George.

I hope you are buying a nice digital camera in case you don't already have one. I would love to see pictures of your new car when you pick it up. A picture is worth a thousand words.

I only have Nikon, Leica, and Rollei film cameras. I think Henry and I may have a professional photographer shoot some digital pictures of my car in Vancouver before I leave, both for his web site and for me. If so I'll post some of them here in the files when I get back.

I'll visit IM in a few weeks to pick up my car. I'll take some pictures of George's car and post them if I have chance to see it.

If you are looking for something cheap I saw an ad for "disposable" digital cameras. I think you take your pictures then return the camera and they give you a CD with the JPG's on it.

Jerome

George, as expected you own the very best film camera's, but I do hope you will spring for a digital camera so when touring back East with your delux car we can all see it. We have read with interest all the birthing pains and pleasures of the expectant father.

I went digital last year. I have a nikkormat which i used for years but doubt now I will ever shoot film again. The prints from my digital (canon 3 megapixel) are so much sharper than any I have ever taken with a film camera including a 2 1/4 that there aint no goin back!
ed

Ed, I have a Nikormat also, bought it in 1967 or 68, like a timex,takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Never in the shop for anything, heavy as hell but I like that. I bought a camcorder some years ago and figured I'd never use 35mm again, after a trips with the camcorder, went back to the Nikormat. I haven't tried digital yet but keep watching the sales so one of these days! John Steele has been sending me a few digital pics on my car being moved toward completion and I'm impressed with the quality of the pics.

Bruce Williams

Great to hear you got your new ride. I'm looking foreward to starting mine in another month or two. Hope to get some feed back from you and the rest here on the site. Doug

I use my digital from work. It's a Sony FD Mavica. It's only 2 megapixels, but takes great pictures. Besides a memory stick, it takes diskettes, which is a real bonus.
Consumers Report did a test on digital cameras resently. Interestingly, more megapixels doesn't always mean better, clearer pictures. The 5 and 6 megapixel cameras didn't show any real improvement over the 3 and 4 megapixels until you started enlarging the photo to 8 x 11 or bigger.
Ron

Most developers will put your pictures onto a disc when getting prints made from your film......so the new disposable "digital" cameras are not such a big deal......I guess unless you don't have a camera and want digital images. Tim.

Our local CVS pharmacy has a film deal where they send the film out and your prints come back but are also online at a web site you can access. Haven't used it yet but that might be the best of both worlds.

In terms of image quality, film still beats pixels if you want to make a fair sized enlargement, and color prints made on home color printers from digital cameras don't last too well unless you laminate them in plastic (the inks tend to oxidize and fade).

I even still like black and white prints...

Sony DCF717. 5MegPixel. No camera is better in my mind. You can actually see the field of view change when you adjust the aperture.
The battery lasts for weeks. The 128MB card holds lots of super high res pictures as well as video clips. You can buy incredible lenses.

I am pumped to see George's new car even in the build stage. Anyone visiting IM please post photos. The other Carrera Henry built with the six in back was a beauty.

Erik, believe me, you're not half as pumped as I am...

Hey George just wanted to know, are you an expert on everything.

Scott, I'm not an expert on anything; are you? I've led a pretty active and busy life and I'm 65 so there's a little experience in a lot of different areas that interested me at one time or another. Instead of watching TV and going to movies I tend to DO THINGS.

The "things" have included photography, competition rifle and pistol shooting, roadracng sportscars and motorcycles, welding, machinist, mechanic, fixed and rotor wing flight (never got the rotor license), some time in-country in Viet Nam (bang-bang, you're dead), successful small business owner, computer programmer & systems analyst (first IBM SE without a degree), unfinished college studies included majors in architecture, physics/math, and sociology/psychology. All of that and $1.00 will buy me a cup of coffee almost anywhere (with the exception of Starbuck's).

George, no I am not an expert on anything I can think of.I do have a lot of experiance with a lot of things, mostly job related. My last post was not an attack, but you seem to have a comment on everything, and some of your comments are absurd. I have to tell you I do not care what size my wheels are my engine size etc. I just want to have fun and read about other peoples experiances with working and building there cars. This car is nothing but a toy to me. I just enjoy the experiance of owning a fun car. Have a nice weekend Scott

Well, I appreciate the posts and the insight from George, and others. As a guy who is looking to purchase a Speedster, the more I can know before I buy, the better decision I can make, and the better owner I will be. It sounds to me like most Speedsters are owned by people who like to know what they are driving, and even if they are not experts, know how to do what needs to be done on their car or want to learn. If someone doesn't fit into that category that's fine, just don't piss on those that do.
Ron

I took some pictures last weekend at Intermeccanica, and put them in Files / Members/ Kazuyuki/ 030531 visit to IM. I'm very happy with my Roadster. It's beautiful.

George's car was in sanding booth. Although engine and exhaust system weren't there, I could take some pictures of the alminum wheels and espar gas heater. The wheels looked really nice.

Kazuyuki, your car looks awesome, excellent color combination. What color is the paint exactly.

Thanks

Dave

K., thanks for the pictures of my in-process car. They sure look a lot better when they're finished as opposed to various stages of the build. The wheel pics are interesting, especially the one with a Mangel Porsche replica wheel for comparison - note that the backspace is different between the two (4 1/8" on the alloys, less on the Mangels).

Your car looks terrific; I almost chose a red interior, too.



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David, the color is Silver Metalic, Glasurit POR 6206.

Henry told me that's the original color, though when I checked it at Glasurit web site (//www.glasurit.com/COLOR/COLOR-Search/index.html), it says the years are from 1962 to 1969 (Conv. D is 1959 only). It looks great, so it doesn't matter much to me if it's correct.

Thanks, KS

K.

Not to "Jones" over another guy's stuff, but... your car does look awesome, I like the color combo and the additional accessories (especially the exhaust/bumper configuration). Your car is truly one of the nicest I've seen.

ps - George, for what it's worth, your insight is appreciated by many. You successfully pointed out a issue with my car that helped make it safer, thank you.

Thank you for your note Dave. I really appreciate Intermeccanica to make my dream a reality perfectly.

I also appreciate all the people who post valuable information to this web site. The information in this site helped me a lot to have better understanding of these replica cars, and to determine what I want in my car.

And last but definitely not least, thank you Theron for keeping up this great site!

Too COOL George. I love Black and White for the contrast. Light is VERRY COOL.