Here's a link to some pictures I took at the latest Mille Miglia.
I'll post some pics here.
http://s650.photobucket.com/albums/uu221/paul_jaray/mille%20miglia%202009/
You do realize that photobucket says there is no content in your Mille Miglia photo album,
:-\
How can I fix it?
Quote from: Paul Jaray on May 25, 2009, 06:07:14 PM
How can I fix it?
I have no idea. That is a photobucket issue and I don't use their service.
I raided your Bugatti album though and posted some of the pics in your thread. ;)
I copied the link again...let's hope it works now...
http://s650.photobucket.com/albums/uu221/paul_jaray/mille%20miglia%202009/
It works now.
You can inline your photos and not have to attach them, much faster!!!!
Just quote this post to learn how to do it.
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When doing your photos inline from photobucket or any other source you can put as many photos as you like in one post. See the Bugatti thread or the Cars and Coffee threads for examples.
Nice pics. Looks like a lot of fun. Unfortunately I was in the wrong continent at the time.
Wow! Much better...thank you!
that square chin is David Coulthard's, isn't it?
Nice pics Paul! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Allemano on May 25, 2009, 06:38:26 PM
that square chin is David Coulthard's, isn't it?
Nice pics Paul! :thumbsup:
Thanks...That's him...He was driving the 300SLR...
Unfortunately I had 2 cameras with me, mine and my wife's one. The 2nd was not set as I expected and some pictures are not well focused...
Quote from: Allemano on May 25, 2009, 06:38:26 PM
that square chin is David Coulthard's, isn't it?
Methinks the answer is yes.
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Great stuff - worthy of a front page encore!
http://www.autopuzzles.com/
If I took my MGB-GT to that event, I would feel like a pork chop at a Jewish wedding. :D
Great photos! :applause:
I would like to hear more about your adventure in your own words.
Quote from: MG on December 02, 2009, 08:23:02 AM
If I took my MGB-GT to that event, I would feel like a pork chop at a Jewish wedding. :D
Great photos! :applause:
I would like to hear more about your adventure in your own words.
Thank you.
I always take my old camera with me and as usual my pictures are slightly out of focus or with unnatural colors, but I don't care much about that...the real thrill is to be in the middle of that, smelling the exshaust gases and earing the cry of an unrestricted engine...I can't put all that in a picture!
Soon to be a major motion picture! :drink:
OK, a small article at Examiner.com then. :D I have always had a fascination about the Mille Miglia. Hope I can do it justice.
Stay tuned........
Just in case you are wondering which cars are these:
Picture#1 - Race n.89 : Ermini 1100 Sport Siluro 1949
#2 - n.308: Abart 750 GT Zagato 1957
#3 - n.288: Ferrari 250 Monza 1954
#4 - n.167: Bandini 750 Sport 1953
#5 - n.96: Bristol 400 1948
#6 - n.114: Patriarca 750 Sport 1950
#7 - n.74: Bmw 328 Touring Coupe 1939
#8 - n.7: Rally ABC Scap x11 1929
#9 - n.74-75: Bmw 328 Touring coupe 1939 & Bmw 328 Touring Roadster Berlino-Roma 1937
#10 - n.163: Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport 1950
#11 - n.91: Gilco Mariani Fiat 1100 Sport 1948
#12 - n.105: Healey Silverstone 1949
#13 - Not racing, private's car
#14 - Not racing, private's car
#15 - n.283: Maserati 250S 1954
#16 - n.289: Mercedes-Benz 300SLR 1955
#17 - n.333: AC Aceca 1957
#18 - n.302: Jaguar C-type 1953
#19 - n.110: Siata Amica 1950
#20 - n.299: Cooper Jaguar T33 1954
#21 - n.134: Ferrari 225S Export Berlinetta 1951
#22 - n.142: Aston Martin DB2 Vantage 1952
#23 - n.109: Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport 1949
#24 - n.376: Studebaker Flight Hawk 1956
#25 - n.365: Bmw 507 1957
#26 - n.291: Ferrari 750 Monza 1955
#27 - n.332: Alfa Romeo 1900C Super Sprint Touring Serie II 1957
#28 - n.299: Cooper Jaguar T33 1954
#29 - n.220: Fiat 8V 1954
#30 - n.272: Osca MT4-2AD 1954
#31 - n.277: Ferrari 500 Mondial Serie II 1955
#32 - n.294: Ferrari 750 Monza 1955
#33 - n.176: Ermini 357 Sport 1955
#34 - n.162: Nash-Healey S1 Roadster 1951
#35 - n.337: Maserati A6G54 Zagato 1956
#36 - n.101: Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS 1948
#37 - n.108: Prete-Alfa-Maserati AMP 1948
#38 - n.387: Jaguar XK120 OTS 1951
#39 - n.198: MG MGA 1500 1955
#40 - n.276: Maserati A6GCS 1954
#41 - n.289: Mercedes-Benz 300SLR 1955
#42 - n.274: Osca MT4-2AD 1954
#43 - n.369: Maserati 150S 1956
#44 - n.362: Ferrari 250 GT 1957
#45 - n.220: Fiat 8V 1954
#46 - n.283: Maserati 250S 1954
#47 - n.329: Porsche 356A 1500 GS 1957
#48 - n.222: Fiat 8V 1954
#49 - n.155: Ferrari 225 Export Scuderia Guastalla 1952
#50 - n.104: Ferrari 166\195S 1949
#51 - n.161: Jaguar C-type 1952
#52 - n.289: Mercedes-Benz 300SLR 1955
#53 - n.220: Fiat 8V 1954
#54 - n.178: Volkswagen 1\11 1954
#55 - n.172: Fiat 1100 TV 1954
#56 - n.173: Fiat 1100 TV 1954
#57 - n.337: Maserati A6G54 Zagato 1956
#58 - n.182: Peugeot 203 C 1954
#59 - n.119: Ermini 1100 Sport 1950
#60 - n.23: Fiat 520 1928
#61 - n.152: Ferrari 212 Export 1951
#62 - n.164: Allard J2 1951
#63 - n.157: Aston Martin DB3 1952
#64 - n.24: Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport Zagato 1929
#65 - n.85: Cisitalia 202 SMM Spider Nuvolari 1947
How on earth do you know all those cars' names and dates of manufacture? I'm assuming there is a list provided by the organizers. No one could keep all that information in his head! Could he? ???
Quote from: MG on December 06, 2009, 06:15:05 PM
How on earth do you know all those cars' names and dates of manufacture? I'm assuming there is a list provided by the organizers. No one could keep all that information in his head! Could he? ???
Look at how many puzzles Paul has solved. He has more car info in his head than most libraries could ever hope to hold.
There is an official list and each year I take it with me to avoid to take pictures of the same cars of the previous year, but each time I think "what the hell ,I like this!" and each year I take pictures of all the cars!
Quote from: Ultra on December 06, 2009, 06:21:17 PM
Quote from: MG on December 06, 2009, 06:15:05 PM
How on earth do you know all those cars' names and dates of manufacture? I'm assuming there is a list provided by the organizers. No one could keep all that information in his head! Could he? ???
Look at how many puzzles Paul has solved. He has more car info in his head than most libraries could ever hope to hold.
I have a little secret: I have an huge index of each manufacturer, tuner, designer, one-off builder and each car made year by year by each one of them.
In my list I have names, cylinders, power, top speed, year, etc etc... and all this in an excel file: if I need to find out the name of an American car, active in 1919, with only 2 6-cyl models, starting with 'S', I'll find out just looking there, using filters and sorting the index. ;)
How do I get my hands on your excel file? Are you willing to post it on Google spreadsheets like the Solved Autos Index? Would you share a password with me if you did? I don't want to see it to solve puzzles with it. I just want to read and learn.
???
It works!
I wrote this one like an example and then I decided to check it:
Saxon: 2 models, bot 6-cylinder in 1919: model Y-18t 20hp Touring & model Y-18t 20hp Roadster!
It's a lifetime work...
I started 12\15 years ago with an old McIntosh and it was just a small list of sportscars.
The PC crashed many times and each time I started again with some improvements.
At the end I decided to list each and every car, production, kit cars, racer, tuned, custom, buggies, retro, replicas, and so on.
It is a sort of index of all the cars featured in all the books, encyclopedia and magazines I have...that's why if someone asks me for a pic of a Fiat 1100 by Savio, I just have to look in my index, see how many sources I have with that car and post the pictures or info.
In this form it is not very useful, because the greatest feature of it is the source of the info: beside the De Lorean DMC12, for example, there is a list of 8 books, 3 encyclopedias and different magazines where I can look for info or pictures.
Another big work I did was to build back the story of a brand: I can summarize in few minutes all the relationship between Sunbeam, Talbot, Darraq, Simca, Talbot-Lago, Matra...or the merges of all the British brands, just looking in this file.
WOW! That is impressive! :o
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 06, 2009, 06:28:52 PM
I have a little secret: I have an huge index of each manufacturer, tuner, designer, one-off builder and each car made year by year by each one of them.
In my list I have names, cylinders, power, top speed, year, etc etc... and all this in an excel file: if I need to find out the name of an American car, active in 1919, with only 2 6-cyl models, starting with 'S', I'll find out just looking there, using filters and sorting the index. ;)
Saxon: 2 models, bot 6-cylinder in 1919: model Y-18t 20hp Touring & model Y-18t 20hp Roadster
It was just an example, but then I decided to check it and it works...I found this result that matches.
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 07, 2009, 01:35:21 AM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 06, 2009, 06:28:52 PM
I have a little secret: I have an huge index of each manufacturer, tuner, designer, one-off builder and each car made year by year by each one of them.
In my list I have names, cylinders, power, top speed, year, etc etc... and all this in an excel file: if I need to find out the name of an American car, active in 1919, with only 2 6-cyl models, starting with 'S', I'll find out just looking there, using filters and sorting the index. ;)
Saxon: 2 models, bot 6-cylinder in 1919: model Y-18t 20hp Touring & model Y-18t 20hp Roadster
It was just an example, but then I decided to check it and it works...I found this result that matches.
Gotcha.
Check this out:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/
Imagine a group of people growing your index. A group of AP admins for example..........
When I started the story on The Mille, I contacted Paul Jaray, who was most helpful. He wrote me a long note telling me what the event meant to him personally. With some editiing, I have made that note the basis for today's story (http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-21840-Providence-Automotive-Examiner~y2009m12d8-Mille-Miglia-2009)
Paul contacted me after yesterday's story to protest that he is NOT a photographer. I beg to differ. He is an excellent photographer. And now, he's internationally famous! I expect the offers to photograph other events for wealthy clients will be pouring in soon. ;D Thanks, Paul. I could not have done this without your help.
I read it all in a breath and I thought: "Hey, I'm really good!"
But then "wait a minute, this is not what I wrote!"
I mean, that was precisely the idea, but let me tell you, you had the grace to modify my rough story into that poetic view of the event.
I can say that the emotions were all mine, but the style, MG, that's yours!
:applause: :applause: :applause:
Wow, great! Both pictures and story.
The accurate portrayal of emotions is the highest accolade you can give a writer! Thank you. :bow:
But it IS the story you wrote me, because your emotions are what came through to me and guided me in translating your thoughts into my prose. Your passion for the Mille Miglia came through loud and clear in your words.
Let's put it this way: we make a good team. If I were forced to write a story in Italian, it would begin and end with "Ciao"!!!!! :lmao:
Speaking of databases, I maintain three. Two are being used to keep track of what I do in archives and what I do in libraries (an index of Hungarian magazine articles). The third one is an index of foreign magazines, like 30 years of Automobile Quarterly, 15 years of Autocar, 20 years of Oldtimer Markt and many more.
I started it in the early 1990s in MS-Dos Foxpro and I use the same system today...
Quote from: pnegyesi on December 08, 2009, 10:21:44 AM
Speaking of databases, I maintain three. Two are being used to keep track of what I do in archives and what I do in libraries (an index of Hungarian magazine articles). The third one is an index of foreign magazines, like 30 years of Automobile Quarterly, 15 years of Autocar, 20 years of Oldtimer Markt and many more.
I started it in the early 1990s in MS-Dos Foxpro and I use the same system today...
When and where are we going to post them?
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=240.new#new