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The CCCSA accepts no liability for any misfortune or dissatisfaction resulting from any sponsor’s disservice, or any misleading information, errors or omissions herein. www.cccsa.net.au The opinions expressed in Torqueback are not necessarily the views of the CCCSA, only of the individual volunteer contributors. facebook/ chryslercarclubofsa 55 bear metal from the edItor G’day there. come who couldn’t make this issue’s deadline) Welcome to issue 35 of the new Torqueback– that I’ve ended up having to stretch this theme entitled Mopart, Part One. over two issues! (Of course the next issue after this one will be the ACF Special, but Mopart, Part In this issue please allow me to indulge myself, Two will follow that…). with a subject close to my heart – automotive So during these next coupla magazines we’ll art. As many of you might already know, I love to take a look at a few different kinds of automotive draw – and I love to draw cars… art around the Chrysler brands, as well as cars I’m lucky to have somehow made a career from in general. We’ll overview some techniques, this, so I think I know something about it. Well, and map some styles and evolutions. I’ll also enough to be able to talk about it here anyway. In introduce you to some notable exponents doing so, I might also have to actually talk about of drawing, painting, airbrushing, rendering, myself too, so I hope that’s OK by everybody … drafting and industrial design. We’ll survey some advertising design history and look at how I just hope you all find it interesting. the car has been captured in popular culture – in And I wanted to do something different. comics, cartoon and film. painting – whether on canvas or on a computer So, what exactly do I mean by automotive art? Eye candy everywhere! screen – can be so subjective, so it gives us Well, any kind of artwork associated with cars By the way I’m deliberately not going into and our cars a whole other dimension. Perhaps and car culture. It could be an illustration on automotive photography here. a different reality. Maybe because it is even a a poster, the graphic in a decal, a stripe or a more personal experience. mural in a paintjob, a technical drawing from an Obviously, photography has naturally emerged Regardless of all these semantics, I’ve decided instruction manual, a rendering of a concept, as the predominant medium for the automotive that automotive photography deserves to be a a painting of your own car to hang in your pool subject because of its power and convenience, topic of its own. So we’ll save that for another time. room, or a ‘character’ in a movie. Perhaps even and it too has its own history – of styles and just a particular remarkable car in its entirety itself. evolutions. There are some amazing automotive Y’know, in a roundabout way, automotive art is In a previous Torqueback I talked about how a photographers around – look no further than actually how I came to own my Valiant – and design classic or a wild custom could almost be some of the folks who regularly and generously hence how I ended up in the CCCSA. revered as a piece of art, like an exotic sculpture. donate their beautiful lightburns to Torqueback! Anyway I hope you enjoy this issue... something Eye candy! There’s a perception that photography is quite different. Have some eye candy. ‘closer to reality’ than any other visual created There was so much that I wanted to explore by the hand, maybe because it appears to Cheers, (plus I have a couple of BIG special guests still to be so objective. Conversely, a drawing or a Dave H Luckily, my mother saved the earliest drawing I ever did at age 5. Cars, planes and monsters influenced by the TV cartoon Motor Mouse and Auto Cat and this GTO monster car (right) by Ed Roth, which was upon a decal on the window at Rhemac Motors at Hill Street, Gawler South – where I would sit and gaze at in wonder while my dad put the family Toyota Crown in for a service. 54 3 the car-line from the presIdent I decided to take a break from being on the contribution to making the Adelaide Chrysler organising committee this year but have been Festival such a fantastic event. keeping across preparations and it sounds like I’m excited to check out this year’s show. If you it’s going to be another bumper show. After haven’t already, make sure you check out the the Tonsley extravaganza, Damian Tripodi website at cccsa.net.au/acf and get your entry suggested we look at the Bendigo model and in as spaces are filling fast. expand on our previous Chryslers at the Port events and stage a ‘street show’. So, this year, The other event that falls this year is the the Adelaide Chrysler Festival will centre around bi-annual Kernewek Lowender with it’s the Port Adelaide docks and the Hart’s Mill Cavalcade of Cars. This seems to get bigger precinct. Dates are 22nd to 24th February. every time and is, in my opinion, becoming as popular as the Bay to Birdwood with cars Quite a few of the changes from last year have coming from all over the state and country. Most been kept, like free entry for vehicles and people are now making a weekend of it and spectators. And, as per last year, there will enjoying both the cars and the Cornish Festival be no judging or trophies. So hopefully it will itself. Accommodation books out fast, so get in retain the casual, social and relaxed feel that Happy New Year and welcome to 2019! early for what is a great weekend in May. was generated in 2018. It promises to have a Summer seemed to get off to a lacklustre start, great ‘historical’ feel too, with cars on display in Closing on a bit of a sombre note, our thoughts but it’s certainly hit with a vengeance this month. amongst the old Port buildings. Lots of the pubs are with those members who have recently and cafés in the area are also getting on board to lost loved ones or are battling illnesses at the Love an Aussie summer! help with keeping the punters fed and watered. moment. I won’t name people here but know that It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were your friends at CCCSA are thinking of you and Keeping the event free is in large part due to gathering at Tonsley for the 2018 Adelaide your families. the support of our sponsors, particularly the Chrysler Festival, and now here we are ramping Anyway, that’s enough from me for this edition.