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ebook launch: One in A Thousand

May 1, 2012 by Gary Grant Leave a Comment

 

We’re always on the lookout for a great read, and one that includes a bit of Canadian racing history is always at the top of our list. Long time Canadian racer, Ian Coristine has just release this story called One in a Thousand. Rather than publishing in book format, Coristine has chose to publish as an ebook, meaning that readers can enjoy the photographer’s spectacular images in high resolution. From the publisher:

It is a memoir, written by Ian Coristine, with novelist Donnas Walsh Inglehart. Coristine raced formula cars in the late 60s and early 70s in Canada and his story relates the challenges of chasing a racing career at that time, with a significant number of images from the era. Later, he became a pilot, discovering the 1000 Islands on a random flight in 1992, then spent the next 17 years photographing it, mostly low from above in his Challenger ultralight. This memoir shares many of his unlikely adventures along the way and includes a massive amount of material (images, video, audio, narration and music) which will immerse you in the story and the spectacular 1000 Islands in ways not possible before.

 

You can learn more about it as well as enjoy two videos by exploring the One in a Thousand home page.

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Let the voting begin

October 28, 2010 by Gary Grant 1 Comment

This vote has been a long time coming. When I first announced our first photo contest, I had no idea I would have such a tough time finding a voting method that I was happy with. My apologies to all of you who submitted photos!

To everyone else, please take a few minutes and have a look through the gallery and then vote for your fave. One lucky photographer will win a year’s subscription to Flickr. Just to make it worth your while, we’ll add in something extra for the voters. Leave a comment on this post. We will randomly select one of the commenters to receive a swag bag full of automotive goodies.
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We’re having a photo contest!

June 8, 2010 by Gary Grant Leave a Comment

We know a lot of our readers have been bitten by the photography bug, so we thought that a bit of a contest might be a great idea now that summer is in full swing.

Just visit the Photo Contest page to submit your pics and vote on submissions.

Oh yeah, you might want to know what the winner receives. We’re going to give the winner a free Flickr Pro account for 1 year. That and the prestige that comes with being the winner of our first ever contest!

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V like Vintage: An amazing collection of photos taken before 1970

February 25, 2009 by Gary Grant 4 Comments

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Regular readers know that I’m a sucker for great photography, even more so when it captures great moments in automotive history. While catching up on friend of The Garage, Philip Powell over at Classical Drives I was beyond excited to find his review of V like Vintage. This wonderful site is a social network for photography buffs much like Flickr but with a difference. The site is open to photos taken before 1970 and the focus seems to be on things that move us like planes, boats, cars and of course you can’t forget about the vintage Pin Up girls.

Rather than just showing the old pro images that we’ve all seen before, the work of amateurs is strongly encouraged, meaning that we get to see photos through the eyes of regular people. At this point, there is a strong presence of German history, from family portraits to the Nurburgring. There are shots taken from a German Mineboat and incredible sidecar racing images. Watch the new photos page and you’ll see the images from around the world are rapidly appearing.

V like Vintage might be destined to become one of the most historically significant social networks on the web.

The photo above of Graham Hill was taken at Zandvoort in 1970 and was taken by Werner Horn.

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Cool new galleries in The Garage

February 8, 2009 by Gary Grant Leave a Comment

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that we have a new system in place to manage our images. The NextGen WordPress plugin allows us to bring you photo galleries that open up in a cool slideshow. Just click on an image and then click the forward arrow to see the next image in all it’s large size glory. Click on the image again and the slideshow closes, bringing you right back to the post. It will be some time before we can load all of our old galleries into the new system, but you can be sure that all our new posts will have easy to navigate pictures! Check it out below.

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The Garage on Flickr: Lotus

April 23, 2008 by Gary Grant Leave a Comment

Once again, there are just so many incredible images in The Garage Blog Flickr pool, that I can’t make up my mind. Rather than a photo of the week, I think I’m just going to share them randomly.

This incredible shot of a Lotus in the fog was taken by Roberto Blank. I just love the contrast of the yellow machine with the grandstand lurking in the fog behind it.

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If you’ve got your own great shots to share, be sure to join us on Flickr

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A little pre Xmas excitement: Rally 2008 calendar arrives in The Garage

November 27, 2007 by Gary Grant Leave a Comment

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Yippeee! My 2008 Rally Calendar just arrived courtesy of Andrew Harvey! What a calendar it is too, with gravel, snow tarmac and more. As if time doesn’t go fast enough, now I have a reason for the months to fly by.

You can get your own by visiting AndrewHarvey.ca Just be sure to duck when those bits of flying gravel jump off the page!

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New York Times puts 5 grand up for grabs for your collectible car photos

September 27, 2007 by Gary Grant Leave a Comment

One of the side effects of blogging is my growing obsession with photography. Whether this is a positive or negative side effect is up for debate within the family, but I have managed to get a bunch of great car shots over the past 6 months.

Fellow Canadian car blogger Phillip Powell is a regular reader of the New York Times and he’s alerted the online world to the NYT’s new contest. They are offering up $5,000 for the best photo of a collector car as a way to get interest in their new Share & View photo gallery. Hmmm…the times is trying to get into the social networking world. That’s ok, it’s a cool opportunity to share some photos and maybe win 5 large! Submissions are open until October 25th.

Oh yes…The Garage will be submitting photos.

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Random images from the Toronto Grand Prix

July 15, 2007 by Gary Grant 1 Comment

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I’ve been having so much fun with the great shots my new camera has provided, that I’ve forgotten the other half of the team! You see, I’ve just the writing hack with a new toy camera. The brains of the operation belong to techie guru Jaimie Macpherson, who is also the guy who makes things looks so slick around here. Jaimie has also been practicing at this photography thing a lot longer than I have and has far more serious equipment to make things happen.

So follow the break to see some killer images from the 2007 Steelback Grand Prix.
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Challenger concept making the rounds

May 15, 2006 by Gary Grant Leave a Comment

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First, Autoblog reported that the Challenger concept had appeared in Orange County and posted links to some pics. On Saturday Morning, the car cruised into the weekly Crystal Cove Auto Show on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. The folks over at Chrysler really seem gung ho to get the public hyped with public glimpses of this real driver. Thanks to Drew Phillips Photography for these pics.

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