This photo should have a full blue car but part has turned white and some writing on the rear quarter it should say Service Body Works and then under that Broadway which was a street in Fresno......above the rear wheel it also has writing but you only see faint areas of letters......also on the door I cannot completely make it out either. Can one of you photo restorers help.
Are you sure that wasn't an intentional fade in the paint, because the rear wheel is undamaged, the 2 boys in front are way too washed out
if you lok it almost looks like it was printed off a printer as it was running out of ink...feed in first from the left side and you can see streaks of blue towards the rear....
Bad *** car! I wish I could help Royal but I'm Ducking Fumb when it comes to this stuff. But I'll give you a bump.
New here, but one thing I know is photo restoration (graphic designer) I will do my best with it. My only disclaimer is that it is difficult to create pixel data from nothing. There may be really light image traces I can use and I might be able to use the other photo to generate something similar. I'm happy to work on people's in exchange for the answers to all my forth-coming questions. Give me a couple of days to work on it between trying to get my new (old) truck to start.
The word on the door closest to the guy's head is Jack and surname looks like Fowler? but I won't bet anything on it, but the first letter (partially covered by his head) looks to be an F and comparing the pixels of the last three letters "ler" look to be the same repeated letter forms from "Walker" above. There is also text in the middle that I can't make out. It is most likely not a name because it is written in a different text from the other 2 names.
here's mine. I couldn't bring the 2 guys up front out... unlike on TV you can't make things appear that are to small to be seen in the actual picture.
If this is scanned from an actual photo that you have possession of, would help to have a higher res. scans with a couple at different contrast/color adjust settings to help recover some extra data. I am no photoshop expert myself, but more pixels/in and different settings = more info to work with.
Funny thing nobody knows where it is....the closest I got is the guy in the top left corner was the welding teacher at Clovis High School and built a Studebaker car for bonneville that had an Ardun engine....he still has it.
Check out the sign too, "Live It Up With The Lively Ones From Ford'. I wonder what ever happened to the car. Maybe the HAMB Detectives can give us the rest of the story on it.
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