks to Damon & Alex over at Autoblog for the pick. Again, I’m honored.
–chuck
Name That Car… another str8.
This one could be really tough. Continuing on the theme of odd engine bay shots with straight-eight mills….
Yet Another Name That Car!
This one looks hard, but has a some serious dead giveaway clues all over it.
Since I’m shocked that nobody (even Roger!) guessed the last one (the Aston DB2) I’ll throw out this easy one.