American automobile styling in the 1950's was heavily influenced by rockets and jets. Featured today is the hood ornament on a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, which was the best selling car in the U.S. This concludes my series of classic car detail shots from Sunday's show. Image was processed this morning.
@tesssa Thanks, Tessa. That was the name of a very popular song in 1955 - even the music was influenced by the pending "rocket-age". Americans could not fly to the moon, but their cars sure looked like they could!
@orangecrush Thanks, Jerry - although this was going to be the last in my series, I am going to do one more tomorrow in tribute to the late Caroll Shelby, inventor of the legendary Shelby Cobra. He died today at the age of 89.
I think this is my favourite of all your classic car shots! I love the hood ornament....it's so sleek, and looks stunning next to the blue paintwork.......beautiful pov and shot :-)
@soboy5@soboy5 I went back to check, and that is a beauty. I think this appeals to me because I used to work for British Airways, and it conjures up the glamour of working for Pan Am or similar in the 50's :-) Beautiful shots/series.....I've really enjoyed seeing them :-)
@allisonrap I really appreciate your very kind comments, Allison and I am so glad you have enjoyed this series. I see how you like this ornament - it looks like a sleek jet plane. I'm fascinated with the mid to late 1950's - it was a more innocent age when anything was possible. I'm doing one more car image tomorrow as a tribute to Carroll Shelby, the inventor of the Shelby Cobra and Shelby Mustang - he died today at the age of 89. A true automotive legend.
Looks like a bird, looks like a plane, but most of all it is just a great work of art, and a great photo- and timely, a local classic car show was setting up this evening as I passed going home. Sure sign of summer!
@dauber Thank you very much. I love photographing classic automobiles and being fairly new to the project, I did not know what the reaction would be to my automotive photography from other members, but I have been pleasantly surprised by all the kind comments.
Car show season starts June 1 here in Chicago yippee!
@boogie Thank you, Mags - glad ou have enjoyed this series!