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#1 Roger Clark

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Posted 03 October 2000 - 22:53

Posted Image[p][Edited by Roger Clark on 10-04-2000]

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#2 Ray Bell

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Posted 03 October 2000 - 23:03

So who are the individuals... love the way you have to wait for the important bit of the pic to arrive...

#3 Roger Clark

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Posted 04 October 2000 - 04:43

It was mainly an exercise by me to find out whether I've learned how to post pictures. I'll leave it as a sort of mini-8W for about 12 hous and then post the identities.

#4 Michael M

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Posted 04 October 2000 - 05:44

The guy on the right looks like Tazio, and the car like an Alfa 40/60 HP.

#5 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 04 October 2000 - 06:03

The first five are easy: Behind the wheel is obviously Enzo Ferrari and next to him unmistakably his wife Laura. Sitting behind Enzo is clearly the dark-skinned Borzacchini and next to him with receeding hairline sits unmistakably Arcangeli. Nuvolari with cigarette in his left hand seems to have his left foot on the car.
Now comes the hard part. The driver behind the car in white overall, a Caracciola look alike, is Caniato, one of the founders of the Scuderia Ferrari. Caracciola had nothing to do with the Scuderia.

#6 Leif Snellman

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Posted 04 October 2000 - 09:43

Originally posted by Hans Etzrodt
Caracciola had nothing to do with the Scuderia.


For a second I thought that the picture could be from the 1932 season but then I realized that it must be 1931 or earlier if Arcangeli was still living.




#7 Don Capps

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Posted 04 October 2000 - 16:00

Hans,

Great! Like you I identified them as the Ferraris, TGN, Borzacchini, and Arcangeli. However, I didn't recognize Caniato despite racking my brain. However, I did notice the armband which gave me pause.

I am impressed... Now as to where...

#8 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 04 October 2000 - 17:08

... Now as to where...

I finally found this picture in the Orsini/Zagari book The Scuderia Ferrari. The caption reads that the picture was taken on 3 August 1930 for the Coppa Ciano race, when the team left the hotel, driving to the circuit.

#9 Ray Bell

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Posted 05 October 2000 - 18:00

...and which one had left grounds in his coffee cup?

#10 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 05:39

Ray,
Sorry my answer took that long.
They all had instant coffee, therefore no grounds in the cups.;)

#11 Ray Bell

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 07:42

Funny this came up, Hans. My son, in Indiana, today told me that American coffee residue is called 'grounds' because it was once dirt.

#12 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 08:20

It wasn't Hawaiian coffee because here they wash the harvested beans before drying them.

#13 Ray Bell

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 08:32

I'll make a point of telling him to get his coffee from Hawaii, then... must be getting late there, Hans?

#14 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 08:45

Have to leave the Key board now. The Tonight Show just started with Jay Lenno.

#15 Huw Jenjin

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 10:52

Never mind the coffee or the people. Look at that rear wheel. Is that a live axle car, and if so why has it so much negative camber, is it about to fall off with all the people on the car?

#16 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 17:36

It looks like a 6C-1500 but could possibly be also a 6C-1750 touring car. Both cars had a life rear axle. I don't know the camber settings for the wheels.

#17 Ray Bell

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 19:59

Maybe there's a pothole under the left rear?

#18 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 20:08

Good thinking, Ray! I'll accept that.

#19 Roger Clark

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 20:33

The front tyres have seen better days.

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#20 Ray Bell

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 21:13

And many of them!

#21 Roger Clark

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 22:42

Has anybody else noticed the resemblance between Enzo Ferrari and John Wayne in "The Quiet Man"? Could they have been parted at birth?

#22 Hans Etzrodt

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Posted 13 October 2000 - 23:49

No it never occured to me, Roger.

Since you now know how to post images, could you please pass your little secret on to me? I looked under the vB code instructions and the way I understand them, I need a Website, showing where the picture came from. I have no website of my own.

#23 Brent

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Posted 14 October 2000 - 00:21

So HOW do you post pictures?

#24 Barry Lake

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Posted 14 October 2000 - 05:04

I have seen several answers to this question and have never understood any of them.
Perhaps someone will try answering it step-by-step, rather than in a whole lot of incomprehensible Internet language.

#25 Ray Bell

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Posted 15 October 2000 - 11:28

The key to this is to have a website... then you post the picture to your website. After this you type in IMG surrounded by the square brackets ([]) followed but the URL of the picture (ie. http://www.yourwebsi.../pictureURL.jpg) and then finish of with /IMG in the square brackets ... a bludge, really... Barry, I told you a long time ago to let Alfisti lead you by the nose through the setting up of a geocities website for yourself.
If you were on ICQ he could do that for you quite easily any time you're both online... he did it for me.