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Along the same lines as the last CPotD, here’s an Interior that should be fun for the carspotters. Once again, I’ve blanked out one spot with a blaring car company logo, but otherwise it is untouched. Of course guessing the marque on this one won’t be too hard, the model however might take more depth.
Good luck!
In other news, I posted another review of a classic car, the XK 120, which can be read here.
It has been a while since I tossed a real stumper up here so maybe this one will do the trick. I’ve edited out one small identifying mark from this photo, otherwise it is unretouched. I will admit to having minor fits of lust whenever I see one of these cars, as they fit within one of my Zeitgeist Car categories, that is a car that expresses its moment in time very well by its styling and presentation. Nobody would ever guess that this car came from any time and place other than its true time and place. Do you know what car this is?
This is my son Nicholas, on his birthday or Christmas, probably about nine years ago. I know the car was a gift from his grandmother Bishop. It is post 1999, as I can tell it was taken in the kitchen of the home we moved into the Spring of that year, but pre 2003 which I can surmise from vague age and his teeth. I bet his mother can tell you exactly when it was shot as that is how mothers work: mentally cataloguing the mundane minutiae of their childs’ lives… but being a dad, I can only narrow it down to within a rough two- or three-year time-frame. I do know that this was taken prior to our father/son road trip in the summer of 2003, as his appearance over those four days are deeply imprinted on my mind. I can honestly say that those four days were among the happiest days of my life. I’d never felt as close to him as then, and have not since. We were alone, and together. We talked, and we didn’t. We genuinely enjoyed each others’ company and let our whims decide what we were going to do.
In about a week I’ll be doing the same, but this time with both boys. We’re taking a road trip. Actually two road trips. One with Chris, the other with Nick. I have so much work to get done before we can start “playing” with our big-boy toy, so excuse me if I’ve been remiss in posting as often as I usually do. The CPotD will likely cease once we’re under way, unless we see something cool that we’ll share. Instead I hope to post updates from the road. I’ll certainly track progress via twitter, as that is simple to do from my cell phone. My username on twitter is chuckgoolsbee (the name I use everywhere, even in real life!)
Can’t wait to be on the road again.
Today is the 4th of July, and I’m not at the Pacific Northwest Historics. I’m not visiting my friends Philippe & Francoise Reyns in the paddock. My vintage Jaguar is not parked in the “car corral” along the front straight. These photos were taken last year when Nick & I attended the Historics. They’ll have to do for this year as well as I can not attend this year.
Instead I’m in central Oregon. Sue’s Uncle, Bruce Bishop, born in 1924, passed away this week so we had to dump all of our holiday weekend plans and drive down here to be with her family. Along the way the fuel filter of Sue’s CRD clogged up (I blame the fill-up of D2 in Toppenish, WA for that) and I had to do a bit of parking-lot wrenching to get it sorted out. It managed 28 MPG on the trip down, lets see how it does on the way home with a new filter.
In a few minutes I’ll be off to spend the rest of the day with the oldest surviving Bishop brother, my father in law Dave. Have a great 4th everyone!
While I was away in Victoria on the Classic Motorcar Rally TTAC published my review of the 300sl. Pictured above is one of that car’s antecedents I saw while touring the collection of Siegfried Linke a few years ago on a previous Classic Motorcar rally. (Hint: it is not the 540K I’ve shown before.) Do you know what car it is?
I did not take this photo, which is obvious as I’m half-standing in the passenger seat of the 65E! If I recall correctly this was taken by Francoise Reyns on the 2008 Going To The Sun Rally somewhere just north of the US/Canada border in British Columbia. We were northbound to Banff via the Kootenay River valley. I just realized this morning that in less than two weeks I’ll be on the road again for my summer vacation. This year I’m not running an organized rally or tour, but taking my boys and following our nose and whim to the Los Angeles area and back. I’ll be driving south with Christopher, and using Alaska Airlines to swap him for Nicholas in LA. We will make up our minds on how to go, and what to see along the way with just three simple rules: No Interstates, No Fast Food/”Drive-Thru” (always have a sit-down meal or a picnic), and no fixed schedule (beyond the boy’s flights of course.) I don’t even know exactly when we’ll leave! (I was planning on Tues July 14th, but may leave earlier to join the Seattle Jaguar Club’s drive to Mt. Rainier as a kick-off.)
Along the way we’ll visit friends and hopefully make some new ones. We’ll also tour museums, and see sights. Most of all I’ll spend quality time with my boys. I can hardly wait to hit the road.
Of course, I’ll document our progress here on the site, so stay tuned.
Bonus Photo:
I was looking through pics to find the CPotD here and noted this shot of Philippe Reyns’ Series 1 E-type from the 2006 GTTSR and sure enough… his exhaust is crooked too! I don’t feel so bad now. If a noted Jaguar Collector has crooked pipes, why can’t I? 😉
Today’s CPotD is a shot taken a few years ago on the Classic Motorcar Rally. The car in the foreground is iconic, and should be an easy guess, but the other three (slightly) visible cars should generate some good guesses.
I chose this pic because it shows the winner of this years Classic Motorcar Rally, Antoinette Slavich. She’s the navigator for Alan Chockie, and is wearing the straw hat in this photo… obviously she’s poring over the next segment in the route book. This year the Slavich/Chockie team put on a Master’s Class on TSD rallying. Dad & I did pretty well, recovering from our first-morning’s errors by running a very good rally, but even if we’d done as well Friday morning as the rest we’d not been able to touch them. Second place is as good as we could have shot for… we ended up coming 4th in class, and 5th overall. (More details later.)
Meanwhile let’s let the carspotters play “name those cars” in the comments.