Once was a time when budding automotive designers assembled vast collections of brochures and other car photos, cut them up and gave the cars their own individual touches. Photoshop and other digital photo manipulation tools have made the process much less labor intensive, but the creativity’s still there, as we see from the photochops we’ve been digging on HarborIndiana’s Flickr stream. Not as wild as the retro-Sovietpunk renderings by 600V – in fact, far more subtle in some cases, and more often than not involving town car conversions on latter-day luxury four-doors – they’re still total flights of fancy that would take plenty of work to pull off in real life. For example, the sliced and diced Imperial above, cut down and turned into a two-seater, but with far less stubby proportions than Murray Pfaff’s Imperial Speedster.
Here’s what we mean by subtle – a four-door Continental Mark II. Could FoMoCo have built it? Probably? Should FoMoCo have built it? Up for debate. Did FoMoCo build it? Nope.
If something doesn’t quite look right with this Eldorado, and you can’t quite put your finger on it, then HarborIndiana’s done a good job. Answer: He shrank it down to roughly the proportions of a Camaro, with the Camaro’s long-hood, short-deck profile.
Okay, this one’s not subtle at all, but we dig it anyway: the Firebird III concept car with a hearse roofline appended to its twin bubbletop canopies. Because nothing says experimental gas turbine drivetrain like landau bars.