Tag: cars
Black Speedster at Sunset
I’m guessing this Porsche Speedster is circa 1950.
Pipe in Pastel
Pastel scaffolding and a couple of interesting outcomes form drive-by and chance shots.
Head-on
SURPRISE! At La Orilla and Coors.
Running Car Total
Three Mazdas and a Ford pickup make up our new running car total. Friday was quite an eventful day in automotive adventures for the Price family. The adventure started on Thursday when Ro was late meeting me for lunch at Phở 79. While I was waiting, the owner of Phở 79 asked me if Tristan needed a car. I said “For a matter of fact she does. What do you have in mind?” He told me he had another Mazda RX-8 for sale, and thought I might be interested. Tristan met me and Laurie at Phở 79 that evening, we test drove the car, and loved it, of course. We discussed the car over our dinner of crayfish and other Vietnamese dishes, and then we worked out a deal on the car after dinner.
Laurie and I spent early Friday morning picking up our Ford F100 from the shop, and paying for the RX-8. I went to work and Laurie went to school, then we spent all Friday afternoon taking care of the taxes, title and registration — we are now a three Mazda family.
Speeds in B&W
As I pulled into a parking space in Laurie’s red Mazda Speed 3, I noticed a black Speed 3 about the same year parked on the edge of the lot. When I came out of the store, there was a later model white Speed 3 parked in front of the black one. Mazda Speed 3s are not common, yet there were Speeds in black and white, and I was driving a red one.
Citroën
I went out to run an errand at lunchtime and discovered a Citroën DS in the parking lot. This one is most likely a late 1970’s model. The Citroën DS was designed by an Italian sculptor and a French aeronautical engineer in the 1950’s.
WAHGURU Hover Car
Lexus with a WAHGURU plate hovering while being serviced.
Sixty at 60
I got a “drive by” of a 1960 Chevy Biscayne at 60 MPH on the way home.
Hot Wheels
The weather was sunny, with no wind and a high in the 50’s, so I took my cameras out for a walk around downtown. As I was crossing Central Ave. (Old Route 66) at sixth street, the guy in the blue car with big wheels started honking his horn. When I looked in his direction, he was making a gesture for me to take a photo, so I grabbed a quick shot as the light turned green, just before he drove off up Central. He looked pretty happy that I got the shot. The second photo is a little “abstract reflectionism” on Gold Ave. And then I got a “drive-by” photo of the moonrise over the Sandias as I was turning onto Coors Rd. on my way home.
Off Center & Not Even 