It has to be the most unusual art collector contest ever held, at least among automotive art aficionados. Contestants submit photos of a room in their home that could benefit from the hanging of an au…
June 9th, 2010
Test Drive! Contest Offers Free Automotive Art to Most Deserving Rooms
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May 27th, 2010
Great Auto Art on a Grand Scale
This is the work of an artist who likes to paint big. Really big. In fact the Silver Arrows mural, commissioned by Audi USA in 1994, is one of his smaller works at a mere 10 x 24 feet. John Gable also…
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January 1st, 2010
Increase your vintage car picture collection with online printing
Vintage car aficionado would never like to miss out on photographs of classic cars and would certainly love to make them a part of their collection as a number of cars have faded in the oblivion and t…
December 2nd, 2009
The Toleman Story: Last Romantics in Formula 1
The Toleman F1 team, small, unfashionable, always short of money, is rarely remembered, yet it was the team that took Ayrton Senna into Formula 1. The team that launched Derek Warwick, one of the most…
August 31st, 2009
Missing From Modern Auto Advertising: The Power of Illustration
In the longest of my several careers I was an advertising copywriter and, later, creative director, working mostly on car accounts. At the time we depended on photography to show the cars, as is the c…
August 5th, 2009
Pebble Beach Retro Poster Returns to the Golden Age of Automobile Art
A major highlight of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance for those who appreciate automobile fine art is the annual poster. Now, however, there are three. One for the Concours, one for the Tour d…
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July 13th, 2009
Rare Corvette Discovered on Australian Beach
Why is it that we sometimes need visitors from other places to help us appreciate the beauty of our own domain? I'm especially guilty as I live in what is arguably the loveliest part of a spectacu…
June 17th, 2009
The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy
If I could give myself a Fathers Day gift it would be an all-expenses paid trip to Detroit to see the annual Eyes on Design concours d'elegance. I'd do so because this event is attended by man…
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May 29th, 2009
Mike Hawthorn, Britain’s First F1 Champion, Remembered in Art
On January 2nd, 1959, I was working the morning shift at CKFH in Toronto. The station's news policy was of the "rip and read" type, where we announcers ripped off items endlessly flowing…
March 30th, 2009
Remembering Chrysler: One You Can Hang on Your Wall
Every so often I like to feature a beautiful piece of automotive fine art from the Car Art Inc. site. Because of the possible dissolution of Chrysler, this painting by Ken Eberts of a 1957 Chrysler 30…