I bought a scanner too

[firko]

I'm still trying to work out the settings on my new slide scanner but here are some historic out takes from the very first vintage photo shoot we did for ADB back in 1986. That's me and my old 350 Squarie and my mate Chris Ellis's '72 400 Husky.
Geoff Eldridge took the shots and wrote the piece in the May 86 ADB (I think). The response from that piece was amazing and it prompted us to get the whole vintage thing happening. I've got literally thousands of transparencies from my twenty years of covering our sport so once I sort out the foibles of this bloody thing I'll post more. 

The shoot was at Amaroo Park that had been unused for about 5 years and had been eroded away to the point that the main straight was the only usable part. Ivan Stibbard and Ray Price from the track owners, the ARDC dropped in on the shoot and didn't take much convincing from GE and I to repair the track and bring it back to 1971 spec for vintage racing. The ARDC were brilliant to work with in those days and really got behind the project. It took about a year of part time work to get the old track usable enough to be the venue for of the birth of VMX on the Easter weekend of 1988. 
             
             
             
             

[HuskyPete]

Firko,
I think you have the slide the wrong way round. The husky has the pipe down the right side in the top photo and the bottom photo.

[firko]

Correctomundo Petey . I threw that deliberate mistake in to test you train spotters .
I'll repost it the right way around once I work out the colour saturation gizmo and have the time to do it.
The little boy watching us get shit out of Chris's Falcon is Bernie Ellis's son Dan who is now 30 and heads one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world, based in Singapore. Time flies!

[Slakewell]

Firko I waiting for some of your collection to roll out from your scanner

[firko]

Here's a couple more out takes from the 1986 Amaroo ADB shoot.
         
         

[firko]

The shots below are from mid 90s ADB photo shoots that for varying reasons never went to print. The blue bike #12 is this forums own 'Yamaico', most recently notable for doing a step by step build of his 465 Yamaha dirt tracker. This bike is his namesake, the legendary Yamaico, a '71 Maico fitted with a methanol burning MX250 Yamaha engine. This bike is a very fast and beautifully built special that still makes an occasional appearance. The other bike #45, is Mick Hockley's 350 Maico square barrel that has enjoyed a career as a motocrosser, dirt tracker and in recent years, a very capable road racer. Mick's still got the bike but rarely races her these days.
           
           
           
           
           
           

[firko]

Here are some unlabeled Nepean vintage dirt track shots from 1995. I can't remember who the riders are with the exception of Thomas Thompson on his Redline Triumph 750 (scanned backwards, sorry 'bout that! )
                   
                   
                   
                   

[Curly3]

The last shot is TH on his Elstar Jap.

[firko]

So it is Steve....I didn't recognise him actually going sideways! Any idea on the other slider guys?

[TT]

Hey Firko, promise not to laugh, but can you remember what lens you used for the second shot down? #17
You're obviously right on the edge of the track and that shot's just got a really good 'feel' to it.

*Disclaimer: I don't know all the technical stuff, I just judge photos by how they 'feel'. 

[firko]

Here are some random VMX shots from varying years. The first shot is of a very early pre 80 race at Ravenswood, the other of someone coming out of a hole at (I think) Tanunda and the other shot is Jonesy on Black Betty and Bernie Ellis on his Maico 490 drag racing at Barrabool at CD3
          
          
          
          

[Curly3]

Sorry Firko I can't help you with the others but 17 can obviously ride a bit, close to full lock & feet up.

[firko]

ey Firko, promise not to laugh, but can you remember what lens you used for the second shot down?

How can I not laugh when a photographer as good and well respected as you asks an old Box Brownie pilot like me what lens I was using at a club day 15 years ago . I'm honoured. I'd be pretty sure I would have been using my Canon EF 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 zoom. I used that lens for just about everything back then on either my Canon EOS 5 or EOS 650. I still use the same lens on my digi EOS 400D. It's bulletproof.

[TT]

That lens is excellent value, for sure! But it looked to me like that shot was taken with something shorter.
No matter either way, it's a great shot that really makes you feel like you were there. 
Keep 'em coming!

[firko]

Maybe it was the 35-80 1.4-5.6 Canon lens Tony....I really can't remember. I've now got a problem with the scanner software where every time I download some shots and then turn the scan program off, the computer won't recognise the device the next time I go to download. I then have to remove the program from my hard drive and go through the whole download from disc process again. It's getting very old, very quickly so until I work out whether the problem is me, the program or my computer (or all three of us) I'll be giving this little gizmo a miss.