[Healeys] Red Don Plates

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In a message dated 2/11/10 11:09:53 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net 
writes:


> The same photo is reproduced in HervC) Chevalier's "Les Healey dans les 
> Alpes"
> 1947-1967 Tome 2 Editions Barthelemy ISBN 2-912838-15-0 (2001) EXCEPT THAT
> **there** it carries rally plates. The only conclusion would appear to be 
> that
> one has been ammended. I tend to the suggestion that either (i) there were 
> a
> series of photos of the same (exact) stretch of hairpin taken with the 
> same car
> and without plates or (ii) that the plates were removed in 
> "photoshopping". I am
> sure that no one did this deliberately but that it happened some time 
> between
> 1961 and today.
> 
My guess is that the original photo had the rally plates and someone 
"stripped them out" -- the predecessor to photoshop when you went in and masked or 
cut the negative -- so the pic could be used for general advertising 
purposes. Of course, the alternative explanation is that the car was running 
without the rally plates at that point, and in order to make the final photo 
useful for publicity purposes, someone stripped in the plate.   It's really 
amazing, when you see some of the original publicity pictures owned by e.g. 
Graham Robson, that have been in and out of various magazines, to see the crop 
marks, notations, and retouching that had been done for one purpose or 
another.
Gary