C H O P — If one vent is cool, six must be AWESOME! If a 'bent' C pillar is edgy, bent and creased glass tapering to a boattail must be REALLY AWESOME, lol. This chop is one of my tongue-in-cheek photoshopped creations. I took a few over-the-top features of the then-new Nissan GTR and made them so over-the-top they came back around again and started over. One thing I was trying to 'learn' with this chop was to simulate glass with creases in it, so I was successful at that lesson anyway. But true to history, right after I posted this at the AWCC* in 2006, a virtual riot ensued. Oh for the good ol' days!
*Autoweek Combustion Chamber, a Wild West of an internet forum if I ever saw one. It was unbelievably raucous, rude, riotous and notorious, but it's also where I got my start in chopping cars. They had a section for chops, and it had never even occurred to me before I stared posting there to use my photoshop experience to re-create existing cars, so for that I will be forever indebted to it. Loyal Casey/Artandcolour reader, Paul, also is an AWCC alumnus.
CHOP, CHOP, CHOP AWAY GUYS.
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OK, what does it say about me that I think this car is "cute" (in a funky sorta way???) hmmmm :) You totally can tell I don't "get it"...I know that about myself and am quite ok with it! :)
ReplyDeleteOK, what does it say about me that I think this car is "cute" (in a funky sorta way???) hmmmm :) You totally can tell I don't "get it"...I know that about myself and am quite ok with it! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm all for making the GTR more audacious. When I first saw one out in the wild, it was a bit disappointing - rather tame for its reputation.
ReplyDeleteI'll go OT if I may. I'm getting weary of enormous bulging fenders and collagen-injected wheel arches. Ludicrous on an econo-box or small crossover. Today's tail fins.
Pardon the interruption. I'm done.
You can like it Mare, lol! even when I chop my 'tongue-in-cheek' cars, I would never post them if I didn't like them too!
ReplyDeleteagreed about the fender bulges on inappropriate cars. The new Nissan Juke is one example! the car is all fender bulges!
The Juke is exactly the car I was thinking about. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI promise not to get crotchety about wheel arches again. I just had to get the Juke out of my system.
LOL, be as crotchety as you wish! i set the rules here and crotchety is totally acceptable. : )
ReplyDeleteYou know, I cracked up at your comment about them being "so over the top...." It's very similiar to a line I use frequently - I'm so far to the left that I'm almost right. It really describes a lot more than just my political viewpoints - LOL!
ReplyDeleteThere are numerous elements I like on this chop, notable the "bent" glass and the use of a boattail design for the rear hatch. I love the old boattail classics - 63 Vette and the 71 Riviera - and rumor has it the new 2012-13 Vette is bringing back the boattail once again. Your always on the cutting edge Casey !