Adding to the car shots (mine shows what happens when you use a 28mm lens on a camera without 28mm framelines and are too lazy to put on the 28mm viewfinder), plus a few more, all shot on Leica M2-R with MS Optics Apoqualia G 28mm/2, Kodak Vision 3 250d. Nice to see women's shoes on sale for $25 (Canadian, no less!). Up until the late 1990s I managed to never pay more than $20 for a pair of shoes, which took quite a bit of effort on my part. My only dress shoes are a pair of black Rockports that I bought in 1985 for $20 from the Rockport Factory Outlet in Massachusetts (equivalent to about $80 today) and I still use them whenever I have to wear a suit. I've had to resole them many times but the uppers are good as new.
coralnut wrote:
4x4 International Scout? Had one. It got 4 mpg. Even when gas was cheap it, the cost of driving it was just awful. It had lots of grunt though.
Using LR's generative AI spot removal/cloning tool. This is pretty wild, I wanted to remove the lady in the first image to our left by the car's side mirrors. All I did was roughly outline her and the area and LR did the rest. I was sure there were going to be some weird artifacts but in the case it worked great.
You can see it changed the name of the hotel from Sonesta to Sone!
coralnut wrote:
4x4 International Scout? Had one. It got 4 mpg. Even when gas was cheap it, the cost of driving it was just awful. It had lots of grunt though.
I remember my Series IIa Land-Rover got 8 mpg on the highway, efficient in comparison. It only had syncromesh between the third and fourth gears; you had to double-clutch when shifting from first to second and second to third. It had a metal grate over the radiator that you could remove and use to grill food over an open fire (after you burned off all the dead bugs first, of course). The later Series III grate was plastic.
Yeah, it was really that bad. Mine had a 345 V8 and a 4.54 final drive ratio. It was carbuerated and tuned for off-road performance with edgy throttle response -- when you tromped on the gas it instantly kicked into action like an angry mule. It was made at a time when gas was cheap, there was no EPA and people wanted performance. To be fair, the Scout excelled at it's intended purpose, but then the world changed around it when the 1970s oil embargo and the EPA came along. Then it became out of place.
It's still a great all purpose and tow vehicle if you can stand the poor fuel economy. If anyone were to use one for a country squire type of road vehicle today (ie: driving it around SoCal) it would be smart to re-gear the diffs to something more friendly. The way that thing was geared it was serious overkill. I think they were unpopular because the fuel economy was just so bad and with the 1970s oil embargo nobody wanted them and Harvester eventually went belly-up when people didn't want industrial vehicles any more. Today you could make one into a nice city / country wagon by changing the final drive to 2.72 or 3.07 and fuel economy would be much better. But you'd be gelding a wild animal if you wanted to tame it like that.
coralnut wrote:
Yeah, it was really that bad. Mine had a 345 V8 and a 4.54 final drive ratio. It was carbuerated and tuned for off-road performance with edgy throttle response -- when you tromped on the gas it instantly kicked into action like an angry mule. It was made at a time when gas was cheap, there was no EPA and people wanted performance. To be fair, the Scout excelled at it's intended purpose, but then the world changed around it when the 1970s oil embargo and the EPA came along. Then it became out of place.
It's still a great all purpose and tow vehicle if you can stand the poor fuel economy. If anyone were to use one for a country squire type of road vehicle today (ie: driving it around SoCal) it would be smart to re-gear the diffs to something more friendly. The way that thing was geared it was serious overkill. I think they were unpopular because the fuel economy was just so bad and with the 1970s oil embargo nobody wanted them and Harvester eventually went belly-up when people didn't want industrial vehicles any more. Today you could make one into a nice city / country wagon by changing the final drive to 2.72 or 3.07 and fuel economy would be much better. But you'd be gelding a wild animal if you wanted to tame it like that....Show more →
Or you can send it to Icon and for a cool few 100k they can put an LS V8 on it. Or make it electric (ewwwww).
Even when gas was cheap it, the cost of driving it was just awful. It had lots of grunt though. 
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