Motor Movies - The Posters!

Paul Veysey of Drivepast has produced a book featuring some of the best posters from this website. It is called 'Motor Movies - The Posters!' and is available now for you to purchase direct from Drivepast for just £34.99. Click here to order your copy

From the late 19th century the progress of the movies has paralleled that of the motor car. Now, for the first time, these developments are chronicled through the medium of the movie poster. This book celebrates the progression from the simple and crude, through the functional, the ambitious, and the barking mad, right up to today’s high-tech, computer-generated, often soulless examples of both cinema and automobile. By charting the poster art of the movies chronologically, the book takes you on a journey through the 20th Century in black and white, sepia, hand-colouring, stone-litho, and glorious technicolour, and shows the obsessively accurate, the artist’s impression, the photographic and the wildly imaginative depictions of the automobile. With 250 pictures of rare originals, and a star rating system for rarity, this is a beautiful book to browse, as well as valuable investment guide.

A few of the posters featured in the book can be seen below. Click here to see all of the featured posters


The Young Racers
USA 1963


Checkpoint
Japan 1957


The Sucker
Sweden 1965


In Die Falle Gelockt
Germany 1959


Danger Diabolik -- Jaguar E - Type
France 1968


Les Veces Etaient Fermes de l'Interieur
France 1976


Operation Fangio -- Maserati
Spain 1999


Heavy Traffic
Germany 1973


Checkpoint -- Lagonda
UK 1956