B O N Y
MODERATOR & FGT OWNER
Thanks,.... you remind me a chic I met at a bar at closing and told me how easy she used to be till she found religion and was on the road to sainthood... Love the tease, not:lol:biggrin:lol
Monster Garage
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Thanks,.... you remind me a chic I met at a bar at closing and told me how easy she used to be till she found religion and was on the road to sainthood... Love the tease, not:lol:biggrin:lol
Fubar
Totally ****** Up
PL510*Jeff
Well-known member
Car Collection
Fubar---
Pretty clear where Frank and Bony are coming from. :devil
True Space Cadets. :willy
Glad they are on "our" side.:thumbsup
Just wait until they see GTJOEYS vid's The Sisters of The Vatican Part 1. :bow
An undisclosed source says there is also an special Bony/Frank R rated version coming out of editing soon. :biggrin
Back to the thread's subject matter. The Car Collection. Very Special Stuff.
Fubar---
Pretty clear where Frank and Bony are coming from. :devil
True Space Cadets. :willy
Glad they are on "our" side.:thumbsup
Just wait until they see GTJOEYS vid's The Sisters of The Vatican Part 1. :bow
An undisclosed source says there is also an special Bony/Frank R rated version coming out of editing soon. :biggrin
Back to the thread's subject matter. The Car Collection. Very Special Stuff.
My guess is the guy who wrote the ins policy on all that iron (and alum. & fiber glass & ...) is now comfortably retired and living in the south of France.:eek
(...Did you happen to run into him while you were down there this month, Neilda?)
(...Did you happen to run into him while you were down there this month, Neilda?)
Typically when you own that kind of collection you get a massive deal. Someone else I know with a 160+ car collection worth 10's of millions told me they pay $27k per year to insure everything.
Jason's Auto Spa
Well-known member
Truly an impressive collection of vehicles, both old and new. Is this warehouse attached to his home? I could imagine early in the morning, with a cup of joe, walking into the collection and saying "hmmmmm" :thumbsup
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PL510*Jeff
Well-known member
Collection Insurance
A couple of years ago I got a call from a Haggerty Insurance representative. He wanted my company to do a fire protection survey and prepared a budget for fire sprinkler installation for a number of buildings in Parkland, Washington, near Tacoma.
It seems Haggerty insured the Harold Le May Collection. Which is "mostly" housed in an old seminar college campus. This collection exceeds 3,600 cars. Not bad for a "garbageman". Damn near one of everything every made.
I questioned the insurance rep. about "volume discounts" for such a car collection. He said that they did give " a slight pricing discount" from their collector car pricing. But only because most of the cars are never driven.
A couple of years ago I got a call from a Haggerty Insurance representative. He wanted my company to do a fire protection survey and prepared a budget for fire sprinkler installation for a number of buildings in Parkland, Washington, near Tacoma.
It seems Haggerty insured the Harold Le May Collection. Which is "mostly" housed in an old seminar college campus. This collection exceeds 3,600 cars. Not bad for a "garbageman". Damn near one of everything every made.
I questioned the insurance rep. about "volume discounts" for such a car collection. He said that they did give " a slight pricing discount" from their collector car pricing. But only because most of the cars are never driven.
Kingman
GT Owner
Nthfinity, I sure like your camera skills! ....and subject matter. :thumbsup
Do you mind me asking what you use? F stop, lense, film, etc...?
Do you mind me asking what you use? F stop, lense, film, etc...?
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Bad lenses used right will work great
I've got a $1500 when new camera body.. just never really spent much more on it. So, I've only got about $200 in glass... a stock canon 18-55 f3.5-5.6, and a 100-300 f4.5-5.6 quanteray. Some people say the 'stock' 18-55 is useless, which it kinda is if you shoot everything on auto modes... F8.0 - 10.0 is what I use for any non-macroish shot.
the 100-300 I shoot with F5.0 zooming no more then 140mm, as the glass is totally useless after that... but, when shooting panning shots, I set to ISO 100, shooting roughly F8 (depends on how much ambient light there is) and set the shutter to 1/80 of a second
Of course, when using better glass (I've rented the Canon 100-400 IS L for the race on Saturday and Sunday) They usually have a "better light gathering ability" and therefore, have a far more 'open' aperture. When the aperture is more open then another similar lens, the peak "sharpness" of the lens is a lower f-stop then that of higher aperture lens. (EG the F2.8 70-200 vs. the F4 70-200.. peak sharpness on the F2.8 would be F7.1, where the F4 would be near F10)
A general rule of thumb is heavier glass works better... but still, in the right hands a bad lens will work, in the wrong hands, a great lens wont. Practice practice practice
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Kingman
GT Owner
FlorIdaho Chris
Yeah, I've got one.
the former gov. of Michigan's son runs a car enthusiast hang out in Ypsilante, and they were invited to come out during the fall color tour. A group that is sorta like "cars and coffee" in SoCal, but smaller, and less of the super exotics (actually, a few of those didn't make it today for some reason... I was expecting a CGT, and F40 among a few others)
and, sure thing
isaakgt
GT Owner
Very impressive, keep the pics coming. This kind of cool stuff might help keep me out of trouble. I would love to see this collection in the flesh. What I would give to watch the assembly of the Veyron at the factory. :thumbsup