Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, Zandvoort in sunshine--you obviously caught the one day a year with beach weather ;-) Actually, it does not look that different today. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jan 8, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Robert Baron wrote: > I'm still finding and scanning some old Ektachrome slides of racing > from the sixties and seventies. > > In 1966 I went to see the track near the beach resort town of > Zandvoort, Holland, which held F1 races from the fifties to the > mid-eighties. I was not there on an F1 race weekend but I did make a > couple of shots of the track and of the beach: > > http://www.bobbaron.com/Zandvoort1966/index.html > > In July 1970 I was at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, for Continental Formula > and TransAm sedan races. By then I was out of school and working so I > assume it was a vacation trip of some sort; looking at these slides I > have vague memories of an extremely long but not-very-sharp third > party lens, obviously mounted on some sort of slr body but I sure > don't remember what: > > http://www.bobbaron.com/ElkhartLakeJuly1970/index.html > > In 1972 I was visiting friends in Heidelberg, Germany, and we drove > over to see the Hockenheim Ring. Again it was not a race weekend but > I took a few snaps of the track: > > http://www.bobbaron.com/HockenheimRing1972/index.html > > I do remember having a long supper at a very nice hotel restaurant not > far from the track that had walls lined with photos of then current > and past F1 drivers. I have no idea what it was called but it was > probably well known, at least then. > > And I've been compiling these links at > http://bobbaron.tumblr.com/post/14687062155/old-tracks-old-races > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >