Classics on The Moor 2025 (B&W)

November 9, 2025 fishyfisharcade1 Comment

As happens most years, I went into town on the day of the annual Classics on the Moor car show in Sheffield city centre. I took my Yashica Mat 124G with me and shot a couple of rolls of film, one black and white, the other colour. Here are the black and white images.

The same owners and cars are often present at the event, so some of these cars will have undoubtedly featured on the blog before. The little Fiat 500 certainly has.

Yashicamat 124G & Fujifilm Acros. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 17 August 2025

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Aw, ain’t it cute

November 24, 2024 fishyfisharcade3 Comments

Fiat 500’s were manufactured from 1957 to 1975, although the would return with a new model under the same name in 2007.

The one in today’s picture is from 1972, although I’m unsure as to which model it is in the range (probably an “L” or “R”).

Fujica GW690 & Kodak Plus-X (expired 2008 and shot at 100asa). Adox Rodinal 1+50 13mins @ 20°.

Taken on 18 August 2024

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Parking for Italians

October 4, 2021 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

The owner of this little Fiat 500 has added a few humerous signs to their vehicle.

The car and the “Parking for Italians only” sign remind me of the time my wife and I (well, it was still before we were married back then) visited Rimini on the Adriatic coast of Italy. It would have been the best part of three decades ago now, which seems incredible!

Anyway, one of the things I noticed when there was the number of cars with dents, scrapes, and prangs of one sort or another. It seemd not a sigle car remained unscathed, like they’d been used as bumper-cars.

So the “Parking for Italians” sign conjures an image of some driver nonchalantly ramming his car into a space at the side of the road, shunting aside other vehicles in order to fit.

I can’t say I noticed many damaged cars when I visited Sorrento a few years ago, so maybe it was just the drivers in Rimini.

This tiny Fiat
Has escaped the scrapes and dings
Witnessed in Rimini

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°

Taken on 4 September 2021