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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Image quality is probably due to Kodachrome.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Amazing pics, the colour and quality are so good, that they seem to be from today, like a recreation for a comercial or something else.
It is also cool to know the history behind those pics...
It seems that they spent great times during the trip!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This one looks like an LP Hi Fi album cover for a folk group.

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What might their name have been?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SCZ9-1-1 wrote:
Image quality is probably due to Kodachrome.
My guess is it was taken with a Leica, using Kodachrome. Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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SCZ9-1-1 wrote:
Image quality is probably due to Kodachrome.
My guess is it was taken with a Leica, using Kodachrome. Wink


Don't know about the camera, but yes - they were Kodachrome slides.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

///Mink wrote:
Red Fau Veh wrote:
SCZ9-1-1 wrote:
Image quality is probably due to Kodachrome.
My guess is it was taken with a Leica, using Kodachrome. Wink


Don't know about the camera, but yes - they were Kodachrome slides.


I'm no expert but in general the old slides I have seen are vastly superior to old prints
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still don't know where the first pic was taken, but Lofer is in Austria and the last pic is in Carcasonne in southern France.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

///Mink wrote:
Hold on to your shorts for this one. I got this amazing photo from a friend. Her parents traveled across Europe in 1957 and this euro PG/SG sunroof Standard was their ride. Can't get over the clarity of this nearly 60-year-old pic. Mind = blown.

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Could be Paris.
The bus is from Hamburg.
Fascinating
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kalymnos wrote:
///Mink wrote:
Hold on to your shorts for this one. I got this amazing photo from a friend. Her parents traveled across Europe in 1957 and this euro PG/SG sunroof Standard was their ride. Can't get over the clarity of this nearly 60-year-old pic. Mind = blown.

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Could be Paris.
The bus is from Hamburg.
Fascinating


Well its says on the shop canopy Strasbourg which is of coarse France and the old Volvo/Peugeot?? On the right in black has the F in the oval sign for France😎
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found a little more about the trip. It was the summer of 1957 and they were gone most of the summer. My friend's mother was the photographer. She was a schoolteacher at the time and had to be back in the US before school started in September. She was the "chaperone" being the oldest (at 27) of her younger cousin Bert (on the roof rack).

They went through England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark. The Bus is not in the pics in England so it must have been with them for only part of the trip.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i moved this over from the bay window vintage thread because it's a great example of what i thought this thread should be:

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A friend and I traveled thru the US, Canada and Mexico for a year in 1973 in this converted 66 kombi, after graduating from college. We drove 25,000 miles all on $1,500. I am cooking dinner somewhere in California in this picture. We got as far north as Prince George BC, as far south as Mexico City, down the West Coast across the South and up the East Coast returning to where we started in Colorado. The bus did me good and I had an awesome life experience. Now I have a 67 Westy, a 71 Dormobile and a 76 Convertible. Keepin the vibe goin...

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thanks to those who've made contributions so far.
lets see some more splittys and hear the great stories behind them.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

///Mink wrote:
Hold on to your shorts for this one. I got this amazing photo from a friend. Her parents traveled across Europe in 1957 and this euro PG/SG sunroof Standard was their ride. Can't get over the clarity of this nearly 60-year-old pic. Mind = blown.

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Mink could I share these collection of pictures on my page like to see if any of our European followers could fill in some blanks I am so loving this story and pictures we toured similar for 4 years in a Mini so many similar great shots but these are cool knowing the age and era so so so cool

Thanks Scotty
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

///Mink wrote:
Hold on to your shorts for this one. I got this amazing photo from a friend. Her parents traveled across Europe in 1957 and this euro PG/SG sunroof Standard was their ride. Can't get over the clarity of this nearly 60-year-old pic. Mind = blown.

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Old quality 35mm film has breathtaking dynamic range.

I tweaked the shadows and color balance a little:

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So this is a pic of one of the richest men in the world... Started with a VW bus... In the "Big 3" state of michigan no less..

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So this is a pic of one of the richest men in the world... Started with a VW bus... In the "Big 3" state of michigan no less..

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I have seen his picture a while back they also show this picture on a commercial for him when I guy my work says I know how you can make a lot of money find his bus and sell it to them they probably would be a pretty good penny for it Lol you should see the house they just built right by Holland State Park
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kalymnos wrote:
///Mink wrote:
Hold on to your shorts for this one. I got this amazing photo from a friend. Her parents traveled across Europe in 1957 and this euro PG/SG sunroof Standard was their ride. Can't get over the clarity of this nearly 60-year-old pic. Mind = blown.

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Could be Paris.
The bus is from Hamburg.
Fascinating


It is Paris, Charcuterie Doremus, still in business @ 3 Rue Notre Dame des Champs

https://www.google.com/maps/place/3+Rue+Notre+Dame...1?hl=en-US

The real give-away were the "clochard" pants, of course, a Paris staple for decades Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

awesome pics!!
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OK, after those amazingly clear and sharp photos, mine look pretty ordinary....

One of my photos is my avatar. These were taken circa 1965/66. They are the only photos I have of my Dad's splitty. The one with my older brother jumping off the roof and me standing, is taken in the car park of Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo overlooking Sydney Harbour.
The other photo was taken in the back lane of my Father's house in Sydney (my parents were divorced long before...) and includes one of my sister's and the pretty dark haired woman was my Dad's girlfriend.
I'm not sure of the exact model year (can't see enough clues from the photos) but I think maybe 61 or 62. Aussie buses had semaphores until 59; nipple blinkers introduced 1960, fried egg 1964.....

This is an Aussie bus fully manufactured (not CKD) at the VW Australasia plant. Local production stopped in 1968 and the factory reverted to assembling CKD's. Nissan bought the VW plant in 1976 and all VW's were fully imported from Germany to this day.



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mandraks wrote:
kalymnos wrote:
///Mink wrote:
Hold on to your shorts for this one. I got this amazing photo from a friend. Her parents traveled across Europe in 1957 and this euro PG/SG sunroof Standard was their ride. Can't get over the clarity of this nearly 60-year-old pic. Mind = blown.

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Could be Paris.
The bus is from Hamburg.
Fascinating


It is Paris, Charcuterie Doremus, still in business @ 3 Rue Notre Dame des Champs

https://www.google.com/maps/place/3+Rue+Notre+Dame...1?hl=en-US

The real give-away were the "clochard" pants, of course, a Paris staple for decades Smile


In street view Go to 124 Rennes st., Paris. Look due east.

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