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I am a “car guy”… I love old cars.
It has been a while since I posted a car photo that fell into the ‘weird’ realm. So… here you go.
I have to ponder the value of downforce vs drag whenever I see these sorts of things though. Not even considering the location of the downforce relative to the drive wheels. I wonder what Jim Hall thinks when he sees one of these drive by?
I finally met with fellow Jag-Lover E-type list member George Knuckey this past week. He lives not far from my office and we’ve chatted about getting together a few times over the years and it finally happened. We’ve enjoyed a nice Indian Summer of late and I drove the Jaguar to work specifically for this meeting. George brought his very nice 1967 OTS.
George’s engine bay is spotless and near-perfect, unlike my well-worn and hard driven car. We drove my car up to a local teriyaki place for a bite, and enjoyed a pleasant conversation. For me it was a perfect break from a very stressful week at work.
No guessing games needed here, just a nice photo.
OK, I accidentally stumbled upon this image while searching for an unrelated car photo. After the give-away earlier today I had to post it. Should hopefully produce a round of head scratching for the weekend.
Here’s the link: Fuel combustion | Move over, Prius | The Economist.
I don’t know how many of you read The Economist. There are a couple of semantic errors in this article about Diesel technology, but overall it is nice to see a lot of thought going toward improving the EFFICIENCY of internal combustion engines. Not to mention Diesel getting good press.
This should be big enough for Mad Dog’s old eyes to see. 😉
This might be too easy, but after the last two stumpers you guys need a softball tossed at you. Go ahead, smack it hard!
Four are easy. There are SIX cars visible though, which might up the difficulty quite a bit.
And here I thought I knew all the cars visible… there are actually SEVEN!
If you look closely at the “embiggen’ed” photo above you will note a sliver of car between the Corvette and Cayman. The reverse angle shot (see my last comment below for the URL) ID’s it as one of a Ferrari’s “sedan/coupe” type cars from the 70s.