[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by Roger Poirier

I have not received my copy yet. Are you telling me that the cover was made to look like someone else's car instead of your's? Or just a generic car, if so no big deal. However, I thought it went to press knowing that someone screwed up at pre-press and yet it still made it into circulation. Sorry if I was mistaken.

R.P.

lol.. no

It was shot in such a way that (to negate reflections like you see in my shot inside the magazine) this caused the paint to look a bit "flat". They tried to adjust the color to look more like my copperish color and missed. Since the pic is more about the message than my particular car they let it go since it fulfilled the need for a bright first gen coming out of a booth.

If you look at the TABLE OF CONTENTS page you will see the small pic of the cover. The color of the car in that pic is actually closer to my color. In fairness to them it is a hard color to get right. I know how to set my camera for it, so my shots tend to come out more correct. I shot the lead spread for the PAINT story and the color is much closer. When in lots of light it looks more like the color in the LS2 install story.

If you look at this pic: http://www.lifeinwidescreen.com/siihp/pennypaint.jpg

that I took and then compare it to the cover you can see what I meant by the color being off. Then again I have a bunch of reflections in my shot.