About a month ago I had the opportunity to attend the Edge Motorfest car show that was put on by the Edge Motor Museum here in Memphis TN. I don't usually wait a month to have film processed, but inadvertently opening the back of the camera mid-rewind has a tendency to take the wind out of your sails for processing the film. Luckily, I was closer to the beginning of the roll than I thought when I opened the camera and only lost the first 6 frames.
From previous posts by other CMC members, it seems that there are quite a few of us that also enjoy classic cars, so I thought I'd share a few pictures from the day. I was a bit rushed during my time there as I had my two daughters with me who were, shall we say, less enamored with the whole affair than I was. As a result these are pretty much just snapshots. I definitely plan to revisit the museum at a later date and take more time with my compositions.
All the exterior shots were taken handheld at f11, 1/125th with the exception of a few engine bay shots where I opened up a stop and a few images from inside the museum which were taken at f2.8, 1/60th if I remember correctly. Film was Ektar 100, processed by the local lab and scanned on an Epson V600. Minimal processing was applied, mostly involving placing a black point on something black and saving to jpeg. I left the unsharp mask setting active in the Epson software, but no other sharpening was applied.
Probably my favorite from the show, a '71 Hemi 'Cuda.
A closeup of the hemi engine and the "Shaker" air cleaner.
A modern LS engine in the engine bay of the Nova in the first image. I left this image pretty much untouched to highlight the flare I was getting from the chrome in some of the shots. Not sure if this is characteristic of these cameras or if I was less than diligent when cleaning the elements of the lens after getting the leaf shutter going a few months ago. The lens hood that came with the camera did a fine job blocking flare from things outside of the frame.
'70 Plymouth GTX (I think)
There were a few motorcycles. Not sure of the year on this Indian.
Not all the cars at the show were shiny.
It's not a Dodge Monaco, but this Ford Galaxie cruiser reminds me of the Blues Brothers just the same.
'55 Chevy Bel Air, probably my favorite of the tri-five Chevys
A supercharged engine in another '55 Chevy
Staying with the Chevys, this one a '57 hardtop. I think that's a '69 El Camino behind it.
Tri-powered Pontiac GTO
A Chrysler Cordoba and a 40's Ford
I don't know why, but I have a thing for MG's. There were a couple of E-type Jags at the show as well, but those pics were among the ones exposed when I opened the camera.
'67 Corvette with a 427, my dream car as a kid
One of these things is not like the others.
A couple of shots from inside the museum and I think I'll wrap this post. This is a Muntz Jet, a car I had never heard of before.
The museum is pretty small. This is the main display area. The '53 corvette is on a turntable.
That's it folks. I created a Ricoh 500 gallery in my profile that has a few more images that I didn't include here, should anyone be so incline to see more.