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!”
Car Photo of the Day:
Lots of talk of late on the E-type mailing list about “sexy cars” as a British car mag named the Fiat 500 the sexiest(wtf?) The E-type ended up at #90, go figure.
One car that a lot of guys named as sexy is the one pictured above. Can you name it?
Finally! A smart engine designer!
Engineering and Design are two different disciplines that seem to rarely intersect, but I was pleasantly surprised tonight to find such a confluence in my garage. My wife has a a 2006 Jeep Liberty CRD. The time has come for its first oil and filter change, so I crawled under and found what you see above.
Finally, some engineer that designs engines actually changes their own oil! Take a look at what you see above. What a refreshing thing to find! At first I saw a huge skid plate covering the oil pan and I groaned, imagining having to remove the plate via a bunch of bolts to get at the drain plug and then dig goodness knows how deep to find the filter. But as I crawled further back I found behind the skid plate a nice tight package of the oil drain bolt and filter, sitting right next to each other.
It was a simple drain, and very clean since I could put the drain pan in one spot and get both the oil drain and filter out at one time.
This engine, though sold by Jeep, a division of Daimler-Chrysler is neither American or German engineered… it is Italian(!)
So whomever that Italian engineer might be, my hat is off to you! Thanks!