The new 1973 GM A-Bodies were pretty inspiring, none more so than the Olds versions. A friend and I went straight to the Olds dealer in Iowa City, loaded up on brochures, got out scissors and glue, and went to work. Yes, this is how photo-chopping was done in the old days; hence the expression cut and paste.
My friend was the more creative and ambitious one, so I give him credit in lieu of any signatures on them. But just the fact that I still have any of them is what is remarkable, given how the early seventies were a series of endless road trips and couch surfing “homes” for me. Why do you think I really agreed to do CCCCC: a chance to trot out some old treasures. The Cutlass Supreme coupe was not spared either. Now if I could just find the time to learn the real Photo-Shop. Or was this more fun?
Cut and Paste, More fun with scissors, more decieving with Photoshop.;D
I visit this site as a diversion from workaday life but I feel compelled to mention something that happened at a meeting today. There was a project team photo taken over a month ago where a) some people on the project couldn’t attend the photo session or b) were assigned to the project after the photo was taken. They were photoshoppoed into the pic after the fact — the digital editing was good, but I wonder if the exercise is a degrading embellishment of the real-time experience.
Now… if the missing folks would have been cut out from other out of context pictures and pasted in recklessly with Elmer’s School glue like a bad ransom note — I’d probably be down with that!
And that trunk would have held 60 cubic feet of luggage. Though personally I always wondered what they would have looked like as Convertibles.
This is the closest they ever came, removable roof and rear window.
Johnny Lightning made a convertible in 1/64 scale, I had one, along with a large Olds and Buick diecast collection-sold off in my “minimalist” days.
Being an American car from that era, the trunk more likely would have had a maximum capacity of a bucket of KFC, along with a rear seat the size of a Yugo’s glovebox. That’s the price of style, baby!
Take another look at the picture…
You could sublet that trunk to minimalist hitchhikers as a sleeping compartment.
Now I know why you did that longest useless overhang contest in TTAC, Paul.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/10/longest-front-overhang-ever-can-you-top-it-your-submissions-here