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Classic Car Fair St.Gallen
Date: 30-OCT-11 to 30-OCT-11
Classic Car Fair St.Gallen will showcase spare parts for vintage cars and motorcycles, literature, model cars, tools, complete vehicles. This is one of the biggest exhibition in the region for related industry. This is one day event held on 30th October 2011.
Venue: Olma Messen St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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Olma Messen St. Gallen
Spl&uuml genstrasse 12 CH-9008 St Gallen
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I played with these little tin cars as a boy many years ago. I have kept them on a shelf for years.I retreaded the photo for Monday Challenge and Thursday Retread.
Here is the rather plain original-
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Date Taken: 2009-06-02 15:35:35
Owner: Noel C. Hankamer

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Venue:
Mumbai -INDIA

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This will be the last year my daughter get’s to participate in the AWANA Pinewood Derby. She’s very picky and won’t go with just a basic "make it look like a race car" car. In the past we’ve done "pinewood scale" replicas of Ferrari’s, a Lamborghini Police car (complete with black-n-white paint job and working red and blue flashing light!) and a Solar Powered car (modeled after the large flat ones you see that the colleges race against each other). She’s won design awards for the later two. This year, she wanted to make a Hummer. Good thing–I’d also promised her I’d finally do working headlights which she’s wanted all along. The H2 style of body gave us room for the micro switch and AAA batteries. (And, yes, by a 10th of an ounce we are under the weight limit!)

Date Taken: 2007-03-24 13:43:28
Owner: Capt Kodak

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It’s so fast it bends time… this is Einstein’s 4×4.

One shot from the lightpainting trip with Montoff this evening – after finding the abandoned car parks of North Tyneside to be a bit too bright (though quite lucrative), we headed off to the farm tracks of Northumberland (where we were quizzed to find out if we were fish poachers – I said no, I prefer them battered).

Still a small amount of light pollution, but we managed to capture some of Montoff’s work along with my flash on the car – it’s a decent starting point, but I think we realised we need to find somewhere really dark when the real deal comes down.

Still, the auld rust bucket looks kind of sci-fi, don’t she?

Strobist: 2x 430EXII at 1/8th:24mm on at front, one at side, each with a full cut CTO gel to get a bit closer to that pervasive orange. No modifiers. Warp!

Date Taken: 2011-02-18 21:29:57
Owner: david anderson : da-photography

Venue:
Blyton, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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Bumper cars in the ghost town of Pripyat near Chernobyl

For the story behind the picture: Read the Chernobyl Journal on timmsuess.com

Date Taken: 2009-03-26 16:01:48
Owner: Timm Suess

Includes 1 round of the FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix World Championship and 2 rounds of the FIA GP2 series.
Venue:
Budapest, HU
Dob utca 63 Kft
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Here are the cars I remember we had when we were growing up -

1. Ford Zephyr: this was the one that my younger brother nearly fell out of when we were going around the roundabout by Mark Hall school in Essex, UK.
(cream and red and rust coloured)

2. Ford Consul Classic: dad bought this one off of Karina Wilson’s dad, I think. We went to Spain in this one. And back again.
(black)

3. Sunbeam Rapier: oddly closing rear windows.
(blue I think)

4.Mini: stolen because it was green ,apparently. Dad parked it in London, came back to it, and there it wasn’t. "I’ll never buy a bloody green car again!", which, along with "tell them to piss off, Brenda", "I think I’ll just go turn the potatoes over" and "man wasn’t born to work" is one of dad’s greatest lines.
(green…)

5. Vauxhall Victor (not an estate as in this pic, but a saloon): I think dad got this from Jerry, the bloke from the end of the street. But I don’t think we had it long.
(grey)

6: Wolseley 1800: dreadful thing. Dad was going to sue the seller under the trades descriptions act. Basically broken. 84 bhp!
(blue, like the car pictured here)

7. Austin 1100 (actually the Wolseley version in this pic, but it’s the same car really) : the same as an Austin/Morris/Wolseley/BL 1800, but smaller. Basil Fawlty beat up a red version of this car in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers.
(black)

8. Vauxhall Carlton: Dad’s best ever car, with a mighty two litre motor, and plush velour upholstery. Sadly dad lost his job not long after buying the car, so it went back to the shop.
(metallic brown)

9. Austin 1800: (84 bhp) exactly the same as the Wolseley, without the retired major moustache grille. Known as the ‘land crab’ because of it’s squat crustacean-like looks. This was less troublesome than the Wolseley. My dad used to talk wistfully of the Austin 2200 which was a slightly elongated version of the 1800, and of course with the full 110 bhp, according to www.carfolio.com
(mustard yellow)

10. Fiat 131 Mirafiori: wow, this was a company car, so no maintenace worries for dad, but it must have been a pain in the bum for the company dad worked for at the time – FIats were CRAP back then. They were actually built of old rust from scrapped cars.
(champagne yellow)

11. Fiat 125 Special: I was present when dad bought this car. On the lot, for the same money, was a Jaguar E-Type 2+2, but he wouldn’t buy it. I was most disappointed. This car ended up sad, unloved and covered in spider webs in the garage at Poplar Avenue as dad had the company Fiat 131 by then.
(red)

But come on – Fiat 125 vs. Jaguar E-Type? For the SAME MONEY?

We could have all squeezed in the back…

Trivia note of the day – FIAT sold the design of the FIAT 125 to the Polish, who built the Lada from it, out of pig-iron and bogies.

Date Taken: 2006-06-20 16:15:47
Owner: Eleventh Earl of Mar