Lancia Motor Club

Not sure if this photo has been here before?

Is that Sitg's dad in the dark suit?

David

That's a great photo....if you cover the engine bay, it looks like a still from a 1950's "B" movie, imagine a bunch of scientists preparing a space launch in the latest 'Space Glider D50' while the military look on, planning an invasion of the latest menace from the East.....

Guy on left with an "extended" Lancia plug spanner??

Anyone know who each of the characters 1-9 are? (Or amusing suggestions as to what they may be thinking)

1.   Oops...stripped a thread, they'll never notice !!
2.   Why am I the only one wearing a hat ?
3.   What's he looking for in there ?  I should be sitting there...!
4.   Wonder what's for dinner tonight ?
5.   Look at that engine, what were they doing, its crooked !!!
6.   Damn, I forgot to fit the gear lever !!
7.   Who's that guy beside me, why has he no thought bubble ?
8.   It's gotta be there somewhere !!
9.   Where the hell is the gear lever ??

I don't 'laugh out loud' as often as some, but that's very good, thanks Kevin.

Any ideas as to what these two are thinking then?

"Beats doing porridge in Slade Prison"

"You've not used your wife's best, 15 dernier stockings as a fan belt again?!"

 :D

P

Excactly what I thought. Is it really Lennie Godber?

"Do you not listen? That's Loads Of Trouble, Usually Serious!"

'D50 Testing' (Mainlander)

;D ;D ;D

The first picture above must be the property of a racing driver. It's an open and shut case. The second picture looks like they are on the side of a swimming pool. Are they testing the D50s "crash dive" performance in preparation for Monaco?

A few more including a serious starter

Ferrari seeing what they had got.

Hey guys -

how about we honor where these photos came from, and give full credit? The keeping of these photo archives is not without cost. That they have made the images available (for free) is quite nice of them - IMHO, the least we can do is let people know where they came from. Only fair...

Nice, evocative D50 video with Fangio at the wheel

http://www.throughtheapex.com/fangio-on-board/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

I have to confess the pictures I post usually come from my files of pictures collected for model making purposes and I don't tend to record their origin. I have traced this particular lot to Google images searching on "Lancia D50". They are posted by Getty Images and credited to Thomas D. McAvoy January 1st 1958 possibly for Life Magazine.

As they are free to view online and there is no electronic block on saving the images I have tended to take a libertine approach to copyright. If they catch up with me my defence almost certainly wouldn't stand up in court. Mea Culpa.

Frank,
In my experience it's usually easier to beg forgiveness than to seek permission ...

Frank -
Yes they are from McAvoy, and for Life Magazine. See: http://blog.lanciainfo.com/?p=2380

What I was trying to suggest is simply that we credit the photographer and the source of the image; not necessarily get into the whole copyright issue.

The Mailander images come from the Revs Institute Digital Library:  
https://revslib.stanford.edu/?f%5Bmarque_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Lancia

This work is part of the Ludvigsen Archive, now at the Revs Institute in Florida. They made a fairly radical, but generous, decision to scan and put their very large photo library on the web.

I agree. Quite so. It will be well worth getting into the habit of recording where images have come from and who created them. As well as giving credit where it is due it will create a more useful reference resource for the future.

When considering where the images I posted came from it made me rather aware that reposting images from the web might raise copyright issues particularly if a third party then downloaded them and used them for a commercial purpose. A remote possibility I admit but it might take some effort to resolve if litigation ensued. Acknowledging the source might therefore at least imply some onus on a third party to check with the original source.

I understand the German Lancia Club has used one of my photographs in their calendar this year. It would have been nice to have been asked first.
Regards, John