Gregory Johnston is an artist with a deep passion for the golden era of European motorsports, for this collection he chose to use the materials and fabrication methods of the traditional Italian carrozzeria (coachbuilders). Johnston’s work incorporates parts, styles and methodology used by the engineers at Ferrari on both their sports cars and prototype racers, spanning…
The Women’s Motorcycle Exhibit is a series of photography collections by Lanakila MacNaughton, a Portland/Oregon resident and a member of the Hasselblad faithful. McNaughton’s work has been featured on Silodrome a number of times, as well as a huge cross section of other websites, magazines and art galleries. This short film offers a glimpse of Lanakila…
The art of Amaury Dubois is characterised by curves and intersecting layers, although his background is mostly in paint and canvas, he’s been working recently with photographic collages like the examples you see here. These pieces were all displayed to the public for the first time at Le Salon Rétromobile earlier this month in Paris, and…
This is a small selection from the expansive collection of early American maps from the new York Public Library.
Land speed racing is a pastime that has turned out some of the most extraordinary two and four wheeled vehicles that have ever seen the light of day. Land speed machines are almost purely function-before-form, but it’s exceedingly rare to see an ugly one – a unique trait that I don’t think is common to any…
1-Of-1 is a design company that offers a unique service – they’ll create a bespoke poster of your car or motorcycle measuring 495mm x 400mm, and then send it to you anywhere in the world. The service has quickly become popular with collectors and enthusiasts, many of whom give the posters pride of place in…
Unibro Design is a boutique company based in Austria that specialises in upcycling vintage car parts into designer furniture. This is their 1967 Ford Mustang Desk, it uses the boot lid of a ’67 notchback with a custom set of legs to create an eye-catching desk for home or office use. The desk has four…
Rustle of Silk is a boutique French company that still uses original silkscreening techniques to produce posters from the 1970s and before. Each poster is printed by hand on 50cm x 70cm, 300 gram vanilla paper using a 5 colour screen printing procedure. Just 40 examples of this design will be produced, and each will…
This Ferrari oil tank was originally fitted to the yellow Ecurie Francorchamps Number 0208 car campaigned by Jacques Swaters and Charles de Tornaco during the 1952 and 1953 seasons – the car won the Avus F2 Grand Prix driven by Swaters in 1953. The tank is made from four sheets of riveted aluminium that have…
Luis Perez is a Spanish artist who specialises in capturing light and reflections, he’s also a committed car guy and as a result, many of his works contain automobiles and street scenes from around the world. Luis’ most recent exhibition is called City Lights, and it contains paintings captured in his travels to London, New…
This Ducati Dustbin Special was built by world-renowned metal fabricator Evan Wilcox, a man with a minimum 12 month waiting list on new parts who has fabricated just about every body part you can imagine for motorcycles from Nortons and Vincents to Ducatis and Moto Morinis. When it came time for Evan to build a…
The Originals is a series of prints by Petrolified that show many of the most iconic automobiles built in the mid-to-latter part of the 20th century. The clean minimalist styling of the artwork will compliment almost any home (or garage or man-shed), and each poster has the model designation of the car printed centre-bottom. Each…
