Show me a nice old car

Red 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible

Red 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible


Red 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible
2014 Culver City Car Show
Culver City, Los Angeles County, California

The Culver City Car Show held every year, but this is the first time I've gone. Every other time it was in town I had other much more interesting plans.

The show was scheduled to start at 9AM, but I showed up at 7AM before the light was too harsh and the crowds too dense. I left just about start time at 9AM.

camera: Fuji GSW690II 6X9 medium format rangefinder
lens: EBC Fujinon 65mm f/5.6
film: Fujicolor Reala 100 (expired)
filter: Hoya HMC Skylight 1B
meter: Pentax Digital Spotmeter
support: monopod
scan: Fromex Santa Monica
software: ACDSee Pro 7 (64 bit)

©2014 Chris Grossman, all rights reserved
 
My Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce, summer 1966. My (then future) wife and I had been at a hill climb in the mountains east of Heidelberg--Eberbach, I seem to remember it was--and on the trip back to Frankfurt we stopped on this hillside. I took this shot with a Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super (green RF), probably on Ektachrome. I scanned it about ten years ago, and the original was destroyed in a fire in 2008.

ALFA by nrparsons, on Flickr
 
Restored with mint roofmount wind-up key.
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Also featuring aftermarket paint treatment "Sepulchral Whitewash."

But I think the au natural locale and female model brought in from Germany really cinches this vision from the land where pot grows as high as the Douglas firs.
 
nparsons13 said:
My Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce, summer 1966. My (then future) wife and I had been at a hill climb in the mountains east of Heidelberg--Eberbach, I seem to remember it was--and on the trip back to Frankfurt we stopped on this hillside. I took this shot with a Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super (green RF), probably on Ektachrome. I scanned it about ten years ago, and the original was destroyed in a fire in 2008.

ALFA by nrparsons, on Flickr
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Bellissima!
robert
 
A Blue 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe

A Blue 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe


A Blue 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe
2014 Culver City Car Show
Culver City, Los Angeles County, California

camera: Fuji GSW690II 6X9 medium format rangefinder
lens: EBC Fujinon 65mm f/5.6
film: Fujicolor Reala 100 (expired)
filter: Hoya HMC Skylight 1B
meter: Pentax Digital Spotmeter
support: monopod
scan: Fromex Santa Monica
software: ACDSee Pro 7 (64 bit)

©2014 Chris Grossman, all rights reserved
 
The Austin Healy 100-4, I just saw one last week in a man's garage. He drove it daily 30 years ago. Now it is awaiting restoration. They are still around - just hiding.

kuzano said:
Great shot, and a reminder to me of a similar Austin Healy 100-4 I purchased in October of 1962. I was 19 years old at the time and completely taken with British cars and started restoring them, doing all the work myself for years. I became quite enthused about driving cars with inadequate (none in many cases) and electronic wiring that smoked more than I did at the time. This courtesy of John Lucas, "Prince of Darkness". I hated the switch to Jaeger instruments.... what heresy!!!

In fact, I gave up smoking during my Brit Car Period, so that I could tell if the smoke I was seeing was from the car's electronics or me. Another thank you to John Lucas, as he ended a horrible habit for me.

The day I towed it home behind my 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air two door hardtop was an eventful day for me.

It turned out to be the day of the Columbus Day Storm in the Pacific NW. Or, the big blow, or the result of Typhoon Freda, the largest subtropical storm to come ashore in the Pacific North West part of the US, since the year 1880.

I was completely without the information on the coming storm, as I hooked the AH up to my Chevy with a bumper hitch and drove through incredibly high winds over the Santiam Pass from Eugene, Oregon to Bend, Oregon... some 140 miles. The route was complete with ravines, drops to the McKenzie River, and lots of places to lose the car.

I was unaware of the intensity of the storm and warnings to stay off the roads as I drove the trip, with the AH whipping around behind my car.

I got to Bend, and was making the last turn onto the street to my house, when the bumper hitch came loose from the Austin Healey and the car rolled up onto the lawn of a barber shop. Some friends came by and helped me get the car half a block to my house.

That Austin Healey did eventually make it back onto the road in the form of a reasonably nice restoration. Incredible car, with the tilt back and down racing windshield and about half the body formed in Aluminum... the doors, the center panel the length of the body and the trunk lid and hood as we call them in the US.

Those parts would be called the "bonnet" and "boot" for hood and trunk.

That's my AH 100-4 story and I'm stickin' to it.

Another fond memory courtesy of RFF... thank you!
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