Cars and photography! I was trying to think of a bunch of things that I like to do and I thought it might be a little challenging to narrow down my interests but once I started typing it ended up being a lot easier! So my two favorite hobbies right now among many things, are probably car stuff and photography.
Ah this here was my love before I met my wife. She's still secretly hiding in my heart though! I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to get another one of these in a salvage yard somewhere and restore it. It's a Chevrolet Cobalt Super Sport Turbocharged model. The Turbo's were a lot more fun than the supercharged brothers were so I got a cooler model. This was the first stick shift I ever owned and man was it a crazy thing to practice drive a few times driving stick then having to drive it home, totally on your own LOL. I had so much fun tinkering with this car, it was awesome to learn on as well. It was really fast but I loved the sound of it more, if you're interested that much look up a YouTube video of them Cobalt SS Turbo Borla Exhaust, thing sounds mean!
This was one of my favorite vehicles that I did a lot of fixing to. This was my old reliable Ford Ranger pickup. In this picture here I was replacing the fuel pump on it because I had to replace the rear leafspring suspension so that necessitated lifting the bed off the truck. When you do something like that, it's way better to keep on fixing things, or more fun rather lol, so you don't have to lift it twice! At least to me, that's how it goes. I did the most work to this truck and the awesome part is that she's still running to this day, albeit with another owner. I sold it to a guy at work and he's still driving it around! I bought it at 224,000 miles and sold it to him at 290,000 miles and it just crossed 300k this past summer! That was my goal for the truck, to get it up to 300k and I shed a little tear that I wasn't the one who passed it but that's okay lol
My latest really fun hobby has certainly been my photography. I've been having a lot of fun with the new lens we bought and the ability to take incredibly clear and crisp photos has rekindled my relationship with the hobby. This is one of my recent favorite photos from 7 days ago. Funny thing is, it's now 70 degrees where it was snowing last week lol. I find it fun to be able to spend time trying to put together a good angle, focus and some of the other cool elements to take a nice picture and sometimes it works out pretty well!
By the way, did you ever get your hands on Adobe Lightroom on your phone to try out the free touch-up ability? Just curious
I think cars and photography are a couple of really popular hobbies, for different reasons too, although they both have the potential to leave the person with a sense of satisfaction. It must give you that sense when you see that old Ford drive by, still going, and probably running on those same springs you installed too! :)
Cool car! I love owning a 'rare' beast that not everybody knows about. I put a Borla Exhaust on an MGB I did for a guy once. It made that somewhat under powered MG sound bad ass. I also changed the cam and put Weber carbs on it, so it was only 'somewhat' under powered.
That's a gorgeous photo. Like you, I just love when I get a beauty. The difference between me and a real photographer is the number of 'blows' I get :)
Yeah the Cobalts were sleepers! A couple guys locally were actually racing and beating Vette’s so a lot of people didn’t understand the power those things had stock never mind with a bit of a tune and stuff.
Mine had a nice K&N short ran intake, a catless down pipe and a custom exhaust. I had a friend just tune it a tiny bit to adjust the air fuel ratio to account for the aftermarket intake and that’s about it. With the catless I often woke up the neighbors on a cold morning going to work lol.
What car are you referring to there, Mercedes?
The photography is fun but there are many pictures that don’t make it into my posts lol it’s okay though the memory cards can hold thousands of them so I don’t mind.
MGB a failed English car company. I worked on English Roadsters in my shop for a few years. It was night and weekend stuff, but I did quite a little of it.
That's a Triumph TR-6 in the background. In the early 70s they were Corvette killers, too. I bought and sold a couple of them.
Living in downtown Toronto does not give you the luxury to own a car. So, although I love to rekindle my relationship with her I have not been able to do that. Photography is something I have tried since 2014 with a DSLR I bought - the canon one. I believed that the photography skill means how you manually take great photos. The notion is changing and we consider editing as part of photography. That skill is something I have never considered learning. But, who knows I may try that in the near future.😇
Yeah I just touch them up on colors a bit by using Adobe Lightroom, it’s incredibly software that’s free on mobile phones or tablets so it’s been great! I just use the “auto” feature mostly unless I’m trying to really accentuate an element but that’s like 1 out of every 100 pictures I post lol.
The cameras are great, but one of the best parts is using a solid lens. Our canon 50mm lens has been such an incredible purchase for us!