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This 1958 Ford Nucleon is among 100 concept car images that Ford Motor Co. just added to its online archive site. Images are now available to the public for free downloading. 1961 Gyron ...
The BMW Art Car Project was introduced by the French racecar driver and auctioneer Hervé Poulain, who wanted to invite an artist to create a canvas on an automobile. In 1975, Poulain commissioned American artist and friend Alexander Calder to paint the first BMW Art Car. This first example would be a BMW 3.0 CSL which Poulain himself would ...
George Barris (auto customizer) George Barris (born George Salapatas; November 20, 1925 – November 5, 2015) was an American designer and builder of Hollywood custom cars. Barris designed and built the Hirohata Merc. Barris's company, Barris Kustom Industries, designed and built the Munster Koach and DRAG-U-LA for The Munsters; and the 1966 ...
In November 1997, Foose became the youngest person to be inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame. Additionally, Foose was inducted into the Darryl Starbird Rod & Custom Car Museum Hall of Fame in 2002, the Grand National Roadster Show Hall of Fame in 2003, the Detroit Autorama "Circle of Champions" [14] Hall of Fame in 2012, and the San Francisco Rod and Custom Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2005.
Cars. (painting) Cars is a series of artworks by the American artist Andy Warhol, commissioned by Mercedes-Benz in 1986. A German art dealer, Hans Meyer, commissioned the first painting, of a 300SL coupe, to celebrate the 1986 centenary of the invention of the motor car. When Mercedes-Benz saw the result, it commissioned the entire series ...
Japan became a leader in car production for a time, and cars began to be mass manufactured in new Asian, East European, and other countries. Examples of postwar cars: 1946–1958 GAZ-M20 Pobeda—Soviet car with full pontoon design; 1947–1958 Standard Vanguard—British mass-market car with a complete pontoon design
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
Sally Carrera (voiced by Bonnie Hunt) is Radiator Spring's town attorney and Lightning's girlfriend. She is a 2002 Porsche 996 Carrera. Sally is a major character in Cars and a supporting character in Cars 2 and Cars 3. In 2022, Porsche made a one-off Porsche 911 in collaboration with Pixar as a tribute to the character, referred to as the ...