{"id":8995,"date":"2011-04-28T07:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2011-04-28T07:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:57:03","slug":"1960s-sprint-speciale-photographs-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2011\/04\/28\/1960s-sprint-speciale-photographs-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"1960&#039;s Sprint Speciale photographs in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John sent me this note along with these great scans of period slides:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These were taken by my father, John E. Grabowski, during his first tour of duty in Germany as a young officer in the U.S. Army. Timeframe would have been somewhere between 1965 and 1968 I believe. He was stationed in Manheim at the time. I scanned these from my late father&#8217;s old color slides. The only thing I know is that the Alfa belonged to a friend of my father&#8217;s, and that one of my father&#8217;s hobbies was photography (and he always loved sports cars).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0082.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13\" title=\"My beautiful picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0082.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0083.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12\" title=\"My beautiful picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0083.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0084.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11\" title=\"My beautiful picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0084.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/ss1-reversed.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15\" title=\"My beautiful picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/ss1-reversed.jpg?w=239&#038;resize=239%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Plate reads T-62801. Any readers recognize this car? There were not very many silver ones<\/strong> <strong>made either&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0080.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9\" title=\"My beautiful picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0080.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0081.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8\" title=\"My beautiful picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0081.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0077.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7\" title=\"My beautiful picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sprintspeciale.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/pict0077.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThanks John!<br \/>\nIf anyone else has period images of 750\/101 Alfa&#8217;s and don&#8217;t mind sharing, I&#8217;d love to hear from you and do a post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John sent me this note along with these great scans of period slides: &#8220;These were taken by my father, John E. Grabowski, during his first tour of duty in Germany as a young officer in the U.S. Army. Timeframe would have been somewhere between 1965 and 1968 I believe. He was stationed in Manheim at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2011\/04\/28\/1960s-sprint-speciale-photographs-in-germany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1960&#039;s Sprint Speciale photographs in Germany&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[103,157,169],"class_list":["post-8995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-pictures","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-photography","tag-sprint-speciale"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}