Category: Car Photo Of The Day

This car was one car ahead of us, numerically, on the Monte Shelton rally last year, so I stared at it’s rear end for three days. It is a beautiful old car. Do you know what it is?

sfoskett guessed right: A Maserati Mistral. 1967 to be exact. I’ve relinked the original unretouched photo now (I photoshopped off the badges when originally posted)

Looks even better from the front, and the twin-plug DOHC six under the bonnet is pretty sexy too.

Taken at the summit of Lolo Pass on US 12, the border between Idaho and Montana in the smoky summer of 2006.

Night was falling as I descended the pass down to Missoula, but I had just finished a grin-inducing solo run up US 12 as dusk settled over the Bitterroots, and was feeling great. This is truly one of the best driver’s roads in the world:

View Larger Map

Unfortunately my next trip there was marred by a speeding ticket, but that wonderful summer evening I seemed to have the entire 70+ mile stretch of endlessly winding road all to myself. I seem to recall seeing maybe three other cars. I cruised the long twisty road at a reasonable speed for Montana (but NOT for Idaho, where the posted limits are always MUCH lower) with the accompaniment of Sir Wiliam’s Sixth Symphony echoing off the Lochsa River canyon walls. Words can not describe what a wonderful hour or so that drive was.

Built when an Austrian with a funny mustache was building Autobahns, this product of Munich is a true classic.

Taken at the start of the 2008 New England 1000, two iconic 6-cylinder cars (the maser has been lumped however, with a SBC… sigh) parked in a town square in Vermont.

What things look like from the passenger-side “tyre” of a Jaguar XK-SS.

Yeah, it’s an underhanded softball pitch, but somebody could use a big homer.