Solved: 128. of All. - 1949 Monviso Lancia Aprilia Coupe

[Ray B.]

I can't say I disagree with those three points.

All, let's handshake on the following:

OK:

1. Change color, or change to black-and-white or sepiatone.
2. Obscure or delete tell-tale background elements.
3. Obscure or delete badging and number plates.

Not OK:

1. Replace design elements from one vehicle with those of another (wheels, grille, etc.)
2. Photoshop modifications that change the basic configuration of a car (change a coupe to a roadster; make a Tyrelll  P34 a four-wheeled car, etc)
3. Photoshop modifications that place a vehicle in an incorrect time or place.

Agreed?

Suits me just fine.
Let's bury the hatchet (although it was never really dug up on this occasion).
Let me add, with a complete lack of shame, that -although I can see it clearly now- I was totally unaware of what was the scudetto on an Alfa Romeo.

[Otto Puzzell]

Does that make Allemano our AutoPuzzles scudetto studdetto?

[Allemano]

 

[Allan L]

I was totally unaware of what was the scudetto on an Alfa Romeo.

So was I!
That's the problem with a German using an Italian term that is being read in English by a Frenchman (and an Englishman) - no hope, really.

[Allemano]

At least 80% of the posted cars with their company's background, history, specifications etc. are complete mysteries to me.
It's comfortable to know sometimes I'm not alone.. 

[Joao Gois]

80%?? I'm more like around 90... 

[Allemano]

I wrote at least.. 

[Joao Gois]

Awh, come on!! You know much more than I do! Can't compare! You kick ass, you know?

[Allemano]

Thanks, you make me blush..
It happens quite frequently that I look at 10-20 of new posted puzzles and I don't know a single car. Esp. the scanned ones from some obscure books...

One last sentence to the 'modifying' discussion: Would it be acceptable to mirror pics to obscure RHD cars resp. LHD?

[Ray B.]

Cheating again. Don't push your luck.

[Allemano]

I knew that you were the first one... , but I do accept your opinion. 

[Joao Gois]

I actually agree with him. It's against the puzzle spirit, I'd say. You'd be misleading us on purpose...

[@re]

I would never mirror an image - but that might be because I'm a journalist, and it's an unwritten rule in journalism that you should never mirror an image of anything - it's changing reality. Then again, so is removing licence plates and badges. But I think mirroring should be avoided.

In my time here, I have posted two pictures of Alfas in which I have erased the scudetto. They are hereby attached. In one case, I admitted that I had done so before people started guessing, in the other I didn't. I don't see this as altering the appearance of the cars dramatically in any of these cases, as the scudetto is in neither case extremely significant to the car's design. With other cars, like the new Alfa 8C or the classic 6C, I would never have done it, because the design of the grille is an important part of the design.

Which also means that I'd think differently about erasing the BMW kidneys of an E30 3-series than doing the same with a classic, 1930s 328.

And in my opinion, it's one thing to erase something, and a quite different thing to replace it with something else. You could just have blurred the wheels...?

[Joao Gois]

You could just have blurred the wheels...?

Yeah, for examle I've blurred the centre caps of an Lancia Aprilia I've posted...

[woodinsight]

Found the original photo in an Italian magazine the other day.....

[Wendax]

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