Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

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Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby dreinecke » Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:20 pm

I thought a few T-A fans here might enjoy these -

A few weeks ago while looking for vintage T-A posters, I stumbled across four vintage and very cool drawings on eBay. They were all separate auctions and I won them all. The seller was clearing out some old stuff and didn't want to toss them. Thankfully he didn't as these are gorgeous!!!

They are 11x14" each and signed H. Godfredson and are copyrighted 1970. After playing with Google I found a Hank Godfredson in MN that raced a bunch of different sports cars and seemed to be associated with a Porsche parts place called GT-Racing in Colorado Springs! Too small a world...

I was able to email Joel Godfredson, Hank's son. He's very nice and I had to explain I was just trying to chase down who the artist was. He was happy to see his dad's artwork still out there. He now owns the business his dad started.

A member on the Facebook T-A page said these were advertised in the back of Autoweek magazine in 1970 and are very hard to find. I'm THRILLED a and honored to have them

Mystery solved - it was on to the framing!

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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby btaylor » Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:55 pm

Wow, Those are nice drawings! Very lucky to win the set like that separately.
Nice catch

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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby HRWJim » Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:57 pm

They look perfect on the black wall. Jim
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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:30 pm

Oh yes, very nice sir.
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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby turbokev » Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:39 pm

They are awesome David. When you posted them on the TA page I grabbed them and cropped them. They are my slideshow screensaver now. It's great that you found out a bit more about them too.


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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby eightwheels » Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:17 pm

they look good mounted on the black wall, nice save :text-bravo:
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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby J Y D » Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:17 am

You lucky dog ... great stuff for sure.
They look great hanging on your wall. ... J Y D
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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby dge467 » Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:49 am

Those are beautiful! Nice find!
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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby ListerStormGT » Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:12 am

Yeah those were a great score and they look great framed on your wall!
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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby balaclava » Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:23 am

What a Great Find! They have almost a Vintage Hot Wheels Sizzlers "Box Art" look to them. Ken Dallison artwork comes to mind too. I'm insanely jealous of them all framed up. :mrgreen: How 'bout more pics of the Bat, er, I mean Man-Cave. (I'm not sure if the emoticon will work as I almost never post anything. I'm more of a Lurker, I guess.
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Re: Vintage Trans-Am Drawings for the RMS Skunkworks

Postby dreinecke » Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:51 pm

Glad you all like them. I really love them. The black wall really does set them off.

They do look like the Sizzler art now that you mention it!

Balaclava - here's a few recent pics:

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