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Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.
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Foreign Car Show in 1957

Posted Friday, September 10, 2010, at 7:30 AM

A crowd estimated as high as from 3500 to 4000 persons visited the exhibit of foreign-make cars held Oct. 13, 1957 on the parking lot at the Childs supermarket on west Broadway in Cape Girardeau. Many were from a distance, including points in Illinois and Kentucky. There were 30 of the cars shown, all by local dealers with the exception of two. (Photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

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  • not a t top... gullwing

    -- Posted by racer3694 on Fri, Sep 10, 2010, at 10:07 AM

  • Check out that Yugo in the background...

    -- Posted by bobby62914 on Fri, Sep 10, 2010, at 11:58 AM

  • Here's an MGA from that era that came to a bad end.

    http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/broadway/colonial-restaurant-crash/

    -- Posted by ksteinhoff on Fri, Sep 10, 2010, at 2:20 PM

  • Just have to guess that a foreign car show in 1957 went over like a turd in a punch bowl.

    Good grief, where are the tail fins? :-)~

    -- Posted by fxpwt on Fri, Sep 10, 2010, at 7:40 PM

  • Rick, That gullwing Mercedes Benz is an SL series in 1956. Last year or so they reintroduced the Gullwing which you would like. Expect to Pony up around $200,000 with some of the extra bells and whistles.

    -- Posted by voyager on Fri, Sep 10, 2010, at 11:10 PM

  • Neat picture! I have a Triumph TR3 (like the white convertible in front), an MG TD and other Triumphs and have been a "sports car nut" for many years. Of course I'd love to have a Gullwing even if they were hard to get in and out of (very high door sills). Oh yeah, all the little Hillman staion wagons are cute, too.

    -- Posted by CAREFREEBEV on Thu, Sep 16, 2010, at 11:32 AM

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