This is an old Volkswagen Beetle, or at least the roof and cockpit of one. The picture doesn't have the composition I would have liked, but I did have fun playing with the colour values.
I tried to adjust the picture to make the colours of the Beetle seem more rich, as lifelike as I could I remember them to be. I did not bother to break the picture down into channels, and work at it section by section. Instead, I just applied new colour curves to the whole thing at once and cropped out the stuff that looked to have drifted far off the reservation. That's lazy work.
Even so, I think I found a true red for the car, and I kind of like the way the rest of the image looks parched as a result.
Now, I've re-cropped the image so that the car is the focal point of the image. There's more detail. You can see it was raining just a few minutes ago.
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