{"id":459594,"date":"2001-11-01T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2001-11-01T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=116094"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:35:19","slug":"deus-ex-machina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/deus-ex-machina\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Art &#8211; Wally Thomason&#8217;s &#8220;Deus ex Machina&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Alfa Romeo Artwork<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wally Thomason conjures a divine image of the quintessential Alfa Romeo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alfa Romeo may have produced an ungainly looking, graceless racing car, but none come to mind\u2026I\u2019m a pushover for Alfas (I comprehend little about contemporary cars, so it\u2019s easy for me to overlook the current worldwide clumsiness). The pieces have a way of feeling right, quintessential, and somehow inevitable. Those people loved their craft, what they were shaping and building, and had a glorious tradition guarding their efforts. And the engines! And sounds! I heard a 159 Alfetta light up Monterey a few years ago, and it didn\u2019t sound 50 years old &#8211; it was so very urgent and contemporary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Those people loved their craft, what they were shaping and building, and had a glorious tradition guarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":813468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,11296,263,11272],"tags":[544,19293,16904,17152],"class_list":["post-459594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alfa-romeo","category-art-history","category-car-culture","category-members-only","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-alfa-romeo-art","tag-automotive-art","tag-car-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Automotive Art - Wally Thomason&#039;s &quot;Deus ex Machina&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wally Thomason conjures a divine image of the quintessential Alfa Romeo.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/deus-ex-machina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Automotive Art - Wally Thomason&#039;s &quot;Deus ex Machina&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wally Thomason conjures a divine image of the quintessential Alfa Romeo.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/deus-ex-machina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2001-11-01T20:00:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-02T19:35:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/11\/AH200111.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"947\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wally Thomason\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wally Thomason\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/deus-ex-machina\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/deus-ex-machina\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Wally Thomason\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3ee0316e73c77ef14055f65df7560d3b\"},\"headline\":\"Automotive Art &#8211; 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