"Santa Barbara Road Races" T-shirt

Introducing an all new original design celebrating the Santa Barbara Road Races of the 1950's.

This new original design and illustration celebrates not only Santa Barbara and the Goleta Airport venue, but features two of my favorite characters in early sports car racing in the USA. Johnny von Neumann of Competition Motors in the 550 Spyder (a very special car that I've celebrated in not ONE, but TWO unique shirt designs), leads Ken Miles in his custom built MG roadster affectionately known as the "Flying Shingle".

For this, I've dug through the archives of racing photos, selecting this one from the Revs Institute archives of the 1955 race, and therefore using the typography of the 1955 program to repurpose and reinvent for this new design.

My goal for this collection is to both tell the story and celebrate history, but also create fashionable apparel for car guys (and gals) that is art on a shirt, at another level than simply automotive "slogan wear".

Soft, premium, lightweight shirt material and cut compares to tees by Ralph Lauren or Calvin Klein. Distress printed in vintage hues of vintage blue, red, and white, on a premium 60/40 blend Cotton/Poly heather t-shirt.