Weather finally improved over the last week in Central Texas, and that means “The Boy” is up and flying, working on his private pilot license. I often take my “good” camera to the airfield because you never know what sort of activity you will capture.
Here are some of the highlights:
Alan flying with Black Hound Aviation Flight School
Wow, what a great morning for exotic cars! The variety was fantastic, from 1960’s vintage GT40 to the latest from McLaren, the 650S!! And plenty of heavy metal in between (including an epic MBZ SLS Black, in red).
Here is a gallery of the pics… ENJOY!!
Devil’s Go-Karts
A line of raging bulls
Other fine Italian machines
848 EVO taken to the pink level
Amazing color on this Gallardo
GT40 in the house!
Getting the kids started on the right foot
2nd time seeing this car in the last 24 hours… Maz’s are really catching my eye!!
Mexico Blue GT3RS with an epic 4.1L custom motor
Ah.. a throw back to my 911 days.
More of that GT40
Maseratti brought some examples of Italian awesome.
100 Octane – event organizer
Again, the Mexico Blue GT3RS
Ferrari 599.. (one of two seen today)
A mega-clean e30 ///M3 so sweet.
Thanks to the organizers, especially Benoit Boningue, fellow car club member and just plane cool dude.
Granted, it’s been a couple of weeks since the pros packed up and headed off to Pipeline for the last event on their years tour. I’m not always the quickest to get photos uploaded, with clients to service, mouths to feed, cars and bikes to work on and in there somewhere I try to have a little fun for myself.
So this morning I’m pulling up some pics from a few weeks ago that I’ve wanted to post up. One of these days I’ll get my watermarking done, but for now.. I’ll just have to trust that nobody finds these compelling enough to steal (here’s hoping).
I’m finally getting around to scanning in some of my old photos, before the original prints are damaged beyond use or get lost.
A couple that brought a smile to my face.
Kawi 650 JetSkis
These were both a ton of fun out on The Delta, jumping wakes and riding to Lost Isle Resort (only accessible via water). Had some great time with those Skis. I eventually traded them for a boat after we had our first child. I still miss those. Now that the kids are old enough, I think I’ll get some again. It’s good fun and good exercise!
My 2nd motorcycle - Honda CBR600F2
This was my second motorcycle. It had custom paint, exhaust and was a fun ride. This is also the first bike (OK, other than dirt bikes) that I had a crash on. It’s also the one that taught me about ATGATT (All The Gear, All The Time!). And that crashing sucks, PERIOD. This photo was taken out on Hwy 49 (a favorite of mine while living in Sacramento, CA), deep in the California Gold Country. I never thought about how much I’d learn to value a sunny day.
Flying to Vegas - trip sponsored by Silicon Graphics
Ken, Myself and Kris on an SouthWorst Airlines flight from SJC to Las Vegas! We’d had a great year in the Customer Service / IRIX Support department and the company rewarded us by sending the entire team (about 20 of us) for a weekend in Vegas. Many great memories of that trip! It was fantastic! Almost got myself and my boss tossed off the plane in San Jose for sneaking booze onboard and getting plastered on the flight down. It only went sideways from there!
