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Todays challenge on Photochallenge.org was Automobile, but with the following note;
This time, let’s try something a little abstract. Since we’ve shot an auto before, I want to see you push your self just a bit more. Let me see some artistic processing, or abstract framing, or a unique view of an auto we’ve never seen before.
of course for me being an utter nutter for reflections had to look for a shot with some city reflection which I got here, then I played around a bit in processing tried quite a few things so not sure exactly what I did but kind of like the result I got so here it is
Have a good weekend everyone,
I think ths one does look Better on B l a c k M a g i c
Exploring the Automobile
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Place: Den Haag
Mitsubishi Lancer EXE: From Poland, DB = Wałbrzych
2008 Renault Espace 2.0 dCi (France)
This wins the award for the worst looking car I've ever seen! What a terrible attempt at a car! These must be pretty rare outside a show. This one looked well used!
Registration number: L102 YDL
✔ Taxed
Tax due: 01 August 2015
✔ MOT
Expires: 07 August 2015
Vehicle make MIDAS
Date of first registration 17 July 2001
Year of manufacture 2001
Cylinder capacity (cc) 1118cc
Fuel type PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle colour YELLOW
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The De Tomaso Mangusta is a sports car from Italian automobile manufacturer De Tomaso produced between 1967 and 1971.
The Mangusta replaced the Vallelunga model, on which its chassis was based. The word "mangusta" is Italian for "mongoose", an animal that can kill cobras. It was rumored that the car was so named because De Tomaso had some talks with Carroll Shelby to replace the Shelby Cobra with a racing car to be built in Italy by the Argentine-born De Tomaso ("De Tomaso Sport 5000 " a.k.a. "De Tomaso P70"), but no deal was signed since Shelby became involved in the Ford GT40 racing program. Nevertheless, Alejandro de Tomaso and Carroll Shelby were friends and business is business, so it is also rumored that the first handful of engines for the Mangusta may have come from Shelby. The Mangusta was replaced by the much cheaper-to-build De Tomaso Pantera in 1971.
401 Mangustas were built, about 150 of the European version, the remainder were the North American version. The initial cars are claimed to have a more powerful Ford HiPo 289 cu. in. engine; the later cars all had Ford 302 engines. With the 1970 model USA destined cars were produced with 2 headlamp pop-up, an estimated 50 cars were produced in this configuration. One car was built with a Chevrolet engine for General Motors-Vice President, Bill Mitchell. There are reported to be approximately 250 of the 401 cars left in existence, according to the three available registries.
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The Thunderbird ("T-Bird"), was an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United States over eleven model generations from 1955 through 2005. When introduced, it created the market niche eventually known as the personal luxury car.
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LaSalle was an American brand of luxury automobiles manufactured and marketed by General Motors' Cadillac division from 1927 through 1940. Alfred P. Sloan developed the concept for LaSalle and certain other General Motors' marques in order to fill pricing gaps he perceived in the General Motors product portfolio. Sloan created LaSalle as a companion marque for Cadillac. LaSalle automobiles were manufactured by Cadillac, but were priced lower than Cadillac-branded automobiles and were marketed as the second-most prestigious marque in the General Motors portfolio.
Like Cadillac, the LaSalle brand name was based on that of a French explorer, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
Dinamarca - Kvaerndrup - Castillo de Egeskov - Museo vehículos
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Egeskov Castle (Danish: Egeskov Slot) is located near Kværndrup, in the south of the island of Funen, Denmark. The castle is Europe's best preserved Renaissance water castle.
Egeskov was first mentioned in 1405. The castle structure was erected by Frands Brockenhuus in 1554.
Due to the troubles caused by the civil war known as the Count's Feud (Danish: Grevens fejde), general civil unrest, and a civil war introducing the Protestant Reformation, most Danish noblemen built their homes as fortifications. The castle is constructed on oaken piles and located in a small lake with a maximum depth of 5 metres (16 ft). Originally, the only access was by means of a drawbridge. According to legend, it took an entire forest of oak trees to build the foundation, hence the name Egeskov (oak forest).
Outside, the castle is a Late Gothic building. Inside the original elements already show Renaissance design.
The castle consists of two long buildings connected by a thick double wall, allowing defenders to abandon one house and continue fighting from the other. The double wall is over one meter thick and contains secret staircases and a well. Defenders were able to attack an enemy's flanks from the two round corner towers. Other medieval defences include artillery ports, scalding holes and arrow slits. The bricks composing the castle are of an oversized medieval type sometimes called "monks bricks". The conical towers are constructed in a series of separate panels.
The architecture includes depressed and round-arched windows, round-arched blank arcading within the gables, and a double string course between the high cellar and the ground floor. The structure contains some of the early indoor plumbing design first used in Europe with vertical shafts for waste. The thick double wall also contains a water well which is accessed from the servants kitchen in the east house. Several of the large rooms have massive parallel exposed beams with some end carving.
Contents of the castle include a massive iron chest from at least as early as the 16th century, which derived from Hvedholm Castle, a property earlier owned by the Egeskov estate about ten kilometers to the west.
Numerous oil paintings are found within the castle including a large painting in the great hall on the first floor of Niels Juel, who defeated the Swedish force in the Battle of Køge Bay in the year 1677.
Other buildings belonging to Egeskov include Ladegården, a thatched half-timbered building which is now part of the museum. Other buildings are used by the museum and for farming. Surrounding the castle is an old park, covering 20 hectares (49 acres) of land. The park is divided into a number of gardens. The renaissance garden features fountains, a gravel path and topiary figures. The fuchsia garden, one of the largest in Europe, contains 104 different species. Other gardens near the castle include an English garden, a water garden, an herb garden, a vegetable garden, and a peasant's garden (bondehave). The gardens also feature four hedge mazes. The oldest is a beech maze several hundreds of years old. This garden is trimmed every year to prevent the trees from dying. The newest maze is the world's largest bamboo maze. It features a Chinese tower in the centre, and a bridge from the tower provides the exit from the maze. The parks feature a three-meter-tall sundial designed by Danish poet and mathematician, Piet Hein.
The estate includes an additional eight square kilometres; 2.5 square kilometres (0.97 sq mi) is forest, with the rest being farmland. The estate has belonged to the Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille family since 1784. In 1986, a full-sized replica of the castle was built in Hokkaidō, Japan, to hold an aquarium. This was constructed with the permission of the Egeskov's owners at the time, Count Claus and Countess Louisa Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille.
Egeskov is home to the following museums.
- A vintage automobile collection
- A vintage motorcycle collection
- A collection describing the history of agriculture
- A collection of flying vehicles
- A collection of Falck and other emergency vehicles
Most of the castle is open to the public, except for the areas used by Count Michael and Countess Caroline Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille. The museum of agriculture and the horse wagon collection is located in the building Ladegård mentioned previously.
Three large modern buildings are occupied by the vintage automobile collection, the vintage motorcycle collection, the Falck collection, and by a collection of airplanes and helicopters. The Falck collection is a collection of vehicles from the Danish rescue company, Falck, emergency vehicles such as fire trucks, ambulances, rescue boats, and other assorted emergency vehicles.
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El castillo de Egeskov (en danés Egeskov Slot) es un castillo que se encuentra localizado en el sur de la isla de Fionia, en Dinamarca. El castillo es el castillo de estilo renacentista mejor conservado de Europa, por lo que se refiere a castillos que se encuentren rodeados de agua. Aunque la historia de Egeskov se remonta al siglo XV, la estructura del castillo actual fue erigida por Frands Brockenhuus en 1554.
Debido a los problemas e inestabilidades causados por la Guerra Civil Danesa en 1534-1536 (conocida por la historiografía anglosajona y danesa como Guerra del conde, en danés Grevens fejde), una guerra civil que introdujo en Dinamarca la Reforma Protestante, la mayor parte de la nobleza danesa construyó sus residencias planificándolas como auténticas fortalezas. Así, el castillo está construido sobre un lugar pilotes de roble y localizado en un pequeño lago con una profundidad máxima de cinco metros. En un primer momento, el único acceso desde el exterior al castillo era a través de un puente levadizo. Según la leyenda, se necesitó un bosque entero de robles para construir los cimientos del edificio, y de ahí derivaría el nombre de Egeskov (bosque de robles).
El castillo consiste en realidad en dos edificios distintos alargados y conectados entre sí por una pared de doble grosor, permitiendo así a los defensores del mismo abandonar una de las casas y seguir luchando en la otra. La pared doble posee más de un metro de espesor, y alberga escaleras secretas y un pozo. Por otra parte, estaba diseñado de modo que los defensores podían atacar por ambos flancos a los asaltantes desde las dos torres redondas de las esquinas. Otras defensas de tipo medieval incluyen portones para la artillería, matacanes o saeteras. Los ladrillos con los que se edificó el castillo son de un tipo medieval de gran tamaño, a veces llamado ladrillo de monjes. Las torres cónicas están construidas en una serie de paneles separados.
La arquitectura incluye ventanas en arco rebajado, en arco de medio punto y otros, rematadas algunas de ellas por gabletes, así como un doble cordón de arquillos ciegos entre la primera y la segunda plantas, además de un cordón entre el sótano levantado y la planta baja. La estructura incluye una primitiva fontanería, una de las primeras usadas en Europa, incluyendo ejes verticales para el desagüe de las aguas sucias. La gruesa pared doble también contiene canalizaciones de agua limpia que desembocan en la cocina de los criados, situada en la casa oriental.
El contenido del castillo incluye un peto o pectoral macizo de armadura, de hierro, con una antigüedad de al menos el siglo XVI, procedente del castillo de Hvedholm, una antigua propiedad de Egeskov, que se encuentra aproximadamente a diez kilómetros al oeste del castillo de Egeskov.
Igualmente, dentro del castillo existe una amplia colección de pintura, que incluye un gran cuadro situado en el largo pasillo de la primera planta, representando a Niels Juel, quien derrotó a las tropas del Imperio sueco en la batalla de la bahía de Køge, el 2 de julio de 1677, en el marco de las Guerras Escandinavas.
Otro edificios que forman parte de Egeskov es Ladegården, un edificio con armazón de madera que se encuentra cubierta con paja, y que actualmente forma parte del museo. Otros edificios auxiliares están en uso, bien sea por el museo bien para labores agrícolas.
El castillo está rodeado por un antiguo parque, que abarca una superficie total de 200 000 metros cuadrados de terreno. El parque se encuentra dividido en un elevado número de jardines. El jardín renacentista destaca por sus fuentes, un camino de grava y figuras de arte topiario.
El jardín de fuchsias, uno de los más grandes de Europa, contiene 104 especies diferente. Otros jardines inmediatos al castillo incluyen un jardín inglés, un jardín acuático, un jardín de hierbas, un jardín de verduras, y un jardín campesino. En los jardines también destacan cuatro laberintos de seto. El más antiguo es un laberinto que incluye un haya de varios cientos de años de edad. Este jardín es ajustado cada año para prevenir la muerte de los árboles. El laberinto más moderno es el laberinto de bambú, el mayor del mundo de dichas plantas. Destaca en él una torre en estilo chino en su centro, a la vez que un puente que parte de la torre proporciona la salida del laberinto. Existe también un reloj de sol diseñado por el poeta y matemático danés Piet Hein.
La propiedad incluye otros ocho kilómetros cuadrados más, de los que 2,5 son forestales, estando el resto formado por tierras de labranza. La finca perteneció a la familia de los Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille desde 1784. En 1986 se construyó una réplica de tamaño natural del castillo en Hokkaidō, Japón, para albergar un acuario, con el permiso de quienes por entonces eran los dueños de Egeskov, el Conde Claus y la Condesa Louisa Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille.
En la actualidad, el castillo de Egeskov acoge diversos museos o colecciones:
- Colección de automóviles antiguos.
- Colección de motocicletas antiguas.
- Colección museística sobre la Historia de la Agricultura y colección de coches de caballos, en el Ladegården.
- Colección de aparatos voladores.
- Colección de vehículos de bomberos y otros vehículos de emergencias, de la empresa danesa Falck.
La mayor parte del castillo se encuentra abierto al público, con la excepción las áreas reservadas para el uso privado por el conde Michael y la condesa Margrethe Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, actuales propietarios.
El Museo de agricultura y la colección de coches de caballos se encuentran localizados en el Ladegården, mientras que la colección de automóviles antiguos, la de motocicletas antiguas, la de vehículos de la empresa Falck y la de aparatos voladores (incluyendo aeroplanos y helicópteros) ocupan tres grandes edificios de factura moderna. La colección Falck es una colección de vehículos de la empresa danesa de rescate Falck, vehículos de emergencias como camiones anti-incendios, ambulancias, barcos de rescate marítimo, y otros vehículos variados de emergencias.
From a good and gracious flickr friend, I was the grateful recipient of several vintage car posters. Not knowing whether this “good friend” wishes to be identified or remain an anonymous benefactor, I will allow this person to decide whether or not he wishes to be known. I am, however, extremely grateful………which I’m sure this individual is aware.
I am now in a position to begin the process of digitalizing these lovely vintage posters - a somewhat daunting task in that I do not have the physical resources (easel, studio lighting, etc) with which to do proper justice to these fine prints. Fact is I mounted a piece of foamboard on the outside of my garage door and have been using double sided, low tack, mounting tape to position the posters onto the foamboard. Obviously not the ideal way to photograph prints but you work with what you have and try to do justice.
Manufacturer: Rolls-Royce Limited, Derby, England - UK
Type: 40/50HP Silver Ghost Boattail
Engine: 7668cc straight-6
Power: 100 bhp / 2.750 rpm
Speed: 120 km/h
Production time: 1919 – 1926
Production time: 1906 – 1926 (all Silver Ghosts)
Production outlet: unknown
Production outlet: 7,874 (all Silver Ghosts, including 1701 from the American Springfield factory)
Curb weight: 1383 kg
Special:
- In 1906, four chassis were built for the Olympia Motor Show. After a lot of interest from the public, manager Claude Johnson set one automobile (an open-top Roi-des-Belges body by coachbuilder Barker & Co. Limited, London) in “silver” (painted in aluminium paint with silver-plated fittings) and named it “Silver Ghost” by virtue of its appearance and “extraordinary stealthiness” (like a ghost).
- Chassis no. 60551, registered AX 201 (the 12th 40/50HP to be made), was the car that was originally given the name "Silver Ghost."
- That title was taken up by the press (the prestigious publication Autocar in 1907) and soon all 40/50HPs were called by that name, a fact not officially recognised by Rolls-Royce until 1925, when the Phantom range was launched.
- Proper production of the 40/50HP at Cooke Street, Manchester had not started until early 1907 after all the effort of preparing the first four motor cars for Olympia and the Paris show which followed.
- It has a centre-change four-speed manual gearbox , a cone type clutch, a Rolls-Royce carburettor, a 6-Volts electric system, dual ignition with coil and magneto and rear wheel drive.
- The chassis (partly steel and ash frame) has a walnut and highly varnished dashboard, leather upholstery, solid front axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs suspension,a live rear axle with cantilever leaf spring platform suspension, worm & nut steering, spoke wheels and internal expanding four-wheel mechanical brakes.
- Many rolling chassis were outfitted with luxurious bodies by some of the top coachbuilders in the industry, like Hooper, Barker, Park Ward, Thrupp & Maberly, James Young, H.J.Mulliner, Windover (London), Gurney Nutting, etc.
- A speed governor (cruise control) and four-wheel servo-assisted brakes (since 1923) were optional.
The BNSF Transfer Job passes through 2nd Avenue in Birmingham, AL on their way to interchange with NS at 32nd Street North Yard.
Its always better when its moving!
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I've seen hundreds of C63's (literally) with all of them being in either silver, black, white or a various shade of grey, but never in red!
I like the C63 a lot but it doesn't really fit in with what I like to post but having never seen a red one I thought I'd throw it up here. That and the fact it looks boss in red.
Still doesn't warrant it's own day though. :P
I'm going to a car show this coming weekend (June 2017) and decided to play with some older automobile photos I have to try various enhancement techniques.
I was trying for something a little softer and grungier than bright, shiny surfaces. I tried a different set of techniques on each of 3 photos.
Photo taken in 2013 at the Wexford Starlight Car Cruise (Wexford, PA) enhanced in 2017.
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The BMW New Class (German: Neue Klasse) was a line of compact sedans and coupes produced by German automaker BMW between 1962 and 1977. The New Class ensured BMW's solvency after the company's financial crises of the 1950s and established the identity of BMW automobiles as sports sedans.
In 1969, BMW introduced the 2000tii ('touring international, injected'), BMW's first fuel-injected model, featuring Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection. The 2000tii produced 130 hp (97 kW) at 5,800 revolutions per minute and 131 lb•ft (178 N•m) at 4,500 revolutions per minute. 1,952 2000tii cars were built of this final New Class sedan model.
A 2002 tii Touring model was available throughout the run of the tii engine and the Touring body, both of which ended production in 1974.
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Manufacturer: Forges et Ateliers de Constructions d'Eure-et-Loir SA (Facel), Paris - France for Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et de Carrosserie Automobile (SIMCA), Nanterre - France
Type: Weekend 1300
Engine: 1290cc straight-4
Power: 57 bhp / 5.200 rpm
Speed: 135 km/h
Production time: 1955 - 1957
Production outlet: about 200
Curb weight: 940 kg
Special:
- About 200 Weekends were built by FACEL, based on the SIMCA Aronde 90 G.
- The body is made from aluminium and it has the more powerful "Flash" engine (57 bhp i.s.o. 48 bhp).
- Besides the aluminum body, this car was very expensive, including through special spoke wheels, leather upholstery, carpeting, Dual Tone horn, heating, oil pressure gauge and interior lighting.
- French film actress Bridgette Bardot, who was then 19 years old, bought a creme white one ("Paris Grey"). She owned this car six years before selling it to a friend. The car is shown in countless photographs taken during the 1950s.