Today was a great day. Firstly we had temperatures of 80 degrees with blue skies, and secondly, Redmond held an “Exotics @ Redmond Town Center” event. The Exotics event is a car meet in the middle of town where around 200 cars are put on show for the adoring public.
Some of the cars relatively modern or even new, in fact there was a company there with a few of it’s cars looking to make a sale. But there was also a lot of people who refurbish old cars and and you could see the love and pride they had in showing their “babies” to other fanatics.
Obviously you see the usual suspects at the meet, there were loads of Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Porsches and if that’s your thing you’d love it. But for me I like older cars and there were plenty of them there too. I shot Corvettes, Ford GTs, Jaguar’s and even an Austin Healey and they were FANTASTIC. So you should expect some cars being posted in the coming weeks.
But I thought I’d start with a 1966 MK III Shelby Cobra. There were a couple of these cars parked up at the meet and they looked amazing. They have this large opening at the front and catches air and funnels it to the car’s radiators (for water and oil) which looks like a big mouth.
Today’s picture was shot from the ground looking up. I wanted something very low capturing that big mouth and the vertical bumpers that I think look like teeth.
The Cobra originated in England in the early 1960’s and was built by AC. Shelby in the US wanted something to compete against the successful Corvette and worked with AC to come up with a challenger. These days AC still builds the cars in Germany and you can buy a new MK VI for around $175,000. Needless to say, Lisa is lucky I’m into photography.
The Halo guys had bad breath today, so we told them to give their teeth a real good clean, I captured the moment for you…
