Category: Cars

I am a “car guy”… I love old cars.

Car Photo of the Day: Wet Classics

Things are trying to get back to normal here at the Goolsbee household. We’re on our eleventh straight day of snow, though the temps have risen and it seems more mixed with rain now. The stuff is in retreat. Now it is just a matter of time.

I was perusing my photos of old cars and decided on something of a theme for the time being… wet cars. So to start off the proceedings here is the wet nose of the late Jerry Nell’s XKSS. Hard to make a guessing game when the name is right there in big letters, but some forthcoming wet classics are mysterious enough for you carspotters in the coming days.

Hope your christmas was fun!

UNstuck, but still immobile.

Yesterday night, when temps plunged below zero here I gave a go at moving the Jetta out of its snowbank. I grabbed a shovel, dug a bit, got in and rocked it out. I ran it up to an area under a big Douglas Fir tree where there was very little snow. The photo above is taken out my bedroom window. I’d love to put it in the barn, but there is just too much snow to navigate my way through to get there. I’ll put a tarp over it today to protect it from the inevitable release of the snow held by the Fir tree. Let’s just hope no branches come down on it.

Meanwhile, I have to suit up in my old ice-climbing gear and shovel off the roof.

Stuck

This winter storm has hit us pretty hard. We have about 2 feet of snow at my house. I had to spend the night at work last night… finally came home about 2 pm. The roads were “ok” … mostly packed snow. I made it 62 miles from my office to my driveway. I rolled the car right into the same spot I dug it out of two days before… then thought I should turn it around so I could exit. Boy was that a dumb idea!

I backed up, could not get it oriented properly, then slid off into the deep snow. It sunk up past the door sills and stopped. The body was high-centered on snow… no traction and could not “rock” it at all.

I think I’m stuck here until it thaws. 🙁