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Fall Photo Challenge

markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
OK, I know it's late in the day, but some of you guys must have had your cars out for a run today—with a camera I hope. The weather in Eastern Canada has been spectacular, and for us Canuks, it's our Thanksgiving long weekend. Here is a photo I took less than an hour ago after an hour-long run on the back roads outside Ottawa where I was again reminded what an amazing car the Pantera is. I (having no A/C) find it especially suited to fall driving.

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garth66garth66"When speed is the only thing that counts"
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Mark: Yes, I did it in Photoshop. George: silver is very hard to fake and I'm just not talented enough. If you bring your car up here, I'll take the same shot. Smiler


Great color rendering. Could you provide me the color specs so I can adjust the colors on my Pantera Paint Selector accordingly?
http://www.banzairunnerpantera.com/color_selector.htm

The Playboy Pink is pretty spot on though, and I have a couple of additional colors for fun.

Thanks,
Garth
markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
Wayne, if only silver was so easy. It's the way the highlights go white and the reflections are much more obvious that make it harder. To make silver convincing, it's a lot of retouching work, and I'd rather be driving! Smiler

Garth, I just eyeballed it on my Mac when I did them, but the RGB values (in highlighted areas) I used are:
Yellow: 255/227/10
Orange: 255/130/10
Lime: 138/205/0
Red: 230/0/0

Your color selector is pretty cool stuff.
davidbdavidbMember
Last Saturday, Sunday and Monday I cleaned and polished the car - inside and out. Actually, the first cleaning since Kingston.

I blasted around to warm things up and make sure all is good - and it is sooooo freakin' good to get back on the road in the Pant.

But I have been working too hard to find time to get out again. Now its dark, freezing cold and raining. A perfect opportunity for some real ugly shots.
davidbdavidbMember
Rapid,

We'd love to have you here and show you our beautiful trees changing. But unfortunately a few short weeks later, it snows. And then it sucks big time for the next 5 months (actually being born into this we find winter kinda nice - but definitely not for enjoying your Pantera).

I'll go for the unitone Cactus in AZ deserts, the unitone brown of the CA hills, or the unitone blue of the FL oceans anytime!!
rapidrapidMember
Wayne995, To make the pictures smaller on my computer, I bring up the photo of choice in Microsoft Photo Editor, then I select Image and then Resize. You will see a place with arrows up/ down, push down till you get it to the size you need. This will vary depending on the camera and the quality you chose for the picture. Then hit ok and then go to file and select "save as", and I type in right after the photo digital # "smaller" so that I will know which picture to post.
George PGeorge PAdmin.
Wayne,

To add to what Kevin has explained, I like to advise people to re-size their photos so they are no larger than 640 pixels in width in order to insure they'll fit on anybody's computer display, then go to "file" and "save as" a jpeg file. JPEG is a data reduction system, it will shrink the "bit size" of a picture file very much. By using "save as" instead of "save" your original photo remains un-edited (full size) and your edited version of the photo is saved as a second, new file.

I've limited the size of photo files to a maximum of 200KB. 200 KB is very large for a jpeg file.

cowboy from hell
markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
Thanks guys. It's just a crappy old Nikon D200. Big Grin The colours are helped by using a polarizing filter on the lens, something that's not easy with a point-and-shoot digicam. Note that the last shot used a long telephoto lens, for which I don't have a polarizer and the colours are not as rich.
markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
Thanks, Rob & Coz. Wayne: why didn't your buddy join us in Kingston?

Nice shot Gary. I'm not sure if I like the small-wheel look on a Pantera. I think you might need to check the wheelbase too... Big Grin

Looks like you're going to have a really great looking car when you're done and judging by the scenery, some great fall photos to post next year. Good luck with the resto.
carbocarboMember
No, unfortunately not my house. It's the old war museum building, on Sussex Drive, now sitting empty. It was one of those "Hmmm, no one's around so if I sneak down the access road I can get into the plaza and take some pics" moments.
Lots of room too, would be a great place to have a car event. But getting official permission would be next to impossible, I'm sure.

Here's one more with a bigger view of the place:

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carbocarboMember
Thanks Mark,

They're not up to the standard of your pics, but I'm getting a little better with the camera.
Regarding public documentation, well, as long as Bohdan doesn't say anything I should be ok - I think he's the only federal employee that will see it. And the building is about 90 seconds from my parking garage so I figured I can outrun any snowflakes if need be.
It was actually pretty funny as some homeless guy was standing by the lane having a smoke and I asked him about the minor trespass - he said "Go for it!" So based on majority rule he stood guard and I took pictures.

BTW, what is your secret road? I'm guessing Hazeldean south of Kanata, somewhere around there?
davidbdavidbMember
The sun came out. Finally, a beautiful bright and crisp fall day. With nothing to do for a while, I jumped in the Pant and headed toward the mountain (Mount Royal - where Montreal gets its name). I found a sweet orange leafed maple, no wait… a fiery, red flamer dancing in the wind. Whoa! Such choices.

I carefully edged over a low spot in the broken sidewalk and rolled carefully onto the grass, parking under a beautiful tree with a brilliant blue sky and mountain behind it.

F&*#! No camera!

I blasted home, making notes about a few other great looking trees and photo locations as I passed the cemetery overlooking the city.

Got home. No camera. Nowhere. Checked every car. No freakin' camera. Checked daughter #1's room. Every possible electronic device ever invented, wires like a spider web, but no camera. Texted her in class - she had it with her. Daughter #2's room. Every cosmetic and electronic product under the sun but no camera. Texted her at work - showing pics from last night's Halloween party to her friends.

Asked my neighbor with three 60s resto's going on in his garage - still no camera.

So my friends, this will have to do.

Close your eyes. Picture my fat bodied, blindingly white GT5, viewed from behind, slightly to the left, on a mountaintop, crouched on fallen orange leaves on the green grass, overlooking a sun-drenched quasi-European metropolis on the river below, with bright red leafy branches fanned out over the car, their fire reflecting off my windows, doors and rear wing.

Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
davidbdavidbMember
That's pretty funny George if only it wasn't so true. Just the thought of it makes me queasy.

Okay Mark. I got one of the kids' cameras. If it doesn't rain I will be out shooting tomorrow. How lame would I be if I had to drive 150 miles to find a back road?

Then again I could just find some old shots from a few years ago. Who would know the difference? Now, where did I put that old shoebox of Kodak prints.
peterhpeterhMember
Mark:

You’re right. I confess. I could not get through an entire season without taking some photos. The one below was taken on Thanksgiving Weekend, and e-mailed around to my friends with the following caption:

"I finally got around to adjusting the clutch in the Pantera yesterday, so I figured I should take the car out today and make sure it works (translation; "it was a beautiful day and I wanted to tear up some back roads"). I picked up John, a friend to whom I had been promising a ride for some time, at the industrial shop where he works. When I got there, he had me pull inside the large building where they service their truck-mounted oilfield equipment so all the guys could look at the car. Then I piled him into the passenger seat, and slowly headed north out of town. As we drove along, he commented that the Pantera was very comfortable and that he was surprised by how quiet it was. At first, I looked at him in surprise, because that's the last comment I would ever expect anyone to make about it. Then I smiled an evil smile, and replied, "it can get louder." There is a long, steep hill on the Alaska Highway at Charlie Lake. As we reached the bottom, I dropped it down two gears, punched it and, before we were even halfway up the speedo was already showing over 240km/h. The expression on John's face was a strange amalgam of sheer terror, and total delight as he grinned from ear to ear. All he could say was "Holy. Shit."

I turned off the Alaska Highway onto my favourite scenic and winding road, hanging the tail out a little just for fun. Then we blasted along for another 60 km before turning back. Driving at over 200 as we wound through the Peace River Valley felt as natural as doing it at the normal 90 in my GMC.

What a perfect, thrilling day."

I have since had a report from John's wife. In response to my question as to whether he liked the ride, she answered about her notoriously reserved husband that, "Liked would not be the word - I can say that he has not emoted about something at this level in a very long time."

I think I may have made another convert...

- Peter

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davidbdavidbMember
And finally my favourite part, a nice fast sweeper where I can get on it for a bit, until parks officials come running out of their shacks, yelling into their radios. I turn hard right and exit onto the road past the Casino, over the Concorde bridge and onto the expressway home - checking my mirrors for flashing lights, heart beating, with a big stupid grin stuck on my face.

A late fall challenge indeed. Dead quiet. Too cold for rollerbladers or bikers. Great for photos and damn nice for the spirit. Anyone want to join me next sunny day?

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markcharltonmarkcharltonOld enough to know better and still young enough not to care. My '71 Pantera
David, you've been holding out on me. I don't recall being invited to drive the Grand Prix circuit with you on any recent trips.

Great shots. I can just see you zooming along, screeching to a halt, jumping out of your car, running back to take a shot, jumping back in...

Next time I'll come and hold the camera for you. Smiler (if, I can catch up to you...)
davidbdavidbMember
Dudes,

Don't be offended. I woke up and the sun was shining. It took me less than an hour to drive there, stop 15 times to take photos and get back home before going to work around noon.

Sorry I didn't call you. But just think of the fun we could have (the track is so smooth!) and the amazing photos and videos we could shoot there.

I'm sure we could get a bunch of us together for such an event. Might be a little tricky with weather, but if you can act on a moment's notice let's do it.

Mark, Andy, and Bohdan are just an hour and a half away. Rob, Alain, Roger, Domenic, Romano, Marcel and I could be there in 45 minutes.

It would be a little more risky for our western buddies, but I bet some of them would be willing to go for it.

Forget about doing this any time in the spring or summer, it's full of runners, bladers and bikers. But these cold weekdays in October / November are perfect.
peterhpeterhMember
Thanks for that narrative and the beautiful photos, David. You had my heart going - if they ever caught you I'm sure I'd be reading the headlines in the Vancouver Sun:

"Maniac Speeds Through Montreal Park at 300 km/h, Beaten by Police"

At least you'd get lots of mail from us sympathetic Pantera friends during your time in prison.
davidbdavidbMember
Peter,

I saw you on the home page of PI. Why not share more photos of your awesome car with all of us? And why not plan a trip East? I saw your trailer parked by your house. So load it up and come joins us on a few trips next spring / summer.

As for the "Maniac Speeds Through Motreal Park," there was this incident a few years ago. After sneaking off the track I found two police cars blocking my exit to the bridge away from the circuit.

One cop got out of a car and walked over to me shaking his finger at me.

"English ou francias," he said.

"English," I replied.

"Do not speak," he said. "Say nothing. Roll up your window. And go home immediately. And never come back. Never! Understand?"

"Yes Sir," I said, waiting forever as that little brass gear slowly wound the window up.

It took almost two months before I came back.

Since then I have; a) barely stopped in front of a barricade set up by an official to end my lap; b) been chased off the circuit by a loose and erraticly driven police car; c) waved off toward the exit by a police motorcycle, d) threatened by two goons in a security van; e) advised of the danger I was creating for myself and others by 2 cops on bicycles, and f) lectured for risking the safety of the local wildlife by a cop on a horse.

But those who know me will confirm that I am always very polite, considerate of others on the road and very careful. I know my limitations and don't exceed them. But then there are those cool early mornings where it's just me and the birds... where I search for just a little more.
gt5krgt5krMember
Hi guys, my name is Herman from Richmond BC, thats my white 82 GT5 9184 and the black 73 5455 is Kevin's. Looks like you guys are having a great time in the East coast. There are maybe around 8 active Panteras here in the greater Vancouver area.
Yeah, the white thingy in front has to be on or get a fine.
And the red one in the back may look fast but sure doesnt sound like a Pantera.
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