Paul has a new piece to sell, and can be met at Goodwood or online at Automobiliart.blogspot.com

Paul's newest laser-cut illustration, showing the Shelby/Salvadori Aston Martin DBR1 which won the 1959 24 heures du Mans. 

Laser-cut from stainless steel, powder-coated green; then hand-paint the additional colours using pin-strippers paint. The hood opens to reveal laser-cut brushed stainless steel illustration of the famous inline 6-cylinder DBR1 engine. The side brackets are also laser-cut illustrations, and the back-plate is powder-coated in black crinkle finish.

The piece is very limited (10 to 25 max.) and comes in a custom-built box.Here are the specs:

22” x 13” x 3” (55.8cm x 33cm x 7.6cm)11 lbs 9 oz (5.25 kg)

$4550 CDN/£2800 GBP/€3300 EUR/$4400 USD plus shipping/fees

you might see him at Goodwood, or, you can order it at 

Paul Chenard
http://automobiliart.blogspot.com/
paul.chenard@hotmail.com
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 902 817-9273

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Nardi-Giannini 750 Bisiluro By Carlo Mollino

Found on http://megadeluxe.com/vintage-deluxe/bisiluro-by-carlo-mollino-domus#more-5457

Made for the 1955 Le Mans.

Regarding the design of "things that move", history gives us quite a catalogue of proposals to improve the breed by echoing a form across some sort of bridging element. With names like "twinpod", "twin-boom", "twin-fuselage", "doublehull", or "catamaran", the designer's fascination with mirroring a good idea has been around ever since the Garden of Eden, when God decided two breasts looked seriously cooler than one.

looking at the images of the Bisiluro racing at Le Mans in 1955 one finds a closer visual connection to modern motorcycle sidecar racers than to aeroplanes. (It was not the last four-wheeled race car to work this asymmetry scheme either. A notable composition was the Smokey Yunick sidecar racer attempt at Indy in 1964) http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/greatest-innovation-in-bumpers-ever.html

That the lightweight racer was literally sucked off the course by a passing Jaguar must have been doubly frustrating for the team. Car Design-wise, the Bisiluro fits into a category I would call "Non-Car Cars", those purposeful objects that stir the imaginations of Car Designers by allowing them to incorporate a new proportion, perspective, form, structure or detail into their concept of a "Car" without having to carry all the functional and cultural baggage of being "automobiles". 

description is just part of the write up at http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/2011/09/12/the-asymmetric-racer.html This article was originally published in Domus 950/September 2011

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Pontiac Tempest Le Mans, great looking, and has a really cool hood scoop

looks like a valve cover was cut into pieces when I focus on the ribs on top.

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