The Online Magazine for Italian and French Classic Car Enthusiasts
By Wallace Wyss
Photos by Richard Bartholomew and Wallace Wyss
The ArtCenter College of Design Car Classic is not billed as a concours. And it’s not. It is more of a collection of cars curated anew each year to make a statement.
This year the event at their hilltop campus had one big emphasis — to celebrate the work of its graduates who had achieved something in automotive styling. [Read more…] about ArtCenter Classic 2018
Story by Brandes Elitch
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the Academy of Art showroom in San Francisco. I had just come over the Golden Gate Bridge in morning rush hour traffic, which requires quick reflexes and nerves of steel. I went up Lombard and turned on Van Ness, still a little dazed from the drive, which is kind of like open wheel racing. During the twenties and thirties, this is where all the great automobile showrooms were located, and some of them still exist today in their mostly original form. At the intersection of Van Ness and Washington, I idly looked to my right and saw a mirage: a thirties showroom with period cars in the showroom window, except that they were not like any cars there before – Bugatti, Delahaye, Delage, Alfa Romeo, Minerva, Daimler, Duesenberg, Packard – it looked like the lawn at Pebble Beach. I was transfixed, and then rudely summoned from my reverie by a horn in back of me. What is this place, I wondered. [Read more…] about Learn the Art of Restoration at Academy of Art