Nerd Girl Goes Photoblogging
If you look carefully at the above photo, you will see a huge alsatian filling up the back seat. Or maybe not. But it is there!
And why have I got a photo of an old car with a dog in it on my blog? Good question.
When Ce asked me what I was doing at the weekend, she and A both fell about laughing when I said I might be going to the local vintage car exhibition thingy (blaming it on C, of course) and THEN they said I must blog about it. Must, must, must. Can't get any sense out of some people.
So anyway, I have zero interest in cars, but I am a great fan of weekends being as relaxing and weekend-like as possible. Besides, there's something quite intriguing and cool about old cars, and if something like that was going on in your local town, you might pop along of an afternoon, right? Come on, you would.
And that was what C and I aimed to do today, except our oven managed to conk out last night after playing havoc with our electricity for the last few weeks, so we had to go and get a new one, and by the time we got back it was far too late to go and stand around looking at old cars.
Cutting a long story short, that is why we decided to do a photo walk instead (or rather, I took my camera along when we walked Harrythedog) and captured a few home-bound cars doing what cars do best (pollute the environment!)...
... tomorrow, there will be old fire engines and things. Hooray!
Comments
Well get the irony on a recycling blog. :P
Posted by: Alison | August 2, 2008 6:40 PM
Yeh, yeh. Well, yeh these cars are not energy efficient but I could argue they are being reused again and again, thus are not going to waste. Perhaps it would be better to crush them up and recycle them into Smart cars, which are nowhere near as beautiful looking?!
Posted by: j | August 2, 2008 6:47 PM
Smart = eco-friendly?
They might have a tiny engine but a quoted figure of 60 mpg isn't very impressive for a tiny engined car that take 2 people.
(for comparsion...my car can do a quoted figure of 62 mpg, and it's an estate (although real driving does reduce that...but on motorways I do get more than 62 mpg) - I'm just saying that so you're aware that Smarts aren't the answer although I'm sure you already know that :)
You want electric cars really...but then...batteries are horribly eco-unfriendly to make...
Guess we all should go back to horses. They're far much nicer too.
As I'm a sci-fic fan...I'm more in favour of developing wormhole technology and colonising other planets and reducing the vast over-population of Earth...ah well I can but dream...
Posted by: JGJones | August 4, 2008 4:03 PM
Are you sure they were part of the rally, look like run of the mill HB cars to me!
Posted by: opd | August 7, 2008 11:38 AM
Are you sure they were part of the rally, look like run of the mill HB cars to me!
Posted by: opd | August 7, 2008 11:38 AM