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Four-Links – Google travels the Mille Miglia, the missing “Dirty Mary, Crazy...
* Google’s done some cool car-related things with Google Street View, and as reader John Burtner showed us recently, one of their Street View cars apparently followed along with the 2009 Mille Miglia....
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What would the Bugatti Veyron have looked like if Volkswagen designed it in 1945? Who would ask such a question? Polish photochopper rc82, that’s who, and the end result doesn’t look all that bad. (via)
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L’Universelle, is that you?
Well, no, it isn’t, but it’s a fun photochop of what might have been if Buick had ever built a cabover in the spirit of the GM L’Universelle concept van. Thing is, it’s been floating around the...
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Thunderperial, Eldomaro, and more – American mishmash photochopping
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...
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From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – Sixties Sextoauto, Thunderbird Town...
We recently spotted a new batch of imaginative photochops from HarborIndiana over on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool worth pointing out, some of them a little more grounded, some of them not so much....
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From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool –“Accent the mass, don’t hide it”
If there’s a car made that HarborIndiana can’t photochop into a town car, he hasn’t seen it. Yet while he makes sure every car can be chauffeur driven, as we’ve seen in a couple previous looks at his...
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Four-Links – fake collector cars, slammed brochure cars, Opel’s calendar...
Photo by Craig Howell. * The Detroit News this week turned its spotlight on the prevalence of fakes in the collector car hobby and the rea$on$ why they’re becoming increasingly common. * We’ve linked...
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Packards, the long and short of them
As we’ve seen previously, Andy, a.k.a. “HarborIndiana,” has a thing for photochopping Packards that might have been, and his most recent three are some of the most compelling yet. Two of them go along...
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The ghost of Milton O. Reeves would be pleased
While the cab-forward photochops keep rolling in and keep showing some inventive ideas, we’re off in search of new photochop phrontiers, and Phil at PhilAreGo came through the other day with the above...
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Short hood, looooooong deck: Extreme cab-forward imaginings
Much like the COE van photochop renderings we came across earlier this year, these two Deora-like car-based COEs popped up without an artist’s signature attached to them and have made the rounds over...
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From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – Avantipede, Dodge Sierra pullman, and...
Of course, the reason I posted that eight-wheeled 1977 Cadillac Eldorado the other day was because we’ve been having so much fun envisioning mutant versions of familiar collector cars, and the chief...
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Four-Links – Goldenrod, Tatra driving impressions, alternentals, AMT
* The most amazing thing about the Goldenrod streamliner isn’t that it set the engine-driven land-speed record at more than 409 MPH and held it for a quarter century. It isn’t (necessarily) the...
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The winter of our wildest dreams: Expressions in photochopperiness returns!
The dreary cold and snowbound winter months around here lead to what some call cabin fever, what others call stir-craziness. I argue instead that they just lead to enhanced creativity while we pass...
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