Category: Cars

I am a “car guy”… I love old cars.

The Truth About Cars | At some point in the not-so-distant future…

The Truth About Cars | At some point in the not-so-distant future…
“At the moment, car dealers’ profits increase in direct proportion to their ability to screw their customers and bilk the manufacturer.”

Farago does it again… distills the ills of an entire industry into one sentence. This is one of the reasons TTAC is by far my favorite “car” site on the Internet. The editorials and commentary are the most insightful and entertaining reading to be found on the subject. Anywhere.

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!