These photos were sent to me by Warwick Clayton, whose historic images have appeared regularly throughout this website. Warwick attending the 50th anniversary Levels Raceway event recently, as well as the Spoke Classic at Ruapuna. These are a selection of images Warwick took of some of the more historic cars, and the odd historic driver.
PDL Mustangs I and II.
Replica of the Clyde Collins MkIII Cortina.
Don Grindley Buick powered RX7.
Kevin Pateman Telstar NZ Touring Car.
I believe this is a genuine SCCA Trans-Am race car. Its not an original BRE (Brock Racing Enterprises) Datsun, but a privateer Trans-Am Datsun now painted up in the famous BRE colours.
Jim Mullins A40. I assume its a replica?
Wayne Murdoch ShellSport Avenger.
Frank Bryan/Red Dawson Mustang.
Paul Fahey's Alan Mann Racing Escort.
Reg Cook ShellSport Datsun Sunny.
Stone Brothers/Roy Harrington Escort.
Wonderful photos Steve, and all the more enjoyable because descriptions included.
I get really annoyed at two other serial posters who can’t be bothered doing it because they claim “too hard”
The information often has to be researched Terry, but you are just as capable of doing that as anyone else. No one else has ever complained about a lack of information except you.
Since the settings on the site were changed, every single pic has be first of all copied and shrunk to no more than 185kb and no more than 850 pixels wide. Even using a resizing programme that shrinks to 850 wide, they may be over 185kb so you often have to shrink it again using another programme. That also takes time, over and above any cropping or adjustments that may be required.
As for scanning from old negatives or slides, you obviously have absolutely no idea just how long that takes and even though I may have taken a photograph 30 years ago, it can be an hour or so trying to track down the information just so that I can file it.
Pics now have to be loaded individually and even then, have been known to disappear and have to be loaded again, all of which takes time. Why do you think prolific snappers are still loading a month or two after the event?
I have posted on my own thread several times, asking for someone to identify a specific car, even when taken recently and had zero response, so please, stop your whingeing and do what the rest of us do and enjoy the photographs. If you have a query, post it or do some research of your own.
Ray,
That is an excellent description of what it takes to put in photos on TRS. We are very grateful for what you and Nigel enter.
I put in some information on the Williams F1 6 wheeler project and was almost completed and the phone rang and I came back and found all the photos had gone to attachments and so I had to load it all again as I knew Terry S would be on my case for a lack of descriptions !
Hey, at least Terry keeps us on our toes ! I just wish he would enter some of his own photos and realize what is involved.
I almost lost my day job putting the latest Taupo thread together plus the lack of a good lunch etc.
So Terry, go easy on us as we donate a lot of our time at no charge to you.
p.s. You are always welcome to put in your own descriptions as you obviously know your stuff.
(Ken Hyndman. p.s. Thanks Steve for this thread. Great photos. )
Terry, I spend hours and hours firstly attending the meetings at my expense and taking the photos.Originally Posted by Terry S
i then spent hours and hours processing those photos.
If I then had to add descriptions to all those images just to keep you from getting annoyed, I'd probably put the whole thing in the too hard basket and walk away.
So the nub of the matter is that I do spend a lot of time putting these images on TRS for everyone to look at and I enjoy doing that.
Sorry mate, but if you get annoyed at my lack of descriptions - TOUGH.
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