Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]!!! I am on the Board and an officer of the Saratoga Automobile Museum. Frank was indeed our Executive Director. It would be an exaggeration to say that Frank set up the Bugatti exhibit although we have been talking about such an exhibit for some time. In fact, Frank's predecessor as Director had put the idea of a Bugatti exhibit to the Board. Preliminary planning may well have begun on his watch. If you are in contact with him, please give him my best wishes. Yes, a blown blower would be a lethal shrapnel grenade. Perhaps that is whence comes the phrase, "the engine grenaded." Myself, I wouldn't be too trustful of firewalls, rather up front between the irons. Like some Bentleys I know. Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW 28 - US Engineering at its best > Seth Rosner wrote: > >> Peter, if the cam covers had been squared and damascened, it could have >> been a type 35 or 57 Bugatti. Of which several examples are currently on >> exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum >> >> P.S. ........the lens? >> >> Seth >> > The simple bit first...5cm Summarit (f8 1/200th, I think). "Printing" > adjustments in PS including a bit of sharpening. > > Re Saratoga...I was at Goodwood with my good friend Frank Gardner who was > until > recently the former Director of Saratoga. Do you have a connection with > the SAM? > I think that Frank set up the exhibition. > > We both made some similar comments about the Bugattis...there were > actually 35 > and 57s about 20 yards away. I am not an expert on either but I have some > vague > reminiscence of stories of plagiarism of Bugatti by Miller. > > One thing you may not have noticed is the location of the s/c. That's > because > you can't see it in the pic! It's actually in the cockpit with the driver. > albeit behind the instrument panel. An exploding supercharger would be > extremely > painful. I don't know why the chassis wasn't a foot or so longer and the > 'charger inside the engine compartment with the firewall between it and > driver. > May be regs, may be Physics. > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >