Category: Car Photo Of The Day

You know you’re a British car owner if you looked at which gauge first?

I posted this car once before, as part of a larger guessing game, but it remained unidentified. So I’m posting it again. In fact I’ll add another close-up photo of it to give you another hint.

I love this car, and expressed my undying admiration for it to my navigator at the event we saw it a few years back. I picked it as my “car from this event I’d most like to take home.” My navigator thought I was nuts. I imagine once identified all you guys will suspect I’ve lost my marbles as well.

Well maybe not ALL of you, we’ll see. I know some of you also would lust in your petroleum-pumping hearts for one.

The marque has produced some iconic machines and there is one in particular (not this model, but not long after its day) that I have never seen in the flesh and can not wait to be able to photograph its legendary shape.

Today is a “travel day” for me as I’m headed down to San Francisco for Macworld Conference & Expo. This means I won’t be here to hand out hints or tell you if you’re wrong or right until I’m in my hotel at the end of the day. Good luck!

A couple of other viewpoints on the Iso Grifo posted yesterday. Jerome thinks it looks like a Jensen Interceptor. I can see the vague resemblance, but I have to say the Iso is a much nicer looking car. Longer, lower and wider. It is amazingly powerful and sounded wonderful as well.

Here’s a fun one for the weekend. As a practical joke somebody made up a “Just Married” sign on a participant’s car. (which of course was co-driven by two men.) Unfortunately the owner (pictured here) found the sign before they drove off.

Can you name the car?

Apologies for the lack of a CPotD of late. I’ll post a few in quick succession to make up for it.

As much as I like the look of Aston Martin bonnets, I can not tell the difference from one model to another to be honest. I know there are subtle and not-so-subtle differences between DB2/3/4/5/6/etc but I’m not that intimate with them. To me they are like VW Beetles. Damn sexy VW Beetles though. I do know which one this is, as I have other photos that clearly show badging that removes all doubt. Here though, from this angle you’d have to be a real Aston Anorak. Can you name the model and claim that title?

Caught in a blur of high speed down the front straight at Pacific Raceways, this endurance racing legend looks as good today as it did 40 years ago. Can you name the car?

This might be an easy one, and given the time I’m posting it perhaps it will give folks in the time zone represented by the plate a head start on guessing the make & model.

It was captured at a staging area of a TSD segment at the New England 1000 vintage rally a few years back on the shores of Lake Champlain.

The position of the feet in the frame for some odd reason evoke the cover of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” album, and no… nothing in-frame was on fire when I took this.