February 27th - Stan Mott

A Year in Comics - February 27th

in the style of Stan Mott

Stan Mott was born in Flint, Michigan on February 27th 1933.  A car-enthousiast at already a young age, he part-owned a roadster at the age of 12 and was already running races at the age of 15 - around the same time he managed to publish his first cartoons.  After following art college, Mott held a number of jobs, before his first automotive cartoons appeared in Road & Track magazine in 1957, on which pages his most famous creation would also see the world - the world's cheapest car, the 'Cyclops II' ($14.32).  Its success (the article, not the car) would spawn 22 more articles in R&T over a span of 30 years - as well as a number of real-life Cyclops II replicas.

Stan Mott is mostly known for his outrageous vehicle design cartoons, which have graced the pages of auto and motor magazines in Europe and America, whether they be sports saloon tanks, tracked desert aircraft carriers, turbocharged motorcycle oil tankers, or souped-up endurance racing steam engines.

As outrageous as his drawings and design is Mott himself: between February 1961 and July 1964, he did a round-the-world trip - per go cart, through 28 countries.  He also lived aboard a yacht in the Mediterrean for 17 years; nowadays though he lives in Germany, where he still creates car illustrations for various publications.

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Pumori's chase of Olle-T becomes a bit outrageous.  Actually, I'm not sure either has a driving license...!!

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72nd entry of ?

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