Summer Thrill

The Pegaso Thrill was the Spanish offering for the Turin Auto Show in 1953.  It's wonderful two tone coachwork was by Touring.

The girl's name is Summer.  Summer works at my favorite hangout, The Vintage Tavern in Smyrna, Georgia.  I felt the car and Summer were a natural combination.

Car in colored ink.  Summer in prismacolor pencil.

Lucy Blue

In 1940, Lucy O'Reilly Schell entered two Maserati 8CTF racing cars in the Indy 500.  Despite the fact that Europe was already at war she managed to get the two cars, her drivers and mechanic to the race.  An Irish American who lived in France, she the Italian race cars painted French Racing Blue.  One of her cars finished 10th.  A sister car owned by Mike Boyle and driven by Wilbur Shaw won the race for the 2nd year in a row.

2 For L.A.

Two GM convertibles with "Resto Rod" treatment.  Both belong to the client who commissioned this picture.  Done in colored ink, with prismacolor pencil on the background.

This is a photo of the original, with some unfortunate shadowing on the right side of the piece.

Addams & Aston

Charles Addams was the cartoonist whose work was the basis for "The Addams Family" TV show.  Addams was also a rabid car guy.  In the late 1960's, he bought the 1933 Aston Martin LeMans that had belonged to my friend Charlie Turner.  I had the good fortune to later meet Addams at an Aston Martin club meet in Pennsylvania.  This depicts Addams and the Aston at his house on Long Island.

The 1st Squire of Zethrin

In the mid 1930's, Adrian Squire built seven exquisite automobiles before going bankrupt.  Enter Val Zethrin, one of Squires original buyers.  Zethrin bought the company and assembled three more cars.  This is the first of those cars.  Coachwork was by Corsica Body Works.  This car sold at auction last year at Amelia Island for just under a million dollars.

Side Car

The classic coctail from the '20s and how it came to be. The write up is from a nice Automobile Quarterly article by Stan Grayson. I have always liked the story and think Amilcars are really neat. The girl gives guys who really aren't into cars something to look at. This was done in colored ink, with a blow up of Grayson's article pasted in.

Bugatti Girl #6

This Type 57SC Atalante Coupe was part of the fabulous Harrah's automobile collection in Reno. The Atalante name comes from the Greek Goddess, legendary for her beauty and fleetness of foot. The car was rendered in colored ink and the girl in prismacolor pencil.