Jaguar XK150 Prints
The XK150 completed the transformation of the XK120 from a sports car into a true Gran Turismo car. Besides the obvious exterior sheet metal changes, the new XK150 featured 4-wheel…
The XK150 completed the transformation of the XK120 from a sports car into a true Gran Turismo car. Besides the obvious exterior sheet metal changes, the new XK150 featured 4-wheel…
When the Jaguar XK120 was introduced in 1948, it was an immediate sensation with automotive journalists clamoring to drive and report on the new sports car. Few cars have made…
“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.
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.
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,…
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.