Morris Garages, est. 1924, Oxford, England

Am starting to get some good sales on my Morris Garages items at my Cafepress store, RetroRanger.
A couple of interesting lessons here. First off, a design doesn't have to be complicated or overly artsy to be commercial. That's good because my artistic abilities are limited, at best. Secondly, the tighter the niche, the more likely the sales. There are millions of designs on Cafepress, but if you do a Cafepress search for "Morris Garages" my items are the only things to come up. The fans of early early MG cars may be few, but there are certainly enough to justify spending an hour designing a shirt.

The Red Car MG TC Shirt

I read a book when I was a kid that I just loved called "The Red Car" by Don Stanford. It was a story of a teen named Hap Adams who comes upon a beat-up MG TC sports car, restores it to running condition, and learns the joys of sports cars and driving from the town mechanic named Frenchy Lascelle.

I have a piece of clip-art of an old MG that I came across today. It got me to thinking of that book and set me to work on a t-shirt for Frenchy's Driving Academy, were there such a place. Maybe some others who read The Red Car will appreciate this design, available on shirts and other items at RetroRanger.