Since a few people have asked.... here's how these pictures were made. We made a fake parking lot, basically just took a board, painted it asphalt color, and added some lines and parking barriers. The camera was about 50 feet in from the background, so the model was placed 1/24th as far from the camera, or about two feet. After much aligning of tripods and saw horses, they were lined up reasonably well.

The camera used for this was modified with a pinhole aperture. It was a Minolta SRT-101 SLR with the stock 50mm lens. By sheer coincidence, an article by Mike Tylick had appeared in Model Railroader magazine (mid-80's), describing how to modify the exact lens I owned. A few years later, I met Mike, and he showed me how it worked. So I made the modification to my own lens, and was pretty pleased with the results. It gave a more or less full aperture for previewing, focusing, and composing. But it would stop down to about f100 for the exposure. That's what gave it the depth of field necessary to pull off this trick.

The shots in front of the store were on the fake parking lot, while on a couple of the others (the Torino and the GT-40), we made a simple piece of fake roadway. This was just a 1x12, and we threw on some plasteroid paste stuff, smoothed is just enough to leave some texture. Again, painted asphalt color, and we added a little mound of dirt along one side.

Enjoy.