Some of my earliest digitally-modified cars. The technique! Or
lack of it! These date to the 2005-07 era. Many were done in less than
an hour. I was participating nightly in Autoweek's Combustion Chamber,
an online forum. Someone would ask "what if" about a various cars and
sometimes I'd do a quick chop and post it as fast as I could. Still, I
like looking back at these.
International Harvester Travelall "Sedan Pickup." Behold my suicide door
4 door pickup with wraparound glass and an immense rear seat at the
expense of a very short pickup box. Answers a question no one has ever
asked. 2007-ish.
Exaggerated stab at a Toyota hybrid sedan, ca 2005-06. Interestingly,
spy shots of the next '14 Corolla have some similarities with this
futurist rendering.
Done in 2006 or 2007 this was my attempt to show GM that, yes, Saab's
DNA could be made to work with a crossover... Body modified from some
European GM crossover from back then.
This Wildcat was done just a few days after the first Enclave prototype
pics were released, 2006 or '07? It was to be a tall, AWD, Enclave based
sedan with a touch of Thirties Buick trunkback sedans in the rear.
I'm pretty sure this is Chop #1. It's an Escalade sedan. I was very
interested in seeing what a really tall, truck-based sedan would look
like. To me, the Escalade was a station wagon, and thus should have
sedan and coupe variants. I had used Photoshop professionally for my
book designs and production, color-correcting images, fading,
feathering, collages, etc, but had never tried to modify a photograph
into something entirely different. I think I might revisit this concept
with the newest Escalade one of these days.
A quick attempt to turn a European Ford concept car, the Iosis if I
remember correctly, into a domestic Lincoln sedan. I used the
then-current Lincoln grille cues in a larger/wider form. I still like
this front end. The rest of the car was pulled and made taller. I used
the tall, slim C-pillar windows that classic Town Cars sported.
2007-ish.
