As always, this is the place for the conversation that doesn't belong anywhere else. I don't have a lot in the way of suggested topics this week, but I do have some pictures to share from the Greenwood Car show and Audi Expo from a few weeks ago. I picked a few pictures to share after the jump:
Here's my car at the Greenwood Car Show–it was a bit of a cloudy day to begin with.
Here's my car on display at Greenwood, in the "weird car" line with an original Studebaker…
Hopefully everybody either had or is continuing to have a fantastic July 4 holiday weekend. Please feel free to use this space as the location for your random holiday weekend automotive conversations.
On the subject of Independence Day and the United States' former colonial rulers, what reasonably priced English car would you own if you had the chance? There are quite a few other English cars that inspire more lust, but in the spirit of Anglo-American unity (or, if you prefer, the tradition of …
As always, this is the place for off-topic conversation. We have been long on open threads and light on content-rich posts lately; hopefully we can turn that around this week.
Well, I showed my 1986 Audi Coupe GT in two car shows over the weekend, the first being the large Greenwood Auto Show that serves as a general-interest car show, and the second being the regional Audi Expo. After a frantic several weeks spent polishing, buffing, cleaning, waxing, and re-cleaning the car, I felt as if I put my best …
The Retrieval of Hayabusa JAXA
The Hayabusa spacecraft landed in the Australian outback on June 13, after a seven-year space journey. It is the hope of JAXA, Japan’s space agency, that the capsule Hayabusa is carrying contains a sample taken from asteroid Itokawa. If so, this will be the first sample of asteroid material ever returned to Earth by a space mission.
Now, the process of opening the capsule to see what’s inside has begun.
The presence of a low-pressure gas inside the capsule has already be…
As always, this is the place for the random conversation that doesn't belong anywhere else.
A few possible conversation topics:
- Anthony Cagle and I will be showing our cars in the Greenwood Car Show in Seattle this Saturday, and if anybody wants to show their car with us or stop by and say hello, you're more than welcome. Anybody else doing the car show circuit this summer, either as a participant or as a spectator?
- Last week, Jalopnik ran a piece about the most annoying car owners. I don'…
As always, this is the place for the random conversation that doesn't belong anywhere else.
A few possible conversation topics:
- Anthony Cagle and I will be showing our cars in the Greenwood Car Show in Seattle this Saturday, and if anybody wants to show their car with us or stop by and say hello, you're more than welcome. Anybody else doing the car show circuit this summer, either as a participant or as a spectator?
- Last week, Jalopnik ran a piece about the most annoying car owners. I don'…
As always, this is the place for the random conversation that doesn't belong anywhere else.
A few possible conversation topics:
- Anthony Cagle and I will be showing our cars in the Greenwood Car Show in Seattle this Saturday, and if anybody wants to show their car with us or stop by and say hello, you're more than welcome. Anybody else doing the car show circuit this summer, either as a participant or as a spectator?
- Last week, Jalopnik ran a piece about the most annoying car owners. I don'…