Thanks Paul! Yes indeed, got it on all points: 1954-55, #16 was Stirling Moss—I verified with Michael Riedner's "Mercedes-Benz W196: Last of the Silver Arrows". And the car was noted to be on loan from the Indianapolish Motor Speedway Museum. A beautiful thing indeed, and the car of my greatest fantasies when I was a child along with the 300SLR and 300SL Gullwing coupe.
I've been a W196 groupie for a long time. ;-) There are so many amazing things about these cars… I didn't expect to see one this morning. Canepa Motors is kind of a Porsche mecca, but as soon as I saw the W196 I was done there. After seeing it, all the Porsches and other exotica looked the same to me. I just wish I'd had the presence of mind to knock the ISO setting up past 200 to get a little less camera motion blur. I was too excited to see it…! I didn't even think to switch to the 35mm lens, just made two exposures with the 50mm and stitched them together. It was as if I believed the car would evaporate before my eyes. such it is. G > On Jun 10, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice. Excellent photos for a display setting. It is of course one of the > 1954-55 Grand Prix cars. I believe the 16 car was driven by Stirling Moss. It > usually resides in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. But is often > loaned out for shows. It dominated Grand Prix racing until the horrific > accident at Le Mans led Mercedes to quite all motorsports. It is notable for > many reasons, but perhaps most importantly, from a technical point of view, > is that it was the first car to use direct fuel injection, which didn’t > become an industry norm for another 60 years. > > >> On Jun 10, 2017, at 7:44 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Saw this gorgeous Mercedes-Benz W196 GP car this morning... >> >> https://flic.kr/p/VB3DeY >> https://flic.kr/p/VB3DNo >> https://flic.kr/p/VB3EbC >> >> Gods, what a beautiful machine! >> >> enjoy! >> G >> — >> The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- 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.
