Aha, so my instincts were correct.
What motor was used in the vehicle pictured?
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: The way-back machine: 25 years ago
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
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