Peripatetic

Apparently a photograph of me & my father, driving in the 65E appears in the March 2009 issue of “Classic Motorsports“… I guess as part of the article titled “Jaguar E-type Buyer’s Guide.” I have yet to confirm this however.

Today at lunch I went to a local Barnes & Noble bookstore to see, and unfortunately could only find the January 2009 issue. I did note a British car magazine with a D-type on the cover so I flipped through it. As I was about to slide it back on the rack I noted a familiar image on the backside.

Sure enough, the famous “Miss January” shot of the 65E, which has graced the very first XKEdata.com calendar, as well as won the first annual SNG Barratt photo contest. I guess SNG are getting good milage from the image.

I didn’t buy the magazine, as it was $10.50(!) so I just snapped a photo with my cell phone. 😉

Car Photo of the Day: a Leaper

Here’s an iconic figure. The leaping Jaguar hood ornament. Said to have been designed by Sir William Lyons himself in 1938. It works so well on some cars, and so horribly on others such as the E-type. Why some people insist upon bolting them to E-type bonnets is beyond me! It is beautiful though. Perfectly suited to some classic Jaguar designs, such as the SS90/SS100, and many post-war Saloons.

Sunday Drive

A bit delayed, but here’s my report of a pleasant Sunday drive this past weekend. Sorry for the delay, but my photo-editing software was broken. Namely the “Save for web” feature, which makes nice reasonably-sized JPEG files would not work for me. A few calls to Adobe Tech Support revealed to me that their programmers are complete idiots. It seems that unless you are logged into your Macintosh in an account with “administrator” levels of privilege certain features will not work… huh? I’ll let my friend John (John, you should add a whole “adobe” category on your site… I’d link to it!) continue to beat on them about such insanity as he’s so much better than I about those things. Too bad Tim Gill never shipped his “Photoshop killer” back in the day. Sigh… when you would trade Quark for Adobe you KNOW things have gotten bad!

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