Car Photo Of The Day

Hey, I’m famous!

OK, so not really, my CAR is famous. The 65E has been selected to grace AutoBlog this morning. They chose it for the “Reader Ride of the Day” I’m honored.

Last time I was linked from there (the photo of the aston martin up on blocks sent by my friend Jerome in New Zealand) my traffic shot through the roof, and I picked up a few new readers. Welcome folks. I’m a Network Geek who works for a Web Hosting and Colocation company headquartered in Seattle named digital.forest. We’ve been around for over 12 years, which in web-time is a geological time-scale. I rarely talk about work here though, as this is my personal site. I mainly talk about, and really more often just SHOW PICTURES of cars. I attend vintage rallies in my Dad’s old Jaguar, and love to photograph old cars. The most common “feature” here is a “name that car” photo of the day, where car geeks look at things and display their depth of obscure car knowledge. The reigning big-brained car geek is Roger, who knows (almost) everything. So if you know your stuff, hang around and see if you can outwit him. 😉

Thanks to Damon & Alex over at Autoblog for the pick. Again, I’m honored.

–chuck

Name That Car… another str8.

This one could be really tough. Continuing on the theme of odd engine bay shots with straight-eight mills….

Yet Another Name That Car!

This one looks hard, but has a some serious dead giveaway clues all over it.

Since I’m shocked that nobody (even Roger!) guessed the last one (the Aston DB2) I’ll throw out this easy one.

Name That Car

OK, this (I hope) will be a tough one. However somebody… and you know who you are Tom(!)… guessed wrong on the Lusso, which would be right on this car. Of course Tom guessed via AIM/iChat, not here on the blog, but maybe he’ll come out of his shell and guess right on this one.

He had the Marque, but not the Model. Bonus points for guessing that right.

–chuck

Car Photo of the Day:

Lots of talk of late on the E-type mailing list about “sexy cars” as a British car mag named the Fiat 500 the sexiest(wtf?) The E-type ended up at #90, go figure.

One car that a lot of guys named as sexy is the one pictured above. Can you name it?

Finally! A smart engine designer!

Engineering and Design are two different disciplines that seem to rarely intersect, but I was pleasantly surprised tonight to find such a confluence in my garage. My wife has a a 2006 Jeep Liberty CRD. The time has come for its first oil and filter change, so I crawled under and found what you see above.

Finally, some engineer that designs engines actually changes their own oil! Take a look at what you see above. What a refreshing thing to find! At first I saw a huge skid plate covering the oil pan and I groaned, imagining having to remove the plate via a bunch of bolts to get at the drain plug and then dig goodness knows how deep to find the filter. But as I crawled further back I found behind the skid plate a nice tight package of the oil drain bolt and filter, sitting right next to each other.

It was a simple drain, and very clean since I could put the drain pan in one spot and get both the oil drain and filter out at one time.

This engine, though sold by Jeep, a division of Daimler-Chrysler is neither American or German engineered… it is Italian(!)

So whomever that Italian engineer might be, my hat is off to you! Thanks!

I won’t be watching any anniversary TV specials. To be honest I do not really want to re-live any of that day five years ago. Today I’ll be driving the 65E from Kalispell to Arlington, a distance of ~600 miles. My only notation of the event will be this photo. It was taken in 2003, in Vergennes, Vermont. It was on a Jaguar XJS if I recall corectly. Somehow it wasn’t in its assigned parking spot in 2001 I guess.

I’ll post an update after I arrive home.