Title: FIFTY
Size: Wall mounted edition: 145 x 64 cm
Price: POA.
Three of the new six CSL castings are now offered as wall mounted ’50’ editions, to help celebrate BMW M’s birthday. Same casting as the WALL FLOWER edition. Aware not everyone has the space for the mobile Alexander Calder edition. This version is wrapped in the familiar racing colours we all know and love. A ’50’ has been added to the bonnet and doors to help celebrate the birthday. An edition of just three. Size of wall mounted base is 145 x 64 cm. So it’s quite large.
Title: OLD SMOKEY
Wall mounted edition. Size: 120 x 46 cm
Edition 1/1.
Price: £595.00
Following on from the wild sixties car ad FUNKY GOAT and PSYCHO editions, I decided to to add a third edition to the funky collection.
This old front engine ’60’s top fuel racer. Seems to be a good fit, wild colours, screaming engine, tyres melting!
Title: THE WALL FLOWER
Size: Mobile: 105 x 105 cm
Edition number: 2/3 Edition number 1 is sold
Price: POA.
Over the past five decades BMW have commissioned world famous artists to paint their racing cars. Alexander Calder was the very first. This CSL raced at LeMans in 1974, lasting just six hours and has never turned a wheel in anger ever since!
All dressed up and nowhere to go! It gets pushed around the globe, from art gallery to art gallery. From museum to museum. It’ll never see a race track ever again. Which is a shame as it was built and painted to move. Sadly Alexander Calder died shortly after the car was completed. If he was around today, how would he have liked to see his work of art displayed? Sitting in a glass box, never moving?
Alexander, being world famous for his mobiles. He would have hung it high and let the wind blow it gently across the sky. We appreciate hanging one of the six editions in your home or office will take some planning. From a vast central 40 foot stair well to a 8 foot high ceiling we have numerous suggestions and recommendations to help hang this wonderful work of art.
Please don’t hesitate to ask for more information about the possible display solutions.
Title: THE TEA TIME SPECIAL
Size: 105 x 110 cm
Edition number 2/6 ‘First edition now sold’
Price: POA.
Yes it’s the Shelby Cobra, number 98 and yes it’s probably the most famous one ever built and raced. Yet the car is only secondary when it comes to the story captured within this sculpture. It’s all about Ken Miles. Or ‘Teddy-teabag’ as his team mates used to call him.
We’ve all viewed the film ‘Le Mans’ in which we see Ken develop and race the GT40 for the success which was thoroughly deserved. Ken was loved by everyone in all the teams he was involved in, worshiped by Carroll Shelby and respected by all the other drivers he ever raced against.
What you might not know about Ken is he liked Roses and…. Tea. He drank it by the bucket load. Morning, noon and night. It was the ‘British’ thing which set him apart. Shelby at one race had a pit board chalked up with ‘KEN TEA’ to get his attention to encourage him to pull into the pits.
So wanting this sculpture to be more about the driver, rather than the car, what better way to make this wall mounted sculpture unique? But by adding a little of what kept Ken on his toes all through those long days and nights developing and racing the mighty Shelby Cobra.
Wonder if he’d drunk coffee he would have been as quick?
Title: THE FUNKY GOAT.
Wall mounted edition. Size: 90 x 50 cm.
Edition 1/1.
Price: £695.00
If you are aware of the old GM car ads from the late sixties, you might remember the old cartoon Road Runner ads and similar. (meep, meep.)
This rusty old GM GOAT, an original ‘white’ heavy resin casting has been given the rough life on the drag strip look as well as being attached to the wild, wild cartoon styled wall mounted base board. With a fairly close copy of the original road runner cartoon style tyre smoke. It’s a one-off, never to be repeated. No more castings of the old Goat left. Be quick!
TITLE: JUST FOUR
Ferrari 330 P4.
Third place, Le Mans 1967.
One-off edition.
Casting edition 4/6
Size: 120 x 120 cm.
Price: POA.
Ferrari connoisseurs consider the 330 P4 to be the most beautiful shape ever created by the Italian company. And only four were ever built. Just Four… All raced and wrecked, all involved in probably Ferrari’s best period of sports car racing.
Number 24, unique, battered and dirty complete with smashed front lights and wing took 3rd place back in 1967 at LeMans. It follows on from the number 21 car created for the triptych edition. The base is some 120 cm square, so it’s big! You can hang it anyway you like, nose down on a stair well. Side on over a desk or couch. Which ever way it’s finally displayed, it’ll be hard not to stare at it all day long.
TITLE: STEWART & WHITMORE.
One-off Red and Gold Lotus Corina edition.
SIZE: 120 x 65 cm
PRICE: £1500
As we all know John Whitmore’s cars were always red and gold. Back in ’66 he raced no less than Jackie Stewart at Snetterton in another, you’ve guessed also in a red and gold car. Quite the team… Now captured as a one-off edition.
EVOLUTION 3
Early PORSCHE RSR.
BASE SIZE: 100 x 105 cm.
PRICE: POA
Casting number 3/6. Not creating an early RSR without a hint of the Martini colours would be a crime. This washed Martini edition now covers that era in the early Porche 911 Martini partnership. Martini’s livery has appeared on many 911’s and choosing one above the others was very difficult, so this Martin concept has been created. Not exactly like any one single car, it’s a generic version, with the Martini colours being washed over the car at high speed , reflecting the movement and speed contained within the sculpture. A further element making this edition unique is a sheet of polished Aluminium. Making it very special.
Title: 24 HOURS.
Ferrari 330P4. Second place.
LeMans 1967.
Size: Each the three panels are 122 x 41 cm.
One-off edition. PRICE POA.
Each of the three panels represents a different time during the 24 hour race. The left panel is 8pm. The centre panel is 2am and the right panel is 8am.The car is positioned as it’s exiting Arnarge Corner. Facing north. Hence the light on each of the cars. The left hand car is being hit by late evening sun and the right hand car is being lit from early morning sun. The car on the left is cleaner, the car on the right is filthy.
I’m also planning to create one-off editions of the 330P4 at other races. Only using one casting of the car for each edition. Please see future section for further information.
EVOLUTION 2/6
Early PORSCHE RSR.
BASE SIZE: 90 x 105 cm.
PRICE: POA.
This ‘nickel azo yellow’ is casting number 2. Casting number one was created using the winning now-famous Daytona red and blue stripes. Casting number 3 mounted on aluminium has the famous Martini branding woven through the sculpture and base. Creating a sculpture of a 911 is always tricky. Which one? An early RS? The later 917? What about the newer GT3?
The six editions are titled Evolution. This is a deliberate description as the sculpture hopefully captures all the great parts to the 911 generic shape, (whichever one you like) and blends and shapes with speed and movement a sculpture which is instantly identified as one of the most iconic shapes seen on the road and track ever created.
This yellow edition has a large percentage of the RSR’s 1973 race results washed into the speed and shadows along with a nod toward the now-famous Garrards LeMans car. The 911.