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秋日的某天 (不是只有一天)．一如以往．走走拍拍．生活+點滴．人事+光影．是記錄的事實．也是回憶的準備．2015 秋天的汐止小鎮…
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註：「小鎮」要比大都會好多了，光是 "人少"、"無所謂流行" 以及 "不會太濃的人情味"，就好得剛好到位。
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Notes:
1. With a greedy mind, film tail was torn apart from spool winding the last frame... (darn!)
Luckily, I got a changing bag (暗袋), and reusable cartridges that helped me from such a situation :-)
2. Yes, with fresh film, plus a little over (exposure), this vintage RF camera works well (to me )... == [使用新鮮的底片，並稍微地 over (過曝) 一些些，這部老相機拍出來的影像似乎還 OK。]
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* PS - This roll got exposed on 2015/09/05, developed/scanned by a local studio 天虹數位影像 2015/09/12, and re-scanned with "Epson Perfection V600 Photo" on 2015/09/13.
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Built in 1906-1917, this Beaux Arts-style Capitol Building was designed by George B. Post to house the state house of representatives, state senate, and offices for the Wisconsin State Government. The fourth state capitol to house the state government since the state’s establishment in 1848, the building is the third building to sit on the present site, and replaced the previous state capitol, built in 1857-1869 and expanded in 1882, which burned down in February of 1904. The capitol houses both the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate, as well as the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Wisconsin. The first capitol of Wisconsin upon the formation of Wisconsin Territory in 1836 was in the village of Belmont, Wisconsin, with the legislature meeting in a hastily constructed wood-frame building, before deciding to designate the future site of Madison as the state capitol, and holding further sessions of the legislature in the much better-developed Mississippi River port town of Burlington (now in Iowa) until a capitol building could be completed in Madison. Upon Burlington becoming part of the new Iowa Territory, the state legislature moved to a log and stone building on the present site of the state capitol, a relatively humble Greek Revival-style building constructed in 1837, which looked much like older capitol buildings in the eastern United States, with doric columns and a rusticated fieldstone exterior. It was most similar to the Old State House in North Carolina, built only four years prior, and the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, built in the same year, though these two similar buildings were built almost entirely of stone blocks rather than fieldstone. The small second capitol building was the first state capitol of Wisconsin upon its ascension to statehood in 1848, but had become inadequate for the growing population and government by the 1850s. The original building was demolished and replaced with a larger, Classical Revival-style structure with Romanesque Revival elements constructed in stages between 1857 and 1869, which featured a dome inspired by the United Capitol Building, semi-circular porticoes with corinthian columns, and two short side wings with octagonal towers at the corners, which were modified and extended in 1882 with new wings that increased the Classical Revival aspects of the building and helped to downplay the Romanesque Revival elements that originally were very prominent on the structure. This building was oriented with the semi-circular original porticoes aligned with State Street and King Street, with the wings being oriented towards both sections of Hamilton Street, though the building appeared rather small within the large parklike expanse of Capitol Square. By the turn of the 20th Century, the old Capitol had become inadequate for the growing needs of Wisconsin, which had become wealthy, industrialized, and heavily populated by that point, so study of a replacement capitol building began in 1903. In February 1904, the old State Capitol burned to the ground when a gas jet ignited a newly varnished ceiling inside the building, which spread quickly despite the building featuring a then-advanced sprinkler system, as the reservoir of the nearby University of Wisconsin was empty, which allowed the fire to spread out of control. The north wing of the building, built in 1882, was the only portion that survived, with many relics, records, and important historical items being lost in the fire, though the state law library was saved thanks to efforts by University of Wisconsin students. The fire also happened just after the state legislature had voted to cancel the fire insurance policy on the building, thinking it was a costly and unnecessary folly.
The present building was built on the site of the previous building, with the construction process focusing on completing each wing one at a time to provide space to the state government with as much fiscal efficiency as possible due to financial limitations. Due to this, the north wing was built last to allow the remaining portion of the previous capitol to serve as space for the state government during the construction period, with the central rotunda and dome also being built after the other three wings had been completed, as they serve a more symbolic and less utilitarian purpose than the rest of the building. The building stands 284 feet (86 meters) tall to the top of the statue on the dome, which was sculpted in 1920 by Daniel Chester French, and is a personification of the state of Wisconsin, with the outstretched arm of the statue representing the state motto, “Forward”. The exterior of the building is clad in Bethel white granite, sourced from Vermont, with an additional 42 types of stone from a total of eight states and six countries being utilized on the interior of the building. The dome is the largest in the world to be entirely clad in granite, and is the tallest building in Madison, with a state law passed in 1990 stipulating that any building within a one-mile radius of the capitol is limited in height to the base of the columns of the dome, which stand at 187 feet, which preserves the visibility of the building from the surrounding landscape. The building has a greek cross footprint with four five-story wings that are aligned with the compass directions and radial streets following the compass directions that slice through the surrounding street grid, which is at a 45-degree angle to compass directions, instead roughly paralleling the shorelines of nearby Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, with Downtown Madison sitting on an isthmus between the two lakes. This places the building at a unique 45-degree angle orientation relative to the edges of Capitol Square and most buildings on adjacent streets. The building was one of the last works of the prolific architect George B. Post, whom died before the building was completed. The building underwent a major renovation in the 1970s that added modern features to the interior and covered up many original features, with later projects between 1988 and 2002 restoring the building while updating the building’s systems and functions for the modern needs of the state government.
The exterior of the building’s wings feature porticoes on the ends with corinthian columns, arched windows on the third floor, rusticated bases with entrance doors and decorative keystones, decorative reliefs featuring festoons over the windows on the porticoes, cornices with modillions and dentils, and pediments with sculptural reliefs, which were created by several sculptors, and have different symbolism embodied by their design. On the east wing, which is home to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the sculpture known as Law, created by Karl Bitter, is located on the portico pediment, on the west wing, which houses the chamber of the Wisconsin Assembly, is a sculpture known as Agriculture, also created by Karl Bitter, on the north wing, which is home to a hearing chamber, is the sculpture known as Virtues and Traits of Character, created by Adolph Alexander Weinman, and on the south wing, which houses the chamber of the Wisconsin Senate, is a sculpture known as Wisdom and Learning of the World, created by Attilio Piccirilli. The sides of the wings feature simpler cornices with dentils, pilasters and recessed window openings with arched openings at the ground floor, windows with decorative pedimented headers on the second floor, arched windows on the third floor, two small two-over-two windows on the fourth floor, and a recessed fifth floor features small paired windows, hidden behind a balustrade that runs around the entirety of the building minus the ends of the wings, concealing a low-slope roof at the setbacks on the sides of the wings and above the corner porticoes. The upper roofs of the wings are low-slope with front gabled portions in the middle punctured by skylights, with the roof being almost entirely enclosed by a parapet. At the center of the building in the inside corners of the greek cross are semi-circular portions of the facade with semi-circular two-story ionic porticos with large terraces and grand staircases featuring decorative copper lampposts, decorative stone balustrades, concealed entrances to the ground floor underneath the terraces, and three doorways on the upper level, with drums surrounded by buttresses featuring small windows and domed roofs above the balustrade on the fifth floor. In the center of the building is the rotunda, which is topped with a large dome that rises from a tall base that terminates in a balustrade, with a low-slope roof at the base of the drum of the dome, which features a level with small windows at the base, with projected pavilions at the corners above the semi-circular porticoes below, which were originally to support four smaller domes, but ended up supporting sculptures by Karl Bitter, symbolizing strength, faith, prosperity, and abundance and knowledge. The drum of the dome is surrounded by a corinthian colonnade with corinthian pilasters on the exterior wall of the dome behind the colonnade, arched windows, and recessed decorative panels at the top of the colonnade below the architrave. Above the architrave is a cornice with modillions and dentils, above which is another balustrade, accessed via doors from the interior space above the inner dome of the rotunda, and ringed by six-over-six windows, pilasters, and a cornice with egg and dart motif at the top. Above this last cornice is the dome, which is ribbed, with the ribs terminating in voluted upside down brackets at the base, and clad in granite, terminating at the top at a balustrade around the base of the lantern. The cylindrical landern features corinthian columns, arched windows, festoons, with a concavely sloped roof featuring rubs terminating in volutes, above which is the base of the Wisconsin statue, which is coated in gold leaf.
The interior of the building is richly decorated with Beaux Arts detailing, utilizing plaster, a diverse array of stone and woodwork, engaged columns and pilasters, murals, vaulted ceilings, decorative balustrades, grand staircases, and modern oak furniture. The interior dome features a mural by Edwin Howland Blashfield, known as Resources of Wisconsin, which sits in the middle of the dome’s coffered ceiling, above the upper balcony at the base of the drum. The rotunda features green and white marble corinthian columns with gold leaf on the capitals, vaulted alcoves on the sides with coffered ceilings, a stone floor, and features marble from Tennessee, Missouri, Vermont, Georgia, New York, and Maryland, granite from Wisconsin and Minnesota, limestone from Minnesota and Illinois, marble from France, Italy, Greece, Algeria and Germany, and syenite from Norway. A large circular opening in the floor of the center of the rotunda allows light into the lower level of the building, and is supported by a ring of square columns underneath. The light fixtures in the space are a combination of lampposts and sconces. The pendentives below the drum of the dome in the rotunda are decorated with glass mosaics by artist Kenyon Cox. The interior’s decoration denotes hierarchy of space, with the level of detail varying throughout the building’s interior from simple offices and service areas to the grand public spaces, such as the rotunda and government meeting chambers. The two-story senate chamber is circular with marble cladding, corinthian columns, and pilasters on the walls, a decorative ceiling with a central shallow domed decorative glass skylight, and coffers with rosettes, with murals above the main podium, and balconies inside the alcoves behind the columns for spectators and observers. The two-story assembly chamber features a similar shallow domed decorative glass skylight on the ceiling, but is square in shape with decorative pendentives and arches on the perimeter of the space opening into alcoves with vaulted ceilings, with wood paneling and a large mural behind the main podium, and balconies in the upper level of the alcoves. The supreme court chamber is square with a square decorative glass skylight in the room’s coffered ceiling, white marble pilasters, paneling, and murals on the walls, and arched niches housing candelabra-type lamppost light fixtures. The north wing hearing chamber features a massive cove ceiling with decorative trim and murals, with a large square decorative glass skylight in the middle, and walls lined with ionic pilasters and stone panels. The Governor’s Conference Room, located in the east wing, features a heavily decorated ceiling with multiple coffers housing murals, decorative stained woodwork, a fireplace with a decorative marble surround flanked by two corinthian columns, and gold leaf on some of the trim. The interior of the building is even more richly detailed than the exterior.
The building, which has been fully modernized and restored to some semblance of its original appearance, remains the seat of the government of Wisconsin, presently the 25th largest by land area and 20th largest by population in the United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, owing to its historical and architectural significance, and was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 2001. The building visually dominates the isthmus that makes up Downtown Madison, and sits in the city’s central square, one of the most visually impressive and stunning sitings of any capitol building in the United States.
The village that was built to house the workers of the plant has a school, tennis courts, club but all now lie unused in the quiet forgotten place. A great find when out on a morning run when staying in the local area.
Stand developed kodak tmax 400 in xtol+rodinal. 50mins. ARAX-CM & Mir 65/3.5 lens
A garden tool shed and fence, circa mid-1800s, found in the village at the Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.photography/4x5-for-365
Technical details:
Sakai Toyo 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" (half-plate) large format metal field camera with 4x5" film back.
Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens in Copal B shutter.
Yellow-Green filter on the lens to help with contrast.
Arista EDU Ultra 200 (re-branded Fomapan) B&W Negative Film, shot at ISO 160.
1/4 second at F32.
Developed in Rodinal/Adox Adonal 1:50 dilution for 9 1/2 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius in Mod54 daylight developing tank.
4x5" negative scanned with Epson V600.
Slight palladium toning applied to scan in post.
Canon EOS 3000v / Canon 55-200 / Rollei Retro 80s
If you like architectural contrast, tokyo is your place. In no other city that I have visited you can find two-story buildings face-to-face to 40-story skyscrapers.
Not ALL of my flickr are of abandoned buildings and without description! Here's a self portrait of me (obviously) drying prints downstairs after a 9 hour darkroom session. The picture I'm holding is of this old eccentric guy who lives down the street and sort of reminds me of myself. I snapped it at his 90th birthday party at the local legion.
My goggles will also be celebrating their 90th birthday party in about 10-15 years.
The TAM-110 light utility truck was developed in the 1980s by Tovarna Avtomobilov Maribor (TAM) to meet the requirements of the former Yugoslavian army. This military truck is based on the German Magirus-Deutz design, which did not enter production. Previously this light utility truck has been referred as the TAM-1500. The TAM-110 was a standard vehicle with Yugoslavia and successor states. This military truck remains in service with Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia.
This truck has a payload capacity of 1 500 kg off-road and up to 2 500 kg on hard surface roads. It can also tow trailers with a maximum weight of 1 500 kg.
The TAM-110 has an all-steel forward control cab. Its roof and side windows can be removed. The windscreen can be tipped forward over the bonnet. It provides seating for the driver and one passenger. The cab is tipped over for engine access and maintenance.
A rear cargo area is of all-steel construction. It has two collapsible benches and provides seating for 12 troops. It comes with a single-section drop sides and tailgate. The cargo are is covered with bows and tarpaulin. This military vehicle may also carry shelter.
Vehicle is powered by a TAM 5.88-liter air-cooled diesel engine, mounted under the cab. It develops 110 horsepower. Vehicle has a full-time all-wheel-drive and is fitted with a central tyre inflation system. This system is adjusted by the driver while driving. It has a 2.5 t capacity winch, which can be used to the front or rear. This military truck is operational at temperature ranges from -30°C to +40°C.
As the internal wars in the region expanded, some of the TAM-110 trucks were uparmored using field workshops.
This film was a tough nut to crack regarding the processing. This was the first of four tests. Tests 2 and 3 barely had and educational value so I will not post the developing specs as they were too far off. This film in real life is a Dactylographic film, used in the study of finger prints so it very slow and fine grained but you can not see those attributes here.
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Film: Svema Super Positive B/W Slide Film, fresh dated, ISO .75 35mm
Camera/Lens: Olympus OM-1n, Tamron 24mm f2.5
Light metered with a Minolta Flash meter set to it's lowest ISO of 3 then plus 2 stops from the reading to get to .75 ISO.
Image by: Leslie Lazenby, 6 Jun, 2014, Arlington, OH.
Film developed at home with Ilfotec DD-X at 20c
Film: Fuji Acros 100
Scanner: Epson V550
Camera: Olympus OM10
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "After the place has been established for ten years the shrubbery is developed, trees have grown up along side the house and arbors have been constructed. very often there is a flag pole in the front yard."
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 067 051
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Canon EOS3000V
Agfaphoto Vista 200
Developed with a Digibase C41 home kit in an Agfa Rondinax 35U daylight tank.
Mannequin complete with free mason apron. Spotted at Peterbough antiques fair.
Bronica SQ-A camera
Zenzanon PS 150mm f/4 lens
Ilford FP4 Plus 120 film
Developed in Kodak D-76 1:1
Pentax Super A
Asahi Pentax SMC 28mm 2.8
Shot on a roll of Ilford Delta 400pro
while shooting i had a bad feeling
about the film because just as i was
loading the roll into the camera it
started to rain. The film gets very
sticky if it becomes wet and so it
could not roll up in the right way inside
the camera. Luckily only the first 3 or 4
pictures were destroyed by that ;)
A £1.5 million research centre to find new advances in the prevention and treatment of children’s burns launches at Frenchay Hospital today (June 10).
The Healing Foundation Centre for Children’s Burns Research will develop new techniques and approaches to prevent burns and scalds and improve the clinical care and recovery of children who have suffered burns.
Falklands War veteran Simon Weston, and Lead Ambassador for the Healing Foundation, will visit Frenchay Hospital to see the work of the children’s burns team and meet patients.
Each year 23,000 children are hospitalised with burns in England and Wales.
Two children are brought in to the South West UK Children’s Burn Centre at Frenchay Hospital with scalds every day.
Some burns can be life-threatening and in some cases the effects can be life-long, and include physical scarring, chronic pain and psychological difficulties.
The new research centre, based at the South West UK Children’s Burns Centre at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, is led by the University of Bristol in partnership with clinicians and academics at:
North Bristol NHS Trust
University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)
University of Bath
Cardiff University
The centre has been awarded £1.5m over 5 years from the Healing Foundation, a national charity funding research into new surgical and psychological healing techniques for people living with disfigurement.
Each partner has also provided funding, along with the Welsh Government who are contributing £280,000.
The Healing Foundation Centre for Children’s Burns Research will focus on three key strands of research:
The clinical treatment of children with burns, including burn wound management and developing current research looking at smart dressings in partnership with the University of Bath looking at smart dressings which can indicate infection.
Psychological healing and rehabilitation lead by the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) at UWE Bristol to research ways of improving the psychological outcome of burn injury and promote the rehabilitation of children back into school and social networks.
Prevention research building on previous research collaborations between the University of Bristol and Cardiff University to develop programmes to prevent burn and scald injuries to children.
Professor Alan Emond, a senior academic paediatrician, leads the research team, with Dr Amber Young, lead consultant for the South West UK Children’s Burn Centre at Frenchay.
Professor Emond said: “This is an exciting new multi-disciplinary research initiative, which will improve the evidence base for both the prevention and treatment of burns, and train researchers of the future.”
Dr Young said: “The support of the Healing Foundation is a huge accolade for the quality of burns care at Frenchay Hospital and of the research already being undertaken in Bristol and Bath.
“The centre will bring enhanced infrastructure and support allowing innovation and advances in the way we understand and treat burns wounds to ensure that more children can go on to live healthy, happy lives free from the physical and psychological scars of a burn injury.”
Brendan Eley, Chief Executive of the Healing Foundation said: “The team assembled to drive this research programme is world-leading and have beaten very stiff competition, from leading universities and hospitals across the UK, to win this important award.
“We are confident that the work of this centre will deliver real benefits to those children who suffer scalds and burns as well as bring new understanding to how such injuries in the future can be better prevented”.
The Healing Foundation Centre for Children’s Burns Research will move to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children in 2014 when paediatric services move from Frenchay Hospital.
Ava’s story
The work of the Healing Foundation Centre for Children’s Burns Research will help children like 11-month-old Ava Batten who was rushed to Frenchay Hospital’s Children’s Burns Centre on May 25 with a serious burn on her chest from a cup of tea.
She is now back at home and recovering well but mum Clodagh said it was a frightening experience to see the damage that a cup of tea can do to the skin of young children.
“As parents we always keep hot drinks out of Ava’s reach because we know it can be a risk but a friend placed a cup of tea on the coffee table and Ava came along and tried to drink it, burning her lip and tipping the tea on to her chest.
“We immediately put her under a cold shower to cool the skin down but it was awful to see her skin start to blister.
“Ava is back to her normal happy self, playing and laughing. It has reaffirmed to us the danger of a hot drink around small children.”
If you are looking to develop android applications, it is a great idea as you can enjoy a range of benefits that are mentioned in this Infographic.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros developed in Xtol (1:1)
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Ryan LeCluyse's REBU!LD project on the 900 block of Madeira Street in east Baltimore.
Red milkweed beetle playing dead. I walked past this same spot about two minutes later and this individual was walking on the leaf.
Lens was a Tokina 100mm macro on a 2x teleconverter.
A wall cloud develops underneath the mesocyclone produced by a supercell thunderstorm southwest of Crowell, Texas on March 18, 2012.
Developing countries responded to COVID-19 by implementing social distancing measures and limiting non-essential business operations. Agrifood systems and food supplies—although generally exempt from restrictions—have been exposed to policy disruptions and global market instability. To measure the impacts of COVID-19 on economies and food systems, IFPRI researchers worked alongside partners in several African and Asian countries to conduct economywide multiplier analysis, tracing direct and indirect spillover effects along and across supply chains. Results reveal substantial but varying levels of GDP losses during lockdowns, depending on policy design and implementation and countries’ exposure to global markets. Despite policy exemptions, impacts on food systems account for about one quarter of GDP losses on average. Income losses are felt by all segments of the population. Negative impacts persist, but gradually weaken as restrictive measures are lifted. Our results call for targeted social protection interventions in the short term, balanced with longer-term planning and investing in the economic recovery.
This IFPRI-PIM seminar will present the modeling approach and showcase results from three case studies—Nigeria, Myanmar, and Sudan. Presenters will highlight how differences in policy design, implementation, and economic structure affect the experience with COVID-19, specifically for food systems and poverty, in these countries.
Opening Remarks
Frank Place, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
Presenter
Mariam Raouf, Senior Research Associate, IFPRI
Developed using the principles of New Urbanism, CLC worked with its private sector partners to create a compact, pedestrian-friendly community. Our shared goal was to build a space where residents are never more than a few minutes away from parks, schools, green space and access to public transit. With 1,600 housing units ranging from single-family homes to townhouses and apartments, as well as retail shops and services located on the property, the development offers something for everyone.
Garrison Woods also celebrates its association with its military past, by retaining existing street names from the former Canadian Forces Base. As a gesture of respect to the Base’s history, Garrison Woods also incorporates memorials to pay tribute to the men and women of Canada’s military.
Garrison Woods was completed in 2004, and has since become one of Calgary’s most desirable neighbourhoods.
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La SIC et ses partenaires du secteur privé ont utilisé les principes du nouvel urbanisme pour créer un quartier compact et invitant pour la marche. Le but consistait à construire un secteur où les gens sont à quelques minutes à pied des parcs, écoles, espaces verts et transport en commun. Le quartier compte 1 600 résidences de toutes sortes, des maisons individuelles aux maisons en rangée et aux appartments, de même que des commerces et services qui répondent aux besoins des résidents.
Garrison Woods est un endroit qui commémore l’histoire militaire des lieux, en conservant les noms des rues de l’ancienne base des Forces canadiennes. En guise de respect pour l’histoire de la base, des monuments ont aussi été érigés à Garrison pour rendre hommage aux hommes et aux femmes qui ont servi dans les Forces canadiennes.
Garrison Woods a été terminé en 2004 et, depuis, est devenu un des quartiers les plus recherchés de Calgary.
The SR-71 was developed as a long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying at speeds over Mach 3.2 and at 85,000 feet. The first SR-71 to enter service was delivered in 1966 and was retired in 1990. However, the USAF still kept a few SR-71s in operation up until 1998
1968 Maserati Ghibli Spyder Prototype by Ghia
$995,000 USD | Sold
From Sotheby's:
Introduced at the 1966 Turin Motor Show, the Maserati Ghibli took the automotive world by storm, powered by a potent new 4.7 liter dry-sump V-8 engine capable of developing 310 horsepower. Showgoers were awestruck by the groundbreaking coachwork by Ghia’s Giorgetto Giugiaro, who penned a low and wide aerodynamic coupe featuring pop-up headlamps, a raked windshield, and a sweeping fastback rear end. The Ghibli soon became the choice of jet-set celebrities around the globe, finding favor with buyers as diverse as comedic actor Peter Sellers, French New Wave cinema star Jean-Paul Belmondo, entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr, and professional basketball icon Wilt Chamberlain.
As with any great sports car coupe, customer demand eventually mounted for an open-top version, and Maserati answered the call with the featured lot, a spyder prototype that debuted on Ghia’s stand at the 1968 Turin Motor Show. It proved to be the first of only 125 examples built, ensuring a degree of rarity that has only solidified the spyder’s cachet in the eyes of today’s collectors.
Factory-finished in Giallo paint and trimmed with an interior of Testa di Moro (dark brown), chassis number 1001 is a true prototype featuring a number of unusual trim details that were eventually changed on the regular production spyder. Most noticeably, the door handles are mounted over recessed oval sections that improve hand access, and there are no external fuel filler caps (the dual fuel fillers being found in the trunk). The rear deck lid is longer than on standard spyders and features a center-placed character line that improves structural rigidity. The radio antenna is placed at the end of the passenger-side rear fender (rather than astride the fuel filler), and the trunk-release lever operates in the opposite direction when compared to the production version. Finally, the rear badges are placed together on the driver’s side rather than apart. Mechanically, the engine heads are built with extra apertures that were originally intended to accommodate twin-spark ignition, a feature common to the early 4.7-liter engines, though it is believed that no cars were ever equipped in this fashion.
Following completion of the handsome spyder coachwork, the Ghibli was photographed by Ghia on an ornate 19th century bridge surrounding the Fontana dei Dodici Mesi in the Parco del Valentino in Turin. The prototype was then exhibited at the Turin Motor Show in November 1968, coverage of which appeared in the December 1968 issue of the Italian magazine Quattroruote and the February 1969 issue of Road & Track.
Copies of factory records indicate that the Ghibli Spyder was ordered for purchase in September 1969 by Antonio Capuano of Barletta, a principal of the Ruggiero Capuano clothing company. Delivered in late October, the spyder was registered in the name of Giuseppe Capuano according to Auto Club d’Italia records on file. Maserati service orders and related owner correspondence reflect that the Ghibli was submitted to the factory for maintenance several times during the first few years of ownership by the Capuano family.
According to the research of a former owner, the Ghibli was then sold in 1975 to Libero Girardi, an Italian mechanic specializing in Ferraris who immigrated to the United States and settled in Rhode Island. Mr. Girardi repainted the coachwork in the original shade of Giallo, fitted external rearview mirrors to the front fenders, and installed stereo speakers behind the seats. He eventually sold the spyder to his son-in-law, John Ferro, who reportedly domiciled the car into long-term storage in 1986. At this point the odometer showed 66,144 kilometers (~41,100 miles), as attested by a Rhode Island inspection sticker.
Circa 2013 the Maserati was removed from storage and sold to a collector based in South Carolina who commissioned a mechanical restoration by Brian Joseph’s Classic and Exotic Service in Troy, Michigan. This work reportedly included a rebuild of the Weber carburetors, brakes, and water pump. The original interior continued to display in remarkably well-maintained condition, so it was properly cleaned without replacing any major components.
In July 2014 the owner presented the Maserati at the Concours d’Elegance of America in Plymouth, Michigan, and the car took home the Debut Award. Later that year the spyder participated in the 100th Anniversary of Maserati celebration at the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance, winning a Palmetto Award.
In August 2015 the Ghibli was offered at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale, for which it underwent further freshening measures by RM Auto Restoration, as clarified by invoices on file. Acquired then by the consignor, the Maserati was returned to RM Auto Restoration for a comprehensive refurbishment that addressed every mechanical and cosmetic consideration. Completed in August 2018, the restoration included a full rebuild of the engine with new pistons, rings, connecting rods, main bearing, valve springs, rod bearings, and intake and exhaust valve guides. The Weber carburetors, the distributor, and the transmission were all rebuilt, while the radiator was re-cored, and a new wiring harness, water pump, and hoses were installed. The suspension and brakes were also completely rebuilt.
Cosmetically, the dashboard top was re-covered in proper mousehair fabric and new brown carpeting was fitted, while the seats and interior were reupholstered with proper Maserati brown leather cut from six new hides. The windshield was replaced and sealed with a new gasket, and the Campagnolo alloy wheels were refurbished and mounted with new Pirelli Cinturato tires. The coachwork was taken down to bare metal and refinished in correct Giallo paint, and the soft top was rebuilt and trimmed with new brown canvas. A re-plating of all brightwork completed the exquisite restoration, which cost in excess of $422,000, as demonstrated by invoices on file.
Now presenting with striking quality, and bearing a number of unusual pre-production prototype features, this breathtaking Ghibli Spyder is ideally prepared for presentation at top-tier concours d’elegance and marque gatherings worldwide. Accompanied by a spare wheel, a partially complete tool roll, and owner’s manuals, the prototype is desirably documented with copies of factory records, period photographs, an ACI estratto cronologico, and invoices from the recent restoration. Beckoning to Maserati enthusiasts and collectors of important open-top grand tourers, this historically significant Ghibli would make a crowning addition to most any assemblage of postwar Italian sports cars, and it stands as a brilliant testament to the genius of the celebrated Giorgetto Giugiaro.
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Kristina and I headed over to RM Sotheby's at the Monterey Conference Center to view some glorious cars at their auction preview.
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Had a blast with our auto-enthusiast friend and neighbor, Fred, at Monterey Car Week 2022.