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Blackprints Kickstarter campaign looks to put profiles on your wall

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By John Neff

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We enjoy highlighting artists who turn their brushes, lenses or whatever medium they fancy towards the four-wheeled things in life. San Francisco-based artist Sabrina Chun has done just that with her series called Blackprints: Car Designs Reimagined, which is currently enjoying an overabundance of funding on Kickstarter.

In the series, Chun has taken eight iconic autos and created inverse black-and-white profile views of each. The cars include the Porsche 911, ’67 Mustang GT500, Shelby Cobra, Lamborghini Countach, Volkswagen Microbus, Ford Model T and pop culture icons like the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters and the DeLorean from Back to the Future.

The prints will be available in two sizes, mini (6×9 inches) and jumbo (24×38 inches), and they’re printed on 80-pound card stock made of recycled paper using environmentally friendly soybean-based ink and solvent. What’s more, this is some very reasonably priced art; a pledge of just $34 or more will get you all eight mini prints, while a pledge of $139 or more scores you all eight jumbos.

If you’ll indulge us donning our art critic hats for a moment, what we like about Chun’s Blackprints is not only the fact that she’s chosen eight excellent cars to feature, but the works will hang equally well on the wall of a garage or living room. They seem so simple, but you’ll soon lose track of time staring at features you’ve never noticed before that only reveal themselves in the light of Chun’s negative spaces.

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Video: Why the Ferrari Testarossa deserves some respect

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By Jeremy Korzeniewski

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Join us for a moment in putting on our way-back hats, zeroing in on the late 1980s. Imagine that you’re in your bedroom. Look over at the wall across from your bed. What car do you see on the poster? If you’re anything like us, it’s a Lamborghini Countach – in fact, it’s a trio of Lamborghini Countach models in an array of colors. Oh, and there’s also a 1:18-scale diecast Countach in black sitting on our dresser with its scissor doors locked in a skyward embrace.

Of course, the Raging Bull wasn’t Italy‘s only great supercar from the 1980s, especially if you cast your lot at the temple of the Prancing Horse. The Ferrari Testarossa, as pointed out in the latest video from Petrolicious, is an oft unsung hero penned from the stuff boyhood dreams are made of. Far from a *ahem* red-headed stepchild, the Testarossa deserves a place in the minds and hearts of ’80s supercar fans the world over.

Scroll down below to watch vintage car collector Joe Ventura talk about the Ferrari Testarossa with beautifully bright red Italian design serving as a fitting backdrop.

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Black Air, The Story Of The Buick Grand National, Now Available: Video

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Buick isn’t a brand typically associated with high performance or a younger demographic. Recent steps to change that have included the Regal Turbo, the Regal GS and the new Verano Turbo, but these cars are best described as “sporty.” None will out-accelerate a current Ferrari, and (sadly) none is likely to be remembered two-and-a-half decades from now.
Back in the 1980s, Buick was faced with the same challenge, namely how to get new customers behind the wheel of Buick automobiles. The solution was the Regal Grand National, a car that debuted as little more than a trim package in 1982. It dropped from Buick’s lineup in 1983, but returned in its beloved and murdered-out form in 1984. A “strange and curious misfit” had been born, and the legend of the Buick Grand National began.
Launched with a turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 rated at 200 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque, stock Grand Nationals could easily beat Camaros and nearly run with Corvettes in the quarter mile. Development of the engine continued, and in 1986 the Grand National was making 245 horsepower and 355 pound-feet of torque. A final “factory tuned” version launched in 1987, and the GNX pushed the performance envelope even further, making a conservatively-rated 276 horsepower and 360 pound-feet of torque.
While these numbers may not sound impressive today, they were astonishing during the Regal Grand National’s production run. A 1986 test by Car and Driver showed the Grand National was capable of a 0-60 mph run of 4.9 seconds, better than the Porsche 944 Turbo (6.0 seconds), the Porsche 928S (5.7 seconds), the Ferrari Testarossa (5.0 seconds) and even the Lamborghini Countach (5.1 seconds).
To say that the Grand Nation and GNX models have become collectors’ items is a gross understatement; in fact, the cars have achieved cult status, and a new documentary called Black Air tells their irresistible story. If you have a thing for muscle cars, this movie belongs in your collection, and it will be a welcome gift for any gear head friends, too. You won’t find it in stores, so head on over to the Black Air web page to place your order.

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