Category: Cars

I really like this photo. I snapped it at the Art Center Car Show last summer in Pasadena, California. However, unless you are an aficionado of the marque, I imagine you would not be able to name the car. So I shot a photo of its engine bay and perhaps with these two hints you guys can name that car:

I have a bunch of shots taken from the Art Center show of some amazing, rare, and historic vehicles which I should start showing here. Stay tuned.

The weather is unseasonably beautiful here in the Pacific Northwest right now, as any of you watching the “Winter” Olympics must know. Sunny and warm is not what you think of first when somebody say “February” around here. Meanwhile the old Jaguar sits out in the barn and I haven’t even begun my “winter projects list” and it seems Spring has sprung!

Maybe this photo will get my motivation up to get started on the list. What do you think?

Oh yeah… Can you name the car in the photo?

You know you’re a British car owner if you looked at which gauge first?

I posted this car once before, as part of a larger guessing game, but it remained unidentified. So I’m posting it again. In fact I’ll add another close-up photo of it to give you another hint.

I love this car, and expressed my undying admiration for it to my navigator at the event we saw it a few years back. I picked it as my “car from this event I’d most like to take home.” My navigator thought I was nuts. I imagine once identified all you guys will suspect I’ve lost my marbles as well.

Well maybe not ALL of you, we’ll see. I know some of you also would lust in your petroleum-pumping hearts for one.

The marque has produced some iconic machines and there is one in particular (not this model, but not long after its day) that I have never seen in the flesh and can not wait to be able to photograph its legendary shape.

Today is a “travel day” for me as I’m headed down to San Francisco for Macworld Conference & Expo. This means I won’t be here to hand out hints or tell you if you’re wrong or right until I’m in my hotel at the end of the day. Good luck!

A couple of other viewpoints on the Iso Grifo posted yesterday. Jerome thinks it looks like a Jensen Interceptor. I can see the vague resemblance, but I have to say the Iso is a much nicer looking car. Longer, lower and wider. It is amazingly powerful and sounded wonderful as well.

Here’s a fun one for the weekend. As a practical joke somebody made up a “Just Married” sign on a participant’s car. (which of course was co-driven by two men.) Unfortunately the owner (pictured here) found the sign before they drove off.

Can you name the car?