Monterey Week 2013 Review Posted on September 20, 2013 The world’s greatest collector car orgy took place on California’s Monterey peninsula during the third week in August. Before digging into the gems and lumps of coal, lets make some sense out of the most talked
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RM Auctions : Art of the Automobile In NY
RM Goes to New York with Art of the Automobile Art of the Automobile, the combined effort of auction house icons RM and Sotheby’s marks a seminal moment for the collector car industry. In addition to the traditional ideals speed, horsepower, racing etc…the show this
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2013 Art Center Car Classic Highlights
2013 Art Center Car Classic Highlights and Exhibitor Information Exhibitors This year’s Car Classic celebrates the cars, bikes, aircraft, boats, and other vehicles that have been Inspired by Nature —the sculpture, form and fluidity to move through water and air that has inspired designers in
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Car Optical Illusions
Professional model maker and photographer Michael Paul Smith spent the last 25 years making miniature vehicles and photographing them, set in a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park. His models are so detailed that when placed in miniature dioramas and photographed using forced perspective, you’ll think that they are real vehicles…
Cars are Art
…Imagined, Drawn, and Sculpted to a Fine Art: For many traditional artists and art appreciators it may be difficult to understand how we could claim that cars are art, but first you must understand how a car is born. Like many great drawings, paintings, and sculptures, the car is first imagined. For car designers there is a soul to the car and they see it as their art to capture and release that soul.
Batman and Gilda?
The Story of Two Pieces of Functional 50′s Concept Art Separated at Birth: 1950’s America was a place of Dreams. The economy was booming, the suburbs were booming and most of all the babies were “booming” which all reflected the bountiful feeling surrounding the time. Anything was possible…the Civil Rights Movement was putting the first nails in the coffin of Jim Crow in the courts, the country was united against the communist threat and industry in general was moving in optimistically creative directions the nation had not seen before. It was a good time for the country, and a good time to be looking to the future…
The Car That Led Three Lives : 1955 300SLS Prototype
This sleek, light metallic blue roadster has been determined to be chassis 00009/52, one of eight 300SL prototype coupes raced by Mercedes-Benz in 1952. From there it became the prototype for the 300SL Roadster and finally assumed a third role as a mule for the factory’s 300SLS race team in 1957…
David Douglas Duncan and “The Secret SLS”
Prototypes are the products of an intense automotive design process. They are ideas given physical form and meant to test the culmination of those ideas. Most serve their purpose and end as scrap or become forgotten embodiments of a larger production that ends up relegated to a warehouse collecting dust rarely, if ever, to be seen again. Occasionally one is found on flaccid tires, fading away in a dusty, shuttered garage, whereupon aficionados immediately elevate it from “ancient junk” to “treasured artifact.”
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLS : Father of the Brood by Winston Goodfellow
This car is the starting point of a multi-generation automotive legend, to which 500,000 cars can trace their genes. It is the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLS and, like most of its ‘children’ — every sporting Merc that has followed — chassis 8427198118/1 is a stupendous drive…
1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Prototype – Vintage Project Part II
Vintage Project, Part II 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Prototype By Scott Grundfor Body Check Restoration begins with an analysis of the car, obviously easiest if it runs and is in one piece. By simply walking around a car looking at various parts, you may be able
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