Was amused to find this photo- 1950 or ’51. I was totally queer for cars even then. I remember rolling my car into a sewer pipe and being unable to retrieve it. My first car mishap!
We’ve featured some of paulvaranasi’s Photoshop work on these pages over the years. I first met Paul B. when I moved back to Iowa City in 1971. Among other interests, we shared a passion for cars, but not quite in the usual sense. It was an aesthetic/artistic one, and with a quirky twist, as neither of us had actual cars at the time. Paul is an artist (among other things), and he opened my eyes to the possibilities of seeing and manipulating car images in ways that I had only seen under the influence of drugs or in dreams. In the pre-Photoshop era, that wasn’t quite so easy (scissors and glue) . And now that Paul has moved into the digital world, the results are a bit more convincing, and I’ll show you some of his recent work here.
Before we do that, here’s what he did back in 1972. I remember going to the GM dealerships in the fall of 1972, picking up these brochures with him, and being especially excited about the new Colonnades. We rushed home and started cutting and gluing.
Here’s a more recent meditation on a 1960 Cadillac station wagon.
A rather improved 1962 Plymouth.
1960 Buick LeSabre.
In two versions.
For more of Paul’s automotive imaginings, head to his site.
You know that a kid is a car nut when Mom and Dad allow him to hold his favorite auto in a nicely posed picture like this one. Cool!
There is a picture of me at age six or seven posing with one of my birthday gifts–a promotional model of a Volvo 240GL station wagon, in burgundy. I think it’s in one of my parents’ photo albums; I recall seeing it just a few years ago.
So… in other words… “Paulie Waulie doodles all the day”?
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I bow to you, sir. You’d get a job in a newspaper as a headline subeditor in no time.
I’ve always rather liked the 62 Plymouth – love this one and I think Exner would too.
I found in a pile of old car literature this piece which nails me as an old cut-and-paste guy. It proved quite difficult to get a usable photo – made me wish my scanner still worked.
Ah yes, the Plymouth Metropolitan! 🙂
Found this on a Dutch forum for US cars a long time ago.
It’s a Chevy running on gas.
With a flat six, no less.
…and transverse mounted.
This one needs some explanation, it’s from the same forum. HEMA is a Dutch discount retail chain, also well known for its “HEMA sausages”.
So here it is, the HEMA ‘Cuda:
I’ve seen that for real…
A bit nose heavy….low-fat sausages, out of the question of course.