by waaytoomuchintothis » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:32 pm
Yep. We're on the right track, I think. I wonder if there is a photo that inspired the painter? The hump may still be something of a clue, since the Lola in the photo above shows front suspension parts that are angled up to the wheels from the body, and the painting doesn't. Seems like a detail a painter wouldn't miss. In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, Road and Track was a different magazine from today entirely. In every issue there was a banquet of perfect photos, really incredible race photos, as well as paintings. There was a famous one of Jim Clark with all four wheels off the ground by a good six inches, doing close to 200mph during a race. There was one I remember of a bright yellow F-1 being passed in the rain by a red sharknose Ferrari so fast that the rooster tail of the Ferrari's wheels nearly obliterates the yellow (in those days, it meant Belgian), car, which might be another sharknose.