Chris Hornbecker photography work

When you’re a self-taught person, there’s no one standing over your shoulder telling you what you can or can’t do. The impossible becomes possible. Spurred by my curiosity to see what can happen, I take on challenges like shooting 368 people in 6 days.
Looking back, I see that my photography has evolved through a series of challenging practices, one driving the other. From skateboarding, snowboarding and dj’ing, where I learned about timing, flexibility, and trusting my instincts, to sewing where I used my design and visual skills, all have influenced one another and, ultimately, affected the way I shoot.
One day, when a friend asked me to assist him, my focus became clear: I started photo assisting fulltime. I worked hard for seven years to help other photographers look good. Then I struck out on my own.
Now I’m driven by the challenge of capturing my imagination in the frame, pulling out the honesty in every subject, bringing what I can see in my own head into a moment in real time."

Currently, he don't have finished custom gallery website yet, but he is working on it if you want you can take a look at their personal work on his website: Chris Hornbecker Photographer

 

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DUCATI ST2 CUSTOM BY RADICAL DUCATI

I’ve made this comparison before, but Radical Ducati is to motorcycles what Skunk Works is to aircraft. The Spanish garage has been taking stock Ducatis and turning them into two wheeled missiles for years now and as such they’ve earned a deserved reputation as the single greatest custom Ducati garage in the world.

This bike started life as a stock Ducati ST2, the ST2 was built between ’97 and ’03 and had a 944cc L-twin cylinder engine, a 6 speed transmission, a tubular trellis frame and a weight of 212kgs. This heavily customised version of the ST2 looks like a totally different animal, the original bike was a sport tourer but this Radical Ducati version is a track based monster capable of teaching even new, production bikes a few tricks around the track.

The sheer number of custom, hand made elements on this bike is mesmerising. If you’d like a list of mods and to see some more pictures of the bike, click the link here to visit Radical Ducati.

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CAFE RACER BY GOINGS MOTO

Chad Goings, owner of Goings Moto, recently set out on his own after doing an internship at Radical Ducati in Madrid. From a cafe racer perspective, an internship at Radical is the exact equivalent of a budding aircraft engineer doing an internship at Skunk Works – The intern in question is going to learn some incredible things and may or may not get a chance to pass the sound barrier.

This bike is Chad’s first foray into building cafe racers with his own two hands, he’s gone for a minimalist approach which we always love and he’s chosen to build a Honda CB550 – which is easily one of the most “cafe-able” vintage motorcycles in the world.

The bike arrived in the workshop with a pre-fitted Benjies Cafe Racer tank and seat, Chad decided to keep them in place and develop the bike around them – he added a custom, curved sub-frame and an eye-catching alternator cover that has been CNC milled to bear the CG logo.

After rebuilding the engine thoroughly he set about reducing unsprung weight, this led to the rear drum cover getting drilled and any remaining elements of the bike that weren’t utterly essential were tossed. The finished bike is a case-study in 21st century cafe racers – it’s clean, quick, minimalist and has the look of a motorcycle that’ll never go out of style.

Visit Goings Moto here to stay up to date with Chad’s future builds.

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Alfa Romeo TZ1: The 'baby GTO'

Yes, ‘baby GTO’ and ‘little jewel’ are epithets often given to Alfa Romeo’s 1,570cc GT car of the early 60s. Just over 110 were built and, like its big brother from Maranello, it became a dominant force on the race track. It also looked fabulous.

The TZ (‘T’ for its tubulare chassis, ‘Z’ for Zagato) superseded the already successful SZ series of customer racing Alfas. It was, though, a very different car. 

Despite being revealed in its final form at the 1963 Geneva Show, the car had been under development since the late 1950s. Early prototypes included a roadster with hard-top and a coupé that was similar to the final version, yet carried rectangular lights. 



The engine was Alfa Romeo’s trusted 1,570cc, four-cylinder DOHC unit from the Giulia, slightly canted-over in its installation to lower the bonnet line. The familiar TZ power-bulge covers one cam cover. With twin Weber carbs, a twin-plug head and tuning by such specialists as Virgilio Conrero, the little motor pushed out 160bhp. A 5-speed gearbox was standard. 

Zagato produced the body and interior trimmings, and the car was assembled by Carlo Chiti’s Auto-Delta (later ‘Autodelta’) organisation for Alfa Romeo. Chiti, the generously proportioned engineer who had masterminded the ‘shark-nose’ F1 cars for Ferrari, had left the Maranello company in 1961. 

Its hand-beaten, streamlined aluminium bodywork, coupled with a tubular frame weighing just 62kg, meant that despite its modest engine size a TZ was a very fast car. (As an aside, the last three TZ1s built had glassfibre bodywork by Balzaretti and Modigliani of Milan – a saving of 25kg.) 


The little cars soon saw action on the track. In October 1963 TZs finished first to fourth at Monza — their debut — and for the next few years the 1300–1600cc class at Le Mans, the Nürburgring, the Tour de France Automobile and the Targa Florio was usually a TZ benefit. It was a useful rally car as well as a successful racer. 

Famous drivers to have won in TZs include Lorenzo Bandini, Giancarlo Baghetti, Consalvo Sanesi and Roberto Bussinello. Nowadays, the cars are highly prized in historic racing, being eligible for the Le Mans Classic and the modern Tour Auto, as well as occasional invitations to race at the Goodwood Revival. 



The TZ1 you see here was built in March 1965 and, in period, spent most of its racing life in France. Now available from Classic Driver dealer William I’Anson, the impeccably prepared racing car has a thoroughly researched history and has also made the odd concours appearance at events such as the 2011 Salon Privé. 

Finally, you will see references to ‘TZ’ and ‘TZ1’ – what’s all that about? In October 1964 Elio Zagato presented a new version, the ‘TZ2’. In doing so, earlier TZs should now be referred to as 'TZ1's. The TZ2 was an even more desirable car – that we will tell you about another day. 

Related Links For further details on this car for sale, please visit the Classic Driver Marketplace You can also see other cars from William I'Anson in the Classic Driver Marketplace And for more of Tim Scott's fantastic classic motor racing photos, visit www.fluidimages.co.uk

Text: Steve Wakefield (ClassicDriver)
Photos: William I'Anson Ltd / Tim Scott