Hello, Ever since one of my friends asked me to cruise around in his 46 ford coupe, I felt it was a cool hot rod. It was not fast, but a solid hot rod for a teenager. The stance was a lowered front end in a slight rake and that in itself, made the car look as if it meant business. But, the owner was not finished, yet. He had a local shop paint it a bright purple and that was the only purple car in the whole cruising area of So Cal. Then after he got the bright purple paint job, he asked if I would go with him to South of the border to get some white tuck and roll upholstery. He was given an address of one of the best installers in that Baja Mexico, city. So, we took off early in the morning to be able to drive right by the border entrance guards without any stopping or questions. We looked like a couple of teenagers just coming back from a San Diego party or concert. By the time the sun rose, we found the shop and the upholstery job started after some instructions. We walked to the beach and took a nap on our towels. Then got something to eat and walked around the town doing some shopping. Soon, we walked back to the shop and the white tuck and roll upholstery stuck out like a beacon as we approached the hot rod coupe. All the way back to Bixby Knolls sitting on the new white tuck and roll upholstery was so much fun. People that saw us waved and thought we were crazy driving a custom car on the highway. But, it was a daily driver to high school and after school job. A bright Purple 46 Ford coupe, chrome wheels, and a new all white tuck and roll upholstery, including the trunk made this hot rod, one for the books. Jnaki Being on the wrong end of photographs in their criticism form from finicky editors was an eye opener. They told me all of the rules for a good photograph, which starts out with a cool hot rod, but also a good background to make the hot rod stand out. So, in your good photograph, I changed some focus angles to get your car in front clear with the background not in focus. Or, take out the protruding jet tail altogether for a better composition in the photo. Note: In the old days, the process had to be done in the darkroom. With a few shaded moves here and there, a background could be shown almost like the photo above. But, in this day, our computers have a built in photo program that stores all of your photos and can adjust the photos for clarity if needed. On that note, a sad day in our photographic history. We relied on Kodak film from the time we barely could walk. Our dad was a fanatic to have an extra c***ette with new film for his large camera. But, when he was finished, he put in a new cartridge ready for the next round of photos. That part of history for our families continued to me buying tons of Kodak Film C***ette rolls to replace the finished 36 shot rolls, ready for the next round. Then developing them myself or if it was the Ektachrome color transparencies, the Kodak lab did all of the work. Multiply that times a million and it was a wave of transactions flowing into the coffers of Kodak. Well… times have changed. Recently, an article was published that Eastman Kodak is ready to call a time out and possibly file for bankruptcy. What??? One of the worlds biggest companies filing for bankruptcy? As it stands, one cannot live on developing prints alone. The film industry is doing less business and the consumer has switched to digital cameras, that require no film developing. So, no yellow cartridge rolls to send to the photo dealers to get developed. No millions of cartridges not being sent or processed is a good sign of going downhill. Now, the digital cameras and resulting process for prints or exchanging photos is as close as your phone. Thanks for the memories… YRMV Nice Hot Rod…
Thank you @jnaki I like the absence of the airplane! It was such a spur of the moment picture, I never thought I would share it, with the plane, the poor lighting and all the dirt! The purple car sounds like a fun hot rod!
Not my car, posted by fourd on the a’s on a frames, deserves to be here, hopefully it isn’t a repeat.
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