Show me a nice old car

[Moto-Uno]

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

If we’re honest, and we often aren’t, nobody.

And, I don’t know what an F-N is. Fraser-Nash?

Frazer-Nash.

The chain driven quintessence of the English sports car.

 

[Moto-Uno]

https://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/41336/med_U41336I1589731367.SEQ.2.jpg
All taken at Horseshoe Bay this weekend . Peter

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Frazer-Nash.

The chain driven quintessence of the English sports car.

Thanks, Charles. I had a Z in Frazer to start and it didn’t look right. I should have looked it up, but where’s the fun in that?

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Indeed. It's a fascinating part of British motoring history. Archibald Frazer-Nash first started with H.R. Godfrey building the GN cyclecars (one below - they are insane fun). When they ran out of money, HJ Aldington bought the successor company AFN. It carried on making chain driven cars, and also built BMW cars under licence for the UK market (also below), and in that role, Aldington persuaded the BMW board after the fall of Germany to allow Bristol Cars (of which he was a director) to use the BMW hemi straight six and other technology in post war cars.

Roll forward, they carried on building FN cars, AFN became the importer for Porsche, it split into different companies, then finally 10 years ago Frazer-Nash consulting bought Bristol Cars out of bankruptcy, then went under itself. It's almost up there with Aston Martin for insolvencies!

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Love that front end suspension geometry on the cyclecar.
Thanks for sharing that one.

 

[Dralowid]

Time to see some drop tank racers from the US...anyone?

(Have I got the name right? Made with aircraft fuel tanks as a body?

 

[Huss]

Nikon F4, 28-105D, Arista 400, DF96 Monobath

 

[andrewmore]

Hi Andrew- I've pulled a trick to add a larger version of your photo. This and other techniques are outlined at length in a sticky thread in RFF's Help/Feedback forum... A look there could be helpful, especially if you start at the end for the most recent comments!

Belated thanks for doing this. I can see the revised photograph on some computer set-ups, but not others, but don't (yet) know why. I'll look up the guidance you have given for next time and finally get the hang of this.

Regards

Andrew More

 

[Michael Markey]

 

[Michael Markey]

 

[Michael Markey]

 

[Michael Markey]

This negative is slightly damaged but not as damaged as this car once was , apparently .
I was told by the owner that it had survived the attack on Pearl Harbour and had been completely restored .
I don`t know if that information matches the model and year of the car .

 

[charjohncarter]

My friend Lester with his '53 Chevy, 1963:

Untitled by John Carter, on Flickr

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Now that's period old!

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

While we're on people with their cars, my friend Walter arriving at Brooklands in his Amilcar.

 

[charjohncarter]

Crazy, IIIc with I think Plus-X, drugstore processing. Hood ornament removed.

 

[Beemermark]

Not a car, but..

 

[dourbalistar]

1965 Buick LeSabre 400. Spotted a few blocks from the orange Chevy C10 in Post #2167.

Nikon FM2n, AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.8S, Ultrafine Xtreme 400, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 5.5 minutes. Three individual black and white frames shot through Tiffen #25 Red, #58 Green, and #47 Blue filters, respectively, then combined using GIMP to create a trichrome color image.


2020.05.09 Roll #244-04717-positive-trichrome.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr



2020.05.09 Roll #244-04720-positive-trichrome.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr

 

[webOSUser]

Is an old van OK?

Is an old van OK?

A 1960's Ford Van Pickup used by a Garner North Carolina graphics company. Shot with an Argus C3 w/50mm f/3.5 Cintar on Kodak Pro 100 film.

Ford Van Pickup-101 by Steven Wagner, on Flickr