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2013 Art Center Car Classic Highlights

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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

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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…

Ferrari 250 GTO sale record at $52M

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Records are made to be broken, and it seems that one may have just been snapped again. An Italian website is reporting that a Ferrari 250 GTO, owned by American collector Paul Pappalardo, recently sold for $52 million…

Cars are Art

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…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?

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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

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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…

2013 London RM Auction Results

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No Bond car has ever done anything as outrageous on screen as transform itself into a submarine; none except for this Lotus in the epic The Spy Who Loved Me. Breaking with tradition, Q is never given the opportunity to explain the car’s features to 007. So, when the Lotus is fired off a jetty into the sea, the audience was stunned, and captivated…

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