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I’ve got some photos from last Sunday left when, after attending a record-CD-DVD-computer-whatever sale in Ingolstadt, I did a little photo tour through the Klenzepark.
As usual also available as Flickr slideshow…
At least a part of the music world certainly is in a state of shock today after Michael Jackson’s death yesterday (no, I’m not really including myself in this part)… I personally liked his music in Thriller and Bad times to some extent, but that’s not what this is about – neither is his, erm, partially eccentric, insane and dubious lifestyle especially in later years –, but instead it’s about Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury, for they were actually friends for some time and recorded a few songs together – which, however, were never released this way, since that friendship ended when Michael got so successfull with Thriller, and as far as I remember, different ways of life also mattered…
Anyway, there is a quite nice demo version of “State Of Shock” (still-image video) as duet by Freddie and Michael which the latter later recorded and released with Mick Jagger, and a demo of the Queen/Freddie song1 “There Must Be More To Life Than This”, which, however, isn’t that great in this duet version, hence here also the link to the final Freddie version; Jackson wasn’t that great on ballads anyway, now was he? I wasn’t able to find the third song that is said to exist, “Victory”.
Brian May wrote on his blog-like “Soapbox” a few words about Jackson, if anyone’s interested.
And I only picked 44 photos – the Donau Classic Oldtimer-Rallye 2009 in Ingolstadt and the surrounding area featured 190 cars from 1928 to 19841. On Saturday afternoon, they had to drive a small round course in Pfaffenhofen’s city center, including my street. I concentrated mostly on the older cars for my photos because I think they are more interesting than those from the 70s and 80s.
In this post I’m only showing a selection of the selection; all 44 photos are available on Flickr, e.g. as set overview and as slideshow.
(The cars’ specifications are taken from the official start list.)
The oldest one, a Bentley 4,5 ltr. open from 1928:
Alvis Speed 20 (1935):
BMW 600 “Rennsemmel” (=”Racing bread-roll”) (1959):
Riley TT spezial (1936):
Hudson Big Six Sedan (1935):
Josef Kulzer Fiat Kulzer Spezial (1940):
Horch 930 V Cabrio (1939):
This “Pi” looks funny, but the start list is wrong here, since this silver Porsche certainly is no black-red Ferrari:
DKW F 89 L (1953) – not much beer left…:
MG A 1500 MK I (1959) – The almost drove straight ahead without going their rounds… [Insert joke about blondes.]
Fiat 500 (1973):
Front: Jaguar XK 120 SE OTS (1953), back: Triumph TR 4A / IRS (1967):
That’s the end of this selection of a selection – as I said, there’s more on Flickr: set overview, slideshow.
The next topic of Projekt 52…
Topic 25: 100 meters away from home
Measured with Google Earth, this somewhat picturesque little tower on the local Hotel Müllerbräu is exactly1 100 meters from my front door – directly at Pfaffenhofen’s Hauptplatz (main square). The freshly renovated town hall is also worth a look (but a few meters further away):
It was illuminated in blue and yellow on its re-inauguration celebration, see hier.
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