The Driving Thread

A few snaps from Saturday at Mount Panorama:

The Turtle Wax Trans Am series, featuring American V8s — Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers. The sound was sublime.

A mid-'60s Holden Monaro, the legendary Australian marque recently discontinued by GM. This generation of Monaro was basically the Chevelle of Australia back in its day. More recently, Monaros were sold in the U.S. as the Pontiac GTO of the early 200os.


This '69 Camaro was in the Classic Touring Cars race.


I didn't stay for the main event on Sunday -- I didn't even actually mean to be here Saturday, but was the beneficiary of my own bad planning. But man, what an amazing venue, and it rekindled my love for motorsports that I had kind of lost somewhere along the way.

 

Great shots.

 

There are two great ages in the whole long history of Australia.

Before



and after.

 

Not as good as Songbird’s but interesting none the less…

American dream: Los Angeles as it really isn’t – in pictures

 

Those are way better.

My shots are more like the grease and the grime on the soles of your sneaks.

 

A for real driving story. About one hour ago, I was stuck in the most Boston traffic jam imaginable. It's a state holiday here, so traffic on 128, our beltway was very light -- until all of a sudden, average speed went from 70 to 5 mph. About a half mile down the road, I discovered the cause of the backup. People were slowing down to almost a stop to look at the Marathon runners on the overpass above the highway.

 

San Vicente Boulevard part 382

 

PICO AND SAWTELLE -- Graffiti removal crew shows great persistence lugging buckets of paint to the top of the underpass.

 

I was under one of the freeways in West L.A. around Pico and Barrington and saw a sweet old Camaro, not sure of the year.

The driver looks like Jake Tapper.

 

Gotta see the taillights to be sure which year specifically, but that’s a 1967-69 model.

 

That half-a-million-dollar Lambo takes the same Interstate battery you put in your 2014 Corolla.



I parked on Purdue Avenue near Pico. At the corner is a shop for Lamborghinis.

Another guy was spray-painting the rims of a red Lambo.



Just down the street at another shop, brakes on a yellow Lambo were being worked on.



Meandered up and down Pico, took a lot of shots.

This one is pretty funny. Is it part of a joke?