Carspotting: Artistic License And An X-ACTO Knife Cut A Couple Down To Size
Decades before graphics software empowered digital manipulation by magazine art directors, Car Craft‘s crafty Al Isaacs resized and combined two photographic prints to create an unreal scene — literally. “Car is only 16″ long,” explained Car Craft‘s October 1962 contents page of the 1/8th-scale Big T model. “Don [Evans, the editor] and Sharon were shrunk for photo.”… The post Carspotting: Artistic License And An X-ACTO Knife Cut A Couple Down To Size appeared first on The Online Automotive Marketplace.
Decades before graphics software empowered digital manipulation by magazine art directors, Car Craft‘s crafty Al Isaacs resized and combined two photographic prints to create an unreal scene — literally. “Car is only 16″ long,” explained Car Craft‘s October 1962 contents page of the 1/8th-scale Big T model. “Don [Evans, the editor] and Sharon were shrunk for photo.” Big T’s size was unprecedented for plastic kits. So was its $10.98 price, more than seven times the going rate for 1:25 models (equivalent to $100-plus now). Big sales and big profits motivated Monogram to commission Big T’s designer, customizer Darryl Starbird, to create the first full-sized, running hot rod based on a scale model. Following a national show tour, it was given away as a sweepstakes prize — and vanished. Starbird went on to build two clones, keeping one for his museum. The only known survivor of the trio belongs to Wayne Jesel.
Date: 1962
Photographer: Bud Lang, Car Craft Associate Editor
Location: Don Evans’s driveway; Los Angeles, California
Source: Wallace Family Archive
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