Show me a nice old car

Here's a 1952 "Barndoor" VW Transporter. This is a rare one, and relatively valuable considering the original paint and intact logos for the business that used it. These early buses are called Barndoors because of the extra tall engine compartment hatch. The rear hatch configuration changed sometime between 1954 and 1955.

For "Particular People", indeed! I got this shot last weekend in Lake Havasu City at the 28th Buses by the Bridge gathering. There were about 600 VW Transporters of all kinds at this event.

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I've posted way too many photos of my '67 Lancia Fulvia Coupé already, but yesterday was the day it came home from the shop with, I hope, the last of my upgrades/modifications done ... the "Fanalone" headlight conversion ("big lights" like the rally cars and a short run of homologation specials were equipped with). And I think it came out splendidly ...


Lancia Fulvia Coupe with Fanalone #1


Lancia Fulvia Coupe with Fanalone #4​

Both taken with the Leica M10-R and Summarit-M 75mm f/2.4 (ISO 100 @ f/4 @ 1/500 or thereabouts).

The fanalone headlight setup was conceived when the world rally organizers in the late 1960s, reacting to too many car fires that emperiled drivers and spectators, put in a ruling that you could fit a maximum of six lights on the front of a rally car. The Fulvia had quad headlights already and just two additional lights weren't going to cut it, so they modified the headlamp setup to include two huge 8" lamps (that could be both high and low beam filaments, depending on how they wired it) which doubled the amount of light on the road compared to the original 5.75" high beams. And then they'd add two more driving lights for a total of six lights. I always though the fanalone setup looked great and unique on the Fulvia. 😉

And I must say that I'm impressed with the M10-R ... it was a terrible day for making photos like this, with blasting sunlight and super harsh contrasty conditions, but the M10-R held good detail even into the inky shadows and in the almost saturation level highs so I could pull a couple of nicely exposed finished photos out. 🙂

I'm waiting for a nice sunny day with high overcast so I can do a good shoot of the car, but it's going to be rainy for most of the next week here.

enjoy, G
 
Godfrey said:
I've posted way too many photos of my '67 Lancia Fulvia Coupé already, but yesterday was the day it came home from the shop with, I hope, the last of my upgrades/modifications done ... the "Fanalone" headlight conversion ("big lights" like the rally cars and a short run of homologation specials were equipped with). And I think it came out splendidly ...


Lancia Fulvia Coupe with Fanalone #1


Lancia Fulvia Coupe with Fanalone #4​

Both taken with the Leica M10-R and Summarit-M 75mm f/2.4 (ISO 100 @ f/4 @ 1/500 or thereabouts).

The fanalone headlight setup was conceived when the world rally organizers in the late 1960s, reacting to too many car fires that emperiled drivers and spectators, put in a ruling that you could fit a maximum of six lights on the front of a rally car. The Fulvia had quad headlights already and just two additional lights weren't going to cut it, so they modified the headlamp setup to include two huge 8" lamps (that could be both high and low beam filaments, depending on how they wired it) which doubled the amount of light on the road compared to the original 5.75" high beams. And then they'd add two more driving lights for a total of six lights. I always though the fanalone setup looked great and unique on the Fulvia. 😉

And I must say that I'm impressed with the M10-R ... it was a terrible day for making photos like this, with blasting sunlight and super harsh contrasty conditions, but the M10-R held good detail even into the inky shadows and in the almost saturation level highs so I could pull a couple of nicely exposed finished photos out. 🙂

I'm waiting for a nice sunny day with high overcast so I can do a good shoot of the car, but it's going to be rainy for most of the next week here.

enjoy, G
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Lovely car! Enjoy it! I did a quick search on the derivation of "fanalone" and all it says is that the car is called "Fanalone" because of the large headlights. As you said! But then I realized "-one" is a suffix to Italian words to imply "large" or "big." And I found that "fanale" means headlamps in italiano. But you probably knew that! 🙂
 
KoNickon said:
Lovely car! Enjoy it! I did a quick search on the derivation of "fanalone" and all it says is that the car is called "Fanalone" because of the large headlights. As you said! But then I realized "-one" is a suffix to Italian words to imply "large" or "big." And I found that "fanale" means headlamps in italiano. But you probably knew that! 🙂
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Thank you!

Yes, I knew that ... literally "big lights." What doesn't come up in direct translation is that fanalone is also often slang for "big breasts" ... and many of my Italian friends giggle unceasingly when I refer to the setup as "fanalone" ... 😇🤣

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