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Subject: [Leica] Ira's Mucho PESOs - 2008 Newport Beach Concours d'Elegance
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Sun Oct 12 11:35:28 2008
References: <d42.2793980b.362299b8@aol.com>

Hi Ira,

Your links are nearly all broken - use < > next time, or tinyurls, as it 
is fairly tedious to get to see the photos.
Sorry
Phx


ISILVERMN@aol.com wrote:

>I've finally found the time to work on these pictures taken a few weeks ago 
> 
>at The Newport Beach Concours.  This first set is B&W, taken  with the 
>M4/35 
>Summicron on Tri-X, with a yellow filter.
> 
>To my eyes, nothing on four wheels was so lovely as this 1937  Talbot-Lago:
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1937+Talbot-Lago+T150+
>_1_.jpg.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1937+Talbot-Lago+T150+_1_.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1937+Talbot-Lago+T150+
>_2_.jpg.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1937+Talbot-Lago+T150+_2_.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>The Alfa-Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato remains one of my all-time favorites:
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1932+Alfa+Romeo+8C+230
>0.jpg.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1932+Alfa+Romeo+8C+2300.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>Having sparred with a Fiat throughout my college years, here's a rare  one:
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1953+Fiat+8V+Supersoni
>c.jpg.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1953+Fiat+8V+Supersonic.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>A pair of unusual Rolls' - a woody wagon and a boattail Phantom:
>_http://gallery.
>leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1933+Rolls-Royce+Shooting+Brake.jpg.html_
> 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1933+Rolls-Royce+Shooting+Brake.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1929+Rolls-Royce+Phant
>om+I.jpg.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1929+Rolls-Royce+Phantom+I.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>Pure elegance - 1934 Packard Twelve Boattail Speedster:
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1934+Packard+Twelve.jp
>g.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1934+Packard+Twelve.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>Another rare one - 1954 Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupe;
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1953+Nash-Healey+Le+Ma
>ns.jpg.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1953+Nash-Healey+Le+Mans.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>And two totally different competition cars - 1946 Delage Grand Prix and  
>1964 
>Mercury Comet that ran the East African Safari:
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1946+Delage+D6+GP.jpg.
>html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1946+Delage+D6+GP.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>_http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1964+Mercury+Comet+Eas
>t+African+Safari.jpg.html_ 
>(http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Ira+Silverman/CDE2008/1964+Mercury+Comet+East+African+Safari.jpg.html)
> 
> 
>I'm working on the (Canon) color pictures now and I'll post a few over the  
>next couple of days.
> 
>As always, comments, critiques and suggestions are always  appreciated.
> 
>Best Regards,
> 
>Ira Silverman
>Irvine, CA
> 
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