This vintage Oldsmobile Rocket 88, restored by a passionate mechanic in the tiny town of Miranda, on the Avenue of the Giants in California’s Redwood Country, was being offered for $3,800 the day I visited. I saw an entire era embodied in this old car, an era of where cars were designed and marketed as if they traveled as fast as rocket ships. I moved in on the famous hood ornament of the Rocket 88 with a 14mm super wideangle lens, bringing the glass to within a few inches of the thrusting chrome rocket. Yet the huge vertical field of view embraced by this wide a focal length allowed me to include an area from the grille badge at the bottom of the frame to the sale sign in the window as well as three other cars parked on this lot at the top of the frame.