All images via Nick Maggio’s excellent photoblog of entirely original works, andthesearethedays.
If, like us, you share an interest in the intersection of motor vehicles and arthouse photography that’s done right, you owe it to yourself to bookmark Nick’s site if you haven’t already.
A perennial favorite. Enjoy!
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Of course there would be an end-of-year retrospective. We’ve posted so many nice cars on here in the past year that how could there not be? Of the ones we can remember, these are our favorite realistically attainable drivers of 2010— ‘real’ cars, if you will, as opposed to race cars, or concept cars, or cars that might fall into categories like ‘super rare’ or ‘super expensive’. We would be proud to call any of them our own and would trip over ourselves to make room for them in the garage.
So here they are, in no particular order. And if you’ve been reading us awhile, there shouldn’t be any real surprises. We hope we didn’t inadvertently leave out too many deserving examples.
Approaching the final stretch! Hope you enjoyed the year’s grab bags as much as we did putting them together.
On to photos…
Taking a quick break from cars. Virtuosity, thy name is Hendrix.
Effin’ incredible.
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Gives creedence to that saying, ‘Run what ya brung’. Not the best tool for the job, but wouldn’t you still want to be here? We would.
..at its most eye-popping. To be fair, the 8C isn’t what you’d call a direct descendant of the 33 Stradale, but nevertheless, a contrast this stark is enough to leave a person slackjawed.
But in spite of that, we genuinely think the 8C isn’t a bad looker. It’ll never be revered like the legendary (and breathtakingly rare) 33 Stradale, but it also stands on its own merits just fine.
(via 8000vueltas, which has much more of this)
Apropos of our recent post, but this time en color. This is [a small excerpt of] West Virginia Route 15 climbing west from Valley Head to Webster Spring. Fantastic driving roads in this part of the country.
A more detailed driving report can be found here under the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic section. Consider this an open invitation as well to share your own thoughts on any great North American driving roads that you may be familiar with.
..but there is more to it than meets the eye.
Yes, that’s a Chevy bowtie (wrapped in M colors) pinned to the right of the kidneys, hinting at what lurks beneath the hood. And while we generally don’t love engine swaps where an American engine has been shoehorned into a non-American car, this E12 is an example we can safely say we’d rock all day long.
Full article and photos:
Motoring Con Brio 