Lower Your Workplace Computer's Property Values With Thrown-Rod Desktop Wallpaper

Murilee Martin
by Murilee Martin

After officiating at 24 Hours of LeMons races for three years now, I’ve seen every possible style of escaped connecting rod. Through the oil pan, out the side of the block, out both sides of the block, engine internals ground into random metallic hash, you name it. There’s something weirdly beautiful about the sight of an engine that gave its all on the race track, and so I’ve photographed as many thrown-rod victims as possible. What to do with those photos? Why, make them into computer desktop wallpaper files, in all the most common monitor resolutions!

They’re free, and I’ve probably got the right size for your computer (unless you’re still running a 286 with CGA display). Just go here, pick your resolution, and right-click/save the images you want. If that’s not enough, you can also get some of my favorite Junkyard Finds images as wallpaper files here. Enjoy.

Murilee Martin
Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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  • Felis Concolor Felis Concolor on Dec 23, 2011

    wut no 2560x1600? Seriously speaking, several of the print hot rod and custom car magazines feature a blown up engine or part each month - and while a shattered Dart block and cnc-machined crank is far more expensive, your collection of aftermath images are no less impressive. My favorite is easily the VW JH with the drop light shining straight through.

  • Red60r Red60r on Dec 24, 2011

    In high school in the late 1950's I had an acquaintance who was into drag racing; he had a supercharged '57 Chevy coupe that he drove to school. Among his exploits were missing a shift in a borrowed MGA and having pistons meet valves. Another day, he walked past me in the school cafeteria and wordlessly handed me a piece of (presumably his Chevy's) piston top. 'Nuf said.

  • CanadaCraig VOTE NO VW!
  • Joe This is called a man in the middle attack and has been around for years. You can fall for this in a Starbucks as easily as when you’re charging your car. Nothing new here…
  • AZFelix Hilux technical, preferably with a swivel mount.
  • ToolGuy This is the kind of thing you get when you give people faster internet.
  • ToolGuy North America is already the greatest country on the planet, and I have learned to be careful about what I wish for in terms of making changes. I mean, if Greenland wants to buy JDM vehicles, isn't that for the Danes to decide?
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