Yeah, my sister had a flux capacitor installed on the minivan. She wasn't listening when Doc Brown said you're supposed to do it in style.
if you can go back and shoot a picture of the house in the back ground with the camera in the same position as it was for the original picture, you should be able to photo-shop the van out easily.
you would wonder if they had come up with low profile tires and aftermarket headligths as well as billet for that grill by 1973 though
Yes on the tires(de tomaso cars had 17" wheels back then) and lights. And technically thats not a real billet grille, but those types were being made my custom guys back then also. Great picture Drew thanks for sharing
Hey! all in all a great picture I was just thinking it would have been the coolest thing to have this automotive tech advances been part of the main stream (read today's gearheads). I'm sure someone had though of them and were deemed "exotic". I was not in other words criticizing the picture but just expressing my observations. Oh! by the way, facelessnumber, you got one great lookin' Mav.
Thanks! Oh I knew you weren't criticizing. I could pick apart several things myself if it was supposed to be passed off as authentic. I just thought it was cool that I took the pic on impulse, didn't set anything up and it turned out the way it did. I noticed things later like his haircut, clothes, the houses, the way the poor quality cell phone camera made everything look a bit faded like an old photo... I was feeling nostalgic. Really it was more than that, I wasn't even alive in '73. Just felt deeply connected with my family that day. It was kinda cool that my brother and I both happened to show up in cars that were new when the house was new. It was nice to be there for Thanksgiving at the house my grandparents built, where my dad grew up, where my brother and sister and I used to play. There are pictures of me looking just like my boy in that same driveway. My grandparents are gone now, but this time of year especially, the place is alive and crawling with their great-grandchildren. One new treat this time was something my mom did recently. She's hung a lot of old family pictures on one wall, in a sort of organized yet disorganized way, if that makes sense. Pictures from last year on back to Depression-era and before. I stood and marveled at it for hours, and my son asked me about each one. It was awesome. There is a certain richness about my family that has nothing to do with money. (Which works out pretty well, 'cause we don't have any.) Anyway, back to car stuff before I get all existential... I'm talking about the same place where this truck came from.
