Vintage Trailer Print - 1938 Curtiss Aerocar Tech Sheet - With Awesome Custom Streamline Tow Vehicle

Treasures from THE CLASSIC TRAILER & MOTOR HOME COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 20, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 20 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

The Curtiss Aerocar was the brainchild of legendary flyer, engineer, inventor and businessman Glenn Curtiss. It is simply in a class by itself. Very, very few were made, and those few were always made to order. Today there are less than a handful of them remaining.

We have two other Aerocar images here in our Etsy shop. One, a luxury living model. The other a custom broadcasting rig. Both are quietly spectacular and popular with a broad range of groovy folks. 

This one is really more for the Aerocar specific aficionado, and I paused before we started the restoration as much as anything because of I knew the time involved to bring it back to life. The raw original was difficult and fussy, and I could see it was going to be a fight. That said, sometimes if an image is unique and important and still fits in with one of our special interests, even if it will never be a big seller, you bite the bullet and move forward. As I put my tired head on the pillow that night, a smile patted my cheek and it said "You ain't such a bad kid..."

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

SHIPPING

All prints are shipped in a sturdy mailing tube for $8, which covers postage, tube and S & H.

BUYING MORE THAN ONE PRINT? Add a second print or any number thereafter of this or any other prints in our catalog and shipping is still just $8, total!!!

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.