(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The Duke Energy Center might be a good place for conventions and gatherings, but upstairs might be the worst place I’ve ever tried to take photos of cars. The carpet and ceiling treatments really dork up most colors and generally mottle everything. Doing some color-correction onsite sort of helped, but not much. I’ve long decided to not do color-correction to my photos before sending them in to Bangshift. I do what I can up front, crop, resize, and I’m done. We take too many photos to do individual adjustments to so many. I still do one-off stuff when people request it.
Anyway… the cars upstairs are no slouches and we’d be slackers if we didn’t head up there to capture them. Since I am Malibu-biased here is a 70s-tastic yellow ’65 with Cragars, the back jacked up high to clear the extra-wide tires, and all the other right stuff to make the scene cruising main street. Little bit from that one was a gorgeous 421 tri-power, burgundy Catalina. Those do not grow on trees. The ‘Heavy Chevy’ ’70 Chevelle has been in the same family since new and I can remember seeing it on the pages of PHR and Super Chevy back in the day. It’s a milder version of its former self these days, but is every bit one great muscle car. Didn’t expect to see it and at first didn’t realize it was indeed THE car. The ‘blue’ Challenger we caught in a side-shot with the door open – is really purple. Finally…I’d never seen a red GT350H. I had read some existed, but never had the opportunity to see one. I kinda like it. Most special-edition cars typically come only in one or two paint schemes and that’s it. Seeing something different is refreshing.
Thanks for following along. More show stuff coming soon.
