Matt

@spannerhead.bsky.social

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Weird cars, planes, space, Appalachia, France, Formula 1, Pokémon, Craig Ferguson interviews.

A hackberry butterfly (a.k.a. American Emperor) perched on a man's thumb, inspecting it with its proboscis.
A warm gray cat lying on the floor, resting his head on a laptop's AC adapter.
Engine bay of a Mazda JC Cosmo, featuring a triple-rotor 20B rotary engine.
A Messerschmitt Me 262 on display in a science museum in Germany.
An advertisement for a Jensen in-dash cassette stereo from the March 1984 issue of Car & Driver magazine.
A Boeing 707-123 taking off, leaving a VERY smoky wake, and retracting its landing gear seemingly very early.
A comment by legendary car designer Peter Stevens on a blog post of mine discussing the Toyota GT-One.
Open right door of a 1972 Datsun 240Z, focused on a red door card.
Engine bay of an Infiniti Q45.
Interior of a 2012 Mazda 2.
Left rear profile of a 1993-1995 Mazda RX-7 in Vintage Red.
The legendarily hideous Boston City Hall.
Profile of a pearl white 1987 Volvo 780 coupe, styled by Bertone, with a hedge and forest in the background.
Legendary French character Cyrano de Bergerac, who's associated with the very French idea of panache.
A composite photo of the road test digest James May edited that got him fired from Autocar magazine.
Rear view of my son's 2009 Ford F150 2WD STX Extended Cab with a fresh coat of paint-on bedliner applied.
Close up of a pale green Peugeot 604's windshield.
Detail image of a red Porsche 993 911's windshield.
Press photo of a silver 2003 Audi Nuvolari concept car.
A Baur-modifed BMW E21 3-Series.
Left rear view of a silver 2003 Mazda MPV parked in a residential driveway.
Rear underside of a 2002 Porsche Boxster S with its complete exhaust removed.
Front left angle of a white Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V in a parking lot.
Upper right front view of an Orient Blue, slicktop, 5-speed 2002 BMW E46 330i. Properly maintained, it has a lot of cachet and is very, very good at doing all the Car Things™: Going, turning, stopping, etc.
A Vietnam Airlines Airbus A350-900 at the moment of touchdown during a landing.