If this doesn't stir your romantic juices, gentlemen, nothing will! Imagine the fun of driving a 1959 Austin Healey Sprite and parking by a seaside lighthouse with a lovely British "bird" as your companion. Unless you own a vintage sprite it's a moment in time not likely to repeat itself. But for a mere $195 you can hang a print on your living room wall and imagine that moment every morning as you sip your ritual coffee. A giclée on watercolor paper by Gary Whinn, this is one of the latest offerings from CarArtInc., which showcases works by car designers and automotive fine artists. It has over 500 examples of 60 marques for sale. It also helps foster children by assisting development of the Extreme Gravity Racing Series, an exciting competition notable for wildly different designs by European and Californian car studios. Personally I favour paintings of cars in situ, looking as we might have seen them years ago, which is why I fell for this beauty.
We used to own a Frogeye as one of the first three cars we hired out when we setup The Open Road. Interesting little car, very close to the ground, superb roadholding and great steering. But very little power and the drum brakes leaved a bit to be desired.
The first day’s hire we ever did as The Open Road was to an American who flew his girlfriend over to take out our Frogeye on Valentine’s Day 1998 and ask his girlfriend to marry him. He wrote up his trip and this is on our web site at http://www.theopenroad.co.uk/static_28.htm
So cute and one to stir the romantic juices, but a bit under powered and under braked.
Tony Merrygold
July 10, 2008 @ 4:35 am