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While I was searching through my photos for a shot of a Jag knock off hub yesterday I found a few photos I’ve taken of wheels over the years and figured it would make a nice “Car Photo of the Day” theme.
Can’t really make a guessing game out of it, as most are fairly identifiable with marque logos right on the wheels… but maybe a few of you ultra-boffin car-geeks can rattle off the model and year based upon a shot of the hub. Feel free to toss out guesses if you have them.
I bought a set of knock-offs a few weeks ago, along with a couple of other parts from a vendor named Bill Tracy. (Note: The picture is not of one of the ones I bought,,, it isn’t even my car!) I’ve installed the other parts already, but I haven’t even unpacked the knockoffs other than one, really just to look at it. You see, the ones on my car are getting a bit chewed up from my inept hammering, and I figured it would be good to have a nice, pristine set to put on the car when I show it. Rare, I know, but since this car is a “driver” it looks a little ragged around the edges so to speak.
The price was right, and I bought some.
Tonight I received an email from Bill Tracy which said:
“It has been brought to my attention that these knock offs I sold you would fit better if they had been machined on the inside instead of a raw casting. I realize it is a problem with packaging, shipping etc. so just take them off and throw them away, make them unuseable. I am refunding your credit card with cost of parts and shipping. Sorry but I do not have any replacements at this time.”
Wow. What a refreshing bit of honesty and integrity from a vendor!
Especially given my outright horrible, or merely annoying experiences with other vendors in the “Jaguar community” this action showed me that there still are decent, honest human beings out there.
So now the question is: what should I do with these unusable (at least on my car) knockoffs?
Door handle on the barn? Us ’em to beat my staff? Paper weights?
Let me know what you think!
I stumbled upon this on my hard drive. It is from a few years ago. Nick had a school project where he had to make a video about “how to” do something. He chose “get ready to go skiing.”
We set up a camcorder in the family room and Nick had all his ski gear and narrated choice bits of info about the equipment and such while I read him the outline, ran the camera, etc. After we gathered the footage we sat down and created/edited his movie, which we then put back on tape and sent off to school with Nick.
I deleted the actual main part of the movie for presentation here… but left the even longer collection of out takes I compiled at the end of it. To me, that was the most enjoyable part of the whole project. 😉
I saw this car at a museum stop on the Forza Amelia a few years back. I fell hard for the whole package. I love this car…. even though I have never seen one other than this static display.
Do you know what it is?
(I photoshopped the identity off it, though I still think it is an easy one.)
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/ancient_plant_biodiesel.php
Saw this link on Digg.com. I love the idea that alternative feedstocks are being found. I’m not too thrilled that the industry is looking to agriculture as a primary source. I would think that the secondary source of WVO would be more logical, and more in tune with a conservation ethos.
They’ve lost their way.