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12 hours ago, Brass is Best said:

It is like the lighting in a bar at 2:30... 

Ain't that the truth ....... then trying to carefully chew your arm off in the A.M., so not to wake the Princess you bring home in the wee hours.

She looked so much better the night before ....... without the 5 o'clock shadow. :wacko:

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It is not always the lighting that pretties them up.

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We were watching the Hershey all auction a few years ago. Well, actually, quite a few years ago. That was the year they had a couple of museum shabby Duesenbergs the jockies didn't know how to start and a young woman stalled an R type Bentley on the ramp so it wouldn't restart. We were non-bidders so we sat way up in the yokel seats, but we had a good view and lots of room to roll in the aisle laughing.

 

Anyway, as to the waking up in the morning, I noticed a pride of A-body GM cars passing through. It was a mixture of two door hardtops and two door sedans. Now, this is probably my imagination, BUT, when the hardtops were on the block the doors were open. When the sedans came across the doors were closed and the focus was on the engine and wheels. With that shiny stainless window surround it looked "just like" a hardtop. I learned some shady stuff growing up, but we were just a sideshow compared to the real circus.

 

On topic, although I don't have a big light bar,  a little splash of red does perk up the black ones.

Bernie

Posted
1 hour ago, ejboyd5 said:

Are auction goggles and alcohol the same thing?

No, but when used together (you fill the goggles with the alcohol). they have tremendous effects on the wearer.  

As evidenced by the bids placed. 

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I have an auction catalog for an auction held in 1974 by a big name auction house still in business today.  I wondered why some cars looked unusually shiny, until that is I noticed water dripping from the running board of one.  They hosed it down, moved it to another spot, and shot the picture before it dried off!

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The big auctions have lighting down to a science........just like jewelry stores.

Hmmmmmmm.......so THAT'S why diamonds never sparkle like they do in the stores....... ;)

Posted
12 hours ago, cahartley said:

The big auctions have lighting down to a science........just like jewelry stores.

Hmmmmmmm.......so THAT'S why diamonds never sparkle like they do in the stores....... ;)

 

One also has to beware of sellers that photograph cars indoors with studio lighting. They adjust and filter light until all the imperfections are hidden. The only way to honestly show a car is to photograph it outdoors in natural light.

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