Last Saturday I snapped a few pictures of the car in the City. Brittany (my finacée) and I were having some engagement photos taken, so I figured I might as well get a few shots of my "other girl" since the weather was beautiful.

The locations are Lombard St, the staging area at Ft. Point beneath the Golden Gate, and a house I thought looked nice in the Sea Cliff division southwest of the Presidio.

The car is my 2001 XJ-R, Titanium Grey, 18" Asteroids. Yes, my exhaust cut outs are empty. I removed the rear mufflers and haven't had time to put new piping on. Sorry!

With no further adieu:



Mirror finish!


Brittany driving down while I kept holding all the tourists up taking pictures Who cares, you don't go to Lombard on a Saturday if you're in a hurry anyway.


Pause for scenery. For those unfamiliar with San Francisco, here's the view from Lombard St looking Northeast into the Bay.


And just about due East from Lombard St. is Coit Tower at the top of Telegraph Hill with the Bay Bridge towers just barely poking up to the right and left of Coit Tower. The cathedral in the foreground is the Sts. Peter & Paul Church.


Now back to the car! The brick building beneath the Golden Gate is Ft. Point, a former fort designed to protect against enemy ships entering the Bay.


Looking northwest with the Marin Headlands in the shot:


Perspective on the car is kinda funny, but you can see the Headlands tapering off into the ocean here, and just as those hit the water you've got the mouth of the Bay and into the Pacific.


Just to the right of that blue & white sailboat is Alcatraz Island


And finally, some shots in front of a house I liked the style of in Sea Cliff:




And finally, with the sun in my eyes and the city skyline behind us, here is a shot from Treasure Island, which is halfway across the Bay Bridge.


The end!

 

Nice pics!!

 

The second one in front of the bridge is a postcard. Great shot!

 

+1, that's my favorite too

 

After seeing the first couple of street shots, I know where they got the idea for the "Corkscrew" at Laguna Seca. Imagine going down that at speed?

 

Thanks guys. I keep being impressed with the color in a lot of the shots I'm taking with my $25 craigslist score. Lol. I know from a photographers point of view, the composition sucks (I'm just not good at figuring that out till I see the pics on my computer the next day ), and the heavily crowned roads were screwing with some of my shots, so sorry about that. But yeah, I love the pics too!

Boy, I can just imagine going back there in something like my old 3 series and drifting down it. Heaven. The pics make the street look huge, but going down it it seems MUCH smaller, and when you take the radius of the turns into account there's really no room for drifting down it or even going at speed hardly at all. I have tested the limits on occasion, but I still don't think I really went over 15 or 20, if even that high. And not 20 through the corners, for sure.

 

+2 on the pics above. Wonderful but.... what happened to the exhausts?? ... just kidding
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+1 on the 2nd pic very nice, all of them turned out pretty well check out my new ones ill prob have them up 2night or 2morrow