Today’s Post by Joe Farace
Oldsmobiles were first manufactured by the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in Lansing, Michigan, a company that was founded in 1897 by Ransom E. Olds. In 1901, the company produced 635 cars, making it the first high-volume gasoline-powered automobile manufacturer. Oldsmobile became the top-selling car company in the United States for a few years around 1903–1904. Ransom Olds left the company in 1904 because of a dispute with sales manager Frederick Smith, who was questioning production techniques and wanted Mr. Olds to certify that each car that left the plant was free from defects. Mr. Olds then formed the REO Motor Car Company, which went on to have it’s own soap opera story that worth a future blog post.
How I Made this Shot: I photographed this Oldsmobile while testing the Canon EOS Rebel T3i (for the former print edition of Shutterbug) with Tamron’s Zoom Super Wide Angle SP 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF) lens (at 11mm) at the annual classic car show in Castle Rock, Colorado. Exposure was 1/1250 sec at f/8 and ISO 200
The 9th Annual Classic Rock Cruise‐In Car Show will be held Saturday, June 18, 2022, on the Saturday before Fathers Day. The show is organized and produced by a partnership of the Vintage Car Club and the Castle Rock Downtown Merchants Association and transforms historic downtown Castle Rock into a showplace for all kinds of cool cars, hot rods and trucks. The main streets are closed for the day so that more that 270 entries can be displayed by their proud owners and admired by thousands of spectators.
Please join May and I who will be having an informal Castle Rock Photowalk. Details will be posted in an upcoming blog post. And it’s free.
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