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…
Full Faces Are Sexy is a new apparel company with the goal of making full face helmets (and other ATGATT gear) sexier. The first run of t-shirts is online and ready for sale now, currently they all feature women but I’m sure there’ll be a man or two in the second run to keep the…
Jim Clark is remembered as one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. The Scotsman managed 33 pole positions and 25 race victories from his 72 Grands Prix, he also took a Lotus-Cortina to victory in the 1964 British Touring Car Championship, he won the Indianapolis 500 in 1965, and he won the Formula…
Claudia Liebenberg is a talented South African painter whose work we’ve featured before, she specialises in the use of watercolours because it means she has small and highly portable painting supplies that she can carry anywhere. This series of two paintings was commissioned for a new coffeeshop that’s opening in Scottsdale in Arizona, the cafe…
The Datsun 510 is known as the Datsun 1600 in much of the world outside of the United States and Canada, it’s a car that saw significant racing and sales successes in all of the markets where it was offered for sale – and it helped put Datsun on the map for a new generation…
The idea of using engines as the basis for furniture has probably existed since the first engine threw a rod and made itself an expensive and rather heavy paperweight. This coffee table by Fuzion LLC is an excellent example of what can be achieved with engine parts that are no longer required, a hefty dose of skill…
The Hobo Nickel is the American version of an art form that began to appear in the mid-1700s as sailors, travellers and railwaymen whiled away the hours by carving their coins into miniature works of art. This series of rings by Silver Piston feature a hand-carved Dias de los Muertos Indian head in the style…
This fantastic series of images were created by veteran photographer Freddy Fabris. He wanted to capture the spirit of iconic Renaissance works and after coming across a garage in the American Midwest he was struck with an idea, and this series of photographs is the result. In the below two paragraphs, Freddy talks about the…
American Look is a film produced by Chevrolet Motors in 1958 as a look into the industrial design of the decade. It’s a surprisingly expansive film that covers far more than just automotive design, the glimpse it offers into the design and style of the 1950s is amongst the best I’ve seen. Those of you…
American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy was quoted in 2003 as saying “Bullitt contains one of the most exciting car chases in film history, a sequence that revolutionized Hollywood’s standards”. At almost 11 minutes long the car chase is surprisingly long, and it dominates the viewer’s memory of the film so much that people sometimes…
