OK, I’m hoping this one will finally stump Roger a good one, and then when I reveal (or perhaps some really smart reader names it) he’ll slap his forehead so hard I hear the echo off the Cascade foothills.
Name that car.
Hey, I’m famous!
OK, so not really, my CAR is famous. The 65E has been selected to grace AutoBlog this morning. They chose it for the “Reader Ride of the Day” I’m honored.
Last time I was linked from there (the photo of the aston martin up on blocks sent by my friend Jerome in New Zealand) my traffic shot through the roof, and I picked up a few new readers. Welcome folks. I’m a Network Geek who works for a Web Hosting and Colocation company headquartered in Seattle named digital.forest. We’ve been around for over 12 years, which in web-time is a geological time-scale. I rarely talk about work here though, as this is my personal site. I mainly talk about, and really more often just SHOW PICTURES of cars. I attend vintage rallies in my Dad’s old Jaguar, and love to photograph old cars. The most common “feature” here is a “name that car” photo of the day, where car geeks look at things and display their depth of obscure car knowledge. The reigning big-brained car geek is Roger, who knows (almost) everything. So if you know your stuff, hang around and see if you can outwit him. 😉
Thanks to Damon & Alex over at Autoblog for the pick. Again, I’m honored.
–chuck
Name That Car… another str8.
This one could be really tough. Continuing on the theme of odd engine bay shots with straight-eight mills….
Yet Another Name That Car!
This one looks hard, but has a some serious dead giveaway clues all over it.
Since I’m shocked that nobody (even Roger!) guessed the last one (the Aston DB2) I’ll throw out this easy one.
My son, the (potential) teenage terrorist.
My son is hoping to further his study of languages by spending a semester abroad, in either a Spanish or German-speaking country next year. In order to accomplish this we tried to renew his US passport. He had one 10 years ago, when we were in the UK, but it has long ago expired. Besides, he is about 2x the size of the photo in that passport, since he was six years old when it was taken. He’d be embarrassed to travel with that photo, so we had a new one taken. His mother took him and his photo (and birth certificate, and Social Security card, etc etc) down to the post office in Everett today (a 30 minute drive) because in order to get a new US Passoprt he must appear IN PERSON, with his parent, since he is a minor. We brought along the above photo.
The fine civil servant refused to accept the photo, and sent them away.
The reasons? The background is “too blue”… and the words on his shirt.
For those of you not aware of what turns the crank of the under-18 crowd, it is a quote from this clip. I gave him the shirt for Christmas, and I think he hasn’t taken it off since. Yep. Refused a passport due to a video game cartoon T-shirt.
When my wife enquired as to why, the outstanding, ever-vigilant civil servant hero replied: “It is all because of 9/11”
My wife replied, “None of the 9/11 hijackers had a US Passport.”
The government representative had no response to that.
So we’re going for a second try next Monday with this photo:
Ah, the magic of Photoshop!
Name That Car
OK, this (I hope) will be a tough one. However somebody… and you know who you are Tom(!)… guessed wrong on the Lusso, which would be right on this car. Of course Tom guessed via AIM/iChat, not here on the blog, but maybe he’ll come out of his shell and guess right on this one.
He had the Marque, but not the Model. Bonus points for guessing that right.
–chuck
Movie Cliché #42
E-type going off of cliff:
From the classic 60’s flick “Danger: Diabolik!”