Jazz-Age in Print (20s-30s) [VINTAGE]
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copyright: gerd kozik/ yarin asanth 2019
Location: Na Thong Beach, Koh Samui/ Thailand
Music: "Painting Out" by BAILE, 2019
copyright: gerd kozik/ yarin asanth 2019
Twenty-One: My favorite number since youth. So I will stand here at this place on 21. in summer 2020. Somehow interesting that it will be my first day next year on the island. Fate? Luck? Intuition?
Whatever...
Happy Sunday, Yarin
Location: Cha Weng Beach, Samui/ Thailand
This copse, known as Twenty Trees Copse, sadly doesn't have 20 trees, maybe once it did...nr Hayfield, Derbyshire
This came together well for me. Two Fiat cars and an Italian cycle (on the right) a Bianchi in it's famous shade of Celeste - a pale sky blue - captured on the road speed marking.
Pentax K3iii & 20-40mmWR
i can see a rainbow.
most definitely a good day, no particular reason why, i was just real happy for some reason =]
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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The Great Pond at Hardwick Hall Estate in Derbyshire. I arrived at sunrise to discover a band of mist over the pond. Golden sunlight started to pierce through the mist to create a fabulous shaft of light. I had to wait twenty minutes for the swan to strike a pose for me.
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"Twenty is plenty" was a public campaign to bring the permissible speed in the centre of the village down from 30 to 20mph. It took some time until it really happened. Fuji X-E2.
As August is coming to an end, so is our winter.
I am looking forward to this Spring and Summer time.
This 1948 Vignale bodied Packard started life on a 1938 Packard 120 chassis, and drivetrain, and was finally completed and registered as a 1948 automobile! More of the story below.
Throughout the Second World War mysteries would abound; pieces of art and precious metals would be hidden or disappeared. Then there would be the mysterious case of a Vignale-bodied Packard. In the years following the Second World War, American automakers wanted Europe as much as European builders needed America. This mutual need for each other would produce a one-off Packard that would cause many to wonder what could have been.
In 1948, Alfredo Vignale's firm in Turin would produce a purpose-built Packard. The combination would be intriguing in its own right. However, the story surrounding it would make it all the more captivating.
According to Ralph and Adeline Marano, the current owners of the 1948 Packard Vignale Victoria, 'Nobody knows much about it'. The legend the Marano's believe true would include the 1938 One Twenty chassis being shipped to Vignale's studio before the war and then being hidden away until it was completed in 1948. While plausible, there would be the simple fact Vignale had not established his own carrozzeria until after the end of the war. It is entirely possible he took on the project fully intending to establish his own place, then came the outbreak of the war and everything would be put on hold.
However, there is another theory about the order of events. Following the war the United States was stronger economically than Europe. However, Packard would actually be on the decline and would need that 'something' to help bolster its sales and widen its market. Amongst American audiences, Packard was synonymous with quality. Unfortunately, the company's sales base appeared to be reaching its limit. Therefore, the company would not only seek a new look to foster sales at home, but, they would also look to those more affluent customers in Europe who could still afford to pay for the quality of one of their cars.
In addition to longing to widen its possible market, Packard would realize that there was a market for the smaller European sportscars in the United States. Throughout the war, American servicemen had had the opportunity to see, and perhaps drive, some of the smaller coupes from European automakers. Returning to the States, this would be a potential market Packard believed it could address.
Packard was keen to test the waters. Therefore, they would take one of their One Twenty chassis, originally registered in 1939, and would send it across the Atlantic to Italy. The chassis' destination would be a coachbuilder in Turin, Italy by the name of Carrozzeria Vignale.
Alfredo Vignale had started out working for none other Pinin Farina. After the Second World War Vignale would decide to start his own effort and would soon earn praise for his designs. This recognition and praise would lead to Vignale creating bodies for the great Italian automakers Ferrari and Maserati. Vignale's reputation was well deserved and was the perfect place for Packard to send their chassis in hopes of receiving a fresh and inspiring design.
Vignale would set to work. Abiding by the purpose and the inspiration Vignale would end up designing and building a convertible coupe to rest atop the One Twenty chassis. The result would be striking. Though the chassis underneath would be nearly a decade old, the body resting on top would be ahead of its time and of great quality.
Some of the features of the car include a hood capable of being opened from either end and beautifully-blended sheetmetal that wraps completely around the undersides of the car to form belly pans. Right down to the Fiat model taillights, the overall design of the car would a European flair to it. Lighter than a standard One Twenty and powered by a straight-eight engine producing around 120hp, it is more than likely the Vignale Packard would be faster. But, even if the car wouldn't win a drag race with its more standard brethren, the Vignale Packard would go on to win a number of awards in major concours events
Unfortunately, while much of the story surrounding the car's birth would be something of a mystery, so too would its early years. It would seem clear the car would be owned for a period of time by Mark Smith and Norman Wolgin. What is much more obvious is the fact the Maranos would negotiate to purchase the car in 1989 and has remained with them ever since.
In 1954, Packard would purchase Studebaker in hopes of benefiting from the company's larger dealer network. Unfortunately, the merger would be fraught with conflict, which would hurt both companies terribly. Looking at the merger of Packard with Vignale's design, while it would be a surprising, if not strange, marriage, there are a whole lot of questions based around the notion of what could have been. Perhaps Packard and Vignale could have been one of the first to bring two continents together in car design. In the end, both companies would eventually fade from existence altogether. Packard would be lost forever while Vignale would be absorbed by an American company in Ford, but, would well and truly cease to exist by the mid-1970s. Perhaps Packard needed Vignale and Vignale needed Packard, and, the 1948 Packard Vignale Victoria is a mere taste of what the future might have held.
The walk was hugely long, we got covered in midges and plastered in peat. But it was a gorgeous old school hike along sheep paths with no Bank Holiday rain and nary a soul in sight all day.
Biddeford, ME On the corner of Pearl. Been there a long time, one day it will be gone. Good to take another photo of that lucky 21 now and then.
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The former Illinois Central Gulf 2030 makes a trip down to the dock at Port Inland with a train of side-dumpers loaded with limestone. There may only be one public crossing on this mysterious little railroad, but they sure are neat to watch.
Watching the northern lights as the moon was setting behind my back. This was taken at Twenty mile river.
Iceland - Laugavegur is one of the most famous trails. In 2012, National Geographic ranked it as one of the twenty best trails in the world.