Category: Cars

I am a “car guy”… I love old cars.

Missing Christopher

As much as NOT having an incredibly tall, usually grumpy teenager around the house should be refreshing, I find myself really missing Christopher. I was wandering around the house after dinner and stopped in front of a bookcase, looking at a shelf full of his collection of history books. I saw his two books by British historian Antony Beevor and recalled discussing them with him on a similar evening after dinner. I picked one up to read. Maybe it will keep my mind of his absence.

I received the flyer for the local MG car club’s “Tulip Rallye” in April. Chris & I have done this run every year since 2004. I’ll have to find a new navigator for this year’s event. 🙁

Above is Chris biding his time on a Tulip Rallye segment with minimal navigation somewhere on Whidbey Island a few years back.

Reflections …on a Bonnet.

The end of Day Two of the Colorado Grand back in 2005, saw all the cars collected in one spot behind a hotel. I wandered around that parking lot and shot probably 200 photographs. It was in a lot of ways, overstimulating. I look at my pictures now and think… “I should have shot that car a different way” or whatever. In reality I had maybe 30 minutes of good light, and 3 hours worth of subject matter to capture! A few gems were uncovered however, this being one of them.

It is a race-prepped and British Racing Green Jaguar XK-120, with a louvered bonnet. I have a few photos of it, from several different angles. I love how this one is abstracted to the point of near cubism… with the peek of car-porn through the louvers, the refelected sky and building, the dust-drops on the paint, and of course Sir William’s curvaceous panels… all at different depths and layers. It all adds up to a nice image.

A New Jag!

Thanks to friend and client David Kingsbury I now have an FHC to make a matched pair with my OTS. OK, so it isn’t the same scale as my other Jag, but who cares? 😉

I actually have a nice collection of toy cars in my office… a D-type Jaguar, a Ford GT 40, a Cunningham C4R, a Jaguar XJ220, a Lancia Stratos, and a Chaparral 2. Now I have an E-type too!

Thanks David! You made my day!