AC Cobra 289 FIA Fine Art Prints
“There are two kinds of sports car enthusiasts: those that describe this vehicle as the Shelby Cobra, and those that identify it as the AC Cobra. From the time that I was a young boy I was always in the latter camp.
100S Coupe Prints
Only 5 prints left! This may be the most iconic of the Austin Healey 100 models—Donald Healey’s personal 100S coupe. Recently sold at Bonham’s for a price equivalent to the GNP of a small country, this one of only two examples of a factory built coupe is currently on loan from its owner to the Austin Healey Museum in the Netherlands. Built on a late BN1 chassis, the coupe has a custom interior that includes a radio, heater, very unique door panels and a few other special touches. Under the bonnet is a mostly stock 100S motor (although painted red, presumably to match the exterior) with the addition of a heater bib and a few other tweaks.
Sunbeam Tiger Prints
A collaboration between Carroll Shelby and the Rootes Group, the Sunbeam Tiger epitomizes the notion of a “big engine in a small car”. Based on the moderately successful Sunbeam Alpine,…
Sunbeam Alpine Prints
The Sunbeam “Alpine” name actually goes back to the 50s when the name used on a series of cars intended mostly for rally. The name as we know it today has its origins in 1956 when Kenneth Howes and Jeff Crompton were tasked with doing a complete redesign of the original car, targeted primarily at the U.S. market.
Mini-Cooper Prints
The mighty Mini. While I owned a MKI in my youth, I never really appreciated this marvelous package of engineering until I began the illustration. From the hydrolastic suspension to the transverse mounted motor and gearbox, the Austin Mini-Cooper was quite a revolutionary little car and what would turn out to be, one of the British motorcar industry’s best selling and most iconic vehicles. Not to mention, fun to drive.
Swallow Doretti Prints
The Swallow Doretti was the brainchild of a coach-builder named Eric Sanders and California Tubing Company boss Arthur Andersen. Following a visit by Eric Sanders to California in July of 1952 both men felt that, as was to be demonstrated by the Austin Healey 100 and Triumph TR2, there was a market for sports cars in the USA and at home (at the right price).
Triumph Stag Prints
The Triumph Stag started as a styling experiment cut and shaped from a 1963–4 Triumph 2000 pre-production saloon, which had been styled by Michelotti, and loaned to him by Harry Webster, Director of Engineering at Triumph.
Triumph TR7 Prints
The TR7 was and possibly still is one of the most under appreciated and undervalued British sports cars, even though it was, in fact, the best selling single model of any of the LBCs.
MG Midget Series TC
The MG Midget Series “TC” could be considered the car that started the post-war sports car boom in the United States. The light, nimble MG cars that service men and women returning from England had been exposed to were vastly different from the big, heavy American cars prevalent in the day. Not only were the smaller, they were fun to drive. Soon exporters were bringing in the first of the post war MGS and enthusiasts were buying them up as quickly as they arrived.
The TC was a natural for the sports racing of the day and had a ubiquitous presence at hill climbs, road races, and rallies across America. There seems to be no less enthusiasm for the TC today as back in the day as these inonic British sports cars remain wildly popular with collectors and hobbyests across the country
Austin Healey BN7, BJ7, and BT7 Prints Available
Well, it took me long enough to complete the Healey series (about 6 months) but I’m wrapping things up with the addition of the BT7, BN7, and BJ7 prints. You…