Five pages live here now, and they mostly split evenly. Two are about the object on the wall - how big it should be and what surrounds it. One is the DVLA’s own count of how many cars from each year still hold a licence. Two are about giving one to a person who is difficult to buy for. The four stages hold the rest of the reading.
The object
- Car poster sizes, and how to pick one - the five sizes from A4 to 70x100, and why the right one depends on the wall and the viewing distance rather than the picture.
- How to frame a car print - a frame is a decision about how much attention the picture gets, and the artwork's own ground colour makes some of it easy.
The data
One page, and it argues nothing. It reproduces a government statistical series: the counts are the DVLA’s, and so are the caveats attached to them.
- How many cars from each year are still licensed - the DVLA’s own counts by year of first registration, every year from 1950 to 1999 in a table, with the three caveats the DVLA attaches to the figures and the 1972-73 bump left as an observation rather than a cause.
The gift
- The petrolhead gift guide - why a serious enthusiast is hard to buy for, and what to do when everything a shop sells is a tool or a tee-shirt.
- Christmas gifts for car guys - in December the hard part is the calendar, because nothing here exists until it is made.
If you would rather read the site in order, start at the car and follow the stages through: the art, the wall, the gift.
Written by Craig Fearn, Petrol & Ink. Last updated .