Color & Symmetry

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As a lifelong motor head, I’ve always enjoyed attending car shows - especially to see the exotics. The color, symmetry and mechanical beauty depicted in this shot does justice to this amazing vehicle.

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Feedback on any aspect of this photo is appreciated. Is the slightly OOF bottom of the frame too much of a distraction? I probably could have gone to f/8 without issue…

Extra points if you can identify the vehicle!

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EOS 10D handheld
EF17-40 F4L
f/4 @ 1/500, ISO 100

Jim,

It looks fine to me. I am going to say that this car has a midline engine and the vents are on the back end of the car. The Chevrolet Corvair had such an engine, but the vents were different and that is not a Chevy engine. Is that a carbon fiber cross member that the lower bars are attached to? So this could be a McLaren or a Ferrari.

Youssef, thanks for looking! It’s neither of those, but in the same class.

Very cool, Jim. Not a clue what this is. The only mid-engine vehicle I’ve seen was some really hot 16 cylinder monster I saw when I was going to Michigan Tech in the late 60’s-early 70’s. My nearly 75 memory was that that was a Lamborghini of one type or another.

As for the image itself, if you have any extra room you might do a little clockwise rotation as it seems just tiny bit off kilter. A very cool view.

It’s a 2005 Ford GT, which is a reincarnation of the legendary GT40 that won the 1966 Le Mans 24-hour endurance race that the Ford vs. Ferrari movie is based on.

This version of the Ford GT was produced in small numbers from 2004 to 2006. Ford has made new versions of the GT since then, but they do not stylistically pay homage to the original GT40 race car of the 1960s like these older versions do.

Aaah! I overlooked the Ford because the GT40 did not have those vents. The GT40 is the only Ford I ever really liked.

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Well, I never would have guessed Ford, Jim. Very cool.

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