W/NW - Classic Cars

A Pristine Mini​
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Fujifilm X-E4
Voigtländer Ultron 27mm f2 (X-mount) lens
November 2023 - Yokohama, Japan​
 
"Do you think they'll mind if I park my roadster on the lawn here"? ............

It was Pacific Northwest Deuce Days when hot rods and vintage cars take over the down town area of Victoria BC. All with the approval of authorities, good for tourism and the economy.


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Yokosuka_Mike said:
MG Midget
Sunday morning, Nihon-Odori Blvd​
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Fujifilm X-H1 camera
Fujinon XF 33mm f1.4 lens
November 2023 - Yokohama, Japan​
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Mike, I appreciate that you identify the classic cars that you photograph. I know most of them, but occasionally I don't and the identification really helps.

I'd have to say that I appreciate captions, in general. I see a lot of great photos here of interesting subjects, but with no explanation. I consider that a provocation and a violation of my curiosity!

- Murray
 
nikon_sam said:
Mike,

That is one pretty Lotus...but ya gotta be young and in shape to get in and out of one...gracefully...
About ten years ago our neighbor had a Lotus Elise and that car was tough for me to exit...
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I figure for me to get into a Lotus Europa I'd need two people with a body board to kind of shoehorn me in. Once in I'd probably never be able to get back out.

Mike
 
That Lotus looks somewhat lower even than my little Porsche Cayman... These kinds of cars you just fall into, then you climb out, just the opposite of a pickup, say, where you climb in with a hand-hold and sorta jump out.
 
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A pretty little Porsche for Doug
These images were taken the same day as the Lotus.
I had to run half a city block to get these before the light turned green and the car was gone..​
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Fujifilm X-H1 camera
Fujinon XF 33mm f1.4 lens
November 2023 - Yokohama, Japan​
 
CMur12 said:
I'd have to say that I appreciate captions, in general. I see a lot of great photos here of interesting subjects, but with no explanation. I consider that a provocation and a violation of my curiosity!
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I too always appreciate captions when it comes to this thread (as well as many others). I’m guessing that in many cases the photographer simply doesn’t know the details when it comes to the vehicle they’ve managed to capture. Though it certainly doesn’t hurt, one does not need to be all that familiar with automobiles in order to capture nice images of them. I’ll admit that I sometimes enjoy having my own automotive knowledge tested. And when someone posts an image of a vehicle I can’t identify for certain, I find some level of entertainment in searching for a positive identification to see if my guess was correct.

I also enjoy learning about the details of the gear/film/camera settings used when provided. On the other hand, I’ve captured a number of vehicles that I haven’t shared here simply because I was using my smartphone — which strikes me as somewhat ironic given that this is the rangefinder forum.
 
Yokosuka_Mike said:
Lotus Europa
This is the nicest one I've ever seen​
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Fujifilm X-H1 camera
Fujinon XF 33mm f1.4 lens
November 2023 - Yokohama, Japan​
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That is likely the nicest Europa I’ve ever seen. Though this isn’t saying all that much as I don’t care for the looks of the Europa in general. When it comes to design, few cars seem to divide opinions to the extent that the Europa does. This particular paint scheme really appears to minimize the aspects of the car’s design that I find so awkward to look at (at least from the angle shown here).

That said, I’d love a chance to drive one. As songwriter Steve Forbert wrote “Driving a Jaguar’s impressive but you can’t watch it go by”.
 
nikon_sam said:
That is one pretty Lotus...but ya gotta be young and in shape to get in and out of one...gracefully...
About ten years ago our neighbor had a Lotus Elise and that car was tough for me to exit...
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I remember attending an auto show where a Lotus Elise was on display. I was in my 30’s then, still very healthy and not at all overweight. Though I could manage to get into and out of the Elise just fine at that time, there was definitely nothing graceful about it. I then watched a number of others demonstrate their own inability to get into and out of this car in a graceful manner.

Unlike the Europa, I find the Elise to be a beautiful design (though I understand that not all do, which is inevitably true of any vehicle). I decided that the difficulty associated with the ingress and egress of the Elise was just part of the cost of admission, just as it is with so many other true sports cars. This also explains the popularity of GT’s to some degree.

Fortunately I find images of cars interesting to look at regardless of how difficult they may be to get into or out of or what they might be like to drive. Thank goodness for this thread and others like it here on this forum. As is true of countless other things, an image of a car might not necessarily be a great image from the standpoint of good photography, but it can still be very enjoyable to look at just the same.
 
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