The Archive.

~ FROM A BACKUP DRIVE, PRESERVED ~
FILE TIMESTAMPS

These files date back to May 1998 and were still being edited as late as February 2004. Six years of a homemade website, still on a hard drive somewhere. Every image below is exactly what visitors saw. Nothing recreated.

The car · 1998

These three photos were on the "My Eagle Talon" page. File date: August 25, 1998.
Dan's 1991 Eagle Talon TSi AWD - car01.jpg
CAR01.JPG · 08/25/1998
Dan's 1991 Eagle Talon TSi AWD - car02.jpg
CAR02.JPG · 08/25/1998
Dan's 1991 Eagle Talon TSi AWD - car03.jpg
CAR03.JPG · 08/25/1998

The car · 2003

Five years later. Still the same Talon, still boosting. File date: December 22, 2003.
Dan's Talon, 2003
TALON.JPG · 12/22/2003

The brand assets

The hand-made graphics that defined Talon Temple. File dates: March – May 1999.
Original Talon Temple shrine collage
TALONTEMPLE.JPG · 03/31/1999 · THE SHRINE
Original left-sidebar navigation menu
MENU.JPG · 05/11/1999 · THE NAV
Original Talon Temple wordmark
TITLE.JPG · 05/11/1999 · THE WORDMARK
Eagle badge
EAGLE.GIF · 05/13/1999 · THE BADGE
ALSO IN THE ARCHIVE

Files I found on the drive but haven't added to the site yet:

  • The full "Trip to Spain" page with an image-mapped travel diary (my 1999 trip)
  • Seven "Car Spoofs" Photoshop parodies (Ford, Mazda, Nissan, Lincoln, Pontiac, Mercury, Camaro, and the big Honda one)
  • A "Friends Cars" page with mini-writeups on 10 of my buddies' rides
  • A DSM vendor links directory with 60+ shops from the era, most of which are long gone
  • An upgrades log going back to March 1998 (before the site officially launched)
  • A comes.wav file that autoplayed on the "My Car" page — because 2000 web design was fearless
The original tools live on: Rim Selector · Magazine Feature