Lovely rendering from the Olympus OM 100 2.8. What car?

[glasslover]

Hi!

I've been really liking the Olympus OM 100 2.8 recently. It's small and light, handles nicely, has good color rendition and absolutely seamless focal drop-off. Here's a shot I took sometime this week. I did a little bit of color-related post-processing to it, then resizing. But no cropping.

Extra credit: what car (make, model, year) is pictured here?



Cheers!

[Lightshow]

Looks like a mid 60's Vette rag-top to me.

[woodrim]

Right, '63 to '67, but not enough showing for me to narrow down further.

[glasslover]

Here's another photo, same car. Straight out of the camera, no post-processing other than resizing for this web site:


Olympus OM-D E-M5 // Olympus OM 100 2.8 // ISO 200 f5.6 1/250s

[elliott]

Still could be anywhere between '63 and '67, they didn't change the tail lights at all, which is kinda odd for Chevy back then.

[NewStuff]

I'll concur.

Regardless of the year, I want it... stunning cars. I would love to put a honking great twin-turbo V8 in there.

I don't think my wallet would like the Bill for that though, or the bill to run it.

[Lightshow]

427, injected, & 6 speed would do it for me.
I can smell the rubber burning now.

[tromboads]

come on guys. the high rear arches give it away. Money on a 67ish Stingray

I'd have an e-type, Toyota 2000GT, or if i wanted a rocket ship car.. mazda cosmo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Cosmo before i got a string way tho

[woodrim]

Seems it could be anything between '63 and '67, but I will guess '64. Later cars were more likely to have one of the lights as a clear lens for back up light, but not always. '67 had back up lights elsewhere, so could be that too. Just too difficult to tell. Here's a tidbit of trivia for you... '63-'67 were Sting Ray; '69 and after were Stingray; and '68 was neither.

[woodrim]

[Farside]

Hah, during the mid-70s oil crisis, it looked like big-engined cars in the UK were dinosaurs and plenty were being sold for peanuts.
I actually turned down a nice solid E-type for £150, and a year later a very clean Jensen Interceptor for £400 (that needed an autobox build, which I was capable of doing).

Ah, if only I'd seen into the crystal ball.

[WolverineX]

[glasslover]

Hi!

Here are the only other photos I have of this car. It sounds like they may not be enough to fully identify it.

Straight out of the camera, no post-processing other than resizing for this web site:


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Cheers!

[woodrim]

Tail lights of American cars often had the year on them, but I cannot read what is on those lights and if they're replacement lights, may not have the date.