Vintage Truck Print - 1955 Chevy Sedan Delivery - Cherry Red

Treasures from the ANTIQUE & VINTAGE TRUCK COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 14 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

This started life as one of several trucks on a vertical page. The original brochure was in terrible condition, but we broke it apart digitally, cleaned up all the breaks and folds and rub marks, finally putting it back together featuring this gem of a 55 sedan delivery.

When it was time for it to debut somewhere special, I set up at the Late Great Chevys show. I prepared and framed a standard size example, and also printed one big, big jammy and put it in a huge plexi clip frame. Once the display was all set up, I took the colossal version and casually strolled past the row of 55s. Did those butterball snoresville bastards claw each other to death leaping out of their dime store end of season close out folding chairs, trying to get a better look and begging to buy what may have been the only known example in existence? NO! All I heard was crap like "Gee, shame it ain't a yellah two door"

Knowing that these guys arrive early, set up, drink a whole bunch real fast, get lit, and spend the rest of the day letting all that hooch sweat out until they're sober enough to drive home at the end of the day, I turned and walked back across the front of the row of 55s just one more time, hoping one would roll out of his stupor and actually see this treasure laid before him. Naught. Double naught. Then, I paused, looked heavenward, and waited for just a moment for a really big meteor to crush them all to death.

The print proved a big hit with all sorts of other Late Great Chevy Club members, much to my delight and satisfaction, and continues to please folks when I take it out to car shows.

Just not the 55 owners. Whaaaaaaaa?

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

SHIPPING

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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.