Once they were shiny and new. Once they set on showroom floors, costing most of a year’s wages. Their interiors were filled with that "new car" smell. Fenders and hoods gleamed with rich new paint, and motors came to life and quietly purred at the command of their new owner. Today, some have been saved, prized by collectors, lovingly restored, and still highly valuable. But many sit beside equally vintage buildings, or rot away in a grassy field, interiors filled with mice and dust, tires worn and flat, bodies rusted and bent, windows broken, motors frozen or missing. Once so expensive, now cast aside. Today they are simply........ VINTAGE TIN Please scroll or link down to view the entire portfolio of 29 prints.                 Purchase Information         Back to Main Page

VINTAGE TIN

OLD IRON  (Tractors)

MODEL T FORDS High contrast effect. Order this Image

HENRY'S RUNABOUT High contrast "pen and ink drawing" effect - see detail. Order this Image

GARAGED DODGE A 1920 Dodge Brothers coupe waits in a repair garage in Georgetown, Colorado. Order this Image

AUTUMN RUST Top: A 1937 or '38 Chevy rusts away in fall colors in Wisconsin. Center: A Model A Ford awaits restoration near Menominee, Michigan. Note the front tire - the new sticker has not worn off! Bottom: A 1940's Chevrolet pickup in Ramah, Colorado. Simulated watercolor texture - see detail of texture. Order this Image

MODEL A SHADE Order this Image

The OLD HOMESTEAD Computer composited image with 1930's coupe. Read About this Image         Order this Image

COLD 40 Order this Image

COUPE GRAVEYARD 39 coupes from the 1930s into the 1950s from 6 states form this computer composited image. Order this Image

FORD'S ROADSTER Order this Image

MODEL T's and A's High contrast "pen and ink drawing" effect. Order this Image

ONCE THEY WERE SHINY and NEW...... Montage of vintage tin with same text as seen at top of this page. Order this Image

OLD FORDS High contrast effect. Order this Image

ELKHORN GHOST This old coupe is just one of the many ghosts in the old Montana mining town of Elkhorn. Order this Image

FALLING APART Order this Image

RUSTING in the SNOW Order this Image

ICE TRUCK Order this Image

TREE PLANTERS Aspen saplings slowly take over old International and Ford pickups in Ward, Colorado. Order this Image
TREE PLANTERS II Order this Image

OUT to PASTURE Order this Image

NEVADAVILLE GHOST A warn out truck circa 1920s rests away the years in a gulch in the old mining town of Nevadaville, Colorado. Order this Image

SHEEP HERDER MOBILE HOME Order this Image

The WARRANTY is VOID Builder's plate on the dashbord reads: "Overloading and Overspeed Voids the Warranty". Order this Image

THEIR WORK is DONE Order this Image

THEIR WORK is DONE II Order this Image

OLD IRON

FALL PLOWING Steam tractors on a Montana farm team up for fall plowing as it was done in the 1920s. Order this Image

THRESHING DAY A computer composited image shows how threshing was done in the 1920s and '30s. Order this Image Read About This & the Next Two Images

HARVEST TIME A restored circa 1920's J.I. Case steam tractor powers a threshing machine while more fresh grain is gathered from the fields. Order this Image

JULY RITUAL Order this Image

BIG STEAM AVERY Order this Image

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