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Monday, August 10, 2009

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #1 Golf Mk1 rally car (again)


Golf Mk1 rally car CT 1979_582
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Drum roll, please. My all-time most popular image on the Flickr servers (as rated by viewer numbers) is... oh dear. The same time, same place, same deal as number 2. Yep, it's that rally car - a VW Golf - again. It's on the roof of a shopping centre in Sydney's suburbs, in 1979. It's not exactly my favourite pic, but it draws a lot of visitors. Go figure.

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posted by gtveloce @ 4:51 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #2 Golf Mk1 rally car 1979


Golf Mk1 rally car CT 1979_583
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

This is getting embarrasing and a bit bizarre. Here's a shot I took of a rally car in 1979 - on top of a shopping centre, no less, and it's my all-time number 2 at Flickr. Funny what people are interested in. (Yeah, OK, I was interested enough to be there and take the pic at the time, but I don't search for similar photos now!)

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posted by gtveloce @ 4:49 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #3 Giulietta rear transmission


Giulietta rear transmission_536
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

OK, so number 3 is really the same as number 5, but with a different body. It's the rear transaxle of an '80s model Alfa Romeo. Technically interesting - but it's just a scan of the Alfa Romeo brochure... why is it number 3?

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posted by gtveloce @ 4:48 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #4 Under an Alfa GTV


GTV_a006
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Of course looking under a 1982 model Alfa Romeo GTV would rate 4th on my list of hottest Flickr pics. Of course it would. Hmmm. Well it's a bit unusual in that there's a deDion tube, a rear-mounted transaxle and inboard disc brakes... you don't see that sort of stuff these days. But 4th overall?

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posted by gtveloce @ 4:45 PM 

Friday, August 07, 2009

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #5 Alfa Giulietta Oran Pk '82


Alfa Giulietta 2 Oran Pk 82
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Well it's an action shot, and a bit fuzzy. It's a road car - again that darned Alfa - pretending to be a racer... and it's at a track that's destined to close RSN (in 2009). Is that what has driven this shot to Number 5?

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posted by gtveloce @ 6:16 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #6 3TTT seatpost failure


3TTT seatpost failure_0432
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

This one I understand - imagine if you were sitting on that saddle when it broke! Well I don't have to imagine it... I was on it!

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posted by gtveloce @ 5:37 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #7 Viscount Sebring-1978


Viscount-Sebring-RR-CT-1978
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

I have no idea why this figures so highly. Is it the bike? The location (Sydney Airport)? The year (1978)?

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posted by gtveloce @ 5:34 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #8 - Alfa Giulietta


Alfa Giulietta 2 81
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

It's that Alfa again. Another pic, with a nice lens flare. Does that make it better? Or would it attract attention anyway?

posted by gtveloce @ 5:33 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #9 Golf Mk1 rally car - 1979


Golf Mk1 rally car CT 1979_579
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

Another car, German this time and slightly older. It's a rally car, too. Is it popular because of that? Is there more to it? The age? It's 1979 after all.

posted by gtveloce @ 5:31 PM 

My Flickr Most Popular Top 10 - #10 Giulietta styling


Giulietta styling_530
Originally uploaded by gtveloce

It's a scan, from a brochure - so why would it rate so highly? Because it's a car? An Italian car? Is that it?

posted by gtveloce @ 5:30 PM 

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