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What is this for a car? Brand? Modell? Looks great

 

1934 Ford Roadster............Do a Google search for Dreamster Sweden!

 

Thanks, really a great work!

 

Oil cooler model A

 

Hello,

Back in the 60's double exposure shots were not so common. The technique was a guessing game as the 35 mm film had to be rewound (using the film winder lever) as to how far back to get the double exposure, then reshoot. By that time, unless it was a photo set up display, the action was gone in an instant.

The above photos were action shots taken with a 16mm color movie camera. When these were originally developed, these double exposure shots were not on the film. But, digital renderings made it possible to go frame by frame, resulting in some double exposures.

Just by accident, I discovered that with the modern programs, you can rewind or fast forward in increments to catch whatever is on that old filmstrip. Digital copies make it possible. But, DVD copies and VHS copies cannot do the same as a direct digital copy from the original films.

Jnaki

Watching these old films sometimes brings up the most unusual photographs. Technically, I did take the shots, but did not know it until 58 years later.

 

Thanks { JNAKI } for all your post, and Drag racing history. Here's a fun old 35mm photo of the wife and I. Ron.......

 

Hello,

While working some of my old drag racing films, I came across this double and possible triple exposure capture during the editing phase. Even after doing lots of editing and customizing photos, I am always amazed at what pops up randomly during the processing. It certainly is a surprise.

Thinking back to when we used to take still photos with a 35mm film camera and then back up the film crank, one or two images, to retake the same photo for a double exposure shot seems like so long ago. (It was…)

Now, with a flick of the mouse, and a capture is done during the developing digital images phase, out pops a clean but definitely able to identify who is who, in the random photo.

Jnaki

The photo image is of the Gonzales Brothers Cadillac powered FED race car. We had seen it at Lion’s Dragstrip from 1959-60 and took several films in different phases of racing. Pancho Gonzales, as most old timers will know for his tremendous pro tennis career, (including being able to use a heavy wooden tennis racquet like we all had to do back then…)

He and his brother, Ralph had an unusual FED. There were very few race cars with Cadillac motors. This was one of the nicest and it was very competitive during those early days at Lion’s Dragstrip.


Gonzales Brothers’ Cad FED at Lions 1959

 

Hello,

When U.S. Nationals were held in Detroit in 1959, the NHRA made a cool film about the Dragmaster Team from So Cal. The Dragmaster Team was preparing to go, arriving and getting involved in helping the 1940 Willys Coupe of Phil Parker, too. Sometimes a digital replay produces the desired double exposure photograph.

This time the merging of the two had some special meaning. Wonder why the teams in the movie are so familiar with each other? It was mentioned later that the Gran Ma was helped in the build by the Dragmaster Team from Carlsbad, CA. In viewing the film, I noticed an odd glitch that a digital program caught that just blows by the normal film viewer on You Tube.

As I was viewing the film, just as the transition point between the Dragmaster Team and the Phil Parker Willys gets started, one could see a double exposure shot of the Dragmaster frame and team as well as the Phil Parker Willys Team getting ready, too. A moment of time caught on film.

Jnaki

We have always liked double exposure photos and in the early days of 35mm film cameras, we tried all sorts of ways to try and capture a double exposure. But, with film cameras, the trick was a guessing game. Once a photo was taken, the photographer had to guess as to how far back the 35mm film should be rewound. Timing and knowing how much film is rolled into the next frame is the key.

Once that happens and you get to a point, then the double exposure shot is now waiting for the push button shot. Sometimes the new exposure is good from both the old color shot and the new rewound shot. The new double images meld just right, or it may not. Then it took a few days to develop and process the negatives or color slides.

To paraphrase an old jingle: “Sometimes you feel like a nut…” “Sometimes you feel like you were successful, sometimes you are not…”

1959 DETROIT NATIONALS
Gran-Ma, owned by Phil Parker featured in the 1959 Movie Ingenuity In Action.


1959 RIVERSIDE RACEWAY EAST VS. WEST DRAG RACE…

The look of the red 40 Willys could be the new 41 Willys body after the reconstruction. The short film was taken in the pits at Riverside Raceway in December of 1959.

Jnaki
Gran Ma at the beginning in the pits

 

More fun times....

 

Credit Ray Gordon





Many more
Here:
https://selvedgeyard.com/2011/09/04/the-photography-of-ray-gordon-bonneville-hot-rods-in-space/

 

There’s just something about a black’32 roadster with vintage cragar hubcaps

 

283 engine for my 1950 Fleetline.

 

damn fine work, Per!

 

Thanks Carsten.

 

Watson and Von Dutch's sister Virginia at a Pinstriper Show 2003