Category: Car Photo Of The Day

Weather actually looks good this morning, but since were vintage rallying in the Pacific Northwest rain is always possible. May father, who is navigating this rally for me is thrilled as the rally master handed out the route last night, allowing us more than the usual 30 minutes to prepare our calculations. I went out in the evening and tried to calibrate my odometer. This rally is in Canada, so everything (speeds & distances) are in metric – adding a challenge for those of us with cars in imperial gauges. Technically my water temp gauge is in metric, but that will provide us no advantage!

Wish us luck!

Can you name this car (small bonus for the blue one in the background, which any car guy should be able to name with one eye tied behind their back!)

I will admit to having a total mancrush on most everything this company has ever built. I can’t explain it but they have always made the most appealing cars. Well, most of them. They’ve coughed up a few hairballs, but the vast majority have fallen somewhere between “Mild Desire”, and ‘I’d kill all of you to have one.”

This example falls in the former category, but I’d still not turn it down. Oddly this marque is rarely recognized when seen by the non-CARnoscenti, and even when you ask car people to name
“[X sorts of] car companies” it falls four or five places down the list, or not even showing up at all.

…or at least they car they are attached to.
From what I hear these cars need more ventilation. I’ve never ridden inside one so I couldn’t confirm the assertion.

The last photo I shot as I left the show last weekend. At the end of the day as cars were leaving I noted the reflection of the jaguar on an old Chevy pickup a ways down the block.

This Touring body Ferrari 166 has appeared before here at a “name that car” so no use in doing it again. The fuel filler cap though rates a return visit, as it is monstrously HUGE and very cool looking. It so well represents that time when, as Jeremy Clarkson said, “They weren’t concerned about saving the planet so much as driving around it very fast.”

Dr. Philippe Reyns’ pre-war “Jaguar” ((actually the marque was called “SS Cars” at the time, then something happened in mid-century that cast a pall over that name!) a 3 ½ litre SS100. A beautiful example of the model. I enjoyed a ride in this machine. Very nice car.

(it is even mentioned in the “Internet Movie Cars Database“)

Apologies for the lack of posts lately… been busy with other things sorry. I promise I’ll get back to my usual schedule soon.