elansprint72 Posted September 6, 2007 Share #1 Posted September 6, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Nice four-wheel drift. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Hi elansprint72, Take a look here Cobra vs Elan. 1974.. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jmr Posted September 6, 2007 Share #2 Posted September 6, 2007 Pete, nicely captured too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted September 7, 2007 Share #3 Posted September 7, 2007 Nice shot when grip was controllable and and could alllow you to point the car. Today's tyres have ruined motor racing - oh, and also wings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted September 7, 2007 Share #4 Posted September 7, 2007 One or the other had an intersting line:p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted September 7, 2007 Share #5 Posted September 7, 2007 Speaking.."at" you from OSX and photoshop even auto levels lifts the image quite a bit. Actually it is quite good considering it is just a no brain engaged click:D. You got some cool stuff fro the olden days Pete. Opps...Golden days ps. Hey Auto levels, auto contrast, auto color correction all wind up pretty much in the same place. Ehh...I get XP corel back tomorrow look out for a fifth wheel and highlights and chrome sharpening:D . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steed Posted September 10, 2007 Share #6 Posted September 10, 2007 These are great images of a great time. I am, as you may recall from prior positings, quite the kid for racing from the 60's and 70's. If you could indulge a request, please post more of your images of this vintage...daily! Thanks for what you have already shared John W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
topoxforddoc Posted September 10, 2007 Share #7 Posted September 10, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Pete, Great racing shot. I'm surprised that the Cobra's outstripping the Elan. More Hp or not, the balance of Chapman's chassis would have given Mr Shelby's creation a good run for its money. Charlie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 10, 2007 Share #8 Posted September 10, 2007 Pete The consensus is for you to get another IIIg, some Tri-X, and a darkroom. You know it makes sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share #9 Posted September 13, 2007 Thanks for the comments re- my back catalogue. Charlie, judging by the contact sheets these two were having a real battle for a a number of laps (I can't remember it and of course probably did not shoot them every lap), there were probably parts of Oulton where the Elan was in front, but there are several straights where it would have maxed out on a racing diff, allowing the extra 3.2 litres of the Cobra to get past! Nothing has changed. Today the 1558cc Elans are forced to race in the same class as the Cobras, GT40's, and other big bangers! Andy, The IIIc was possibly the most difficult of the daft cameras that I used for racing shots- home-made wire view-finder has to come a close second to waist-level screen on the Exa, where the image raced across the screen the wrong way!!! I would not mind one for shots where one has all day to compose, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 13, 2007 Share #10 Posted September 13, 2007 I tried a IIIc and a IIIg once. Dealing with one viewfinder is bad enough, let alone one for focussing and one for composing... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted September 13, 2007 Share #11 Posted September 13, 2007 Nice shot Pete, who needs all of this modern rubbish <grin> My first Leica was a IIIC with 50mm Summar. I never used the camera after I bought an M2 and sold it. The one piece of Leica kit I've never regretted selling. I still have the 1930s Summar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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