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Clark
W. Nicholls (Mohawk
Al
Olmstead’s (
With
guest contributor Bob Holcomb (Glen Region SCCA Pit Marshal)!
Pete
Watson’s (
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A Mr./Doctor Botchagaloop (sp) was a character on the old Abbott &
Costello show.
Last edited Tuesday,
April 23, 2024
Arranged somewhat chronologically….
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In addition to scanning his own
collection of slides (not done yet),
For your enjoyment!
I'm pushing the limits of my GoDaddy webhosting account!
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Al O is happy with his cookie and
Coke at Road Atlanta.
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John Fitch information link here and biography here
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Links
to different years of Al Olmstead’s (
Some
very good shots of us old-timers in our youth!
Hot
links all have content now.
1973 – 1974
– 1975 – 1976
– 1977 – 1978
- 1979
After
a gap in photography, Al returns in - 1984 -
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See
some of
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Only
the hot links have content!
(This
part of the project will go on hold after my 1987 photos are uploaded)
- 2001 - 2000 - 1999 –
1998 - 1997 - 1996 –
- 1995 - 1994 - 1993 –
1992 - 1991 - 1990 –
- 1989 - 1988 - 1987 – 1986 - 1985 - 1984 –
- 1983 - 1982 - 1981 – 1980 - 1979 - 1978 –
- 1977 - 1976 - 1975 – 1974 - 1973 - 1972 –
To be added at a later
date include Silverstone British GP in early 1990’s
Continuation will
require scanning of negatives which are, to say the least, disorganized.
I may not get to this
task till next winter (or the one after that)!
Another project shared
with Randy McKee and Greg Rickes is to scan the
archives of our friend Joe Corbett.
So there’s no shortage
of tasks!
It is now the winter
of 2012 and I'm scanning my negatives from the 1980s. They are not in true
order, sorted or labeled so have fun! 5000 and counting...
Negatives 0 -
Negatives 01 -
Negatives 02 -
Negatives 03
Negatives 04 -
Negatives 05 -
Negatives 06 -
Negatives 07
Negatives 10 - Negatives
11 -
Negatives 12 -
Negatives zz
1990 Canadian GP, WSC,
etc. Negatives 1990
1991 Canadian GP,
Watkins Glen NASCAR + IROC, Lime Rock, etc. Negatives 1991a
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Videos I took at the
SCCA Runoffs at Road Atlanta are on YouTube now (4/2024).
1983 CSPRRC, Road
Atlanta Champion Spark Plug Road Racing Classic
1/5 -- https://youtu.be/OdnbYi--zjk
2/5 -- https://youtu.be/n8S4lsJVqeU
3/5 -- https://youtu.be/CiAshN4-OT0
4/5 -- https://youtu.be/vU6UCvA7sDc
5/5 -- https://youtu.be/hijHU_sWW3g
1984 CSPRRC, Road Atlanta
Champion Spark Plug Road Racing Classic
1/7 -- https://youtu.be/29YnauAU-Nk
2/7 -- https://youtu.be/kiLuXdYY5Rk
3/7 -- https://youtu.be/kshA6zNIfPA
4/7 -- https://youtu.be/nVlGiyNXFKM
5/7 -- https://youtu.be/DoKOM80InJA
6/7 -- https://youtu.be/36j8mgx42uA
7/7 -- https://youtu.be/H4YDwb_rr7w
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Bob
Holcomb from the Watkins Glen area contributes some great memories here
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Pete
Watson’s (
- 2002 - 1987 – 1986 - 1985 - 1984 –
- 1983 - 1982 - 1981 – 1980 - 1979 - 1978 –
Stay tuned!
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Richard Welty has a great North American Motorsports page here -
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Other memories we may or may not
have ever had…
A very good site with old Lime Rock photos here (no longer works!)
A very good site with Mark Windecker old IMSA photos here
Link to VSCCA page here
Race Program Covers project. I've
provided a few here,
can you fill in some blanks?
Our photos are making it into
several sites. Check out:
Registry
of Corvette Race Cars
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Can you name this person? Quiz1
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Use of these photos in any publication is free as long as photo
credit is given to R. Allen Olmstead for slides from Al’s collection (filenames
prefixed with rao)
and likewise credit to Clark W. Nicholls for slides (and videos) from his
collection (filenames prefixed with cwn),
and likewise credit to Pete Watson for slides from his collection (filenames
prefixed with pw),
If you need higher resolution jpg, let Clark know the file name and photo
gallery (web address) it is in.
The Negatives galleries are all CWNicholls
photos.
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I should have a contest like how
many jelly beans in the jar. How many slides in the closet? (I don’t know the
answer and won’t be counting them). I have several thousand more from later
years. Lots of F1, mostly boring. Hopefully I’ll get to them!
Here’s the workstation, scanner
lower right:
Scans are being done with a HP Scanjet 4890 at 300dpi resolution.
This scanner scans 16 slides in one batch at user selected resolution with
Hewlett Packard software.
I used 300dpi which makes a jpg file 500-700KB each slide. Not the best, but ok
for now.
The PC is a dual core AMD Athlon 64x2 4400+ 2.2GHz
processor with 3GB RAM running Windows XP-Professional.
I’m building a new
quad-core PC for Windows 7, so I have added another scanner to my toolbox, HP
G4050
I've now updated to PCs
with AMD Phenom Quad 3.4GHz processors, 16GB of RAM
and Windows 10, which will run the scanning software.
Also I have a scanning station with an Intel Quad I5-3470 Core 3.2GHz processor
with 16GB of RAM.
Link to TigerDirect where there is much more information on the
G4050 here
I think the Epson V500
(below) is a worthy scanner too, but does fewer slides at once! Around $230
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Photos at Lime Rock Park, Watkins
Glen Race Course, Montreal Grand Prix Formula One, British Grand Prix
Silverstone, Brands Hatch, Bryar Motorsports Park,
Thompson Raceway, Road Atlanta, MoSport, Riverside
California, Laguna Seca, Detroit Grand Prix Formula
One, Dallas Grand Prix, Formula One, Trans-Am, Miami Grand Prix, Sebring 12
Hours, Daytona International Speedway, Pocono International Speedway, Beaver Run Sports Car Course, Pittsburgh
Grand Prix, Bridgehampton Raceway, St. Petersburgh, Moroso,
Kennedy Space Center, Busch Gardens, Niagara Falls, Meadowlands, Indianapolis
Motor Speedway and many other locations!
Runoffs, IMSA, SCCA, Grand-Am, CART,
Porsche, Corvette, Camaro, Lotus,
Jaguar, Datsun, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Triumph, MG,
Ford, Mustang, Bently, Rolls Royce, Cougar, Ferarri, Williams, McLaren, Renault, BMW, Noble, Skip
Barber Driver School, Dodge, LED.
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Contact
Donate
to my efforts? Payments can be made to my Paypal
account: CWNicholls@aol.com (this has
actually happened!)
GoDaddy webhost
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