While this may appear to be some mythical barn find, it is merely the storage area of a well-known restoration shop. Anyone car to have a go at guessing ALL the cars visible?
Category: Car Photo Of The Day
Just another place to look at car stuff.
Car Photo of the Day: Dry Cat
A nice shot through the windscreen on my Dad’s (now living in Denmark with a new owner) Jaguar XK 120.
The location is somewhere south of Reno, NV. June 2001.
Car Photo of the Day: Wet Cats
This photo was taken on the rain soaked “New England 2000 Rally” in the spring of 2000. I traded emails last night with the gentleman on the right, whose E-type is at the front of the shot; Frank Filangeri. (he was pleasantly surprised to see the 65E in Winding Road) That prompted me to dig up this photo, which is my favorite from a series of them I shot when we ran together for a while on the Rally, up a wet and windy “mountain” road in New England. I honestly don’t recall where it was, but we pulled over for a break (must have been a transit stage!) and I shot photos in a big loop around the cars while Frank, his navigator Clark Nicholls, and my dad had a chat.
Ah… I found my notes from that trip… it was the “Kangcamagus Highway”. IIRC we also ran that route, in the opposite direction on another New England 1000 rally another year, but in sunshine and we passed a Ferrari NART Spyder. Nice road… reminds me of SR20 in the foothills here before it heads up and through the North Cascades.
“He’s powered by ram induction but it’s understood, I’ve a fuel injected engine sittin’ under my hood…”
As seen at a local car show here in Arlington put on by Stilly Auto Parts, our local NAPA shop.
I can’t recall the year of Corvette it was, but I do recall the owner being very proud of the condition of the car. “Vette guys are an odd breed of OCD sorts. 😉
We have them to blame for the whole “matching numbers” lunacy. I guess if you are collecting something that was built in HUGE numbers value comes down to hair-splitting. Seems odd to me.
Published!
I am now an honest to gawd professional photographer. I’ve been published before but this time somebody has written a check… well, in theory at least. Go download this month’s issue of Winding Road. You can find it here. It is a great magazine with excellent writing and fantastic photography. I’m honored to be chosen and included.
They have two of my images in their current issue. The first is found on page 18, in David E. Davis’ editorial column “American Driver.” It is of his Corvette, taken on the second day of the 2006 Going To The Sun Rally.
The next image is on the “IBC”…
This shot of course is becoming famous… having appeared in the XKEData calendar this past year. I’d love it even more if I hadn’t gotten a ticket from an Idaho State Trooper 40-some miles past that sign the last time I drove that stretch. =\
The images are so washed out because the summer of 2006 was a really bad one for forest fires in the west and the air was basically a blanket of smoke. Makes for grainy and flat photos. Oh well.
The Award for the Best Use for Dead Networking Technology goes to…
Photo by Dave Provine
During last week’s Macworld Expo I ran into Dave Provine in the Speaker’s Lounge and he and I sat there amidst a whirlwind of high technology, talking about old cars. It was an enjoyable retreat from the hectic week of emerging technology. Dave drives an old Triumph Spitfire, and we traded stories about roadside repairs and driving adventures. Afterwards he sent me some photos via email, including the one above, which melded the two themes of automobile repair and networking technology quite well. 😉
Dave says that is a Lucent switch acting as a jackstand. Best use for a Lucent switch I’ve seen to date!
Anyone have four Cisco 6509s handy? I’ve got to do some work on my exhaust.
Car Photo of the Day: That New Car Smell
Note the temporary tags on the Benz.
This shot was taken on the second day of the 2001 Forza Amelia at the Gainesville Racetrack in Florida. My father had lost his mind (not the first or the last time!) and bought a dream car of his, a 1957 300sl just before the rally and this was the car’s first outing in his ownership. OK, well technically it is my mother’s car… at least that is the story I keep hearing since she’s the big Mercedes fan. That is his story and he’s sticking to it.
The car was purchased out of a large collection and like any car that sits too much, it wasn’t running as good as it should, BUT it is a Mercedes, so it still ran FINE. Funny how those Germans make such bullet-proof cars. 😉
But here we were, taking laps around a racetrack. Wow, what a blast that was. Well, until my dad spun it not far from where this pic was taken a while later. I posted pictures and the story to my website that night and we got a voice message from my mother on my dad’s cell phone:
“YOU ARE DRIVING MY CAR TOO FAST!!”
heh… boys will be boys.
The 300sl has become the focus of my father’s small collection (down to 3 cars now that the Jags are gone) and is now running VERY well. Much better than that first rally in 01. Maybe we should go back to that track and check our lap times?
That is Pascal Gademer’s S3 E-type parked in front of us.