I am about half way through a new series called American Iron. It's a series of engines from American muscle cars of the 60s and 70s. The picture above is a 1971 Dodge Charger 426 cid 'Street Hemi' - one of the great monsters that predated the gas crisis. The engines are modeled in 1/25 scale plastic resin and displayed in plexiglass cases with wood bases and brass name plates. I am also photographing the engines with a medium format camera and printing these very large - as close to 1-1 scale for the real engines as I can.
I am currently building these engines:
- 1966 Buick Riviera
- 1968 Chevrolet Firebird
- 1971 Dodge Charger
- 1962 Chevrolet Corvette
- 1966 Ford Mustang
- 1970 Chevrolet Corvette
You can see more of the detail in these larger images:
Below: two pictures of the 1966 Buick Riviera in the case
