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Home > Articles > Ragazine Rack > Digital Sketchpad
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Anyone that’s seen a movie recently is familiar with the results of computerized special effects, whether you’ve been aware of it or not. This latest technical wrinkle is merely electronic image manipulation on a digital level. A lot of us have dabbled in some form of image manipulation over the years, whether it’s clipping out photos or pictures from newspapers and cutting them up to fabricate something different than originally intended, or making those modifications with the help of some software program. The urge to create a visual illusion is nearly universal.
Following that irresistible urge, we will from time to time be taking liberties with our automotive photo reference and presenting our digital manipulations here. Sometimes quick and playful, other times more detailed and serious. The items that will occupy this page will share a common lineage with those fabrications snipped from magazines and newspapers and pasted together years ago. So sit back and virtually enjoy the ride. We may show the original image for comparison, or we may not if it will spoil the fun. One way or the other, you’ll get the idea, so let’s begin our digital trip. |
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| 300 mph Tomahawk -- Not too many "macho machines" have made as big a splash as this piece of suicidal fantasy. A dream crotch-rocket for those of us that need this kind of ultimate prosthesis, Chrysler’s Tomahawk puts no less than 500 horsepower between your legs and dares God to take it all the way to redline in high gear. (And it’s not sacrilegious to suggest that you might have to be superhuman to hang on to the handlebars at a projected 300 mph, by the way!) That’s the point of the design illustrated here. Top Fuel Motorcycle drag racers have lost their lives trying to keep their hands on the handlebars at 220 or 230 mph. You can imagine what it would be like at 300, without a streamlined bodyshell. |
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| Chevy Monte CarLowz -- Since this was a concept car to begin with, it’s not any real ground-breaker as a creative original effort. In fact, if you were able to cross a Lamborghini with a NASCAR Monte Carlo, this is pretty close to what you’d get. But the bonus factor is that the hammered version looks a bit like a custom ElCamino with this way full-on application of the now famous "cab-forward look". |
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| Concorde Coupe -- Ever since this particular Chrysler made it to production, it’s needed a coupe as its marketplace companion. Honda makes a good-looking coupe version of their most popular sedan. Why can’t we see some good-looking coupes come out of Detroit for a change? Not that they would be this good looking. Detroit won’t tolerate severely chopped tops, and lowered cars are verboten. But, hey, drop that new Hemi in a cab forward design like this, and it might grab some production sedan records at the Bonneville Salt Flats. |
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| Concorde GT -- Here's yet another road to travel. Yea, Mopar has all but abandoned their cab forward look in favor of "the box with a chop", but, we still dig this car's Ferrari like front end. In fact, it always did seem more worthy of something just a bit more sporty than simply hanging off the front of a family 4-door sedan. Here we show it in an extreme cab forward configuration, with its Hemi power mounted amidships, ready to give even the Ford GT a road race for its money. |
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