Drawings: Cars

1931 Alfa Romeo 8C2300 Zagato

1964 Porsche 904GTS, drawing 1966

Duesenberg, drawing 1991

Drawing of my father's Volvo, 1962, age 18

Sports car designed by me 1972

My drawing done in 1961 at age 15. I had been so impressed by the Alfa Romeo Speciale raced at Grand Central Circuit in 1960, that I had to try and draw one, never thinking I'd own one 19 years later!

Blue Speciale, drawn in 1989 

1928 Talbot 1.5-litre GP car, drawn in 1993

1933 Maserati 8CM3000, drawn in 1995 

Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale, drawn in 1982, while into the second year of  the 6-year restoration of my red 1961 car. 

As with many of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses, I am always impressed by the beauty of designer Franco Scaglione's Alfa Romeo Speciale. What so impresses me about Wright's houses is the sense of spatial and formal excitement coupled with the harmonious setting on their sites. With Scaglione's Speciale and his other car designs, it is the sense of  fluid, forward motion and speed, with the  integrated harmony of the rounded, aero-effective forms.

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