GT40 MKIV At Henry Ford Museum
Just too cool for school! Howie from Garage Graphics recently visited the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and just happened to have (ahem) a spare Gurney signature GT40 brushed aluminum print with him, which he shared with a couple of the curators. General amazement ensued. Pretty cool to see the print in front of the real (albeit reconstructed) #1 car especially because the photo archives at the Ford Museum were absolutely essential in illustrating Dan…
Honda RA 300—Pedal to the Metal
Here are a couple of unedited images of the Honda RA300 printed on the new brushed aluminum composite material using translucent inks. The results are just amazing. The metal bits look “metal” and the aluminum grain enhances the detail across the board. In practice, we discovered a holographic effect that was an unintended artifact of increasing the ink saturation to increase the color vibrancy. If you stand to one side of one of these brushed…
On To Monterey!
The Monterey Motorsports Reunion ranks was one of the true extravaganzas in the vintage motorsport hobby. As if the racing weren’t enough, there are several first rate auctions, the Pebble Beach Concours, the annual Quail event, and Automobilia featuring the work of some incredible artists and craftsmen from around the hobby. I have been working on getting myself out there for the past few years but time and events have conspired to keep me away.…
Full-scale Gurney Signature GT40 MKIV Print
You just gotta love modern printing equipment. Back in the day, if we wanted something of any real size, it meant tiling the largest sheets of substrate we could manage to print then assemble them together to get what we wanted. Today, thanks to exponentially improved printing technology and digitization, sizes of up to 10′ high and 40′ long are not only entirely possible but are being done at Garage Graphics via dye-sublimation. The sublimation…
Dan Gurney Signature GT40 MKIV Art
Have you ever had one of those moments when you unintentionally verbalized something you thought you were just thinking? I recently experienced such a moment during my visit to All American Racers. I was standing in Dan’s office with his son Justin and Doug Buchanan from Garage Graphics, looking at a very cool poster from the 1967 LeMans race with a profile view of the GT40 and a black and white image of Dan spraying…
AAR—An All American Story
Incredible. Awesome. Amazing. Pick your superlative and it still won’t be enough to adequately describe the aura surrounding All American Racers. AAR is so packed full of racing history and Dan Gurney’s memorabilia, it would take days, maybe weeks to really go through it properly. Doug Buchanan (Garage Graphics) and I were extremely fortunate to have 4 hours of Justin Gurney’s time for a personal tour and we did our best to absorb as much…
Go West Young Man
Late last year, shortly after I finished the Gurney Eagle illustration, Doug Buchanan from Garage Graphics headed west to attend the grand opening of Morris and Welford’s new showroom in Newport Beach. Among the many people (including former F1 champ Jenson Button) in attendance was Pat Persichini, one of the folks from Morris and Welford. Doug and Pat got to talking and, at some point, Doug whipped out his cell phone to show him shots…
It’s A Tiger!
I have only myself to blame. When one of the members of the Sunbeam Tiger Facebook page suggested it would be cool for me to illustrate the famous Targa Florio car after he posted some pics of the little red rocket, I just couldn’t resist. Both the race and the car were really great stories and I was intrigued by both. I was lucky to get to work with Dave McDermott (current owner of the…
(not so) Heavy Metal
Making magic with brushed aluminum or…I get a heavy dose of humility. Meeting up with Doug Buchanan at Garage Graphics may turn out to be one of the more seminal moments in SCA’s young history. For several months he’d been trying to convince me to print one of my illustrations on brushed aluminum. Maybe it’s what’s left of the traditionalist in me but, I not only firmly resisted, I uncharitably likened it to the automotive…