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Updated: 11.27.10
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Automotive Watercolor Artist Dana Forrester
1963 Grand Sport Roadster & 1996 Grand Sport Twins
Full-color Giclee Art Prints
Available in four sizes: 11" x 17", 14" x 22", 19" x 29" & 26" x 40".
Each print is signed & numbered by Mr. Forrester.
If available, specific number prints are available upon request.
"Grand Sport One"
Racing Corvettes came into their own around 1956 when racers started tweaking and improving the new small-block Chevy engine. And when the fuel-injection option became available in 1957, Corvettes started winning races. All was well with the Corvette racers until Carroll Shelby showed up with his super lightweight, aluminum body Cobra sports cars. Actually, the Cobra and Corvette should never have been in the same class, as the Cobra was close to 1,000-pounds lighter that the Corvette. Very quickly, Corvettes were betting the pants beat off of them. But Zora Arkus-Duntov had plan - and it was called - Grand Sport.
Duntov's Grand Sport was essentially a Corvette version of the Cobra. The Grand Sport was built on a light-weight tube chassis, had a powerful fuel-injected small-block Chevy engine and a lightweight replica body of a 1963 Sting Ray. This was one of Duntov's secret basement projects that he made under the radar of the GM brass. The Grand Sport's debut was at the 1963 Nassau Speed Week races. Carroll Shelby was there with his Cobras and Duntov, along with several other Chevy engineers were there - on vacation - to help out with the race. Check out the book titled - Corvette Grand Sport, by Lowell C. Paddock and Dave Friedman. There are several pictures in the book of a VERY unhappy-looking Carroll Shelby.
Weighing in at 1,900-pounds and packing 550-horsepower under the hood, the Grand Sports dealt a mortal blow to the Cobras. Then, GM dealt a mortal blow to the Grand Sports. Duntov was ordered to STOP RACING Corvettes. Zora wanted to build at least 100 Grand Sports to qualify as a legal production car according to the FIA rules. The only fortunate part of the story was that at least Duntov was allowed to sell the five Grand Sports - 3 coupes and 2 roadsters - to privateer racers that continued to flog the Grand Sports for a few more years,
By around 1966, the Grand Sports were tired, old, used up race cars and were sold and bought many times until they were all but forgotten. In the mid-1970s, interest in the old racers began to increase and eventually all five grand Sports were located, refurbished, and are now running cars in private car-collections. In hindsight, the Grand Sport was the ultimate “Could have been” Corvette.- KST
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What is "giclee"?
Giclee (pronounced Gee’clay) is a French term meaning to spray or squirt, which is how an inkjet printer works.
However, it is not the same as a standard desktop inkjet printer.
Giclee printers use special light-fast inks, which, if kept out of the sun, will remain true for up to 25 years.
The image has all the tonalities and hues of the original painting.
A delightful gift for the home or office of that hard to buy for Corvette person in your life!
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"The Grand Sport Twins"
1996 was a banner year for Corvettes. Not only was it the end of the production run for the C4, but Chevrolet offered two exciting special edition options. The Corvette Collector Edition was the low-priced special and then there was the Grand Sport option.
This was a salute to the '63 Grand Sport racing Corvettes and used a mix of perfornance and visual enhancements. Under the hood was the new LT4 engine with 330 horsepower - 30 more than the base Corvette. But it was the exterior that really got everyone's attention. The car was painted Admiral Blue and had a wide white strip that ran over the entire top of the car. Black spoked ZR-1 style wheels and red front fender hash marks gave the car a real racer look. The coupe had wide ZR-1 wheels and tires with rear fender flares to cover the big tires. Special badges and interior trim finished off the car. Convertible versions had smaller rear tires and no rear fender flares.
As "special package" pricing went, this one wasn't "too bad." Costing $3,250 for the coupe and $2,880 for the roadster, this was a very impressive machine. At Corvette shows, organizers like to have all the C4 Grand Sports park together to create a "sea of Admiral Blue." It's a beautiful sight! - KST
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Dana began painting Corvettes about 1989, two years after buying the 1966 Sting Ray Coupe he had wanted since childhood. He had always loved Corvettes in general, but the lines of the Sting Ray Coupe made the car seem like sculpture as well as a sports car.
Dana's first Corvette paintings were of his own car and meant only for his own pleasure. He has no intent of showing them publicly. The series of paintings he was known for nationwide and with which he made his livelihood were of the brick wall signs often featured behind Dana's cars.
A fellow club member encouraged Dana to show some of his Corvette paintings which were so well received that in 1990 he published his first limited edition series of a 1960 red and white Corvette in front of a brick Chevrolet dealership.
That image sold so well that Dana decided to spend about half his painting time with the Corvette image and half with the regular brick images. Now, almost all of Dana's painting time is dedicated to the automotive subject.
Because each painting takes so long to complete, Dana can only create a small number of original watercolors each year. Most originals become limited edition prints, except for the custom orders that Dana creates for private clients.
Dana Forrester is a native of Kirksville in northeast Missouri and graduated from Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State) in 1969 with a BSE in Art Education. After spending time as an illustrator in the U.S. Army, Dana moved to Independence, Missouri, to teach advanced high school art, where he simultaneously pursued both his teaching and painting careers.
While searching for a subject that would combine a design-oriented composition as well as allow him to use his drawing and painting skills in an extremely detailed technique, he developed the brick wall series that has become the centerpiece of his national reputation. He has won many awards in regional and national exhibitions and art festivals, was elected into membership in the prestigious American Watercolor Society in 1981,and is one of the few painters to become a member of both the American and the National Watercolor Societies.
Dana envisions his work as a study in realism with abstract composition, not as a study of a nostalgic subject. He continues to explore the theme of brick buildings and advertising art, plate glass window reflections, neon signs, commercial storefronts, and collector automobiles. Dana uses photographs as a formulative beginning for many of his paintings, preferring to delete some items from a photo and add others to enhance the painting. He believes photography should serve only as a reference for authenticity of detail and not as a crutch to limit an artist's creativity. His paintings are included in many private and corporate collections worldwide. His work has been published in such magazines as:
American Artist, US Art, Signs of the Times, Down Memory Lane, Corvette Fever, Vette, Shark Quarterly, Vette Vues, Super Chevy, Old Cars Weekly, Mustang Monthly, Mustang Illustrated, All Chevy Magazine, and the Robb Report |
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"Illustrated Corvette Series" The Book
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CarTech Books has publish a 144-page book version of Scott's 13-year Illustrated Corvette Series column, as seen every month in VETTE Magazine since 1997.
The scope of the book covers Corvettes from 1953 to 2010.
Chapters include:
* Production Corvettes
* Show Car Corvettes
* Engineering & Prototype Corvettes
* Tuner Corvettes
* Racing Corvettes
* Plus, Specualtion on the future
C7 Corvette.
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