Rob E.

Ya had to start that didn't ya? My collections are small or digital. Firstly, I have boxes of older bridal magazines (70's to 2000) that I've scanned and stuck on a Tumblr blog. So far I have 54,909 scans and another 98 magazines to go. The collection continues to grow, magazine by magazine. ( https://www.tumblr.com/blog/vintageweddingdresses ) My BIG collection involves vintage Jaguar sports cars. So far I have exactly one...but I will have owned it for 50 years come August of this year. The only part that could be called a 'collection' is the piles of spare and original parts scattered under the stairs, in the shed and tucked away around the house. Uploading Attachment...

I sympathize with you bontempi. I had a chance to visit our central negative library in Ottawa while I was still serving. They have old glass plates with photographer-made emulsion going back over a hundred years. The stuff from the war years takes up rooms! It was all being digitized (slowly) when I was there and they had to be careful with some of the old brittle negatives. The sizes where all over the place, especially the weird aerial film formats (the stuff I worked with was 9 1/2 inches wide and 400 feet long). Because of the freedom of information act, EVERYTHING has to be kept. That's resulted in photo folks not shooting like crazy. Everything has to be annotated too. That's why I'm sooooo anal about annotating and archiving anything I do for myself and the family. Negatives and prints will last a long time while digital gets lost and deleted. We learned early that CD's and DVD's don't last either. Believe it or not, tape...good old tape is still the king of longevity.

😲 gasp...horrified! You/they don't archive stuff?! I just found some pictures and a few newspaper clippings from my Mom's brief modelling career in Austria after the war. I'm scanning everything and will make a thread about her. She passed on (89 years) a few years ago and for me it's something of a tribute to a great lady. My sister and nieces will get a kick out of it. I'll be making copies on several computers and hard drives. THAT's archiving!

Gotta echo this. Every year gets better with this past one being especially productive for me, mostly thanks to you folks. Hope you all had great holidays! I spent the week with my grandkids and only had 100 kms of white-knuckling 🚗 on the way home. Once we broke out of the back woods and hit the Trans-Canada it was clear sailing. I cringed at what the salt spray was doing to my car but it kept the road ice free.

....and she's leaning on a Ferrari Testarossa, mid 80's. This first version sported the huge cheese grater on the side, actually the outlet for the radiator. In this shot we can assume she's drying her stockings on the warm air coming out.

What's interesting about Brit cars is that the export market had priority after the war in order to bring much needed cash into GB. They where easily available in North America, we had ready cash because our economy was in high gear, now making domestic products instead of war goods, and so we bought. There's lots of these great old cars still hiding in barns and garages, waiting to be discovered. I've helped a few friends recover some cars, the latest being an MGYT that was mostly rust. It was a four seat version of the TD and included a jacking system on each wheel. I have a story with pictures on our club's website if you're interested. My first car, a 1968 E-Type Jaguar I bought in 1976, is still in my garage waiting for spring.

It's almost certainly an MGTD, around 1951. I drove my buddies car once and it was positively medieval. The cowl is wood framed and moves slightly side to side over bumps, it's quite disconcerting. The brakes are drums all around and take planning when deciding where to stop. I found that there's little sensation of increased speed because it's soooooo windy at any speed. A few years ago a group of us went to a British car meet in Nova Scotia and took all the back roads until 100 kms or so before Windsor where we had to take the highway. We where all surprised that Joe and the -TD blasted along at 90KPH! It sounded like it was going to explode but survived well. I was impressed that he drove it at those speeds since I found it terrifying at anything over 60 KPH. Thanks for thinking of me and asking.

Oh frig.....now that you've put that picture in my head I will forever get the two mixed up from now on. 😬

Thanks! She's one of my faves.

My interest is in the ladies who modeled in catalogues back then, and I'm finding the occasional model who I recognize. It's so nice to be able to put a name to their pictures.

Seriously.....no really, there's an excellent forum that's been around for ages called the Vintage Erotica Forum. It's inhabited by mature gents with an interest in the model/actresses and their careers. It's not at all creepy or trashy. Many of the ladies have their own threads, much like here, and there's even a section for ladies who only modeled. This thread centers around the ladies who mostly appeared in the mail order catalogues from the golden age of print. For many of us mature gents, these catalogues where what piqued our interest in the models....and not in any prurient way.😉

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I've had decent success with asking the seller to forward a short message to the buyer who purchased a magazine I was interested in. I let them know I'm a fan of the old fashions and include a link to my blog. Ebait won't forward emails but it seems to have no problem with other links. The buyer of these books might be interested in knowing about us.

I buy vintage bridal magazines from Ebait and usually pay around 20 bucks US. Over the past couple of years prices are getting into 3 figures although they don't sell. Ebait eliminated listing fees a few years ago allowing short-sighted greedy so-n-so's to start fishing for outrageous prices. I've bought a few mags for around 20 bucks that someone has been asking say, 150 for, for a year or more. I like to send them a copy of the auction I just bought. It's another example of 'enshitification' that we're increasingly seeing. People and platforms get greedy which makes them stupid.