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 Bench Racing Commercial Portfolio
Commissions Digital Images
"Shark Magazine" Interview
Post Cards Work In Progress
There are 29 groups of illustrations and one full-size image in each group.
Over 350 Images!!! Click HERE!!!
Greetings fellow Motor Heads!
I was looking through my files for a drawing I did a few years ago, when I asked myself a question, "How many drawings do I have here?" I was surprised when I counted over 300 drawing and illustrated feature stories. (All of the drawings were used once in a publication and never seen again.) That is over twice as many images that I am currently offering on my Detroit Iron website. Then an idea hit me. I should put all of my work on a CD and offer everything as an automotive art collection. That is how this CD came to be. And here is how I ended up creating all those drawings.
Atco Raceway circa 1972.
I was one of those guys in high school who was always drawing cars. It was the early '70s, the hey-day of the muscle car era. I grew up in the Collingswood / Oaklyn, New Jersey area (just east of Philadelphia). There wasn't a sports car or NASCAR track in the area, but we had Atco Raceway, so drag racing and muscle cars were plentiful around my town. It was common to see big-block Chevys, Fords, and Mopars thumping and lumbering around. Laying down rubber was common and occasionally someone would do a smokey burnout. And there were lots of "worked" small-block cars as well.
The Atco Raceway business office was on Haddon Avenue in Collingswood, so I always made sure that I stopped in to pick up the latest "Atco Action" weekly news flyer. It seemed that every year, you knew spring was close when you heard the Atco ads on WIBG or WFIL radio (AM of course). "Shap and Jack" would scream at you for 30 seconds about the Saturday night match race at Atco. Those were great ads, at least they are in my recollection. I don't think anyone ever recorded them. They sort of went like this...
Shap - "HEY JACK!!! GUESS WHO'S COMING TO ATCO??? / Jack - "ARE GRUMPY JENKINS AND SOX & MARTIN ARE MATCH RACING AT ATCO SATURDAY NIGHT??? / Shap - "That's right Jack, Grump says he's gonna put the CRUNCH on the blond-bomber from Birmingham!!!" / Jack - "And Ronny Sox says he's gonna break Grumpy's Toy THREE OUT OF THREE!!! But you're gonna have to wait till Saturday night!!! Show starts at 8 pm, BE THERE!!!"
It was like WWF wrestling, but without the folding chairs. Of course, no one had a clue that those were the final days of the muscle cars and when a regular guy could build a drag car on his own without a sponsor. It seemed as if drag racing was in a big hurry to grow up, now only megabuck teams can race in the big leagues. The days of the local hero winning the Nationals with a car he built were coming to a close.
 
Yours truely in 1973 as one of the track announcers at Cecil County Drag-O-Way.
Right out of high school, I got a weekend job working at Atco as one of their announcers. The Atco Corporation also owned Cecil County Drag-O-Way and it just so happened that the announcer had quit, so I was assigned to work at Cecil County Drag-O-Way. I announced there from '72 to '75, all the while, I continued to draw cars.
My first published illustration in the January 1975 issue of Drag Racing USA.
Fast forward to September '74 – the car magazines were buzzing about the new Chevy Monza. Grumpy Jenkins had been hot since his '72 Vega comeback, so I connected the dots, and did a drawing of what I thought Grumpy's Monza "might" look like. The following weekend, I showed it to my co-announcer, Tony and he went ballistic! "Man! You should send that to "Drag Racing USA," they'll print it man!" So, that's exactly what I did, and Neil Britt the editor ran my two-view illustration in the February '75 issue as a center spread! I almost COULDN'T believe it – my drawings were in the magazine.
 
"Vette" magazine in the early days when it was a bi-monthly pulication. That's my '65 Corvette. It has a 300 hp 327, 4-speed, factory side-pipes, a '67 big-block hood, and '67 rally wheels.
(I had nothing to do with the dopey stripe on the door, the previous owner thought it was cool.)
In '75 and '76 I did several other illustrations for "Drag Racing USA," as well as numerous posters for special events at Atco Raceway. Then one day I noticed a new magazine titled "Vette" at the news stand. At the time, I had a '65 Corvette Coupe, silver, with a small-block, 4-speed, side-pipes, and a 427 hood, so a "Corvette only" magazine was very cool.
But I noticed that the magazine seemed to be lacking one thing – art work. I wrote to the editor, Marty Schorr and asked if I could do some illustrated stories for his new magazine. That was the beginning of a relationship with "Vette Magazine" that is still going strong today. Since 1997, I have been doing a monthly feature titled, "The Illustrated Corvette Series" that tells the history of the Corvette that includes not only production Corvettes, but prototype, experimental, show, and racing Corvettes. There will be approximately 120 installments when I finally catch up with the '07 production Corvette. I'm about half way completed with the series.
Then in '78 I met Steve Collison, the new editor of "Hi Performance Cars." Steve was a great guy and many, many people in the sport of drag racing miss him very much. I used to call him, "Top Speed Steve" because of his excitement level for cars and drag racing. Check out his charming story about "Speed Shifting With Grumpy and Dave Strickler" in the Bench Racing section. When Steve made the jump to "Super Stock & Drag Illustrated," I tagged along. Many of the drag racing illustrations on this CD were originally done for SSDI. It was a great deal. Steve liked my work and I would do two or three illustrations of whatever I felt like. Steve used the art on the magazine's editorial pages so that the page wouldn't be a solid block of text. In '89 I started a series in SSDI titled, "Retrospect: Drag Racing History." Click HERE to go to the Steve Collison Tribute Page.
In the late '80s, Steve jumped to CSK Publications, and once again, I tagged along. CSK had several automotive specialty publications. (CSK also owned "Vette Magazine" at that point) Through Steve, I was able to get onboard with "Mopar Magazine" and was doing two or three Mopar illustrations every other month. That's how I ended up with so many Mopar illustrations. Steve eventually went back to "Super Stock & Drag Illustrated" and I did a few more illustrations, as well as some technical illustrations that were used in tech features.
I was a car drawing fiend for a time. In the ten years between '85 and '95 I created illustrations for "Popular Hot Rodding," "Guide To Muscle Cars," "VW & Porsche," "Fabulous Mustangs & Exotic Fords," "Muscle Car Classics," "IHRA Drag Review," "Car & Driver," "Road & Track," "Mopar Action," "Muscle Car Review," and "Vette Magazine." When the specialty publications went bust in the early '90s, many of the magazines I was contributing to went away.
By the '90s I had a family, a house, and a full time job at Tyco Toys in the R&D Design group, so an occasional drawing for Vette and a commission here and there was all I had time for. In the late '80s I started selling signed reproductions of my automotive art, and over the years have had several mail order catalogs of my prints.
Since commercial art is my profession, I have been using a Macintosh computer since '87 and have been online since America Online first started in '89. I was actually able to get online using my Mac Plus, with 2.5 megs on memory, a 16 mhz processor, a 30 meg hard drive, and a 1200 bps modem. Hard to believe!
In '98 I built the Detroit Iron website as an online cyber prints catalog. Now that CD burners are standard in almost all new computers, when I upgraded my Performa 6300CD with a Mac G4, I knew it was time to put almost my entire collection of nostalgia drag racing, muscle car, and Corvette art on a CD.
Except for the "Illustrated Corvette Series" that I do for Vette Magazine, there isn't much that I didn't put on this CD. The "Illustrated Corvette Series" will be published as a series of books; C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5. As I write this (February 2002) , I am about to complete installment number 60 in the series, the 1978 production Corvette. I should be completing the C3 Corvettes by the Fall of this year. If you are into Corvettes, or have been following the series, watch for the book series announcement on the website. http://www.precision-illustration.com
Aside from the art files on this CD, you will find several other interesting places to visit here. I'm still actively involved in commercial art and design, so I have included my commercial art portfolio. Also, you'll find some amusing bench racing stories, an interview that "Shark Quarterly" did with me, and a collection of expreimental images that were a lot of fun to make.
All of the images on this CD were scanned at 75 dpi, fine for your monitor, but only so-so for printouts. If you would like a 300 dpi resolution version of any of the files on this CD, or an 11" x 17, signed print on tan parchment paper, you can send me an e-mail and I will return to you an attached 300 dpi image file for you to use, or I will snail-mail the parchment print of your choice. The charge for a digital file or parchment paper print is only $24.95 per image. I accept Visa and Mastercard.
Thirty years ago, I had no idea that I would be doing so many illustrations. I also hadn't a clue that I'd be using a computer for so much of my work, or that I'd have a website, or be offering my art on CDs. It's hard to imagine how I will be producing my art in another 30 years. More of it will be digital, that's for sure. But I'll always have a passion for pens, pencils, pastels, and markers.
Marty Schorr once referred to me as Vette Magazine's "pen wielding car freak." Actually, I kind'a like that.
 
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Scott has been wielding a pen, colored markers, and an airbrush for car magazines since 1974. This jam-packed CD has over 350 jpeg images from Scott's 28 years (YIKES!!!) of drawing the legends of drag racing and the hottest street machines of the Muscle Car Era.
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Nostalgia Drag Racing Art: Altereds, AF/X Racers, Dragsters, Drag Racing Engines, Funny Cars, Gassers, Pro Stockers, and Super Stockers.
Muscle Car Art: AMCs, Buicks, Chevy, Corvettes, Fords & Mercurys, Mopars, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs, and Muscle Car Engines.
Scott's magazine series, including: Retrospect: Drag Racing History, The Blueprint Series, Profile: Fast, Ferocious Fords, and Kit Car Illustrated.
Also included are: Posters, Calendars, Press Kit Covers, Tech Art, Experimental Images, Vintage Detroit Iron Catalog Covers, Bench Racing Stories, Scott's "Shark Quarterly" Interview, Commissions information, and Scott's Commercial Art Portfolio.
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