Hi!
I shot a car this morning for a magazine article. It's an extremely rare
'66 Plymouth Belvedere HP2. This was the car that Chrysler built to
convince NASCAR that the hemi was a production engine. It was a very
basic car with vinyl bench seats and very little trim. Only a couple
thousand were built with the HP2 designation. Very few are left. This
one has 4000 original miles on the clock. It was raced in the sixties,
then stored in a climate controlled warehouse for thirty years. A few
years ago it was restored to its original color and returned to exact
factory delivered specs. It's valued at over $100,000. I believe it was
about $4000 new.
I shot this pan with the K85/1.8 at 1/30th and f11 with a polarizer.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3428842&size=lg
Those across-the-pond people never cease to surprise me :-)... I am
young, too young, so I'll have to ask - at the time when these cars were
produced - was it like a WOW car or was it like a regular car?
Thanks for the story and the shot... The motion tracking thing is
something I never tried... By the way, in Israel we have 7 digit license
plates... In 1980 there was a transition from 6 digits to 7. Last week I
saw a Chevrolet truck with 3 (three!!!) digit plate actually driving
around our town... Though the truck had modern alloy wheels...
Perhaps I should collect some images of older cars here and post them...
Hopefully some folks will be at least mildly amused :-).
Boris
