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Photo or Photoshop?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008A friend sent me this picture. His caption: “dumbest car ever?”
I’ve seen in the sheetmetal the late-model Jeep Wagoneer-based Jerrari Bill Harrah built and which is on display in Reno. This ain’t it. My first reaction to this vehicle was that it was a Photoshop job–blurry around the edges, “tire smoke” rising up by the wheel-wells providing some blur to the nose/body joint line….
Some net hunting will yield an answer for you, but without or before doing that, what are folks’ first impressions? From your 21st Century experiences, does this look like a real photo or a cut-and-paste hoax?
3 Responses to "Photo or Photoshop?"
There is no question in my mind. This car is on fire. Run away!
First impression: Owner subscribed to Popular Mechanics in the 60’s
5 seconds later: Easy to “photoshop” in B&W
I thought for sure it was fake. The fake stuff circulated on the ‘net, like the crane sequence (from the UK, I think) involving successive cranes falling into the harbor, looked just like this with blurred lines and fakey looking smoke.
The car has its bona fides, though. Here’s an article showing it: http://wagoneers.com/FSJ/rigs/Jerrari-1/Jerrari-print2.pdf
Maybe the photo was doctored–or at least the tire smoke. In this lo-res photo, come on, holding whisps of cotton behind the tires would look that realistic.
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MotorMouth Kris Palmer, freelance auto writer and editor, blogs about vintage cars, the collectible auto scene and just about anything else that goes vroom.
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