Since I was a baby, I’ve been around classic cars.  In fact, my first outing in my baby book that my mom kept was to a car show.  My dad has always owned classic cars, Fords to be exact.  I remember being around 3 years old and going with my dad to pick up a 1957 T-Bird he had purchased, which he still owns to this day.  Right now, he’s working on a Hot Rod.  I took a few pictures for him the other day and have finally had time to start working on them.  I wanted to try something a little different and did one of the photos with textures.  I kind of like the effect.

Although, I think this car would look good even photographed in a walmart parking lot with a point and shoot!  I did shoot this at f/13 because the light was hitting the car in two places and I wanted the sunburts to show up (on the door and the headlight)…so I was able to add a depth of field blur in photoshop so that not every single thing was in focus around the car, so it just pops out at you.

I do like the hot rod, but my favorite car of his is the 1966 Hertz Shelby (also known as ‘rent-a-racer’, in the 60’s you could actually rent these cars from Hertz.  Recently Hertz did come out with a newer version, but c’mon…nothing is like the original!).  How can you not love this muscle car?

And, one year for Christmas we were able to find an autographed glove box door for my dad’s car, autographed by the man himself, Carroll Shelby.

Then…one year, just for a weekend we rented the NEW Hertz Shelby for him. Of course, we did have to take a side by side shot of the two cars together…

Ahhh…muscle cars…..they don’t make them like they used to!