Three Italian Beauties ...

[Godfrey]

A trio of lovely Italian cars from my first roll through the camera ...

Voigtländer Bessa III - Fuji Neopan ACROS 100​

Thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated.

G

 

[kuzano]

2/3rds agreement....

2/3rds agreement....

Godfrey... wonderful pics. I'm only 2/3 in agreement on the three beauties in the first image. I'm not so much in agreement on the one with the mustache.

Oh, the cars. Very nice. The italians are masters of the trade in all respects, and excel on the design side. Because of the mountainous terrain, typically the best part of any Italian car is the braking system, big drums, big rotors, and big shoes with bulletproof hydraulics.

I went through my Italian car phase, with a number of wonderful Fiats, and my favorite... a 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spyder. Nothing sounds like the exhaust note of an Alfa DOHC cam engine at 1500 to 2000 CC's in size.

Again, great shots. Wish they would have followed that hood line on the Redux of the Fiat 500/600.

The Sprint Speciale does not get photographed much, as there were so few built and very few surviving in the wild today. Incredible design project.

Thanks for these images.

This looks like a show I could have hit at sunrise and left after a few shots at Dusk.

 

[Godfrey]

...This looks like a show I could have hit at sunrise and left after a few shots at Dusk.

LOL ... Well, you'd have been alone until about 9am and after 3 the field would be empty again. ;-)

The All Italian Day Car & Motorcycle Show is an annual event put on by the Alfa Romeo Association as a benefit for the Special Olympics kids. It's been going on for 18-20 years now, usually the first Sunday in October, at the Lincoln High School field in Alameda, California. All amateur ... Lots and lots of Italian bike and car enthusiasts come together to enjoy looking at each other's cars and bikes, have a good lunch, and raise some money to help out the kids. Many of the kids I've come to know over the years ... some are now in their middle twenties ... and they help out running the raffles and food.

A grand event. Some very special cars show up. All the Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciales were hand-made one-offs ... although they all look similar, no two of them are identical. There's a gorgeous, petite Lancia coupe that didn't show up this year, but was purchased by its owners on their honeymoon in Italy in 1957.

I drove Alfa Romeos and rode Ducatis and Moto Guzzis for almost thirty years. A couple of the photos I have yet to process are a picture of my 1960s Ducati 250 Mark III ... current owner is a friend finished the restoration that I began in the late 1970s. He's converted it to a Mach I version (difference is a battery-alternator charging system, instead of the Mark III's magneto-only electricals): it looks spectacular and sounds better than it did back in the day when I rode it.

Truly a fun family event. I'll be there again next year ... maybe with color film.
🙂

 

[kuzano]

I know whereof you speak....

I know whereof you speak....

LOL ... Well, you'd have been alone until about 9am and after 3 the field would be empty again. ;-)

The All Italian Day Car & Motorcycle Show is an annual event put on by the Alfa Romeo Association as a benefit for the Special Olympics kids. It's been going on for 18-20 years now, usually the first Sunday in October, at the Lincoln High School field in Alameda, California. All amateur ... Lots and lots of Italian bike and car enthusiasts come together to enjoy looking at each other's cars and bikes, have a good lunch, and raise some money to help out the kids. Many of the kids I've come to know over the years ... some are now in their middle twenties ... and they help out running the raffles and food.

A grand event. Some very special cars show up. All the Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciales were hand-made one-offs ... although they all look similar, no two of them are identical. There's a gorgeous, petite Lancia coupe that didn't show up this year, but was purchased by its owners on their honeymoon in Italy in 1957.

I drove Alfa Romeos and rode Ducatis and Moto Guzzis for almost thirty years. A couple of the photos I have yet to process are a picture of my 1960s Ducati 250 Mark III ... current owner is a friend finished the restoration that I began in the late 1970s. He's converted it to a Mach I version (difference is a battery-alternator charging system, instead of the Mark III's magneto-only electricals): it looks spectacular and sounds better than it did back in the day when I rode it.

Truly a fun family event. I'll be there again next year ... maybe with color film.
🙂

Sounds like great fun. As Austin Powers would say... "Eyetalian.. Yeah Baby!!"

I used to ride my roommates Ducati 250, until one of the other room mates rode it into the side of a house. First ride ever, he got it rolling but would not take his feet off the ground and being drug by the bike for half a block, being drug along laying on the seat because he wouldn't let go of the handlebars, straight up a driveway and then a very sharp right turn through some shrubs, through a flowerbed and head-on into the four foot high foundation of a house. (Get that picture).

We called Dennis' Ducati, the DuCrotchy Rocket.... an insult I know, but you have to understand the "Redneckedness" of the area I grew up in. We spawned many a Jeff Foxworthy. Wish I had known then the huge money in Redneck Humor that was to come.

Such as Redneck for Asinine.... "I gev' hur face a six, but hur Asinine!"