<VV> strange Corvair Decade question

Rick Norris ricknorris at suddenlink.net
Thu Sep 15 06:27:40 EDT 2011


I well remember the older Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines that had more than 
a few green or other cast pages to punch up an otherwise black and white 
publication. Usually only the cover photo was in color.
Ahhh, the good old daze!

Rick

> Ray, before the wide use of computers in the printing industry, "full 
> color" printing was extremely expensive. To brighten the page and not cost 
> an arm and a leg photos were printed as "duo-tones" that is black and one 
> other color.  The photos you refer to are duo-tones and weren't unusual 
> for the time period.
>
> Terry "retired Graphic Arts teacher" Kalp
>
>
> ---- Ramon Rodriguez III <corvairgrymm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>      I just finally got a copy of "The Corvair Decade".. a book I've had 
>> on
>> my wish list for years.  The copy I have is a 1980 I think copy, with a 
>> red
>> cover.  I just noticed flipping through for the first time that several
>> photos, examples being Pg 46 Sebring Spyder photo and Pg 47 Don Colburn's 
>> 62
>> Monza convertible... are printed in GREEN and white...  this makes the 
>> photo
>> of the 62 Convertible especially look very strange... awful actually.  I
>> can't imagine this having been intentional.  Is my book the victim of a
>> printing glitch or is this the way they all were?
>>
>>      I can scan the photo and upload it if anyone is interested.  The
>> monochromatic green photo of what I have to assume is a green car is 
>> really
>> strange, and looks very "washed out".
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- 
>> Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez
>> Lake Ariel, PA
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