Vintage Car, Truck, Auto Posters

For the car fanatic, there is no place that has as much salvation for them as their garage does. The garage is a place in which they retire to work or clean on their cars, store the many automobile collectibles that they may have, or just get away from the world while being surrounded by all things auto.
Many of these garages are lined with vintage automobile posters as decorations of the cars that people love. Whether the vintage automobile posters display a person's first car, the car they grew up wanting and worshiping, or just a car that they love to look at, it remains a fact that vintage automobile posters are a great way to show somebody's appreciation for the automobile.
Vintage automobile posters are posters that capture the beauty of all sorts of different automobiles. The content of vintage automobile posters could be a number of different things. Some of these vintage automobile posters could be pictures that were done in professional photo shoot where the car is set up a certain way and captured by a photographer, an advertisement that might have been put up in a car dealership or auto shop, or it could be an action shot of an automobile out on the road or on a racetrack.
The most popular vintage automobile posters are vintage car posters. Vintage car posters have come in many different types over the past hundred or so years. They generally sell for prices of $30 to $350. From 1900 to the 1940s, these vintage car posters were mainly paintings of famous cars from around the world, most notably Mercedes-Benz and many different Italian sports cars. These posters featured many of the first types of automobiles that ever existed. The paintings on the vintage car posters placed classic cars in many different settings from around the world, such as driving through the streets of a European city or resting on the side of the road in the countryside. These cars gained worldwide fame and these paintings were one of the only ways for many people to even lay their eyes on them.
Vintage car posters from 1940 to the 1960s were mainly photos of American and European sports cars. These vintage automobile posters displayed the sleek designs of sports cars being displayed in stunning elements such as during car races or on the open road. Many of these later vintage car posters were also ads for famous races that took place mainly on the Grand Prix circuit.
Other examples of vintage automobile posters are vintage truck posters. Vintage truck posters feature many different kinds of trucks such as old Ford pickup trucks from the 1940s and 1950s to different types of merchandise trucks for companies such as Coca-Cola and Budweiser. Other popular vintage truck posters are of gas station trucks such as Shell, Gulf and Hess. These vintage automobile posters are a little less popular than the vintage car posters, but they still have many fans that appreciate the different types of trucks from over the past 50 years.
Bicycles collectors are not as plenteous as automobile collectors, but because they were a form of transportation before automobiles existed, there are still many people that collect vintage bicycle posters. These vintage bicycle posters feature the many designs that bicycles have taken on over the years. Since Karl von Drais of Germany invented the first bicycle in 1818, there have been posters of people on bicycles enjoying their time riding.
As the years went by the bicycle became more advanced and so did the posters that advertised them. This is why so many people like to see where the bicycle came from and just how it became one of the greatest inventions in history. These posters can be anywhere from $10 to $100. The progression of bicycles has been well documented by the many different vintage bicycle posters that have been drawn up since its inception.
Vintage automobile posters decorate many garages and hobby rooms of car enthusiasts all over the world. They are a great addition to any wall and have great history behind them. Whether it is a painting or a photograph, these vintage automobile posters have their value and their place in history.

Sources:
Vintage Automobile Posters. VintageAutoPosters.com. 2007. 13 July 2007. http://www.vintageautoposters.com/inner_page1.php? cat_id=4
"Bicycles." Wikipedia. 12 July 2007. 13 July 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle
Vintage Bicycle Posters. Bicycle-art.com. 2006. 13 July 2007. http://www.bicycle-art.com/vintage-posters.asp