A True Playboy

Photo of the Day

Here is another photo from the Dr. Peter Kesling collection at the LaPorte Museum. This car is one of 97 made in 1948. It was actually number 77 that rolled off of the assembly line. The car was made long before the famous magazine was thought of. That does not mean that it isn’t tied to it though. When Hugh Hefner was trying to come up with a name for his magazine he kept running into names that were taken. He happened to see one of these cars, and he suddenly had the name for his magazine. It was a good name though as I don’t think that Ford would have done so well on the magazine shelves.

Technical Data

For this photo I applied one of Matt Kloskowski’s HDR in Lightroom presets. A couple of tweaks from there was all that I needed to be happy. Most of the hard work was done in camera.