Motor racing picture galleries

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Just lifted from another web site I frequent...an interesting collection of thousands of old motor racing pics.

http://tinyurl.com/52m53

The Klemantaski Collection is one of the world’s largest and most varied libraries of historic motor sports photography. The Collection supplies its images to photograph and car collectors and enthusiasts, racing car restorers, authors and publishers worldwide.

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Oh yeah...
I'm a pretty visitor to the Klementaski collection (or more to the point, Nigel Snowden's collection)  They have a staggering collection of negs from which prints can be made.  Download the venue list and see what I mean.  They purchased the complete archives of Nigel Snowden and Diana Burnett who photographed the era dearest to my heart (the seventies and early eighties) and I've got more than a few of their originals in my collection.  Probably the nicest one is a hand print of a photo of Ronnie Peterson taken by Snowden at Monza the morning of his accident.
It was the shot used by Autocourse for his obituary.
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[Mr. Rick]

Ooh yeah! I had the joy of sifting thru some of the Klementaski collection when I was working with Michael Keyser on "French Kiss With Death". Great stuff!!  

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In that post of mine I meant to say I'm a pretty regular visitor...I'm not very pretty.
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[Fax]

Rick, So you helped out with French Kiss huh?
Very nice book, but good grief what a stupid name for it!
What the hell was Keyser thinking?
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[Mr. Rick]

Ah, it wasn't Michael's title, I think it was a working title for the film or Mr McQueen referred to it as such when the post-production was becoming a nightmare or something like that. Mr Club Arnage (Dave, are you there???) also helped out loads and could probably recall the exact reason behind the title.

As for my contribution to the book, just take a look at the last line of page 451  

[Fax]

Hi Rick,
That would make more sense, I thought Keyser was just trying to come up with some kind of clever title.  His other book The Speed Merchants is a thing of beauty too.  I've got one of the original copies, in fact it was one of the first motor racing books my parents ever bought me.  Interesting that Chad McQueen does some SCCA club racing and at the Runoffs last autumn at Mid Ohio he was approached by a buddy of mine here in town about rounding up all of the old film shot for the movie and releasing a DVD of just the racing footage, guess it kind of caught his interest, we'll see if anything comes of it.
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[Nordic]

Not a gallery but a link to the Atlas Fourm, these 2 threads, Track and paddock are a wonderful collection of photos, mainly from the 70's taken by punters, but the images and memories are superb.
http://forums.atlasf1.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74567

http://forums.atlasf1.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31078

[hgb]

Some truely excellent racing pictures in there, Nordic. Especially the ones from Smarjoram in the middle of page 3 on the first thread, truely exceptional stuff. Take a look at his PBase site for more. I have see his LM Classic pictures before but can't remember where.

[Nordic]

Hgb,
I have put a link to Smarjoram photos on here before. He also posts on 10/10ths as well.

The quality of his work is amazing.

[BigH]

Blimey O'Reilly! there's some great pix there! - look at that grain! you can almost smell the HP5.
Note the traditional light blue overalls, worn by a lot of the drivers in the sixties. There was a bunch of bandits at Silverstone ELMS this year selling reproduction ones. They looked sort of ok, in a cheap way, with a lot of loose threads and dodgy seams. But I rather fancied myself in a set as a pair of pyjamas, just imagine cleaning your teeth in them and then leaping into bed to wait for the starters orders. On enquiry, I found the buggers wanted £220!!
I'll have to stay with the rubber vest and prosthetics for a bit longer I suppose.
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[John Thawley]

We have launched a new online gallery that may be of interest to you. It's called Wheels On Walls and apporaches motorsport photography as true art. It features the work of 18 photographers... contemporary and from the past. Please stop by http://www.wheelsonwalls.com

John