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Frankly, I can’t get too worked up about this (but others can), so I’ve changed the definition of “Series 1.5″ cars to match what I guess is now the standard set by the JCNA. This means LHD cars numbered before

• Fixed Head Coupe 1E34583
• Open Two Seater 1E15980
• Two Plus Two 1E77709

Are now considered to be Series I cars. This contradicts the numbers published for years by Skilleter and cohorts, but apparently the JCNA research is much more solid.

I’ve updated the car pages to pull a photo up next to the dataplate, with some other minor re-arranging of info to accommodate the change. If you see anything funky, try a browser refresh, though I did change the version number of the CSS file–hopefully you won’t have any trouble. Another change is that browsing cars is no longer a “post data” request, so refreshing the screen isn’t so annoying.

I have tested in IE6, IE7 and Firefox. IE6 sucks, of course, but we persevered. No guarantees on any other browser.

If you’re curious as to why some cars show the photos they do, the software looks for the most recent exterior photo that falls within certain aspect ratios. Failing to find one of those, it looks for the most recent “action” photo within the same parameters. Failing that, it looks for any photo within those parameters. Failing that, it throws its hands in the air and stalks off in a huff.

The parameters are 300 pixels wide or wider; and a height which is between .66 and .77 of the width (a normal horizontal photo is .75).

Browsing cars is much more entertaining, in my opinion.

If you have a great photo of your car you would like to see on the calendar, please upload it to the site and let me know about it. I’m hoping to have these ready by sometime in September, so please do so soon. (Thanks for the encouraging words in the other blog entry about the calendars.)

Please leave a comment below if you want to suggest a particular photo.