Re: Tori and friends

[Larry Colen]

Sometimes I’m slow.  I knew she named the ’38 Minx Benny, I just now realized 
that makes it Benny Hill-man.

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Re: Unusually big meteor shower tonight ?

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Images of the meteors:

https://www.space.com/tau-herculids-meteor-shower-2022-stargazers-photos

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On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:24 PM Igor PDML-StR  wrote:

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> Hi All,
>
> I've just heard on the news that they except one-in-life-time meteor
> shower tonight (US time), - with the peak between 12:45am (Tuesday) EDT
> and 1:something (30? 50?)am.
>
> They expect up to 1000 "shooting stars" per hour rate.
>
> I am surprised nobody has mentioned it here...
>
> I hope this message coudl be useful to someone
>
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Re: Tori and friends

[Larry Colen]

> On May 31, 2022, at 3:31 PM, jco...@iinet.net.au wrote:
> 
> The Gazelle, particularly the soft top version, has always been a very 
> good-looking car.
> Looking really good now, 

It particularly helps to accessorize it properly.



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RE: Tori and friends

[jcoyle]

The Gazelle, particularly the soft top version, has always been a very 
good-looking car.
Looking really good now, 


John in Brisbane



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From: Larry Colen  
Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2022 3:42 PM
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Subject: Tori and friends

You may remember that last summer a friend of mine bought a ’59 Singer Gazelle 
and I helped her getting running well enough to take it to a local British Car 
show, and then towed it down to her place in Watsonville. In the intervening 
time Tori has done a lot of work on the car, including body work (with a little 
help) and repainting (her first paint job).  The car isn’t likely to win the 
Concourse at Pebble Beach, but it’s still an impressive achievement.  Damned 
impressive in fact.

I was heading to a party about 20 minutes from her on Saturday and hadn’t seen 
the car for several months so I stopped by to get some photos of it.  She asked 
me to take it for a short drive, during which the cable for the column shifter 
came loose, so I manually moved it to have 3rd and 4th rather than 1st and 2nd, 
drove back, fixed it, and suggested that for the next round of photos she 
replace her gimme cap with some sort of scarf.  She went one better and put on 
a bit of a pinup costume.

The full sunlight was a bit of a challenge, but we did have some pretty clouds 
in the background.

For those that just want one photo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/52111568366/in/album-72177720299395937/

For those that want the full set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72177720299395937

You may note that some of the photos are not of a ’59 Gazelle, but of a ’38 
Minx.  The person that sold the Gazelle to ths car lot she bought it from is a 
bit of a Rootes group fanatic.  I had first heard of Doug when I was working 
with his brother Mike, about 20 years ago, and Mike mentioned that Doug had 
“Tigerized” a Hillman Husky.  An idea that had crossed my mind on more than one 
occasion when I was driving a girlfriend’s husky back in college.

Tori connected with Doug, a very handy resource because he had done a lot of 
mechanical restoration on Nigel (the Gazelle).  It turned out that Doug had a 
’38 Minx sitting around, but not the resources to fix it up, along with all of 
his other projects.  That is going to be Tori’s next project.  

For reference, the “before” photos of Nigel, when we were fixing it up at my 
house:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719893638527

And the day of the car show:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972549480

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June PUG - Last Call

[Brian W]

Hi all

I'll be closing submissions on Friday evening 3 June.

Theme: Open Gallery

As usual submit here:

http://pug.komkon.org/submit/

Full Submission Guidelines here:

http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html

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Re: Unusually big meteor shower tonight ?

[Daniel J. Matyola]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/science/meteor-shower-tau-herculids-tonight.html
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On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 1:59 AM Larry Colen  wrote:

> A couple of people on facebook have mentioned that the meteor shower,
> while not a storm, is worth checking out.
>
>
>
> > On May 30, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Larry Colen  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On May 30, 2022, at 8:24 PM, Igor PDML-StR  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I've just heard on the news that they except one-in-life-time meteor
> shower tonight (US time), - with the peak between 12:45am (Tuesday) EDT
> >> and 1:something (30? 50?)am.
> >>
> >> They expect up to 1000 "shooting stars" per hour rate.
> >
> > Tau Herculids, could be awesome or could fizzle.
> >
> > https://gizmodo.com/meteor-shower-tau-herculids-astronomy-1848993341
> >>
> >> I am surprised nobody has mentioned it here...
> >>
> >> I hope this message coudl be useful to someone
> >>
> >> Igor
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Re: Tori and friends

[Larry Colen]

> On May 30, 2022, at 11:05 PM, Alan C  wrote:
> 
> That's a very nice set, Larry, but I must say I was wondering about the real 
> subject!

The intent was indeed to get photos of Nigel, but it was fun the way the scope 
of the project increased.  

I’m quite happy with the way the photos turned out.


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Re: Tori and friends

[Alan C]

That's a very nice set, Larry, but I must say I was wondering about the 
real subject!


Alan C

On 31-May-22 07:42 AM, Larry Colen wrote:

You may remember that last summer a friend of mine bought a ’59 Singer Gazelle 
and I helped her getting running well enough to take it to a local British Car 
show, and then towed it down to her place in Watsonville. In the intervening 
time Tori has done a lot of work on the car, including body work (with a little 
help) and repainting (her first paint job).  The car isn’t likely to win the 
Concourse at Pebble Beach, but it’s still an impressive achievement.  Damned 
impressive in fact.

I was heading to a party about 20 minutes from her on Saturday and hadn’t seen 
the car for several months so I stopped by to get some photos of it.  She asked 
me to take it for a short drive, during which the cable for the column shifter 
came loose, so I manually moved it to have 3rd and 4th rather than 1st and 2nd, 
drove back, fixed it, and suggested that for the next round of photos she 
replace her gimme cap with some sort of scarf.  She went one better and put on 
a bit of a pinup costume.

The full sunlight was a bit of a challenge, but we did have some pretty clouds 
in the background.

For those that just want one photo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/52111568366/in/album-72177720299395937/

For those that want the full set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72177720299395937

You may note that some of the photos are not of a ’59 Gazelle, but of a ’38 
Minx.  The person that sold the Gazelle to ths car lot she bought it from is a 
bit of a Rootes group fanatic.  I had first heard of Doug when I was working 
with his brother Mike, about 20 years ago, and Mike mentioned that Doug had 
“Tigerized” a Hillman Husky.  An idea that had crossed my mind on more than one 
occasion when I was driving a girlfriend’s husky back in college.

Tori connected with Doug, a very handy resource because he had done a lot of 
mechanical restoration on Nigel (the Gazelle).  It turned out that Doug had a 
’38 Minx sitting around, but not the resources to fix it up, along with all of 
his other projects.  That is going to be Tori’s next project.

For reference, the “before” photos of Nigel, when we were fixing it up at my 
house:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719893638527

And the day of the car show:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972549480

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