Drunk Racing at Le Mans 24 Hour?
Duncan Hamilton, born 1920, was a larger-than-life character. Hamilton’s antics are a timely reminder of an age when racing drivers didn’t stomp back to their Monaco penthouse for a massive sulk. After Thursday practice his Jag was disqualified, bizarrely, for being on track at the same time as another car bearing the same car number. Disheartened, Hamilton and co-driver Tony Rolt immediately did what any driver of that era would do, they found the nearest pub and gave their sorrows a good lubrications with plenty of Gin.
Read MoreMr Bean Crashes His Car
Bean at the wheel? at the 2009 Goodwood Revival
NOTE: This is bout his earlier crash, not the August 2011 Crash, see below for update.
Unfortunately for auto enthusiast everywhere it was not the ugly piss yellow Mini he drives in the guise of Mr Bean but is own, or should I say Comedian Rowan Atkinson’s expensive 230mph McLaren F1 supercar.
The front of the McLaren F1 supercar was wrecked in the collision with the rear of a lowly Rover Metro. The driver of the Metro, suffered minor whiplash injuries, while Mr Atkinson was unhurt in the accident, well as “unhurt” as you can be if you just bent a million dollar car that as far as I know only 106 were built.
Read MoreDisaster at 1958 Cuban Grand Prix after Fangio Kidnapping
A curious mix of politics and Motorsports happened during the running of the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix. The most famous driver of the time Juan Manuel Fangio found himself at the wrong end of a gun being wielded by one of Castro’s revolutionaries.
Gurney Eagle F-1 Car Painting Process Video
Screen shots taken during the painting process of this Gurney Eagle formula one race car from 1967. Starts as a tight pencil sketch and that is scanned into Photoshop for creation of a high resolution digital painting. Most of the detail work is done using a Wacom Cintiq LCD tablet and painting from photo reference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kUIj8Riiy4
Read MoreBMW ART CARS 2011
ENJOY THE LARGEST EXHIBITION OF BMW ART CARS IN THE WORLD. 6TH OCTOBER 2010-30TH SEPTEMBER 2011 AT THE BMW MUSEUM IN MUNICH.
So where is the BMW Art Car Collection at home? All over the world! In particular at top global art venues such as the Louvre in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Anyone wishing to see the entire collection of BMW bodywork designs by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons would have had to travel right around the globe; until now. To mark the 35th anniversary of the founding of this famous collection, and for a limited period only, the complete set of 17 BMW Art Cars has been called back to the place of its birth and is being exhibited in the BMW Museum in Munich. Unique and sensational.
Home – BMW ART CARS – BMW ART CARS – EN.
Read MoreBaby You Can Drive My Car
Beatle John Lennon had his share of cars, the most famous a cool psychedelic panted Rolls Royce and a beautiful blue 1965 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 coupe, add to that a mixture of Bentley’s, Mercedes Limo’s and even a Iso Fidia/S4. And then you have the 1972 Chrysler hire wagon, in kind of a puke green!!! WTF!
Read MoreJanis Joplin’s psychedelic painted 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet
Janis Joplin’s psychedelic painted 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
Read MoreAudi RS4 Art Car
I really love the bold color and non- symmetrical cubist shapes of this art car. Audi was the official automotive sponsor of Art Chicago 2007, There they introduced this Audi RS4 Art car created by Brazilian-born Pop artist Romero Britto.
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