From the public domain comes 12 vintage auto vector clipart cars from a prior age. They range from the first horseless carriages to motorized coaches to turn of the century gangster and “Great Gatsby” age cars.
One of the vehicle illustrations is Adobe Live Paint ready. If you have Illustrator CS3, just select the Live Paint tool and click around the image to change the color of the tires, body, running boards, seats, trim - everything! Use gradient swatches to give some depth and dimension.
Nostalgic, vintage, retro, highly detailed, and free for both personal and commercial scrapbook and graphic design works, the old car vector art download includes 12 individual automotive illustrations for Adobe Illustrator 8 or newer. You’ll need Illustrator CS3 for Live Painting the single .ai file.
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July 21st, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Awesome vectors- thanks for sharing. I wish we would go back to using horse drawn carriages- then we wouldn’t have to put up with ridiculous gas prices. But then I’m sure “they’d” raise the price of horse food or something. Great vectors- keep it up.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:57 am
Great download, looks very useful for vintage-style designs. Thanks for sharing!
July 24th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
absolutely wonderful! Thanks so much or sharing these. I will definitely be going through the rest of your stuff!
July 24th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong when I download the images. After I extract the files and try to open them in Photoshop or Illustrator they are only at 72 dpi. Is there a way to download HighRes images so they can be enlarged?
July 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hi Mindy, I think maybe you’re opening the sample JPEG images that you see on the page. Those are 72 dpi… even the big popup. The download is a pure vector EPS file. It has no dpi.
Make sure you click on “DOWNLOAD OLD VINTAGE CAR VECTORS”, unzip it and then open the file named “12-vintage-cars-vector-art-keepdesigning.eps”. Hope that helps!
July 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
very good. thanks, those are very useful. i`ll see what I have to share you.
July 26th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Wow. Everything on this site is great. Is this all 100% free, made by you copyright free for us to use in projects?
Thanks
July 27th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Hi Carly, Thanks for the comments! Yes you are free to use our downloads for both personal and commercial design projects. They are either made by us for sharing, copyright free or both - like these public domain car vectors.
Just for the record, one may not sell, post or distribute the source files or download links on another website or by any other means. For sharing, a link to the source page at keepdesigning.com may be used.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:47 am
OK. I’ve downloaded and extracted them so now when I go to open the .eps file is the next step to convert it to a PDF and save as a PDF? I’m sorry for asking so many questions but I’ve never tried to download vector images before and I can’t figure it out.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Hi Mindy, the next step is totally dependent on what you’re trying to do. You successfully downloaded them - they are all in that EPS file.
If you let me know what program you’re using and what your goal is, maybe I can make a suggestion.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I have CS2 and I want to be able to use the vectors for assignments, which means I need to be able to enlarge them and print them on an 8.5×11 or 11×17.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Mindy I would do this:
1. Open the file “12-vintage-cars-vector-art-keepdesigning.eps” with Illustrator.
2. Click to select the car vector you want and copy it to the clipboard (Edit>Copy)
3. Create a new file in Illustrator (File>New…), making it the final print size you want.
4. Paste the car vector into the new file (Edit>Paste)
5. Use Illustrator’s scale tool to enlarge the vector as big as you want.
6. Print away! (File>Print)
Hope that helps. Here’s a good video on using Illustrator’s scale tool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka2UbQQ7APM&feature=related
August 1st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Wow. That works so much better than what I was trying to do. Now my question is, How do you copy and paste or place them into InDesign? Is that possible?
August 4th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
verry cool
August 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am
@Mindy: Yes, it’s possible to copy and paste the vectors from Illustrator directly to InDesign. Or from InDesign, select File>Place…
August 8th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Thanks for sharing this one and be able to copy and paste it. You have a great job!!!
Again, thank you!
August 8th, 2008 at 11:05 am
By the way, do you have a logo/widget I can put on my website? It’s my way of keeping track on website that are useful to me and also sort ad for you
Please let me know. Thanks!
August 8th, 2008 at 11:21 am
@Cathy, glad you found us. Hope you find these car vectors useful. I’d be happy to put together a logo/widget for your site, thanks! I’ll email something to you this weekend that will play nice with the others you have. Cheers
August 12th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Hi, wonderful set. I posted it here on my site
Keep up the good work!
August 13th, 2008 at 10:54 am
@mmolai. Thanks and thanks - it looks great