[Leica] Old photos from 1965

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

I collected these GP race cars when I was a kid. Great memories you're 
bringing back with your pictures, thanks!
JM 


Jean-Michel Mertz
Strasbourg

 
> From: hjwulff at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:27:45 -0700
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Old photos from 1965
> 
> Douglas, I have a number of photos that I took in this as well as other 
> GP's in 1965 and 1967 and CanAm races in Edmonton where I lived. 
> Unfortunately, for the most part the pictures are rather poor technically 
> as my long lens was a 200/4.5 Telyt on a Visoflex I. It's not easy doing 
> action shots with that rig on Kodachrome when the weather is dark and 
> rainy!
> 
> In 1965 I went to three GP races, of which Spa was the first. I was hitch 
> hiking around Europe from Spain to Sweden for 5 months, and the races were 
> some of the defined time/places I went to visit. They were inexpensive to 
> see, but my film budget did not allow me to shoot very much, 
> unfortunately. I had inherited the cameras, but feeding them adequately, 
> especially for a 5 month trip, was a bit beyond my student budget.
> 
> It was a wonderful time to see GP races; no fences and you could go and 
> talk to the drivers afterwards. Now it's better on TV, but the sound of 
> those V6 turbos???
> 
> Henning
> 
> 
> 
> On 2014-03-15, at 3:00 AM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> > "Henning Wulff" <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote
> > 
> >> Start of Belgian Grand Prix, 1965 in Spa-Francorchamps. I sat on the 
> >> slope above Eau Rouge, a famous corner. All pictures on this trip were 
> >> taken with a Leica IIIg or Ig.
> >> 
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/old/Europe+1965/A1306330.jpg.html
> >> 
> > 
> > A nice atmosphere captured well, Henning. Spa is one of the great 
> > circuits. That was when racers were racers and safety rules were 
> > minimal. Have you any more motor racing ones from that era? Interesting 
> > to see that four USians were on the grid, and now there's not a single 
> > one on the grid for tomorrow's Australian GP. Times change.
> > 
> > Douglas 
> > 
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> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
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