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Izhevsk Automobile Plant. Model M-412.
Pentax 67
SMC Pentax 75мм f/4.5
Filter Asahi Pentax 6Х7 Cloudy
220 Film Kodak Ektachrome 100 GX ( The expiration date expired in July 2006. The storage conditions of the film are unknown to me)
Shot with ISO 45 units
Moscow 2021...
Love the perpetual festive spirit of this roundabout, the iconic Piccadilly Circus is always a merry-go-round :)
1948 Pontiac Torpedo S Convertible coupe
The 1946-1948 Pontiacs were very similar to the 1942 model introduced before Pontiac, like most other automobile companies, focused their attention on the war effort.
The 1948 Pontiac was a dependable, value-packed, affordable car. It gained a reputation of being a 'middle-of-the-road' car - popular with middle class, middle-aged buyers and in the middle price range. The new styling features of the Torpedo convertible included triple 'Silver Streaks', round taillights, a horizontal grille with vertical shafts, Colonial grain or imitation leather and lacquered instrument boards that matched the exterior color.
The hood was accented with the words 'Silver Streak' with an '8' placed in the middle of them, representing the 104 horsepower, 249 cubic-inch eight-cylinder power plant. Price of the 1948 Pontiac Torpedo convertible was $2,000.
Designed as a cross between a luxurious and standard vehicle, the Pontiac Torpedo is one of Pontiac's lines of muscle cars. First introduced in 1940 was the Torpedo S four-door sedan, and the Pontiac Torpedo S convertible coupe arrived in 1948. Pontiac has long been GM's brand for affordable performance oriented vehicles, and has been able to offer inexpensive yet still aggressive and capable vehicles. Their models have been famed for both their agility and sporty appeal. Pontiac has consistently created performance vehicles that have triumphantly competed with top car brands.
Near the end of the war, nearly ten million Americans were in need for a new vehicle. The majority of manufacturers had launched their '46 models in the summer and autumn of 1945, but production had been delayed due to shortage of materials and due to strikes. In August of 1946 the one-millionth post-war vehicle was built and several new vehicles, including the Kaiser and Frazer were produced in the Willow Run plant.
The Torpedo was built with 6 or 8 cylinder 3.9 liter or 4.1 liter engine from 1946 through 1948. This variation of engine featured stellar horsepower and torque that allowed to Torpedo to function extraordinarily in even poor driving conditions. The interior design of the Torpedo featured upholstery and accessories that were crafted with the drivers comfort in mind. The Pontiac Torpedo Eight Series 27 sedan came with a 248•9 CID engine and a 119-inch wheelbase.
By Jessica Donaldson
Source: conceptcarz
Note: Have you ever diligently worked on a graphic element and been pleased with the results but then when you incorporated that graphic element into your layout you know, deep down, that it just doesn’t add the “pizzazz” you hope it would.......... but because you work so hard and diligently on creating the darn thing, you just can’t bring yourself to take it out? Such is the case of the ‘Silver 8 Streak’ emblem that I drew in illustrator and then brought into my artwork in Photoshop. It just doesn’t add the ‘sparkle” I thought it would and in fact, it may actually detract from the composition........... but I just can’t bring myself to remove it. I’ve moved it all over the place; up, down, to the left, to the right but regardless where I place it, it just doesn’t look right! Well the hell with it, it’s staying in the picture.............. ! (maybe ;)
Hope you’all enjoy .............. (especially you “Baby Boomers” ;)
Note: This image has been edited 9/05/15 based on the suggestion of my fellow artist friend, Neil Banich.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Honestly, Why are we in so much hurry to grow up? Live your life end enjoy it to the fullest ;)
Bringing up the rear of the train is one of ONR's classy looking new cabooses. These looked like CP Angus Shop cabooses, so I had always thought they were somehow related or ex-CP vans. But in later years, I found out that the eight 120-127 series cabooses were actually home built by ONR's North Bay shops in 1979 and 1980, using body shells purchased from National Steel Car in Hamilton. No wonder they looked so nice and new!
The DeSoto Custom is an automobile produced by DeSoto from 1939 until the 1952 model year. While in production, the Custom was DeSoto’s top-trim level car, and was offered in a wide array of body styles, including a 7-passenger sedan and the extended-wheelbase Suburban sedans.
The Custom shared its engine design with the Deluxe, and were powered by Chrysler's L-head 236.7 six-cylinder engine.
Custom models, along with Deluxe models, produced during the 1946, 1947, 1948 and first half of the 1949 model years used DeSoto's prewar bodies. A fully redesigned Custom was launched in the second half of 1949, along with a redesigned Deluxe, and these cars are referred to as “1949 Second Series” models.
Illinois Terminal Class B freight motor 1569 in East Peoria, 1950s. One of 18 Class B motors built in IT's Decatur Shops over an eight year span starting in 1910, to a home-crafted design, for service on the 400-mile Illinois Traction System. Sister locomotive 1565 survives today at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Purchased original slide, photographer unknown.
Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
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Manufacturer: Adam Opel AG, Rüsselsheim - Germany / General Motors Company, Detroit - USA
Type: Rekord D-Coupé 1900
Production time: 1972 - 1974
Production outlet: 73,987
Engine: 1897cc 19 SH straight-4
Power: 97 bhp / 4.800 rpm
Torque: 147 Nm / 3.800 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 161 km/h
Curb weight: 1058 kg
Wheelbase: 105 inch
Chassis: with all-steel monocoque body
Steering: recirculating ball safety column
Gearbox: four-speed manual / full synchromesh / floor shifter
Clutch: single dry plate spring spacer type
Carburettor: Zenith 35/40 INAT
Fuel tank: 55 liter
Electric system: Bosch 12 Volts
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: servo-assisted hydraulic discs
Brakes rear: servo-assisted hydraulic drums
Suspension front: independent unequal length double wishbones (A-arm, control arm) incorporating balljoint with coil springs and sway bar + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: radius arms, 4 trailing arms, Panhard track bar and torsion bar stabilizer with longitudinal coil springs with progressive rate + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live
Differential: hypoid
Wheels: 5½ x 13
Tires: 185/70 SR 13
Options: three-speed TH-180 automatic transmission with steering column shifter
Special:
- It was the new generation smooth Detroit-inspired style German cars, designed by Chuck Jordan, showing first signs of GM rationalisation with Vauxhall (sharing same floor pan and suspension with new generation Vauxhall Victor FE).
- The Rekord D Series (easily mistaken to connote a diesel-powered car), so later renamed “2” Series (1971-1977) was already in production before production of the Rekord C was ended (1966-1972).