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New Zealand
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 18 H x 1.5 D in
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Robbie Francevic in the legendary Custaxie at Levin in 1967. The Custaxie name came from an amalgamation of a 1955 Ford Customline fitted with a 7-litre Ford Galaxie engine, Francevic's team making full use of the very relaxed rules at the time. The car would prove almost unbeatable, and only Paul Fahey in a Mustang was able to put up any sort of a fight. However, after it's successful year of dominance, the rules were changed, outlawing the Custaxie. The engine was sold off and went into a racing boat. The rolling shell went to another owner who briefly used it for drag-racing, and although a replica of it has been built, nothing remains of the original. Levin was a small 1.1 mile circuit within the confines of a horse-racing track in the town of Levin. It lasted until 1976, when the horse racing club wanted to improve their facilities, and the sealed track was sacrificed.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 18 H x 1.5 D in
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Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to check out my artwork, and learn a little bit about me. I was born in 1982, in Invercarcargill, the deep south of New Zealand. I grew up surrounded by motorsport, the family home just a couple of minutes' drive to Teretonga - the local race circuit, with speedway, Go - Kart and motorcross tracks all within a stones' throw. My father raced Go - Karts in his early years, before taking up Midget car racing at speedway, and there was usually motorsport on the tv at the weekends when I wasn't watching it in the flesh. I started painting with water paints when I was about 7 or 8 years old. Simple stick figures soon evolved to more complex pictures using arcrylics, as I started to experiment with abstract art as well as keeping my hand in with painting racing cars. In 1999 I started racing Go-Karts, and the lack of available time, as well as other interests meant that only a few artworks were completed between '99 and 2006. A couple of years after leaving school I started studying to become an engineer, becoming qualified in 2006. It was after this, that I was gifted some un-needed art supplies, re-igniting my creative flame The first few works I created in this period were all abstract, as I experimented with different shapes and colours. One of them being "Losing time". I put it on display in a Christchurch art gallery, where it was quickly snapped up by a collector, thus fuelling my passion. After that success, I decided to be selfish and reward myself by getting back into motorsport art. I painted "Master McLaren" and showed a few people, and had such an encouraging response, I decided to do more. Since then on the majority of my work has been motorsport based.
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