Car Photo of the Day: Evening Light Redux

While I’ll keep exploring this “Road Photo of the Day” theme, I can not give up on the tried & true CPotD staple of this website.

Another shot from that evening at Otter Crest on the Oregon coast two summers ago during the Monte Shelton Northwest Classic car rally. The focus of the composition is on this lovely 300sl coupe, which is the proverbial fish in the barrel for a car spotter. Even my wife can spot a Gullwing in a photo! But there are enough other cars in the background to keep all you car geeks busy for a while. Have at it!

Road Photo of the Day: Curves Ahead

A slight alteration of theme, at Paul Wigton’s suggestion: Road Photo of the Day. I hope you enjoy it.

This was shot last year on Montana Highway 279 northwest of Helena. The question is who shot it? I know it was taken with Mark Collien’s camera, but I can recall taking a shot like this somewhere on that trip. I know both of us drove portions of this road, and I was playing with his Nikon whenever I was in the passenger seat. I know I did my best to grab shots at the end of the day that I knew I snapped, so perhaps this is one… who knows? Mark?

If it is your shot Mark apologies for the blanket application of my copyright. 😉

Car Photo of the Day: This is not a car…

…but it is just as evocative. This is a spot near the highest point on this particular road. This photo was taken in the late summer of 2006, when the western US was literally consumed by large forest fires. That is why it is so hazy.

There is something about that sweep of asphalt, tight switchback, and the promise of more of the same that make me want to just… go.

Car Photo of the Day: Wrenching.

Not really a car, but one of its major components. In this case a rather famous one. While you guys ponder the nature of this machine I’ll be out in the barn wrenching on my daily driver. The recent cold snap forced me to switch to running 100% petro-Diesel and I suspect that has contributed to a common malady in VW TDI engines, a clogged EGR/Intake manifold. I’m pulling both the EGR & the intake manifold off the Jetta’s much-smaller-than-this-photo’s engine and cleaning out the accumulated soot. Thankfully there is a wonderful community of smart folks online, in the form of tdiclub.com who share all the “how-tos” of TDI maintenance freely. Armed with that info, I’m off to do battle! Wish me luck & See you soon!

Car Photo of the Day: TwoFifty @ around Nine O’Clock.

Winter is in some sort of odd state of suspended animation here in the Pacific Northwest. Unlike our usual slate grey skies and endless mist falling on cedars, we have high thin clouds, pervasive non-rain, and cold-ish, but not too cold temps. It has been a weird winter. I hope that doesn’t mean we’ll have a wet summer, as I count on running a few rallies this year, including the Monte Shelton, where this 250 (whose particular designation, GTE maybe? I’m not a Ferrari expert, I have forgotten) was photographed after the sun set over the Pacific. Of course I have a lot of small jobs, and maybe one big one (brake system rebuild… sigh) on the Jaguar to do. I haven’t even LOOKED at the car, much less done any work on it. Need something to get me motivated!

This photograph is really not that great… the background is way too busy and that chain link fence really screws up the horizon… but the light on the car is wonderful and I’m too lazy to clean it up in Photoshop. Just mentally ignore the distractions and soak up those dying reflections in the paint as you contemplate warm summer evenings. 🙂