Show me a nice old car

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Fujifilm X-H1
Voigtländer Nokton 35mm f1.2 (Fujinon X-mount) lens
Classic Chrome film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - October 2021
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Mike
 
Super cool Morgan, Mike! ... with an appropriate plate number too.

Thanks, Doug, when I first saw it in the distance I thought it was some kind of kit car or maybe a Caterham 7, but as it got closer I knew it was a Morgan. First 3 wheeler Morgan for me to spot in Yokohama.

All the best,
Mike
 
We were followed the other weekedn round our village by an original 1930s one - luckily SWMBO was driving so I could get a stiff neck craning at it and watching all the valve gear rattling away!
 
A fleeting moment. I was standing on a bridge waiting for my wife when I spotted this Mercedes-Benz 190 SL motoring down the road. My camera was already in my hand; I just barely had time to switch it on and swing it up to my face to get this picture as he drove by. And, then he was gone.

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Sony A7III
Sigma 65mm f2 DG DN "Contemporary" lens
Yokohama City, Japan - October 2021
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Mike
 

Brings back memories! When I was 19 yo (1973), there was one of these sitting on a side street with a For Sale sign asking for $600 on the windshield. I could afford it, but it was in fairly disreputable shape and I feared that I could afford to get it running and safe... sigh.

G
 
A late 1990s (perhaps 1996) Alfa Romeo Spider?

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Sony A7III
Sigma 90mm f2.8 DG DN lens
Yokohama, Japan - October 2021
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Mike
 
A late 1990s (perhaps 1996) Alfa Romeo Spider?

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Sony A7III
Sigma 90mm f2.8 DG DN lens
Yokohama, Japan - October 2021
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Yes, 1996 sounds about right. FIAT had pulled Alfa Romeo out of the US market by then (in 1991, I believe) so we almost never saw this model on the road here. Alfa Romeo (and FIAT) has only recently returned to the US market with the modern 4C coupe and Guilia.

A pretty, and unusual, car ... Very different from the Spiders that preceded it! :)

G
 
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