It fooled me. I sat staring at the picture for 5 minutes wondering how
someone could be so stupid.
Now that Randy mentions it being a fake, I took a closer look. When I fake
pictures I leave in a few flaws. This one has some. If you magnify the rear
door you'll notice that the rope extends thru the rear fixed glass of the
door, draping over the door handle. The roof indeed would have to be
crushed, because if you look at the 4x4 posts at the front just above the
windshield and extend them backwards they break the plane of the roofline.
And if the roof were crushed then the glass would have shattered in the rear
door. Another curious thing is that the rope in front hasn't snapped under
the load. Is it the windshield wipers that is holding the load?
Fred - So.SF
----- Original Message -----
From: "snyler" <marc@animalfirm.com>
To: "Randy Walters" <RandyLWalters@earthlink.net>; " roadster List"
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: This is really <OT> but NOT worth the look.
> Randy Walters wrote
>
> >>Hi all-
> >>Just got this from a friend (who saw a picture of when I used my
> >>roadster to haul a Christmas tree) so I thought I would pass it
> >>on. Just goes to show that with enough rope, anything is possible :)
> >>http://trooper.velocet.ca/~mathboy/images/jetta_ply_1.jpg
> >
> > That Jetta picture is a fake - the guy who Photo-shopped it and made
> >up the long contrived story associated with it took a lot of heat from
the
> >VW crowd and finally fessed up on the VW forum where it was first
> >posted over a month ago. Look at the shriveled up driver, the fake
> >exhaust smoke, and the fact that the roof is not crushed under the
> >heavy load. Unfortunately now that it's on the net it will never ever
> >go away......... add it to the Urban Legend garbage out there.
> >
> >Randy
> >So Calif
> >
> It's a pretty good fake then, the "Driver" is not a driver, but a
> passenger, so no problem there, the light direction on the car,
> buildings, and load all look consistent, there's a reflection of the edge
> of the load in the back window and 1/4 panel. Shadows are all
> consistent, exhaust is not convincingly fake. As far as not being
> crushed, Jettas, are not as easily crushed as your average
> Sentra/Corolla/Accord. OTOH, I can't imagine that twine holding. Not
> saying it isn't fake, but I'd like to see the source material.
>
> Whaddya think, Fred?
>
> Marc (I do fake for a living) Tyler
>
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