About Us, Man
Automotive-Art: Life Worth the Drive!
Automotive-Art was founded in 2002 to serve the curiosity and passions of automotive and motorcycle enthusiasts.
Our founder — a lifelong car guy with a gallery owner’s eye — created an automotive art gallery under the name Legacy Motors Automotive Art Gallery in 2002. Along the way, the name was changed to Automotive-Art to reflect a simple fact: there’s beauty in being a car guy or a bike rider.
“It’s a beauty,” we say when we see a car or bike we love. It’s art we relate to.
What We Cover
Our range includes classic cars, race cars and motorsports, sports cars and super cars. Vintage, muscle, contemporary classics and concept. In motorcycles: classic roadsters, cruisers and cafe racers. If it has ever made someone stop mid-sentence in a parking lot, it belongs here.
Car culture is more than car shows, design specs and race results. It’s about the qualities and achievement that car people admire — craftsmanship, daring, mechanical honesty, and a certain refusal to grow up completely. So over the years we also delved into fashion, precision models, adventures, personal technology, and decor for the garage and den.
The Archive Today
In its gallery years, Automotive-Art discovered and offered things we thought fellow enthusiasts would get a major kick out of owning: fine art prints by the leading automotive artists of our time, hand-built scale models, vintage racing poster reproductions, nostalgic signs and garage clocks. These pages now preserve that accumulated knowledge as a permanent, free reference — collection guides, collecting advice, and the Braking News journal that kept our readers entertained nearly every Thursday.
Two Decades of Looking at Cars
The arc of this place tracks the arc of the hobby itself. In the early 2000s, automotive fine art lived mostly in physical galleries and concours weekend tents; our founding years were spent learning the field one artist, one lithograph and one slightly-over-budget framing decision at a time. By the mid-2010s the gallery had moved fully online, the catalog had grown to hundreds of artworks, models and posters, and the journal had found its voice — equal parts reverence for the machines and refusal to be solemn about them. Readers wrote in with barn-find stories, correction letters (always welcome), and photographs of our prints hanging above workbenches from Ohio to Osaka, which remains the highest compliment a car-culture gallery can receive.
When the storefront era ended, the knowledge didn’t. Everything we learned about lithographs and giclées, edition numbers and UV glass, 1:43 ateliers and golden-age poster artists is preserved in the guides linked throughout these pages — free, evergreen, and written for the same audience as always: people who slow down for a great fender line.
The instinct to preserve car culture is bigger than any one gallery. Institutions like The Henry Ford safeguard the machines and the stories of American innovation on a grand scale; we have always tried to do our small, cheerful part for the artwork those machines inspire.
Our Promise
Automotive-Art is to be foremost good-natured, entertaining and honest. We write about what genuinely delights us, we admit when something is hype, and we never take ourselves more seriously than the cars deserve. If you spot us drifting from that standard, we trust you to honk.
Want to go deeper? Start with the art collection guide, learn how commissioning original automotive artwork works, or settle an argument with the FAQs.