1998 Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance

Steve, His Digicam, And A Bunch Of Gorgeous Machines

On Sunday, May 3, 1998, the annual Hillsborough, California Concours d'Elegance was held. I visited with my family and my Olympus D-600L digital camera.

The following photos seemed worthy of being shared among my web friends, so here they are.

I must apologize for the lack of interesting historical detail on these cars, as I was too busy watching over three little kids to take much note of what I was photographing. But the beauty of what I saw there was unmistakable.

A few technical notes on what these photos are and aren't. Each of the thumbnails and the 50% reduced images you see here were generated en masse by Thorsten Lemke's excellent GraphicConverter program. The large, unretouched images were captured on my Olympus D-600L in HQ mode, and are presented here in their raw form. Some of them would benefit from some wanking in Photoshop, but I have to go to work tomorrow. :-)

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An old Daimler (yes, it's not a Jaguar!)

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A Cobra

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Nice tailfins!

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The business end of an old Chrysler

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An Austin Healey 3000

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The distinctive hood ornament of a Bentley

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My kids swore that this was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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My personal favorite: the Ferrari 365 GTB4 Daytona

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Another Cobra

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The Corvette insignia

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The Thunderbird insignia

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Ahh...those were the days!

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A pretty old Ford

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A Buick straight 8 (I think)

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The coolest old Alfa Romeo I've ever seen!

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Close-up detail of the wheel from an old Rolls Royce

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The incomparable Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing"

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A Rolls Royce "hunting sedan" that was custom made for some Maharaji or something (it was actually towing a machine gun!)

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The hood ornament from an AC Cobra (now that's red!)

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