Miata Photos – Page 5 – Life of Brian

CTBNL

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

I made a quick run to Home Depot on Sunday afternoon to pick up a couple items and seeing as I was trusted on the errand all by myself I had a chance to get up to some mischief. Ssssh, I pulled around behind the building and backed the Car To Be Named Later close to a blank wall, I jumped out, with the engine still running . . . . . . . . I took a picture.

It is so much easier to do this without Donna present. Not that she isn’t usually a good sport about skulking around behind shopping centers and hopping out of the car while I photograph it. But when I start wandering around aimlessly looking for the right angle and sitting on the ground or leaning in then getting in the car again and backing it into a spot a foot away, then dancing looking for that certain approach and maybe moving the car again with the car to get a different angle and taking a picture and then turning the wheel and backing up and…well about then she starts fidgeting.

Here is a photo with the Emperor’s old wheels actually on the CTBNL instead of just rolled up next to it. I think they look real good there, just not sold on the road feel, yet.

Calendar Girl

Thursday, October 22, 2015

The guy who runs my favorite Miata shop that I’ve never bought anything from, The revlimiter.net Store, asked over on the forum for photo submissions for his 2016 calendar. I submitted the one above. Now it looks like he is not going to get enough quality submissions (no idea if mine meets his criteria) so there probably won’t be one this year.

I used to do one using pictures of the Emperor back in the Aughts, so I thought I might have enough photos built up over the last 7 years to do my own. Some quick checking and it looks like I can come up with nine. Hmmm. Doesn’t help that every photo of the Miata from the last two years has me standing near it with a silly poster in my hands. I even tried going back to photos of the previous ’95 Miata we owned, but those are so far back the resolution is too small to blow up the calendar size.

I haven’t given up, but time is getting short.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 06/25/15: 101

Subtle

Monday, July 13, 2015

World Serious

Sunday, October 20, 2013

After last night’s Detroit Flop the Red Sox are in the 2013 World Series. Their opponents will be the St Louis Cardinals and what I’m kind of hoping is it goes like the last time these two teams met in the “Fall Classic” in 2004, the Sox swept the Cardinals in 4 games. What will probably happen is more like when they meet in both the 1946 and 1967 World Series, the Cardinals won in 7 games.

What I do know is that I envision anywhere from four to seven long, tense nights on the couch watching baseball.

Cherahala Skyway Photos

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

A few of the Deals Gap photographers have now branched out and stationed someone over on the Cherahala Skyway to maximize coverage. I didn’t know this until we stumbled on one Saturday.

I was right on the tail of a Camaro RS that I was slowly reeling in turn by turn when I spotted the US129 Photos banner and tent with a guy and a camera. Thinking that I was too close to the Camaro for the photographer to get a good shot of the Emperor I went around the next corner to a small straightaway and did a quick u-turn. This time I passed by the photo spot unhidden. We flew by to get photographed, quickly found another turn around spot on the other side and went screaming by again.

New Royal Portrait

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

This past Saturday we got up just before dawn so we could have a really good chance of running through the entire 318 turns in 11 miles that is Deals Gap unimpeded. And our planned worked to perfection. I got to drive both from south to north and back from north to south without having to slow down for anything except my fear of driving off the mountainside.

After the first trip through, at the north end, we pulled into what used to be a gravel lot, but is now paved and took a brief break. We only stayed for a minute or so for fear of some slug of a vehicle getting in ahead of us. Just as we hopped back in the Emperor a car did go by heading south, but I wasn’t too worried about it slowing me down as it was a 2-door BMW 3 series. To be sure he would be no trouble we took another brief break after about a mile at the Calderwood Dam overlook at the top of the hill.

In the 15-20 minutes since we passed the approximate mid-point of the Gap, one of the intrepid “Tail of the Dragon” photographers had set up shop. This resulted in the photo above, 1 of 5 he took on my way by,which is now become the Emperor’s new Royal Portrait. As it turns out we probably didn’t need the break, because when I went to find that morning’s photos, the set right in front of ours was of that white BMW and it had M badges on it, so if the driver was there like me, to “drive” the road, I couldn’t have kept up with him if I tried.