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Guy, Paul, Rona|d - your comments are greatly appreciated.

 

Paul - I'm by no means an expert - I'm guessing around '65 - '66. Perhaps someone much more knowledgeable will answer more fully.

 

Rona|d - this image is from professionally scanned Reala film. When I downloaded it from CD, I saw that the l/h edge had been cut in the scanning. The negative shows that the car was fully in frame at the time the photo was taken, so I guess that the scanning involves an element of cropping. Before downloading it to the forum I cropped more to achieve a more satisfactory (or, rather, a less unsatisfactory) result. In future, I'll need to leave an additional margin when framing.

 

Here is the image size as it appeared after scanning. The negative shows as much space left after the rear wing as at the front bumper.

 

Ken.

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Ken -

 

Lovely. It is the first generation mustagne, and in the 1964 1/2 to 1966 model years (it was released perhaps around April of 1964 and called a '64 1/2 model). The owner removed the galloping mustang, its surrounding rounded rectangle, and the cross piece from the grill, making it look cleaner and more simple. If I recall, by 1966 the grill was that way standard for the fastback model only. This is the original body design, usually referred to as "notchback." The fastback was released, if memory serves, as part of the 1965 model year.

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Ken,

 

that explains the tight crop. Nice scan and good B&W convertion. For my taste it could need some more space around to breath, but i know the problems of street shoots.

 

R.

 

p.s. We had a 65 model at the last Leica meeting: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/technik-industrie/56376-ponycar.html#post585145

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