THE TEA TIME SPECIAL.
Edition number 4/6.
Size: 120 x 120cm.
Price: POA.
As always when painting the limited editions, keeping each one as a unique one-off is always the objective.This blue edition is no exception. It’s er… blue, all over. So making it… unique.Same underlying story, just a different colour!
Please view edition number 3/6 for the full background story on the Cobra editions.
GULF ROCKET
Number 4/6 of the Evolution 911’s.
Wall mounted. Size: 120 x 120 cm.
Price: POA.
Tricky doing a Gulf 911 as the 917 will always be the car people identify with the Gulf colours.
A 911? Not so much, so I took the liberty to go a little more abstract with the colour scheme.
Quite the statement if you love Porsche racing cars.
Title: JUST FOUR.
Edition number 5/6.
Base Size:122 x 123cm.
Price: POA.
The fifth of just six castings. Captured at dawn at Daytona, 1967. The third place car, complete with busted headlight, heading towards Ferrari’s one, two, three revenge win on US soil, with the P4’s making up the first three places in this now famous 24 hour race. As with all six castings , each one is used to make a unique edition. hence a true one-off wall hung sculpture. Number 6/6 will be the Monza winning car.
THE TEA TIME SPECIAL.
Edition number 2/6
Size: 122 x 61.
PRICE: POA.
As with all the editions completed, due to each one being hand painted, changes are made, sizes altered. This second edition is a great example. A taller, tighter base. Lighter tyre marks and just the enamel tea mug x 20 (as seen in lots of shots in the Ferrari Ford film.) Makes for a different edition. Just as good as the first and third versions…. just well… different.
ACID TANK RACER Number 2.
Title: Dirty Stripper.
1967 Plymouth Belvedere. Altered wheel base drag racer.
Wallmounted.
Size of base: 61 x 61 cm. (can be displayed as a free standing edition if preferred)
Price: £695.00
Currently the plan is to create 12 of these little sculptures. Each one will be painted in a different style, colour etc along with a unique name along each side of the body. Some free standing, some wall mounted.
These crazy drag racers were re-built moving their rear and front axles forward to help balance and tyre grip. The body shells of the GM race prepared cars were also acid dipped to help save weight. Some of the editions will have sculptured wheel smoke and extra movement shapes behind the car, some won’t. It depends on colours and styles used as to whether these extra shapes are used.
TITLE: SPLIT DECISION.
Edition 3/3
Size: 100 x 120 cm.
PRICE: POA.
This is the last of the Hawthorn D-Type LeMans Jaguars. Totally different painting technique used to the first two editions. The marking of the tragic event has been added in a very different style and location. Making it possible to hang the edition either portrait or landscape. Also a different size base. Making this edition a unique one-off.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Should Mike have swerved across the track so late to make his pit-stop? Should we celebrate his and Jaguar’s winning of the race? No doubt the worst day in motor racing history. Yet both Jaguar and Hawthorne won the race. Albeit in very sad circumstances. But for the car and the driver it can be claimed as the pinnacle of their success? So how do you celebrate one of the most beautiful cars and skilled drivers of their time without incorporating a very subtle understanding of the tragic events? Again, a wall mounted automotive sculpture to make you think.
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 3/6
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?