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Painting depicts a vintage Triumph TR-2 in British Racing Green with an option to order prints with your choice of body and interior colors.

Elsewhere on my site you will find other Triumph Models including a TR-6, TR-3, TR-4, TR-4a and TR-250

Print Detail

Unique and wonderfully detailed, Not merely filtered photographs like some art you will see, these are carefully crafted digital paintings that capture the beauty of the subject car.

Body Color Option

This print is available in a limited number of car body and interior color choices.  If you have a particular color wish please let me know, some colors do not translate over very well.  I also may work up a steel wheel option for the print in the future if there is interest.

Prints are carefully printed on quality heavy weight stock by the artist using fade proof pigmented inks to last a lifetime. This is the best in art reproductions that captures incredible photo quality detail and remarkable color. When matted and frame these prints look fabulous. Prints are shipper flat between cardboard sheets for protection and to not cause mounting an framing issues.

Body color and interior color options

Triumph TR-2 13×18 inch Print

Print Size

13x18 $19.95

Body Color

Interior Color

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Painting depicts a 1960’s era Triumph TR-4 in Black.

Elsewhere on my site you will find other Triumph Models including a TR-3, TR-4, TR-4a and TR-250

Print Detail

Unique and wonderfully detailed, Not merely filtered photographs like some art you will see, these are carefully crafted digital paintings that capture the beauty of the subject car.

Prints are carefully printed on quality heavy weight stock by the artist using fade proof pigmented inks to last a lifetime. This is the best in art reproductions that captures incredible photo quality detail and remarkable color. When matted and frame these prints look fabulous. Prints are shipper flat between cardboard sheets for protection and to not cause mounting an framing issues.

Black Triumph TR-4 13×18 inch Print

Print Size

13x18 $19.95

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The 1960’s were decade of innovation at the Indianapolis 500. In 63 European car builders showed the old guard that light mid engines cars were the way to go. By 67 no front engine cars made it into the race. The 1967 race was almost won by this STP sponsored car with a side mounted Turbine power plant. The car being driven by Parnelli Jones dominated the field but with only 3 laps to go a $6 bearing failed allowing AJ Foyt to win his third 500. 

Car came to be known as Silent Sam, the jet like turbine motor in the car would Whoosh around the track rather than Roar. The side mounted motor made for perfect balance for a car designed for left turn only racing. The fact it had all wheel drive helped put the power to the ground. The turbine also had great gas millage cutting down on the amount of pit stops that needed to be made. Restrictions added to the turbines for the next year made the cars less competitive but turbine power cars did appear in 1968.

Print Detail

Unique and wonderfully detailed, Not merely filtered photographs like some automotive art you will see, these are carefully crafted digital paintings that capture the detail and beauty of the subject car.

Artist Print
Print is carefully printed on quality heavy weight stock by the artist using fade proof pigmented inks to last a lifetime. This is best in art reproduction that captures incredible photo quality detail and remarkable color. When matted and frame these prints look fabulous. Prints are shipped in a flat bend proof mailer by First Class Mail.

Print is signed by the artist.

Print Info

STP 1967 Indy 500 Turbine Car 13×18

Print Size

13x18 $19.95

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In his first Grand Prix start of the 1971 season Mario Andretti driving for the Ferrari team qualified fourth on the grid for the South African Grand Prix. Run on the Kyalami circuit Andretti ran in the top six for the first half of the race. As the race was winding down, Andretti began to make his move on the leading McLaren of Denny Hulme. With four laps to go, Andretti had closed to one second behind Hulme. It was during these last four laps that suspension problems hit the McLaren car and Andretti grabbed the lead. When the checkered flag came out, Mario Andretti had won his first of many Grands Prix victories 21 seconds ahead of Jackie Stewart.

Print Detail

Unique and wonderfully detailed, Not merely filtered photographs like some art you will see, these are carefully crafted digital paintings that capture the beauty of the subject car.

Artist Print
Print is carefully printed on quality heavy weight stock by the artist using fade proof pigmented inks to last a lifetime. This is best in art reproduction that captures incredible photo quality detail and remarkable color. When matted and frame these prints look fabulous. Prints are shipped in a flat bend proof mailer by First Class Mail.

Print is signed by the artist.

Print Info

Mario’s First Win Print

Print Size

12.5x18 $19.95

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Waterford Hill Road Course Track Day

For many years I had the pleasure of owning a 1974 Lotus Europa Twin Cam.  I even took to racing the car in SCCA Solo 2 competition and at numerous track days.

The car was for the most part fiberglass with a ingenious backbone frame that was a trademark of Lotus in the day.  At the front it was like the cross on a T to which the front suspension was bolted, and at the back it split into a V where the mid mounted engine lived along with the transaxle and rear suspension. The almost one piece body sat over this and this made for a very light but stiff car.  I remember the class I ran the car in had a minimum weight requirement and at one divisional post race tech weight check the car tipped the scales at just a tick over 1600lbs, with me in it, and yes it was legal.

Twin Cam Lotus with Webers

The car was powered by a rather small 1600cc four cylinder motor based on an English Ford block with a Lotus built aluminum double overhead cam head. Stock horsepower was around 125 hp. At some point I managed to over do it a bit and bent the crankshaft in the stock motor and at that point it was the right time to upgrade the power plant. I built a new motor  adding a forged steel crank lighter pistons, a racing head with bigger valves and hotter cam, and twin Weber side draft carbs.  I figured that pushed the HP up to around a usable 160hp and with a light aluminum flywheel it could rev to over 8000 rpms. But after too many trips to the red line this motor broke the piston rings and so I went back to a more stock engine and sold the HOT motor.

Original Tawny Brown Paint

What was the strong suit of the car was it’s handling. Because the car was light and had the mid engine it’s balance was that of a pure race car. And like any good Lotus owner I had tinkered with the suspension adding special springs and shocks absorbers.  Steering was only two or so turns lock to lock and I had a small 12′ wheel. You did have to pay attention because it didn’t take much wheel input to make the car change direction, just thinking about changing lanes and it would do it. Because of the Solo 2 racing I always had the best performance street legal tires on the car. When it came to braking the Lotus could give you nose bleeds, I had also upgrades the front brakes to larger GT-6 rotors and calipers.

Grattan Raceway Lotus National Meet

My Lotus was great fun to drive on the street but at only 46″ high you had to be real aggressive around other cars. Drive fast and never be along side anyone, best to be in front where they can see you. When passing do it with a quick downshift and pass with intent, When stopping always look in the rearview when you hit the brakes to make sure some big boat like sedan or truck wasn’t close behind you.

Age soon stared to take it’s toll, not so much the car, but me. Oh, sure Europa was a blast but I stared to get a craving for something modern, more comfortable, with air, the Lotus was like an oven in the summer. Forget hearing the radio. SCCA rules were also bumping the car into a higher racing class and the new performance cars coming out in the late 1980’s were very competitive. The new breed of “R” compound “Street Tires” were also an issue, the 70’s suspension was not made for such sticky tires and it was causing undue stress on the suspension parts made for less potent tires.  So I broke down and bought a 1988 Mustang 5.0 and sort of retired the Europa to occasional outings with other English car owners.

Burned but not as bad as I pictured.

After deciding I was not driving the car enough to justify keeping it around I sold it to a guy.  I kind of lost touch with what he was doing with it until I heard from a fellow Lotus owner my Lotus was on the new owners enclosed trailer being towed back from a Lotus track day at Grattan Raceway when it caught fire!  WOW, Grattan is where on my first track day with the car I lost my brakes and stuffed the Lotus into the bushes off turn eight, not a lucky place for the car I guess.

What Now?  Well as luck would have it I did find pictures of the old car . It was bought by a fellow in Michigan after talking to him I am told it proved to be more of a project than he envisioned and so it changed hands once again.  I am in the process of contacting the new owner and may have more word on the Europa in the future.

FYI, John DeLorean had an idea for a stainless steel, gull wing door sportscar.  Being more of a designer and idea man DeLorean had hired Lotus to do the engineering work. And true to Lotus ways of doing things the famous “Back to the Future” car was built on a similar backbone frame and fiberglass body shell to which stainless steel panels were I believe glued. Lotus was not happy with the doors, because the prototype’s roadholding and general rigidity were not helped by the big cut-outs in the shell dictated by the gull-wing doors.

Companion piece to my painting of the new model Saleen Mustang. This is the Mustang of Parnelli Jones that competed in the 1970 Tans Am racing series.  In 1970, spectators watched Parnelli in his black striped Grabber Orange Boss 302 Mustang take numerous checkered flags to win the overall championship. This painting shows that car long with the newer 2010 Saleen Mustang reflected in the water below. A version with the new Mustang on top is in the works.

I also have artwork of the George Follmer 1969 Trans Am racing Mustang and  2010 Follmer tribute Saleen Mustang

Print Detail

Prints are carefully printed on quality heavy weight stock by the artist using fade proof pigmented inks to last a lifetime. This is the best in art reproductions that captures incredible photo quality detail and remarkable color. When matted and frame these prints look fabulous. Prints are shipper flat between cardboard sheets for protection and to not cause mounting an framing issues.

1970 Parnelli Jones Trans Am Mustang Print

Print Size

11x14 $14.95 13x19 $19.95

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The Detroit Dream Project’s “Temple of the American Dream” was built by volunteers in the Brightmoor / Old Redford (Grand River and Lasher) neighborhood of northwest Detroit in June 2008. This community art and peace park is open to all, shaped by all, and the hub of many of our dreams for what Detroit can be and what Detroit will be as we create together.

http://www.detroitdreamproject.org/

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These photos were taken in the Old Redford section of Detroit where someone has been decorating the buildings with lots of colorful paintings.