Show me a nice old car

dourbalistar said:
Thanks, Charles! The panoramic format and wide angle lens does distort size a bit, but make no mistake, that car is a huge boat! :D
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It sure is! I had one of the same but a 4-door hardtop, in two-tone pink! Push-button transmission selector! It was a good car...
 
Doug said:
It sure is! I had one of the same but a 4-door hardtop, in two-tone pink! Push-button transmission selector! It was a good car...
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I kinda wish I had color film loaded in one the cameras I had with me, because this one was pink (with white accents), too!
 
A Simca 1200 from my son in law
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A rare sight, particularly at Prescott Hill Climb, the home of the Bugatti Owners Club. A Bentley 3 litre. Leica M5, Zeiss Biogon C 35mm f2.8, Ilford Delta 400 in FX39. Classic Zeiss pop!

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The "Bullitt" Mustang that Steve McQueen drove in the 1968 movie "Bullitt." Long thought to be lost, it resurfaced a few years back. A pic on Ferrania P30. Canon F-1.

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Jim B.
 
Larry Cloetta said:
You did “show me a nice old car”, so well within the spirit, seems like.
Having driven a real Mini Cooper back in the day, of around this vintage, and a few of the new (sort of bloated:eek:) German ones, I’d much rather have this one, as they’re more fun. Bonkers.
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Fun seems to be the missing ingredient in a lot of things these days. CPU's make them very wonderful but too complex and, worse still, bland these days.


I just wish I could afford/justify buying a restored version of some of the cars I've owned over the last 50 years...


Regards, David
 
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Old car in Uppsala, Sweden, July 2019.
Canon EOS 30D, EF 50mm/1.8 at 1/250 sec, f/10 and ISO 100.
Should probably have panned the car rather than getting the background sharp.. :)
 
David Hughes said:
Fun seems to be the missing ingredient in a lot of things these days. CPU's make them very wonderful but too complex and, worse still, bland these days.


I just wish I could afford/justify buying a restored version of some of the cars I've owned over the last 50 years...


Regards, David
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Speaking of CPUs, this Mercedes-Benz 240D is supposedly the best car for a zombie apocalypse. According to this article, it doesn't require any electronics to run, not even spark plugs to ignite the fuel. The door locks are powered by a mechanical vacuum system, and even the oil-pressure gauge is mechanical. A truly "analog" car in a digital age! ;)

Mercedes-Benz 240D W123.123 (1978-1985).

Nikon FM2n, Nikkor-S Auto 55mm f/1.2, ORWO N74+, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 6.5 minutes.


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Just good old fashioned electrical glow plugs to get it started.

Somewhere in Morocco is a taxi driver who has a W115 240D that is on about 3 million KMs. Those engines can last for ever, but with their very low speed, the journeys feel the same way.

Very nice picture Dourbalister. I love those things with a passion, but despite my love of black and white, I love the 70s colour options so much one of my little games is guessing the colour and the exact colour code, which you can't do from B&W.
 
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