Category: Car Photo Of The Day

A legendary Vanwall VW5 F1 car in BRG. The real thing. The “chuck connection” here is the place this car was built: Acton. This is where I worked when in the UK in ’97/’98.

Now, if you live in the UK and have a huge pile of cash, you can actually buy a street-legal replica of a Vanwall VW5, though with a bit more engine (a Jaguar V-12!) than the original. Check it out on Top Gear:

Another race car from the Indy 500 display at Amelia Island Concours a few years back. Know what it might be?

(should be easy as there’s a couple of badges and labels here. 😉 )

Working on the deck today… expect an update about the car show and a reveal of the other British car soon. Keep on guessing in the “going against the grain” post though!

From the days when a padded cockpit served as a driver’s seat. I seem to recall that this car was in a section of the lawn at Amelia reserved that year for Indy cars, but I might be wrong. Do you know what car this is (because I sure don’t!)

Update: I think I found it, via Google. Sounds like this is the car.

No guessing games should be required here, as the 917 is a legendary machine. However in their old age it appears they have become the playthings of very small children!

Go figure.

Got any 917 stories? Did you see the “Can-Am Killer” in its heyday? Tell them us the comments.

In the midst of the Monte Shelton Rally I popped online and posted a “Car Photo of the Day: Name that race car” picture. It was one of those ironic twists of entangled coincidence that lead to that post. Let me unravel it for you.

I have a bunch of photos I’ve collected over the years of various cars, and among them is a bunch of race cars. I’m not intimate with many of them, and figured I’d post them here for fun. One group of them were a collection of Indy cars presented at the Amelia Island Concours a few years back. I attended this Concours as part of the Forza Amelia Vintage Rally. I have one photo which I thought matched a model car I have, that was presented to me at the conclusion of another rally, namely the 1999 Cannonball Classic. The Cannonball Classic was a goofball idea hatched by two insane men, namely Brock Yates and Martin Swig. It combined the passions of both of them into a crazy week of old cars, driving insane distances. My Dad & I participated in the Cannonball Classic together and you can read my whole report here.

The guest speaker at the Monte Shelton Rally was Bill Warner, who is the chairman of the Amelia Island Concours, and a frequent participant in the original Cannonball Baker Sea-to-shining-sea Memorial Dash back in the 1970s.

So I posted that photo, as I thought all the events and people were somehow linked.

Then I looked closely at my model and it is similar, but not identical. This appears to be very similar, if not identical chassis to me previously posted race car. Can you name it? Hint: It won the Indy 500 in 1963 (the year I was born)… which adds yet another layer of coincidence here, so lets just all shiver with a bit of deja vu and get back to regular daily life.

Yes, I know I need to finish the Monte Shelton Rally story! Trust me, work is progressing behind the scenes… meanwhile entertain yourselves with this continuation of the CPotD theme: “name that race car”. This one *should* be pretty easy, and I have some fun additions about this car and this photo to add to it once details are revealed… both having to do with rallying in general, and the specific rally this weekend. Have fun with your guesses!