3 Fords, and other shiny old toys...

NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
edited November 7, 2010 in Other Cool Shots
Not la creme de la shoot (you'll have to buy the calendar for those!:D), but easy on the eye, nevertheless, I trust, especially if veteran/vintage/antique cars are your idea of beauty!

To start, 3 Fords. I'm not anything like the experts that Tom (black mamba) and others are, so if said experts would like to add documentation I would be very beholden to their graciousness (the influence of Southern USA courtliness from another thread is very catching!).

I have a bundle I'm working on, so I'll post them in rolling fashion to this thread as they are done. Keep looking back!:thumb



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Canon 40D, 24-105mm f4L IS, 300mm f4L IS

Neil
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Comments

  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2010
    Boy, Neil, this is a really wonderful set of images. Not only have you done a great job in presenting the cars, but you've captured a human element that adds significant dimension. All are great, but that third shot really pounds home the reality of what early-time motoring could be like.

    I can't wait to see more.clap.gifclap

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2010
    Just added: "A Caddy at Entally". (That is, Entally House, 1819, outside of Launceston, Tasmania) http://www.entally.com.au/index.php?id=1

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2010
    black mamba wrote: »
    Boy, Neil, this is a really wonderful set of images. Not only have you done a great job in presenting the cars, but you've captured a human element that adds significant dimension. All are great, but that third shot really pounds home the reality of what early-time motoring could be like.

    I can't wait to see more.clap.gifclap

    Tom

    Well, Tom, thanks, and I guess you know you were an inspiration!:D

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2010
    I like the cars, but seeing the people riding in them...that's great.

    In the 3rd photo...they look down right cold :D

    I gotta get the red car ... it's perfect for me thumb.gif
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2010
    Dogdots wrote: »
    I like the cars, but seeing the people riding in them...that's great.

    In the 3rd photo...they look down right cold :D

    I gotta get the red car ... it's perfect for me thumb.gif

    :D so... Mary, you are a "red car" type of gal! mwink.gif

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2010
    NeilL wrote: »
    :D so... Mary, you are a "red car" type of gal! mwink.gif

    Neil

    Some cars just look good red :Dmwink.gif
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2010
    Dogdots wrote: »
    Some cars just look good red :Dmwink.gif


    You have a point!:D

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    Just added another three Caddies, 1910, 1915, and one in the rainmwink.gif, a 1910
    Austin, and a handsome blue and black Hillman.

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    Mary, there's another red'un in there fer ya!:D

    Neil
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  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    More really good stuff here, Neil. Was this just a bad weather day that caught them off guard? If not, you'd think that they would schedule an event like this during a better season.

    I'd love to be there and share this with you.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    Nice lookin' cars. Again the red one I really like :D

    Think I just like the whole photo -- with the rain coming down and it all enclosed on top. Was that how it originally would enclose the sides during rain, etc? I notice the driver doesn't have an enclosed panel.
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    Really nice series Neil thumb.gif

    It's almost painful to see these beautiful automobiles in the rain eek7.gif
    Randy
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    To wrap up this thread, another handsome Hillman, the grille of a Ford, the driver's side of ?, and the "power plant" (1 cylinder) of a 1904 de Dion Bouton.

    Interesting how the placement of the radiator, which was behind the engine right in front of the dashboard in the earliest European cars (#12), changed to in front of the engine, making cars look more like steam locomotives. We've gotten used to that potentially ugly blunt block leading the look of cars, and indeed it became the main way of recognising marques and asserting identity. A lot of the "art" of car design is focused on this area.

    Many thanks to you all for looking!

    Best.

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    black mamba wrote: »
    More really good stuff here, Neil. Was this just a bad weather day that caught them off guard? If not, you'd think that they would schedule an event like this during a better season.

    I'd love to be there and share this with you.

    Tom

    Yep, it was a lot of fun, Tom!

    The event was the 2010 national rally of the Veteran Car Club of Australia, held last month in Launceston, Tasmania. (http://www.vccatas.org.au/2010_veteran_rally.html). Around 60-80 cars attended. Spring is a very changeable season here, and so showers and cold, windy weather were expected, along with beautiful, warm and calm sunny days. The participants just love to drive these machines, and the "stronger" the weather the keener the excitement! They also love to talk about their machine, and once they have your ear they will pour into it a stream of history and detail and experiences!

    A lot of the functions of the engines of the very early cars were in direct control of the driver through hand and foot controls, and all these gave the appearance of a professional engineer being needed to drive the vehicle (think Casey Jones, with a happier ending:D)! One design feature used early which I did not know about was a friction power transmission, working like a clutch.

    A humorous sight I saw was two cars, one hand-started with a crank handle, the other with an electric starter motor, neither of them doing the intended job, much to the exasperation of the drivers!

    Glad you enjoyed the shots, Tom, and many thanks for your kind comments.

    Neil
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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    Dogdots wrote: »
    Nice lookin' cars. Again the red one I really like :D

    Think I just like the whole photo -- with the rain coming down and it all enclosed on top. Was that how it originally would enclose the sides during rain, etc? I notice the driver doesn't have an enclosed panel.

    Yes, all you see there is genuine. I don't know for sure if there was also a cover on the driver's side, but I think there probably was. The material used for the windows would have been difficult to see through, especially with rain beating on it, so I guess this guy didn't have his up, given that he was mixing with fast modern cars on these roads.

    Glad you liked the shots, Mary!thumb.gif

    Neil
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  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2010
    rwells wrote: »
    Really nice series Neil thumb.gif

    It's almost painful to see these beautiful automobiles in the rain eek7.gif

    Appreciated, Randy, thanks!

    I think the rough conditions were fertile ground for new stories growing in the snugness of home!mwink.gif The cars themselves were built in comparatively simple fashion, with materials which had had long testing in the horse and carriage tradition, so they could take a bit of knocking, I imagine.

    Neil
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  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2010
    Neil....

    That was an exceptional series....great presentation of the cars and wonderful weaving of the human element into the stories.

    I was once the butt of a joke, though unknown to me at the time, involving one of those old hand-cranked cars. It was at a small, local show here in north Florida. The show was nearly over and the owner/participants were preparing the cars to leave the field. I happened to be in deep conversation at that time with one of the owners ( I didn't know him ) about his car. I had noticed that his right, lower arm was in a cast but it didn't register to me as anything special.

    As the cars were gathering to leave, he then explained that he had broken his wrist the day before when trying to crank this car. He said his son was usually there to help him but that he had left earlier. He inquired if I would kindly assist him in giving the crank a whirl as he manned the controls. I wasn't prepared to have my manhood tested in quite this fashion and it must have shown by the stammering motions I began to exhibit and the jabbering I started to do about a bad back.

    He broke out into a loud laughter, jumped down off the car, and removed the fake cast he had on his arm. He said he delighted in fooling at least one person at each show and that he hoped I wasn't too offended at his sense of humor. Frankly, I was so relieved that it wasn't a for-real-deal that I laughed along with him.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2010
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    Yep, Tom, from the red faces, tight lips and beaded brows I saw, and an obvious downright fear of the thing, a crank handle sure seems to be a device that pushes manhood and a lot else to the line! But what's changed? Who doesn't feel a whimp and a ninny sitting in a car twisting the key, or pushing the button, only to have a series of whinnies from all those unwilling horses under the hood as a response.mwink.gifDeek7.gif

    Neil
    "Snow. Ice. Slow!" "Half-winter. Half-moon. Half-asleep!"

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