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  1. Product or collection

    Paint Shop

    Upload a photo of your car, choose an art style, preview it free, and we print the transformed artwork.

    Paint Shop
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    Pit Lane, 1955

    Mechanics swarm a stripped racer under warm lamplight - oil cans, stacked tyres, quiet heroics.

    Pit Lane, 1955
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    Pixel Night City

    An 8-bit coupe on a neon street at night - magenta, cyan and pixel rain. Arcade-era cool.

    Pixel Night City
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    Pixel Rally Stage

    A 16-bit rally car mid-jump on a forest stage, dust and dithered shadow. Racing-game nostalgia.

    Pixel Rally Stage
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    Pixel Roadster

    A 16-bit roadster on an empty desert highway under a big banded sky. Retro road-trip joy.

    Pixel Roadster
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    Pixel Sunset Run

    A 16-bit sports coupe on a coastal highway at sunset. Crisp pixels, a vibrant arcade palette, pure nostalgia.

    Pixel Sunset Run
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    Racing posters, drawn rather than licensed.

    Five pictures about the parts of motor racing that actually stay with people: the light, the dust, the noise you can almost hear, and the hour before anyone starts. None of them is a photograph, and none of the…

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    Rear-Engine Study

    Cutaway blueprint of a 1960s rear-engined coupe: engine, gearbox and suspension in fine white line on deep blue.

    Rear-Engine Study
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    Riviera Run

    A 1950s roadster sweeps the harbourside boulevard - palms, yachts and mediterranean light.

    Riviera Run
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    Route Nowhere

    A fifties cruiser on an empty desert highway, shadow long across the cracked asphalt.

    Route Nowhere
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    Speed Record

    An Art Deco land-speed racer arrows across the salt flats beneath radiating geometric sun rays. Machine-age glamour, held still.

    Speed Record
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    The Barn Find

    Half-pulled tarp, slatted light on faded chrome. Every collector's favourite dream.

    The Barn Find
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    The cars a lot of people actually grew up with.

    For a large number of people the formative car was not on a driveway. It was sixteen bits wide, seen from behind, on a coastal road that scrolled forever. Four prints drawn in that language, with the pixels lef…

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    The good part was always the drive home.

    Nineties Japanese car culture produced a very specific kind of picture, and almost none of it is about racing. It is about being somewhere empty at one in the morning with the engine off, and about what sodium …

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    The Hairpin

    Tail wide, dust flying - a vintage racer caught mid-drift on a cliffside bend above the sea.

    The Hairpin
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    The Last Petrol Station

    A lone classic under the forecourt canopy at 2am - neon, wet tarmac, and nowhere to be.

    The Last Petrol Station
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    The reason car gifts go wrong.

    Buy a mug with a badge on it and you have made a bet: that this is the marque, and that they want it on a mug. Car people are specific in a way that makes that bet worse than it looks. Everything below is a way…

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    The Roadster, to Plan

    A classic open-top roadster drawn patent-style in three views - side, front and plan - on engineering blue.

    The Roadster, to Plan
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    The same picture, ten different objects.

    Once you have chosen a picture, the format is the decision that actually changes it. Paper flattens and calms, canvas adds texture and takes the glass away, metal sharpens, wood warms. Here is what each one doe…

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    The Workshop

    A classic up on the lift, tools on the wall, dust in the golden light. Where the good hours go.

    The Workshop
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    V8 Anatomy

    Bonnet up, blueprint out: a muscle-era V8 drawn in loving detail above the car that carries it.

    V8 Anatomy
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    Vintage car posters that are not reproductions.

    A vintage car poster is usually one of two things: somebody's archive design photographed again and sold as a reproduction, or a licensed period photograph with the licence fee inside the price. These eight are…

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    Your car, repainted from a photograph.

    Twenty-eight pictures in this collection and not one of them is of your car. The Paint Shop is the answer to that: upload a photograph of the actual car, pick a style, and review the result before ordering. You…

    A photograph of a plain car beside a half-finished ink and wash drawing of the same car on an illustrator’s desk.
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    Your Photo, Printed

    Upload a photograph and we print it gallery-grade - poster, framed, or canvas.

    Your Photo, Printed