Calendar 2023

[Stratos Fear]

Rather than have a last minute rush like last year I thought it might be useful to start the New Year Calandar task a bit earlier this year !

Therefore can I please have your submissions for next year's calendar. Preferably shots taken in the last year, file size minimum 5Mb - but not too large or it will involve a lot of technical jiggery pokery which I am not able to deal with.

Please send your photos to: cutlerpj@aol.com

Many thanks - and looking forward to seeing some great Stratos shots!

Peter C

[renmure]

Great timing.
I got a great one of mine at the weekend showing how well they hold the road under heavy braking.
I'll send over the high res version later.

https://i.imgur.com/cwek6mf.jpg

[Stratos Fear]

- so long as you didnt hit it !

I was expecting to hear from you Jim - so let's see what you've got ! I've promised Norm that it wont be 13 shots of the Scottish flyer but could manage one or possibly 2 !

Peter

[Normb666]

Scottish flyer?? Isn't that what Wee Burney sticks through the door asking you to vote for her? :)

[renmure]

Ah, I'm not sure if any of my snapshots are up to the level required.
I'm gonna have a go at some light painting this week and see how that goes.

[Neil63]

Peter sent a few over.
Great afternoon whilst trying to take something a bit different. The number of people that were out enjoying the countryside that just stopped for a chat. The young lad, apparently car mad was with his grandad who remembered the Stratos. The horse riders were amazing and posed for quite a few Horsepower v Horsepower shots.
Unfortunately reversed into Debs car on the drive whilst turning round. 1-0 to the LB. Lower rear arch scuffed, polished out. Merc nice crease in lower valance. Me doghouse as usual.
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[Longtimefan]

Neil, didn't you remember that it is wider at the rear!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have got a quilt in the Dog House, it is getting quite chilly at night these days.

[Normb666]

Tell you what Neil, your gaff looks well impressive. Then again, you coulda just spent all your dosh on the fence and gates :)

[Stratos Fear]

Just got back from a few days away and am still looking for photos for the calendar. I 've had some useful contributions so far - for which I thank the contributors - but still need some more. So please send through your best Stratos photos from this year. my e;mail is cutlerpj@aol.com.

Many thanks

P

[sdebez]

I have just been on the Girardo website, there is a great photo taken recently of four stratos in the Alps. I didn't know how it would lay as regards permission posting it here.

I'm sure they would be approachable, if not that image. Perhaps others?

[sdebez]

https://girardo.com/features/happiness-is-a-history-steeped-lancia-stratos-group-iv-on-the-serpentines-of-st-moritz
This is the story of the picture if anyone wishes to read it.

[Stratos Fear]

Thanks - I'll check it out.

P

[Stratos Fear]

More photos of your cars please - you must have some good shots taken on the various runs / garage days / shows etc attended this year - please select the best and send them to me if you would like a whole month of focus in the 2023 calendar !

Thanks

Peter
cutlerpj@aol.com

[hollytree]

Hi
I went out into the garden today. Washed the car and then dried it with chamois, washed the wheels and then it started to rain.
Give me a day or two please for sun.
It's grim up north
Steve

[hollytree]

Peter
I have emailed some different screen snips to you in low res.
Please chose the style you like and then I can mail the high res version.
NB taken with a proper old school camera, not my phone
Steve

[Stratos Fear]

Thanks Steve - I'll get back to you shortly.
P

[Stratos Fear]

I have been assembling the photos for the calendar and this year we have an opportunity to put 2 or even 3 photos per month. I'd like to keep them of the same car in any one month - so all you proud owners please send more photos . I need to fill another 6 months .

I already have some good shots from Steve (Hollytree), Neil , John Griffin and Jim Crosby but now need more . How about one from Norm (I need a good yellow shot - especially with blue wheels ) , Leigh (ditto a good bright green shot) and anyone else who got a car registered in the last year - but all club member car shots welcome.

One last effort please guys - preferably all Club cars ! (high resolution images - 5Mb file size or thereabouts and not thumbnails)

Many thanks everyone
Peter
cutlerpj@aol.com

[Stratos Fear]

I still have 3 spaces left in the calendar to fill - come on guys - one last push to dig out those pictures please.

If you dont want a calendar full of all the latest Lister Bell cars please feel free to let me have your photos of other makes which we know are also available - well alright Hawk mainly - but it would be good to see some of the excellent older cars that I know we have in the club . A car shot plus maybe a couple of detail shots say of the engine bay or interior as well as a profile (main) shot would be good. We can use up to 3 photos per month - one bigger shot plus two smaller of the same car.

PLEASE - and ASAP

many thanks

Peter

[john]

I have a lot of older photos Peter but sadly nothing approaching 5mb. What is the smallest file size you can use?

[Stratos Fear]

Hi John - I've just loaded some at around 1.7Mb and they seem to work ok. The calendar software is a bit more sophisticated than it was a few years back so I think it may be more tolerant now of smaller file sizes. Let's give it a try !

[Normb666]

John, it's car pics that Peter wants, not old ones of your holidays and 21st birthday, etc. ;)

[john]

Well my 21st party photos are on sepia.....

[Guy Mayers]

Thant's okay John, Norm's are oil on canvas....

[Stratos Fear]

Only one month left to fill in the calendar ! Hurry up John - or anyone else - or I'll lose the printing discount which ends today !!

[renmure]

I have a spare 9,732 pics of one if you get stuck.

Happy to photoshop them yellow so it looks like Norms or make them out of focus so it looks like a Hawk. (Joke!!)

:D

[Stratos Fear]

Thanks Jim - hopefully no photoshopping needed now as I've completed the line up for the calendar. I dont know why it is but I seem to get very few new or newish Hawk owners submitting photos - it seems the LB builders are more sociable among the recent builds - or is that too controversial a statement? - although of course we have some solid and active members who built their cars a few years ago - he said, (trying not to alienate or annoy the stalwart Hawk owners.)

Jim why not a special Alitalia Rally Car Jim Crosby Special Edition to use up some of those 9,732 images - at your expense of course!

[Normb666]

Thant's okay John, Norm's are oil on canvas....

How did you know???

There's the special one that stays in the loft that no-one gets to see, of course. Seems to have really deteriorated over the years too.... oo-ee-oo!

[renmure]

Jim why not a special Alitalia Rally Car Jim Crosby Special Edition to use up some of those 9,732 images - at your expense of course!

Available at all good bookstores and gift shops....

20298

[Stratos Fear]

I want one !

[Ilmor]

Please put me down for a couple of calendars for 2023 whenever they are ready.

[hollytree]

Can I have 5 please
Regards
Steve

[Normb666]

Chaps, sorry about this, but we may have to restrict the number of copies we send to members. Reason is that last year, we ordered 100 and ended up with quite a few left over, so this year we ordered 50 (it was either 50 or 100, couldn't have 75). So, once we've set up the ordering/payment stuff, we'll let y'all know along with how many per person at that stage (probably one, to start with). If, after a decent period has elapsed, there are still some left, it'll be first come first served. And if demand is there, we might be able to order another 50.
Anyhow, we'll let you know when, how many and what to do shortly....

-Spoilsport Norm

[Iowstratos]

Hi
I would like one please.
Ian

[Normb666]

OK, calendar update: price will be ?14 plus ?2 P&P, worldwide. It's looking like you'll pay Peter Cutler (Stratos Fear on here) by PayPal, as he curated it, got them printed and holds the stock. However, he's away for a few days right now, so you'll be able to order when he's back - we'll start a completely new thread for this with full instructions. Don't fret, it won't be long.... ;)

[renmure]

Don't fret, it won't be long.... ;)

Are we there yet?

[Ken Tomblin]

1x Calendar please

Regards Ken

[Basher]

1X calendar for me as well Peter
thanks

[Griff]

One for me as well please

[Rotor1]

One for me as well please
Hi Peter,
Would it be possible for me to have one (1) calendar?

[Stratos Fear]

OK Henry - send me your ?16 via PayPal (send to @2023Calendar492 ) and your address by PM and I will send out a calendar.

What progress on your Hawk ? you've been quiet on the Forum for a while !

Peter

[Rotor1]

Hi Peter, thanks. That I will do. I’m afraid that there hasn’t been much progress during the past year. Decisions, still haven’t fully made up my mind on a power unit; plus time has been a little short. Hopefully next year there will be some physical action.

[hedge]

May I please have one?

Thanks,
Hedge

[Stratos Fear]

Hi Andrew - yes I have 3 left so you are welcome to buy one of them. I think you know the routine - pay ?16 to PayPal - address @2023Calendar492 - and PM me your address details.

Thanks

Any takers for the last 2 ?

[hedge]

Hi Andrew - yes I have 3 left so you are welcome to buy one of them. I think you know the routine - pay ?16 to PayPal - address @2023Calendar492 - and PM me your address details Payment & PM sent.
Thanks,
Hedge

[Rotor1]

Hi Peter, thanks. That I will do. I’m afraid that there hasn’t been much progress during the past year. Decisions, still haven’t fully made up my mind on a power unit; plus time has been a little short. Hopefully next year there will be some physical action.
Payment sent. Thanks again! Merry Xmas!

[Stratos Fear]

Thanks Henry - payment received - calendar will be on its way straight after Christmas.
Seasons greetings to you and family
Peter

[Revs]

Any left? If so I'll nab it.

[Stratos Fear]

Hi Richard - you're lucky - you can have the last one !

PayPal - send ?16 to @2023Calendar492
Please ensure that you send it under the category "Family and Friends" so we dont get the 76p commission fee deducted - and please PM me with your address details (Or enter it as text in the PayPal payment)

Thanks

Peter

[Revs]

Hi Richard - you're lucky - you can have the last one !

PayPal - send ?16 to @2023Calendar492
Please ensure that you send it under the category "Family and Friends" so we dont get the 76p commission fee deducted - and please PM me with your address details (Or enter it as text in the PayPal payment)

Thanks

Peter

Awesome, after your saying there were only 2 left above thought I might have been out of luck. Money sent, address in PP comment.

It can go next to the Emily Blunt calendar. Not sure which is the most distracting, does that mean I'm getting old? :D

[AndyGuyton]

Awesome, after your saying there were only 2 left above thought I might have been out of luck. Money sent, address in PP comment.

It can go next to the Emily Blunt calendar. Not sure which is the most distracting, does that mean I'm getting old? :D

Loving the Stratos as I do, there's not one on the planet that can 'hold a candle' to the wonderful Emily Blunt! :o

[renmure]

Loving the Stratos as I do, there's not one on the planet that can 'hold a candle' to the wonderful Emily Blunt! :o

I'd only known her in Edge of Tomorrow.
Hadn't realised she was a thing.
Must get out more I guess :)

[Normb666]

Well Andy, I suggest you try getting Our Em to take you a coupla hundred miles to a car do, then stand in a field to be ogled and photographed by old men, some of whom will ask if they can see "under the bonnet", while you wander round looking at cars and bikes. Or even get her to take you to a nice pub or restaurant, and again she can hang around in the car park till you return, half-cut, to be taken home.... she won't be like a Strat - just fire up on demand and get you back to your gaff. Bet she'd make more noise about it though. :) :)

[Revs]

I'd only known her in Edge of Tomorrow.
Hadn't realised she was a thing.
Must get out more I guess :)

Edge of Tomorrow was the first time I really noticed her, but she's been in a lot of films now. Heck, she made Mary Poppins look hot, which takes some doing :D



Well Andy, I suggest you try getting Our Em to take you a coupla hundred miles to a car do, then stand in a field to be ogled and photographed by old men, some of whom will ask if they can see "under the bonnet", while you wander round looking at cars and bikes. Or even get her to take you to a nice pub or restaurant, and again she can hang around in the car park till you return, half-cut, to be taken home.... she won't be like a Strat - just fire up on demand and get you back to your gaff. Bet she'd make more noise about it though. :) :)

lol, that's probably not far off an average red carpet day in Hollywood.

[Stratos Fear]

Just to revert to the subject in hand (sorry Emily ) - last calendar posted - should be with you shortly.

[Normb666]

Well Pete, that was a bit Blunt. :)

[AndyGuyton]

Well Pete, that was a bit Blunt. :)

She's obviously got a bit of staying power... Maybe the SEC should adopt her as an unofficial mascot?

Wonder if we can get her in a Stratos for next years calendar?

Great job this year Peter. Good that they all sold.

[john]

She was brilliant in "The English". In fact she's brilliant in everything....

[Revs]

She's obviously got a bit of staying power... Maybe the SEC should adopt her as an unofficial mascot?

Wonder if we can get her in a Stratos for next years calendar?

Great job this year Peter. Good that they all sold.

Had there been some left, the club could have sent her a calendar with a note saying that as we seem to be turning into the Emily Blunt Enthusiast Club, would she like her picture taken in one of our cars for the next calendar :D

[Rotor1]

Hi Peter, thanks. That I will do. I?m afraid that there hasn?t been much progress during the past year. Decisions, still haven?t fully made up my mind on a power unit; plus time has been a little short. Hopefully next year there will be some physical action.
Hi Peter,
I received my calendar today! Thanks again.