Do any of you remember artist Peter Phillips who did some eclectic 1968 Olds, mechanical, pin-up art back in '68? Also did the cover for The Cars, Heartbeat City Album.

https://www.peterphillips.com/wp-con...usion6_2-1.jpg

 

Never heard of him. And I've had a CD copy of Heartbeat City for decades. Never understood why he'd bother to draw a drum-brake/strut suspension system as if from some Penalty-Box econocar. (inside fold of the front cover, where Girly's leg is.) Doesn't seem worthy.

But, yeah, artists are like that.

 

He was an artist, not a mechanic.
He was also an English artist from an era when most cars on British roads had McPherson strut suspension.

Roger.

 

Yeah, but what car would that have come out of?
Appears to have an engine cradle. No CV shafts, though, it's got ordinary spindles. So perhaps front engine, rear drive, and this is the front suspension.

But the steering linkage is all wrong. Looks more like a toe adjuster than a steering linkage. Which would make it the rear axle, not the front. There's no triangulation for the lower control arm. I don't see any place to mount a triangulating link--but maybe that's just poor resolution on small-scale artwork.

And drum brakes? When the album (CD) was new, disc brakes were near-universal on the front, popular, but not universal on the rear of penalty-boxes.

I never figured out the origin, which makes me wonder if he invented the thing from looking at several samples, and just picked-and-chose features that seemed good to him.

Anyway, as I said "Artists are like that". Many of them seem to avoid "reality" in their art. Can you imagine this album cover--or the work you linked to of the Olds--done by Picasso?

 

Appears to be front suspension due to the cradle. I think the linkage may be the sway bar. Its missing tie rods and tension rods. This might have been modeled on 60’s Ford Cortina parts, the working mans car.