If you can't find a wallpaper from any of these..

Duke · 4 Jan 2013 at 19:29

..then your doing something wrong

Gallery - http://f1-history.deviantart.com/gallery/

Found the link at reddit, a couple of thousand F1 photos from 1950-1999

Guerrilla · 4 Jan 2013 at 20:05

Some amazing pictures there, only had a little look through too!

Thanks for the link

... I now have an airborne Hesketh as my desktop wallpaper

JRS · 4 Jan 2013 at 22:25

There's a shot somewhere in there of the Arrows A2 'Buzzbomb' car - think it was Patrese driving? Anyway, it's such a great photo because it represents one of the few times since the '70s that a team really tried something waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay outside of the norm. Alright, so it sucked. But it looked good, and they tried hard, and that should count for something!

Generally, the only time anyone sees that car now is when the infamous battle between René Arnoux and Gilles Villeneuve at Dijon-Prenois in '79 gets replayed on TV - you can see the A2 in the foreground as Arnoux and Villeneuve come over the line to start another lap of trying to decide who has the largest trouser-department....

Anonymous_0172 · 5 Jan 2013 at 02:53

I shall now search for an FW14B

Housey · 5 Jan 2013 at 09:54

Superb, a great find and currently adding them all to my 545357437349889435794837894375894389437894375789 Gig collection

JRS · 5 Jan 2013 at 22:35

LOL, I was pottering around the pages and spotted one that looked a little odd:

http://f1-history.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=264#/d5pgwkc

Pretty sure that one's a combination of Grand Prix Legends, the 1969 mod, and Photoshop

this_is_gav · 5 Jan 2013 at 22:58

JRS said:
LOL, I was pottering around the pages and spotted one that looked a little odd:

http://f1-history.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=264#/d5pgwkc

Pretty sure that one's a combination of Grand Prix Legends, the 1969 mod, and Photoshop

Oh damn you. I either saw that or the photo it was inspired from earlier and it didn't strike me as anything untoward... now I look and all I can see is GPL. Not helped by the resolution being an exact desktop size.

DirtyRaver · 6 Jan 2013 at 23:16

I love the old liveries from the 90's, the benettons, Jordans 7up 191, Rothmans williams, multicoloured Larrousse, aah.

JRS · 6 Jan 2013 at 23:22

DirtyRaver said:
Jordans 7up 191

One of the best looking cars of the period.

DiCe! · 7 Jan 2013 at 12:28

I think it was a Jordan that had a snakeskin style look to it, liked that car a lot!

Skeeter · 7 Jan 2013 at 12:42

DiCe! said:
I think it was a Jordan that had a snakeskin style look to it, liked that car a lot!

Hissing Sid!

Jordan had a number of mascots that were featured on the nose of its yellow B&H cars for a few years. There was a shark, a snake and a hornet that I remember.

The_Abyss · 8 Jan 2013 at 00:46

The creative agency we now employ designed one of those Jordan liveries - bitten and hisses - the snake. Proper old school, but even then there was huge emphasis on the weight of paint for the car and other considerations.

Housey · 10 Jan 2013 at 22:02

JRS said:
One of the best looking cars of the period.

Agreed, glorious looking thing.