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Friday Slide Show: 1968 Mustang
27 November 2020
We are pushing our luck today by featuring a red car on the day of the Big Game between Leland Stanford Junior University and the University of California at Berkeley. The Junior University leads the series that dates back to 1892 but Cal holds The Axe after winning last year.
The game will be played in an empty Memorial Stadium at Berkeley by two teams that have yet to win a game this season. Stanford has played better, getting off to an earlier start, but both teams have suffered from the pandemic rules.
The Big Game has always been played on a Saturday, a tradition now in its third century. Which would not have conflicted with our plan to flash these photos of a gorgeous 1968 Mustang before you today for our Friday slide show.
Fortunately, Exposure X6 came to the rescue. But you'll have to watch the slide show to see what it did.
We can show you how it did it, though. We used the new Color Editor to make things right. See if you can figure it out:
The only catch was that these shots were taken nearly at sunset (although noon feels like sunset this time of year). So there was a distinctly yellow cast to some of these shots.
We left that in our color edit because to a Golden Bear yellow is just another name for gold.
No matter how you paint it, though, this is a beautiful car. So shiny, you can see the photographer wielding his custom flat automobile camera in the polished paint.
What you can't see (and which is a little unusual for a vintage auto) is the car seat in the back seat. Which is about all that fits in the back seat of a 1968 Ford Mustang.
We liked that. After all the money that went into the restoration, the kid is probably destined for Berkely rather than Stanford. And by then the Big Game will be played on Saturday again before 100,000 people in Memorial Stadium.
And the car will have gotten the paint job we can only dream of today.
