They may not be reliable but they're easy to fix, at least enough to get them moving.
-----Original Message----- >From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 10, 2009 5:36 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: PESO - Bugeye > >From: "Ken Waller" >>> These two images are not posted for any of their photographic content but >>> for the memories. >>> I came across these two slides taken over 42 years ago - probably on a >>> Voightlander folder or a Zeiss Ikon Contessa. I was surprised by the >>> original slide format - 27mm square. Film was Kodak Kodachrome. The years or >>> the film have given these image an almost monochrome appearance. Scanned on >>> my Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED. >>> > >Possibly Kodachrome-X. > >I think that was the only version of Kodachrome available in 126 format, >which the 27mm square image suggests. > >>> The images are of a 59 Austin Healy Sprite (Bugeye) that was my first real >>> car. Got me thru college with only regular oil/filter changes, a tune up or >>> two and a set of Michelin radial tires. >>> >>> The most fun for the buck in a car that I've ever had. >>> >>> Comments welcomed > >For all the bad mouthing Little British Cars used to get over their >reliability, there's still a shit-pot load of 'em running up and down >the roads here in the US. > >I think it has a lot to do with the availability of parts. When British >Leyland was discontinuing the marques, the British government required >them to mothball the tooling, and the British Motor Heritage Trust uses >that old tooling to manufacture spare parts as needed. > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
