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This one was a total throwaway. I did it for the heck of it in the morning, and when I lay down for bed realized I’d never paused to take another photo the rest of the day.
Traffic
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Caprice
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I noticed this Chevrolet sitting in a parking lot across from my office as I was leaving work. I’ve never seen it before. It looked kind of interesting with an outsized set of tires at all four corners (excuse me, my car-geek is showing) and its tinted windows. I took a while to set up the shot (camera s
Teardown
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I know that I blogged a while back about the clutch being the solution to all problems Chevelle-related. This is the Chevelle’s engine. On an engine stand. Not in the car. Being disassembled by my brother. One would be lead to believe that, perhaps, the clutch was not the only issue with the Chevelle. One would be right about that.
Natural sun catchers
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Bugged around town
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I see this one occasionally on my way home from work, but not on the way to. I love the old mags on this thing, reminds me of high school back when those wheels showed up on just about every other vehicle on the road. I’m not a huge bug fan, but if I were picking one out, it would probably look a lot like this.
Commute substitute
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It wouldn’t be perfect, but it would be okay to drive this to work everyday.
Custom commute
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This is a 1966 Ford Custom 500. I see this guy occasionally on my way in to work. I want to drive something like this to work every day. Okay, maybe not exactly like this, but something old and cool, and this is certainly a lot older and cooler than anything I’ve driven in to work since maybe I was riding the R90S to work, and even that is ten years newer than this thing (although it is incredibly cool).
Do you have a favorite car, a favorite OLD car? What would your ideal commuter vehicle be, if’n it could be something with a little class and style? I have a list, but it’s about twenty or forty vehicles long. Right now I’d like it to be a ’55 Chevy done up like the one in the movie “Two Lane Blacktop.”
Electrical artistry
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Back in the good ol’ days, before the advent of the printed circuit board, they used to make amplifiers by soldering things together one piece at a time, one guy sticking things together bit by bit. This is one such outstanding example of what was once standard procedure, now practiced largely by boutique amplifier makers. This whole crazy mess actually makes sound, glorious sound, emit from a guitar in a wondrous cacophony of toneful toneliness. Being fans of good tone at Casa de Tom, this sort of thing goes over quite well.
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If you’re gonna do it, do it right.
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I love this. I absolutely adore this. I like to think that the owner, faced with the dilemma of home car repair, held a roll of silver duct tape, looked concernedly at the bumper of their Ford, and said, “No, this will never do. We can’t have silver on blue. Can’t! It’s ludicrous! Madness, I say!” and then he or she trundled off to the local hardware store and sorted through an immense selection of duct tape while holding a paint chip for said vehicle, and fretting over just the perfect shade that would effectively render the repair completely invisible. Had I not developed such an eagle eye from months of photographic work, I would surely have not even noticed it. Admirable, artistic, amazing.
*sigh*
Dangit! Missed today’s pic. Arrrrrrgh!