All,
I can not thank all of the folks on the list, enough for ginving me the info
to make my visit to the Monterey Historics such a great time. I arrived at
the track on Saturday at around 7:30AM and left at around 8:30 PM. I took
alot of photos of the 100S parked and racing on the track. It's white over
blue paint really jumps in deep evening light. Also I shot alot of other
british and italian sports cars. I will have to order a program so that I
can identify the cars. I met and had a photo taken of me and Normand Dewis
standing next to a C-type Jag that he raced that day. While photographing a
1950s Italian Grand prx car I was offered and took the race car for a drive
around the paddock (never reliazed how different the gas, clutch and brake
pedal positions were).
I cannot tell you how many people said when I was setting up my camera, "if
you need to just go ahead and roll the race car anywhere you want". Often I
would roll a very expensive car a few feet to get the sun, shadows and
background right. Owners and mechanics would go out of their way, everyone
was very friendly. When taking a photo of a Aston Martin DB1R (I think, sea
green, white numbers, yellow nose) a member of the crew removed all of the
modern cleanning bottles and stuff so that nothing in the background of the
photo would give you an indication of the era.
Sunday morning I drove to Pebble beach but is was already crowded. So I
returned to the track and had another great day. Over the two days I ran into
several guys from the Healey list. I took 50 4x5 Fuji velvia color slides and
50 black and whites.
That is alot of photos for large format film.
Thanks all
Jim L.
56 BN2
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