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Jacques Vaucher and L’art et L’automobile has been decorating the automotive enthusiast’s home, garage, business, museums, and racetracks since 1975. His website arteauto.com is the largest online store and auction site for automobile art and gifts. It’s a playground for enthusiasts with 22 categories of automobilia and over 1,600 items listed. Always changing and forever enticing you’ll never know what you will find at his site. He was the unofficial test driver of toy cars for Eureka, a French toy manufacturer owned by his grandfather. He attended racing school in France and he raced in touring and endurance championships in the U.S. He managed Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti’s New York show room. Jacques life around cars has been amazing.
SHOW SPONSOR
Jacques perseverance though his business challenges has pushed him through the many challenges he’s faced.
AH-HA MOMENTS
After meeting an artist who painted automobiles Jacques put together a show of her work at an F1 race. This began his career of collecting and selling automotive artwork and more. Then he worked for Luigi Chinetti in New York and realized there was a market for a museum of automobilia.
FIRST SPECIAL CAR
A Citroen 2CV
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
Don’t drive over your head and keep the wheels on the road.
PARTING ADVICE
If you decide to collect automotive art and automobilia you should buy what you like.
HOW TO FIND JACQUES
L’Auto art Automobilia – www.arteauto.com
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When I lived in NYC from 1977-91, there were only two places in town for people with serious interest in automobiles. One was Gordon’s bookshop just off 5th avenue next to a famous hotel (whose name escapes me as I write this). Mr. Gordon had an excellent eye for automotive books and it was in his very small space that I first saw the large format books on Italian carrozzerias published in the 1980s. The other place was Jacques’s gallery located at the time in an equally small space on the Upper East Side. Always friendly and well informed, he had a great eye for magical objects, toys, posters etc. It was there I bought my first Geo Ham original poster and where I learned that there was a large subculture of automobilia collectors out there. Merci Jacques and happy to see that you are still going strong !
Hi i was fortunate to visit the penthouse Jacques was truly the perfect host !!! Willie from Da Bronx Premiere BMW Collector