Car Photo(s) of the Day: a P-car.

Apologies for the lst of CPotD postings of late. Life has me quite busy at the moment, but I’ll make it up to you by posting a handful of photos today for the gearheads to ponder, wonder, and puzzle over.

First is this amazing Porsche captured at the Northwest Historics a few years ago. I was reminded of it when I watched the old early 70s sci-fi flick THX 1138 the other night. It shows a bleak future in which, inexplicably we all drive Lola Can-Am sports racers! Anyway, I’m not at all an authority of Porker race cars, so maybe somebody can fill us in on what this car may be exactly? (908?)

Nick Goolsbee news

I mentioned in the last post about Chris being home for Spring Break that he & I attended the state finals for Hi-Q competition to watch Nick’s (and Chris’ former) team, Arlington High School compete. The finals were once again held at Stanwood, the defending champs from last year, with a loud, boisterous home-team crowd. The teams were Stanwood, Monroe, & Arlington.

Unfortunately Arlington fell behind early and was never able to catch up. 🙁

We had good seats and I was able to shoot some photos for you:

Nick answers a question (correctly by the way!)

Thinking hard!

Conferencing

The score near the end of the match. You can see the look of despair on the AHS team.

Still managing a smile though.

This past weekend when I wasn’t spending time with Chris in Olympia I was helping Nick in a project for his Spanish class. I don’t speak any Spanish beyond “Mas cervaças por favor.” so I have no idea of this is as funny as it looks, but it was fun to help Nick do the editing on our iMac at home.

Happy Birthday Chris! (Updated)

Chris Goolsbee turns 20 today.

I’ll be offline most of today as Sue & I are heading down to Olympia to celebrate Christopher’s 20th birthday. I’ll bring along my camera, but here are a couple of shots I made of him when he was home recently on Spring Break. He came with me to watch his brother Nicholas compete in the state Hi-Q finals. Since Chris’ team from three years ago were state champs, it was fun for him to come back and say hello to the teachers that still run the program at AHS.

Happy Birthday.

Speaking for myself, I’m amazed that I have a twenty year old kid! It seems like I was twenty not too long ago myself. (In reality it was 27 years ago!) I have a photo of my somewhere on my 20th birthday. I’ll dig it up and put it here if I can find it. Meanwhile you’ll have to make do with my reasonable facsimile. Those of you who knew me when I was twenty can attest to the resemblance, though I think Chris is better looking than I ever was. 😉

As promised here’s a photographic update, fresh from the scanner:

Chris and Sue on his first day.

Chris and the proud father on Chris' first day.

The whole family, circa 1990-1.

Two classic young Chris shots.

Chris yesterday, on his 20th Birthday.

Chris and Sue on his 20th birthday, in front of his apartment.

Finally, my favorite photo of Chris & his mom, taken on Vancouver Island in the summer of 1991:

Sue and Chris

Car Photo of the Day: Name That Car

Since the last CPotD turned into a stumper I’ll toss a fairly simple one in the mix for the weekend. It even has a short name (can be condensed to 5 characters) so all you folks typing on your new iPads can easily guess.

Can you name this car?

Qualifier: Marque specialists ( I know who you are!) must provide full model details, or no iPad for you. 😛