May 2023:Quickfire A to Z of anything/everything

[NewcastleFalcon]

Always nice when a few ramblings on here end up with a bit of real life activity! Nice work Pete

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I-day

Car of the Day
Iso were a firm of contrasts. They had the Isetta...the bubble car photographed by the Falcon earlier in the month



and also this Sold at Auction by RM Sotheby's in Paris for €488,750 1st February 2023

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/pa23 ... ne/1316054
https://marvel-b1-cdn.bc0a.com/f0000000 ... 54238.jpg

Few more exotica from the ISO stable here, on this Glenmarch Car search
https://www.glenmarch.com/cars/results? ... old_cars=1
Neil

[bobins]

I is for Insulators

3 Insulators - own work

[mickthemaverick]

BFTW

[moizeau]

I is for ignorance, ever day is a learning day

[NewcastleFalcon]

I is for Insulators

I is for Insulators 2...I was hoping these ones were made out of Gutta Percha which got an airing on the Trivia Investigation Team Case Number 3 here

viewtopic.php?p=660737#p660737



Neil

[mickthemaverick]

As it says in the dictionary:

iridescence
ĭr″ĭ-dĕs′əns
noun
1. The quality or state of being iridescent.
2. The condition of being iridescent; exhibition of alternating or intermingling colors like those of the rainbow, as in mother-of-pearl, where it is an effect of interference (see interference, 5); any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors. Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow, especially a surface reflection which changes color with the angle at which the object is viewed; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color. It is due to interference of light waves reflected from the front and back surfaces of a thin layer transparent or semitransparent film.
3. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Inadvertantly posted by Neil in POTD

viewtopic.php?p=755276#p755276

[bobins]

I is for Insulators

I is for Insulators 2...I was hoping these ones were made out of Gutta Percha which got an airing on the Trivia Investigation Team Case Number 3 here

Neil

The trio in my picture are ceramic and made in Bulgaria in 1971

[NewcastleFalcon]

As it says in the dictionary:

iridescence
ĭr″ĭ-dĕs′əns

Inadvertantly posted by Neil in POTD

viewtopic.php?p=755276#p755276

I was going to post the "rainbow" here on the back of the wonderful but probably undistinguisable colour of indigo!
But seeing as it has the "iridescence" ticket, here's a second snapshot.

falcon original

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Day of the Jay


Peanut Thief (7184679351)
Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

J is for Jungle, the theme of our dining room:

Own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

Petrol of the day....obviously



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Car of the Day my choice

Camera doesn't always capture colours well, this is a gorgeous metallic very pale green. Saw a similar one today, same colour, a convertible which just looked stunning, and absolutely the part for the gorgeous sunny afternoon. It beetled off while I was photographing the A40. Strangely they currently paddle about in the well under £10k category at auction, and many struggle to find buyers at £5,000.



Neil

[MattBLancs]

A Jaguar is good (and indeed if there was a manual version I'd probably look at buying an XK8, they (the autos, was no manual) do seem very underappreciated/ undervalued) but obviously only a single "J"

So feel duty bound to come back with a double:

Image from Wikipedia

Spoiler: show

a Jowett Javelin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jowett_Javelin

[MattBLancs]

I wouldn't on initial gut feeling said there were many J cars, but when I think more innit there's quite a few

Justy, Jimmy, Jetta, Jensen, Joke - I mean Juke, Jeep, Jaz