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Explore 3-28 ..many thanks for all the views, comments and favs!
Saw this on the way home from work today. Not sure if it's for sale or what, but it sure made me do a big U-turn.
This one goes out to my good contact Blondygirl who is the Queen of cool muscle car spotting. check out her work here... www.flickr.com/photos/blondygirl/
the never ending battle continues...but in this case it's very friendly rivalry. The beautiful drop top Camaro belongs to a good friend and co-worker. We met up at a car show and had a great time. Built with all the goodies including a 572 crate motor , his beast was built to win trophies and handle any contenders on the street. My little Pony would not stand a chance...
this local legend was seen at a recent car show.....
Nickey Chevrolet was based in Chicago, USA, and perhaps the biggest factory performance sales and service Dealership, Speedshop and Super Car Converter anywhere, during their reign.
Nickey Chevrolet was established in the 1920s at the corner of Kedvale and Irving Park Rd. When the Kennedy expressway was built Nickey Chevrolet moved to its final home, in the mid 50's. It was sold in 1973, when it became Keystone Chevrolet. Nickey Chevrolet's final location was at 4501 Irving Park Road, in Chicago.
Nickey Chevrolet grew to a huge 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) facility in the 1960s which boasted the largest inventory of "Genuine Chevrolet High Performance Parts." Nickey Chevrolet began its high performance parts business in 1957 and immediately went racing with tremendous success.
Their "Purple People Eater" Corvettes became famous and soon everyone knew that Nickey was spelled with a backwards "K". Nickey created the Super Car Genre. They specialized in engine swaps, and dropped 427s into the very first 1967 Camaros and soon turned to Nova's and Chevelles, as well as other cars with 427s or the Z/28's 302 V8. The 454 was added in 1970 and any other part was available through Nickey's extensive parts department.
Nickey Chevrolet became General Motors largest volume selling Dealership for both parts and vehicles, and many were of the Hi-Performance variety.
The key players who built Nickey's performance cars and image moved to a new location in 1973 on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. The New Speed Shop and Automobile converter was called "Nickey Chicago".
Nickey Chicago continued to build legendary Hi-Performance Chevys until 1977 when the speed/performance shop finally closed its doors.
Recently "Nickey Chicago Inc." has been revitalized by Stefano Bimbi and key individuals from the original Nickey Chicago era. The new location is St. Charles, Illinois. More info can be found at the Nickey Chicago website. The company announced plans to build Stage I, II and III 2010 model Camaro Super Cars on the Generation V Camaro platform.
-Wikipedia-
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Went to VooDoo Larry's open house with BFF's Brian and Liz. Had a really great time and took bunch of pics for first time this year. Used my 10-22mm wide the whole day which was a lot of fun..
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it's hard to think of two other letters that bring so much joy to a gearhead...
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Last year I entered a pic of the Stang into a photo contest for one of my Fav Car Mags (Popular Hot Rodding) and placed. rOckstarr ( www.flickr.com/photos/amdn/) came in second! Then was lucky enough to be invited to be a part of a cover shoot featuring real hot rods that are built and used by the owners. I met a great group of guys there and comparing builds was a lot of fun. I got teased some since my Stang is very quiet compared to the rest of the group, but I drive it too much too much to deal with that noise, unlike past rides I've owned. I shot this while we were lining up for the 1st of a series of set ups. (Note: I was the only Ford there, so it was a real honor to represent the brand with pride!) Needless to say it was a day me or my son will ever forget.
that's pretty much all I could say as I looked this beauty over and over again..
seen at World of Wheels - Chicago 2011
Got my 1st car show flyer of the season via email yesterday... immediately pulled my beloved 50D out of her bag, cleaned , hugged ,and kissed her. She's missed capturing my car addiction for me. We had a long conversation about which shows to attend this summer and how many cruisenites I could sneak out of work early to get to.
What?, am I the only one who talks to their camera???
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always had a soft spot for a tunnel ram set up...only ran one set up back in the day and now wish I had experimented more..
from the car show archives...
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some fender badges convey more fear in the competition than others...this is one of them...
trust me on this, I learned the hard way back in the day
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from the cruise nite archives...you all have given me such a kind response to my stuff posted from this back up drive, so I'll keep posting ...
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The Bill Thomas Cheetah was a street/race car built in the early to mid-1960s by well-known Chevrolet performance tuner Bill Thomas as a competitor to Carroll Shelby’s Cobra. The prototype was largely designed and built by Don Edmunds, an employee of Thomas’ although Thomas was closely involved coordinating support for the project. Financing for the project came from private investors including Thomas and John Grow, a Rialto, California Chevrolet dealer. In fact, the first car belonged to John Grow. Using his racing connections, Thomas arranged for material assistance from Chevrolet for the major components – specifically, the Corvette engine, transmission and rear-end assemblies.
Despite some initial evil handling tendencies on road courses, few cars could catch it in a straight line due to its Thomas-built 377 cu in (6.2 L) displacement, dual air-meter, fuel-injected Chevy small-block V8 based engine. On the dragstrip, the car reportedly posted faster numbers than the much-vaunted 427 Cobra.
A fire in the factory destroyed the original plywood body buck, the factory drag car and some spare parts inventory, thus contributing to the eventual demise of the car. Another factor in the end of production was due to General Motors adherence to the automaker racing ban, thus killing backdoor projects like the Cheetah and the much-required parts supply. When the parts supply dried up, there was no way for Thomas to achieve the homologation numbers needed for racing, which went from 100 to 1000 units. Lastly, race car design was evolving and the true mid-engined configuration represented the wave of the future. To illustrate this point, in approximately the same time frame, Shelby’s Daytona coupes were rendered obsolete by the GT-40.
The remaining original cars are left as highly desirable collector items. No official records are known to exist documenting the exact number of cars produced, but best estimates indicate as many as 29 cars were built to varying degrees of completion and configuration.
Bill Thomas died on 10 Oct 2009.
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Single raw exposure turned into 3 jpegs for processing into Photomatix, then finished in CS3.
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well it's almost Feb... by my calculations I have @ 6 -7 weeks till I get my first fix of speed and fury of 2012. Until then have to get my addiction soothed by cruzn thru my archives....
peace to you and yours---- ACE
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from the car show archives...my
alternate title was "lift your hood and show me what you got"...
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Seen at local car show at Hooters. And yes, I went to see the cars...
No HDR just a single raw processed (decreased contrast and sharpened) in CS3.
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counting down the days to cruise nites begin....
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from the cruise nite archives....only 90 days ( I hope winter ends this year) to go before cruise nites start again..
5 images -2.5. -1.5, 0.0, +1.5, +2.5 merged via CS3 HDR and then hit a with a host of Topaz and color layers....
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another "Dream Garage" CarArt product made from a internet image. Used as a background on my tablet and laptop...and shared with co-workers
4 images (-1.5, -.5, 0.0, .5, 1.5) processed in CS3 HDR, then finished with noise reduction and topaz plugins
ACE
Made EXPLORE. Many thanks to you for all the views comments and favs!
Seen this summer in a parking and lucky for me I had my camera in the trunk. I think the lady in the minivan had the same reaction I did, What is this beauty doing sitting here???
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Last shot of the series and a fitting end in my opinion, cause it's never really a car show without a gorgeous Camaro showing up.
Went to VooDoo Larry's open house with BFF's Brian and Liz. Had a really great time and took bunch of pics for first time this year. Used my 10-22mm wide the whole day which was a lot of fun..
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We get a huge variety of cars and truck for our cruise nite....from the HDR archives...
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Seen at 4th of July car show. 3 exp (-1.5, 0, 1.5) hand held (well actually used a mono-pod) processed in photomatix then CS3. Back to my HDR roots for a while.
from the car image archives.. I know this is HDR work, but have no clue on what process I used back then
My thanks to everyone, you all have given me such a kind response to my stuff posted from this back up drive, so I'll keep posting ...
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From the car show archives...an old storage drive is back to life with a bunch of raws to review and post...
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CarART from the archives..... a side view mirror on a custom car becomes a work of art in the right hands...
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I love a well done Camaro!
Yes, the Ford fanatic has a soft spot for a Chevy product.
In fact the wife wants a 69 SS, blue with white stripes with a big block , running on 18's.
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another cruise nite favorite...funny how really nice cars usually have even nicer owners. talking about cars and meeting gear heads is just one of the best parts of this hobby...
peace to you and yours....ACE