[ratpack] Re: Concours photos

  • From: "Larry Knight" <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:09:43 -0600

Great shots of the concourse Ray, if I'd of known there were going to be so 
many Ferrari's I would have come (so many being more than one here in Utah), 
and thanks for the blueprint site, that site is a lot of fun.

 

Anyone going out to the Vintage Bike races this weekend??

 

Here is a shot I took at Long Beach of the Ferrari-Lamborghini-Porsche-anything 
Exotic car coral that accompanied the LB GP. It is almost enough to make me 
want to move to So. Cal. There were 4 rows of Ferrari's, two ½ of Lambo's, 3 ½ 
of Porsches and 25 other very interesting exotics. I did not shoot enough 
pictures of them all, but the attached pic gives you a little taste (it is 
amazing how with that many Ferrari's you can bored looking at 360 Modena's)

 

A few years ago a rich guy bought a P51 Mustang fighter plane and on one flight 
the engine lost power. He was over the desert there was a long dirt road below 
him that he could have landed on.  But he was scared and decided that he would 
bail out rather than try to land on  a dirt road. So He jumped, and let the 
plane crash, no big deal he thought, I'll just buy another one. He was then 
ostersized from the historic plane community because he let a P51 crash without 
trying to save it, and no one would sell him another P51 (or so my pilot buddy 
tells me) (I can see his point however, risk flipping the plane and dying on a 
desert dirt road or bail out and live, hmmmm, I must not be that big of an 
historic plane person as I thought). So the question is, should this guy in the 
historic Testa Rosa be ostersized for wrecking it????

I guess I'll just cry with you all, and hope they get it repaired. Anybody 
remember Sir Stirling Moss bashing the 1959 Le Mans winning Aston Martin (see 
Pic) at Monterey a few years ago? He wasn't shunned was he?

Just thinking out loud as I sob!

 

Later
Larry

 

From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Ray Buck
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 9:10 AM
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Concours photos

 

John Weibel will know for sure, but I think it's a 64-67 275 GTB...or something 
close.  Here's a kool site for car nutz: 
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/  Ya gotta register, but it's free.  
Not all the blueprints are the highest quality, but some are great.  You can 
view 'em without registering, but they're scaled back a bit.  I don't 
understand all the cell phone blueprints, though.

Nice photo, John.

RtR


At 06:08 AM 8/29/2009, you wrote:



By Sunday, I'll have mine up. I tried to get pics of all the tags, but as I 
look back, the exposure or the angles weren't always right to get this info. I 
am always amazed at your ability to get the models and years of these things. 
Time does not permit be to be so thorough. 

I'll attach one more from the Concours for fun. Here is another one that the 
placard is overexposed. I bet someone knows what this is. 
JC

--- 

John Christensen 

Saint Charles, IL



On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not the very best in all cases, but I had some fun with some of 'em.  Lemme 
know what ya think.

http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/Cruisin2009/20090822/090822.html 

RtR




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