Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance
Monday, June 29th, 2009Porsche and Mustang where the featured marques at this past weekend’s Palo Alto, California Concours d’Elegance. You can see Rich Tsai’s photos here.
Archive for June, 2009
Date Night Movie: The World’s Fastest Indian
Saturday, June 27th, 2009 I guess I’m just a sucker for movies about old guys and their motor obsessions, because this “unabashed mash note to a lovely character from New Zealand’s recent past” (to quote a review on Amazon) was the perfect date night movie. In the The World’s Fastest Indian, Anthony Hopkins plays real life 60-something Burt Munro, a Kiwi who’s been tinkering with his 1920s-era Indian motorcycle for years, pushing it to faster and faster speeds. His dream is to take the bike to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and try for a land speed record, and when he realizes he won’t live forever, he sells everything and heads for the US. About riding fast he says: “You live more in five minutes going flat out in one of these things than most live in a lifetime.” Burt is completely captivating and I cheered for him even when I though he was nuts.
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Wheels in the Closet
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 I wouldn’t say we have too many cars. It’s the extra stuff that turns out to be a problem…. where to put those priceless wheels, the tires in 5 different sizes, and of course the spare part that we probably don’t need but would be too hard to replace? In most houses, open a closet door and you’ll find coats or suit cases or shoes and boots. But at my house, you’re as likely to find wheels. To the left you’ll see our downstairs hall closet (and our cat, Elwood). It’s always a balancing act when we acquire something new — what to move, where to put it. It was all easier when we didn’t live together, there were more closets and two garages. But since consolidating, I have fewer clothes and shoes and extra sheets for the bed.
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