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British Classic Car Prints
British classic car culture is roadster culture: low doors, long louvred bonnets, weather optional. 1930: The Roadster opens our Silhouette Era set with exactly that shape - swept wings and a spare wheel in one…
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Car Art for the Living Room
Living room car art has to earn a place among the furniture, not shout over it. Canvas suits the room - no glass glare, a soft gallery edge - so The Workshop and Riviera Run sit as easily above a sofa as in a s…
More guides and references
Car poster guides.
Everything written on this site outside the journey itself, listed here: two guides on getting the physical object right (size and frame), one page of DVLA fleet numbers, and two on giving it to somebody else.
The wall
Car poster sizes, and how to pick one.
Five poster sizes, from A4 to 70 by 100 centimetres. The right one depends on the wall and the viewing distance rather than on the picture, and it is the decision people most often get wrong in the cautious dir…
By room
Car Posters for Bedrooms
Car posters for a bedroom have to pass a harder test than garage art: you fall asleep looking at them. Loud photography dates fast; original art lasts. The Night Drives series was practically designed for bedro…
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Car Posters for Boys' Rooms
Car posters for a boy's room usually mean a cheap multipack that peels off the wall in six months - fast to fade, faster to outgrow. Original art goes the other way: a print they choose at eight can survive the…
By room
Car Prints for the Office
Car prints for an office have a diplomatic mission: signal the passion without undermining the professionalism. Photography of someone else's supercar fails that test; original art passes it. The Blueprint Work…
The car
Car questions, answered.
Straight answers to the car questions people actually type into a search bar. Where a term has a real engineering definition, you get it with the source it came from. Where it does not, the page says so instead…
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Classic American Car Prints
Classic American car prints trade on a specific dream: empty highway, big sky, chrome catching the golden hour. Route Nowhere is that dream painted - a fifties cruiser on cracked desert asphalt, shadow long, me…
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Classic Car Posters
A classic car poster should feel like the era it celebrates, not a stock photo of another car. Ours are original art drawn in the spirit of the golden age - Pit Lane, 1955 captures the paddock calm before a gra…
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Endurance Racing Posters
Endurance racing is the romantic discipline - twenty-four hours, headlamps at dusk, the long game. Endurance is our flagship tribute: a long-bonneted sixties prototype on an endless tree-lined straight, twin la…
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Hot Hatch Prints
The hot hatch is the people's performance car - shopping trolley silhouette, motorsport heart - and it deserves wall art with the same wit. Our nineties-flavoured pieces carry the energy: 1995: The Icon draws t…
The car
How does a turbocharger work?
A turbocharger puts a turbine in the exhaust stream and bolts it to a compressor. The escaping gas spins one, and the other forces extra air into the engine.
The car
How many cars from each year are still licensed?
The DVLA publishes the licensed car fleet by year of first registration. As of the end of December 2025, 13,785 cars first registered in 1973 still hold a licence - and 245 from 1923. Here is the whole table, w…
The wall
How to frame a car print.
A frame is not decoration, it is a decision about how much attention the picture gets. The good news with car art is that the artwork's own ground colour makes most of the choice for you, so there are really on…
The gift
In December, timing is the hard part.
Choosing a car gift is a solved problem the rest of the year. In December the thing that actually goes wrong is the calendar, because nothing here exists until somebody orders it and the post is at its slowest …
By room
Man Cave Wall Art
Man cave wall art carries the whole room's identity - it is the difference between a den with a sofa and a place with a point of view. The Garage series was painted for these walls: The Workshop puts a classic …
By car
Muscle Car Posters
Muscle car posters should sound like they look: big-displacement, unsubtle, a little chrome-edged. The V8 is the heart of the genre, so we drew the heart itself - V8 Anatomy is an exploded blueprint of block, c…
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Rally Posters
Rally is the discipline where cars leave the ground and posters earn their drama. Our rally-adjacent pieces chase that energy: The Hairpin catches a vintage racer mid-drift on a cliffside bend, tail wide, dust …
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Roadster Prints
The roadster is the purest car shape there is - two seats, no roof, nothing it does not need - and it draws beautifully. It opens our Silhouette Era set as 1930: The Roadster, one continuous line on cream. It s…
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Supercar Posters
Supercar posters are usually photographs - which means licensing, which means the same dozen press shots on every site. Ours go the other way: original supercar art in the spirit of the breed. The wedge era get…
The art
The art
The picture itself. One of the twenty-eight already drawn, your own car repainted from a photograph, or that photograph printed as it is.
The car
The car
What the numbers on the spec sheet actually measure, how the engine breathes, and which of these words mean anything at all.
The gift
The gift
Buying it for somebody else: what a car obsessive already owns, and what they do not.
The wall
The wall
Size, frame and room. What each format does to the same picture, and which one the wall in question actually wants.
The gift
They already bought it, in the spec they wanted.
A serious enthusiast is genuinely difficult to buy for, and not because the shops are empty. It's because everything a shop sells for this hobby is a tool or a consumable, and they've already chosen theirs on p…
The car
What does 0-60 mph mean?
0-60 mph is the number of seconds a car takes to reach sixty miles an hour from a standing start. It is a stopwatch figure, not a certified one.
The car
What does BHP mean?
BHP stands for brake horsepower: power measured at the engine's own crankshaft, before the gearbox, driveshafts and tyres take their share of it.
The car
What does GT mean on a car?
GT is short for gran turismo, Italian for grand tourer: a car built to cross long distances quickly and comfortably rather than to lap a circuit.
The car
What does naturally aspirated mean?
A naturally aspirated engine breathes on its own. Each piston moving down creates a vacuum, and atmospheric pressure alone fills the cylinder behind it.