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Subject: [Leica] A Few More Old Car Race Photos
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:29:31 +0100
References: <CAJ4y7gwub4qssE547+B2pOnQ97yaiOgzLf-+3rZMF38Q7P+bPw@mail.gmail.com>

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
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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
> 
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