A blown out tire put a crimp in my plan to photograph along Route 66 in Texas this week. In fact, when I rolled back into New Mexico on my shiney new tires I had about 10 pictures from Cadillac Ranch and another half dozen or so from a grain elevator that caught my eye in Adrian, Texas which claims to be the midpoint of Route 66. So when I spotted a sign attempting to lure me into a travel center with a free car museum I thought “What the heck, I need to buy gas anyway.” Not only did they have clean restrooms, the car museum was over the top fantastic. Most of the cars were from the 1950s and were lovingly restored. But they did not stop at cars, there were bicycles, pedal cars, juke boxes, toys and tons of coca-cola collectables. So I brought home some good pictures after all and was inspired to create this composite celebrating the glories of the car museum. I processed each of the four photos individually in Photoshop and Nik Color Efex Pro. Then I brought them all together as layers in Photoshop. I used the eraser tool to get rid of smooth edges and varied the opacity of the layers until I got a look I liked. I then took it back into NIK for another detail extractor and added a light vignette to smooth out the corners.