Metaphors in Motion

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  • INTERIORS

    Want a true Custom? Replace that stock interior! Here's a salon of the latest fabric combinations and designs to ease your selection. With all the current interest in Hot Rods and Rat Rods, you will find this recreation on custom interiors very interesting.

  • Automotive Illustrations from the 50's and 60's:Part Three

    In part Three of Automotive Illustrations the focus will be on design drawings for concepts as well as restyling something which was a huge part of the automotive scene in the late fifties early sixties. Remember there where no computers at the time to draw with.

  • Automotive Illustrations from the 50's and 60's: Part Two

    In Part Two of Automotive Illustrations the focus will be on technical drawings such as engines and engine parts, suspension assemblies and parts, frame rails and other technical goodies.

  • Automotive Illustrations from the 50's and 60's: Part One

    Before computers and Computer Aided Design software there where Illustrators who graced the pages of automotive magazines. These technical drawings and design drawings are superb and growing up inspired me as much as "Big Daddy Roth" (see an earlier post here "Rat Rods part 2 - Rat Fink) did to explore the world through drawing especially cars, motorcycles, and planes.

  • Chaparral at Indy

    Will Jim Hall build an automatic- transmissioned Indy Chaparral for next year's "500?" Wouldn't that shake up the troops! For those who are Jim Hall fans and love the Chaparrals this short article from Sports Car Graphic October 1965 shows Halls desires and reach in the motor sports world at the time. He is truly an American icon in motor sports racing and sports car design.