With less than 30 days to go at OSU, I’m very excited to start more dedicated work for my clients and my own websites. Here is the latest from my new sites:
1974 Norton Commando For Sale with Dunstall Pieces on CafeBikesForSale.com
1972 Ferrari 365 GTC/4 For Sale on Classic Italian Cars For Sale
Track-Ready Laverda SFC For Sale on ClassicSportBikesForSale.com
Thanks for checking out my sites! I hope you enjoy,
dc
I know that’s a corny intro, but it just doesn’t get much better for a car enthusiast and web guy like me. I get to hang out photographing beautiful cars, being involved in a wonderful event for a great cause, and enjoying the unreal hospitality of our hosts, Shane and Karen. My wife and I keep looking at each other in disbelief as each turn provides another unexpected surprise and opportunity to share.
Here are the pictures from today. Not as much hands on because we were busy helping setup. But we’ll more than make up for after tomorrow, stay tuned!
dc
After a very long day of travel (3 hours fly time, 7 hours airport time), we arrived late last night in Scottsdale. Our hosts, Shane and Karen from Brighton Motorsport, were very patient with our ever changing travel plans and were good enough to pick us up, even at 11:30pm. Thank you guys!
Today we went with Shane to pick up their 1972 Ferrari 365GTC/4. It has been getting the once over by their Ferrari specialist to make sure it’s ready for the rally on Sunday. It’s getting a little special attention because it’s being guest driven by none other than two time Indy 500 champion, Arie Luyendyk (wikipedia entry)! Here is a picture when we picked it up:
Then we were on to Brighton Motorsports. I followed Shane in his Tahoe while he gave the 365 it’s first drive in some time. It was purchased earlier this year, but he confesses it hasn’t been driven as much as he would’ve liked. Not to worry, he as he made up for lost time and treated us to some wonderful music from that big V12 motor. A short while later, he handed us the keys to give it some more test time. It runs fantastic and is very easy to drive once out of congestion. Here is a picture of me with a huge grin on my face behind the wheel:
And here is a short video of our time behind the wheel:
We got back home just in time for Shana to catch the sunset as I downloaded images. Check this out:
As you can tell, we’re having an awesome time! If you’d like to follow our updates on the Brighton Rally, you can become a fan of the Official Brighton Facebook page or follow our Twitter page.
dc
Got a chance to hang out at PIR for an afternoon with Paul, Ed, Bob, and Brenda for the Rose Cup races, featuring the Trans Am series. The weather was a perfect high 70’s and cleared up nice by the time the main event was on. Congratulations to Tommy Drissi for his authoritative win in that Jaguar!
Here’s my quick pics from the event {yep, they’re over Photoshop’d, sue me!}:
A Mazda RX-2 Custom
An exceptional Porsche 951
Congratulations to Tommy Drissi!
The Chicane at Portland International Raceway:
The Sports Car Shop support rig with the race cars:
Check out the entire gallery, unedited:
dc
Paul was one of the organizers behind this year’s Euros in the Valley car show. Naturally I had to attend and I was really surprised with the great turnout. Here are my personal favs from the show:
Scirocco MK2 owned by Josh from Sports Car Shop:
Check out the uber rare Zender fan covers! I’m going to have to go back to the VW&Porsche archive to see if I can find an original ad for these. I hear the rims underneath are just as impressive.
Darren’s sweet e30 325ic, which has been brought back from the dead, literally! Great job man!
This BMW 3.0CS was in fantastic shape:
I finally got to see Richard’s e21 320i that I posted on German Cars For Sale Blog. The first real e21 buyer that comes along is going to buy this car. No negotiation required as $3200 is more than fair!
Paul’s Porsche 911SC looks like one of the standouts at this years show:
My personal pick for best of show was this bus. Totally perfect in every way:
Though a close second would be this Sahara BMW 2002:
Here’s a gallery of all the cars I took pics of:
Nice event! Looking forward to participating more in the coming year,
dc