Dear mid-60s Buick owners,
A collector car friend of mine decided that a great time to drive your classics is during the Superbowl. With everyone glued to their TV the roads are much more quiet. Since both our local NFL football teams have put profits before fan loyalty, it didn't take much to get me to follow his lead. This year, I decided to take some photos next to an old department store building that has long been closed. During the week, there are lots of cars parked in the area, but surely on Superbowl Sunday the area would be completely vacant - right?
Alas no - there were cars parked in exactly the position I had staked out fro my photos, so I had to come up with a Plan-B in a hurry. I started by taking this photo behind the building housing Orinda Motors:
The building dates from before the 1930s so it was a perfect backdrop for a digitally aged photo. For this example, I decided to make it into a faded slide:
In the end perhaps not the best choice because in part I only backdated the image to around the 1980s. I had a slide from the time as a reference, and fortunately, even 40 year old slides hold up a lot better than slides just 10 years older.
There is a country club golf course nearby and some houses that clearly are quite old. A stone wall separates a road from this location and that was my next photo venue:
This photo I made into a backdated black and white image:
I think this recreation turned out a lot better than the first.
I took one more picture but decided the background wasn't suitable for digital aging:
That's all the time I had and I returned home to all the waiting chores.
For your viewing pleasure . . . . . .
Enjoy! 
Cheers, Edouard
