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Photo Sunday - Life in the artist street

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Mercedes-Benz 190SL and BMW 2002 Touring

Sunday was not as warm as had been predicted. The sun shone with its absence. Then it was nice to move outside and it was good photo weather. I got to air both the pedal bike and the dog for a few hours this day. I also spotted some really nice cars in Kunstnergaten.

 

Kunstnergaten by the old flight tower

Fornebu has its own street by the old airport tower, called Kunstnergaten. Since I don't know anything about art, I often feel a bit stupid when I go there. But it's a nice place with nice people. On Sundays, "everything" is open to the public. Every now and then there's a great car outside the Kultur på hjøl car museum . The people who run the museum are car enthusiasts themselves who occasionally bring one of their own eyeballs with them.

Today, several fine youngtimers and vintage cars were parked in the street outside the car museum. As one of the participants said - "When all meetings are cancelled, you'd rather arrange a joint drive". In addition to culture in the form of cars, memorabilia from the early days of flight, arts and crafts, you will find the Odonata restaurant with a nice patio. The restaurant was used for filming the first season of the TV program "First date". But you can of course stop by even if you are not on a date.

 

Shoots at everything

I use a one-handed compact camera from Sony - RX100M3. It is a top model that can be used with one hand and takes very good pictures - good lenses and good software. It is a camera that many journalists use. You can work quickly and shoot at everything. That's what I do. But here I only show pictures of cars.

Also published in the car catalogue

The photos taken in connection with car meets or carspotting along the road are eventually also uploaded into the car catalog here on the blog. The purpose is to collect photos of cars to show how different car models have developed over the model years - and to show different colors and variants of the same model. Everything is easily accessible on search engines. There are several thousand photos of special cars "spotted" on trips by car, pedal bike, dog-on-leash ...

… just like these – all taken on the same Sunday.


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Mercedes-Benz W111 220 SE Coupé

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The interior of the Mercedes-Benz 190SL from 1958
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1964 Pontiac Le Mans
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1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7
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1969 Cadillac El Dorado

Opel Commodore
Opel Commodore GS 2.8
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Opel Commodore B in fantastic condition.
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The GS 2.8 was the top model. This is Opel at its best!

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1973 Renault 15. Beautiful and rare French car.
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1982 Volkswagen Golf C

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- Where is MacGyver? Jeep CJ7 Renegade from the same era as the TV series.
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Mk1 Range Rover in prime condition is being traded today for staggering sums in England.
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MGF (tv) is unfortunately becoming rare along the way. Especially seeing it standing next to its much younger Chinese-built relative (th)

See

g500 4x22
Photo Sunday – Citroen and G 500
4 x 22
Photo Saturday – Mustang and Mercedes

Sports cars at Fornebu

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A wet day at Fornebu.

Norwegian Sports Car Club... Just chew on the name. When cars are referred to as cars , you are either very "Oslo West" or very old.

 

I think of the actors in the old feature film "Sons of Norway buy a car" from 1962. From what I can see, many of the members are a bit older. I imagine they have tolerant spouses. At our house, the atmosphere gets a little tense when I talk about getting a "toy car".
 
"We still play with cars", is the Norsk Sportsvognklubb's slogan. It affects the enjoyment of the car. You don't need a lot of money or horsepower to have fun with a car. At the year's biggest event, you'll find everything from lightly patinated Mazda MX-5s and Toyota MR2s to Ferraris and McLarens, to name a few.
 
When you, like me, drive around this winter with hybrids, electric cars and fuel-saving diesel (mentioned on Terje's cars), it is an experience to see and hear cars running on 8, 10 and 12 cylinders for no other purpose than enjoyment. I have taken some photos from this year's spring muster at the old air tower at Fornebu. The cars are only a small number of all that were on display. Terje's cars will return with a separate post about the popular sports car Mazda MX-5 "Miata" as well as photo material of new cars from Germany.
 
Norwegian Sports Car Club
 

 

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Ferrari 488 parked in front of Odonata Restaurant.
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Close-up of the Ferrari 488.
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Fiat 1500 convertible.
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Alfa Romeo Montreal. Not something you see every day.
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Alfa Romeo Montreal.
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Renault-Alpine A310.
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"Fornebu Special". The bodywork of this mysterious vehicle was made at Fornebu - the country's former main airport. No doubt where the inspiration came from.
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The mystery car photographed inside the hall. According to the vehicle registry, it is based on a 52 model Mercury.
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Åse Kleveland, newly minted honorary member of the sports car club, took part in the first pool of the partial filing with his Saab Sonett V4.
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The Renault 15 is not particularly sporty, but beautiful and rare.
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One of several fine Ferrari 360s.
Ferrari 458
Porsche GT3 in front of the old airport building.
Porsche GT3 RS.
Lots of beautiful things to see in the parking lot.
Lots of great 911s.
Great Cayman in the big Porsche space.
Toyota MR2 on the way home.

 

See

Mercedes-Benz C217.
2017 Mercedes-Benz R190.