This is the middle of the long weekend and I've only just returned from viewing the 2006 Steamworks Concours d'Elegance in Vancouver. As usual, it was an eclectic collection of vehicles from the birth of the automobile through the decades, including imports, customs, muscle cars, and vintage motorcycles. During the next few days I'll be uploading photos of potential class winners, but as always at this event I was stymied by the photographic conditions. Aside from the usual spectators walking into the shot, a photographer must deal with awkward lighting in the narrow street and shadows caused by the trees lining Vancouver's historic Gastown district. Which made this beautiful 1953 Fiat 8V seem almost ghost-like. Appropriate, perhaps, as it was as much an experiment as a production car. The first Fiat with all-independent suspension, its 1996 c.c. V-8 engine delivered 105 hp.