Category: Car Photo Of The Day

This is a semi-famous registration number. Can you guess the car?

Last time I pictured this Opel on my site I received an email from somebody in Germany asking me questions about it. Unfortunately I have no data on it, other than the fact that it appeared at a local car show here in Arlington, WA. It certainly is a nice example of something you don’t see much of these days.

Today’s photo is not an exotic racing or sports car, it is instead a prosaic American passenger car. I chose this image to commemorate in a small way the first flight of the newest American passenger plane, Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner” which lifted off the runway at Paine Field in Everett, Washington just a few minutes ago. Congratulations are in order to Boeing and all of its employees (including a few who are my friends.) This hood ornament from the 50s pointed to a bright future, which we are indeed living out.

I hope to catch the 787 with camera in-hand when it lands at Boeing Field near my office later today, so stay tuned.

Since nobody was able to name the red car in the middle-ground of the December 2nd CPotD (even Corvairdad, who stumbled for the first time in a long while!) here is a head-on shot of the same car. By looking at this photo, and the one linked above, you should be able to name this car… a fish in the proverbial British barrel.

This is Annie & Steve Norman’s post-war Bentley, shot at a rest stop on the Northwest Classic rally. I find the presence of my hand and camera in the reflection a bit distracting, but it’s the price I pay for shooting with a very wide angle lens.

I think it is a Jaaaaaaaag.