Have been enjoying comments generated by pics.
I'm the guy who snapped the photos that spurred Mike Halley to create this thread. Being that I'm not much in to contributing comments to forums of any subject (this being the first one I can recall) I've not been inclined to pop up here.
But, through a bit of encouragement from "Mad Mike" (who I hope is back in suitable transportation after his recent road accident described elsewhere in these forum pages) and my appreciation of the interest shown in this thread of my old rally pics, I thought I should surface to say Hi and provide a little comentary.
First, I go way back to this thread's first page and throw a "It was my mistake!" over to Jens. I was the guy who misidentified your Porsche 911 as Bruno Kreibich's in that Sunriser pic, not Mike (nice looking ride, by the way). After Mike pointed out to me in an e-mail that Bruno ran a VW Beetle in 1978 I sent him a new copy of the JPEG in question with a more generic file name.
After almost thirty years I did recall Mr. Kreibich entering a Porsche in the Sunriser but it turns out it was a year after that photo was taken. I was scanning the pics, naming the resulting JPEG files and uploading them to Mike on the fly so I was being a bit careless in my research and/or memory. Credit where credit is due, I really am sorry about that!
Regarding Dick Paddock's AMC (yup, AMC back then) Jeep Cherokee and Gremlin pics at the ORC Tulip 200: The Cherokee was Dick's everyday ride so I assume the Gremlin was on hand in case he hoplessly stuffed the Jeep
I believe it was Eric Anderson who commented about the Gremlin; Yeah, I saw Dick run that thing at an autocross put on one Sunday morning in a parking lot at the OSU stadium (the one in Ohio). If I recall correctly he had to peddle it off of the starting line least he boil off the rear tires! He had a pretty loud exhaust on it, too, so he must've awaken at least some kids in the North Campus residence halls. It was fun hearing the AMC small block V8 echoing off the side of the stadium, though!
From lurking and reading this thread over the last month and a half I've learned lots of good stuff, such as the details concerning Hendrik Block's Plymouth Arrow and what makes a FIAT xxx Abarth an Abarth. I also learned that a Lancia Stratos is a lot smaller that I thought!!! All good information mixed with some good humor as well.
To close this little disertation, all the photos on Mike's webpage in the "Hirschfeld Collection" were indeed snapped by me with a little Kodac pocket instamatic camera using color-negative film. The pocket instamatic line used what were termed "110" film cartridges. I'm thinking maybe the 110 designator meant the film was 10 millimeters wide because it was really small format stuff. I was probably lucky to get what detail I did in those pics.
While the pics are admittedly a bit blury, it's likely fortunate they scanned as well as they did considering the prints are nearly thirty years old on matt finish paper.
So that's it for this post. I suspect I forgot to mention something but this is long enough already.
Thanks!!!