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The site for this small local dealers’ show was Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego’s Mission Valley. I had only recently bought my first real camera, a Minolta SR-T 101, and was trying it out around San Diego. The date for this show would have been February 1972, and that was the last time I looked at these slides before putting them to sleep for 44 years. If I hadn’t splurged for a good scanner they would never have emerged along with hundreds of others.
Throughout the 70’s I only shot Tri-X B&W along with Kodachrome 25 or 64. These shots are one of my first trial runs in Kodachrome 25. At the time I was 18 years old and so focused on the cars as per my age and times. Japanese cars were present but not yet on my radar screen. Clearly the focus was Detroit steel, although no full sized ones were present, along with some British and Italian sports cars. Nonetheless, many sharp eyes will pick out slivers of other cars in the background.
My token GM product.
Roadrunner
Barracuda, and Cricket
Dusters
TR 6 And lots of intriguing cars in the background
Jaguar XK-E Series 3 2+2
MG Midget
MGB
Mustang Sprint
Excalibur SS
Gran Torino Sports
Capri. I never noticed the missing R and I until I enlarged this slide
Pantera
Saab Sonnet
Fiat 850 Spider
Fiat 124 Spider
Great quality for scanned photos – well done.
That Torino is catching my eye, to say the least