Thanks Ken. The Chi-Town guys were getting help from Dodge until me mid seventies. But when that ran dry, they briefly went to a Mustang II body. That body worked fairly well in terms of generating good downforce. One of the cars I wrenched in the mid seventies, "Chicago Patrol" was a Mustang II as well. The Hutstler team went back to Dodge bodies when this car was put to rest, probably around 1978 or so. Paul
On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Ken Waller wrote: > Great capture Paul! > > I didn't/don't follow drag racing that closely so I was somewhat surprised to > see its sort of a Mustang - I thought it would be a Chrysler variant. > > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> > Subject: The way-back machine: 25 years ago > > >> Twenty-five years ago, I had an idea. I had been shooting cars for Super >> Stock Magazine for a year or two. The Chi-Town Hustler crew had just built a >> new funny car, and I was going to shoot it for the mag. While I would shoot >> plenty of pics in a safe and nicely lit parking lot, I wanted to try to get >> one pic with the Chicago skyline in the background. And I wanted the engine >> running and flames coming out of the editors. Well, I talked the guys into >> dragging the car down to the peninsula on which the Chicago Planetarium is >> built, and unloaded it on the sidewalk. Unfortunately, I had forgotten about >> the streetlights, and had no idea what color temp they were. (Turns out they >> were close to fluorescent green, only greener.) I brought my two strobes and >> plenty of wiring. I had a fairly powerful Honeywell potato masher, and I set >> that up to light the side of the car. I used a small Rollei flash and >> mounted it closer to illuminate the front of the car. I shot Ektachrome 120 >> in a Mamiyaflex C2, and bracketed from f11 at 1/30th, all the way to f4 at >> 1/15th. (Didn't own a flash meter at the time.) Well, I pretty much >> overestimated the power of those flashes outside at night, and the only good >> exposures were at f4. But the green cast from the street lights was awful at >> the longer exposures, and shorter exposures were underexposed. So my best >> shots were almost decent exposures but lacking DOF and way too green. In >> those days, they couldn't be fixed. >> >> This morning I had a go at fixing one of them in PhotoShop. Unfortunately, >> my scanner sucks (a flatbed Epson 3200), so the shot that was probably soft >> to begin with is softer yet. But I did fix the color and exposure. It's now >> almost what I had in mind a quarter century ago. The Chi-Town guys will get >> a kick out of it. >> >> BTW, Pat Minick, who is sitting in the car in the pic, offered to shoot out >> the street lights with his sidearm that night. I declined, figuring I needed >> the light, even if it was green. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12827153&size=lg >> >> Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
