Personalised car or motorbike poster — your vehicle as a vintage poster

Your vehicle — car, motorbike, scooter, pick-up, road bike, tractor — redrawn in a vintage advertising poster, in gouache style: a big sky, a seaside, mountain or country road, and a navy banner at the bottom. Three texts are written over it, in your words: a title in capitals in the sky (the vehicle’s name), a tagline under it, a caption in the banner. The poster imitates no real poster and no real brand.

A sharp daytime photo where the whole vehicle can be seen, from a three-quarter angle at the front or the rear: the poster keeps the angle of the photo. A phone photo is enough — JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 25 MB. People, garage, wall or grass around the vehicle do not appear on the poster: in our test, a man standing in front of his saloon car and a second car in the background disappeared, and only the saloon was drawn. With three tries per photo, you see the result before you order.

No: it is painted blank, a white or cream rectangle with the blue European strip, without any character. In our tests, with a perfectly legible plate in every photo, no character came through; an AI guarantees nothing in a series, but you see the poster before you order, with three tries. That is deliberate: a number plate has no place on a gift you hang on the wall. If you want a number on the poster — a year, a figure — write it in the title or in the caption of the banner.

We tried eight very different vehicles, photographed with a phone: a 1970s coupé, a recent SUV, a small city car, a road motorbike, a vintage scooter, a pick-up, a road bike and an old tractor. Each one stayed recognisable: the shape, the colour, the wheels, the headlights, and details such as the stripes on a bonnet or the rack of a scooter. Brand and model names written on the vehicle are removed; the badge stays, simplified, and cursive lettering can remain as an illegible stroke. We did not try a lorry, a boat or a plane, nor a photo taken at night or from very far away, nor a heavily modified vehicle.

Yes: an artificial intelligence draws the poster from your photo, in about thirty seconds. It is not an illustrator’s line, and the likeness is not guaranteed. You see the result before you order, and that exact image is what gets printed, in our workshop in Aveyron: nothing is redone or retouched between screen and paper. You get three tries per photo, with the setting of your choice. The text is written separately: you can change it without redoing the poster. Like any personalised poster, it cannot be taken back, except for a fault or mistake on our part.

Yes, from three: seaside (a corniche road, umbrella pines and a village on the sea), mountain pass (a winding road between snowy peaks) and countryside (a road lined with poplars between poppy and sunflower fields). The setting is chosen before the poster is made, at the top of the form, and decides the landscape — not the vehicle, which stays yours, of any year: a recent car is painted as it is. Redoing the poster in another setting redraws everything (a new try); until you do, the poster shown is the one that gets printed.

Three texts, all optional: the title, in capitals in the sky (24 characters at most, for example “Marcel’s Old Beauty”), a tagline in handwritten letters under it (48 characters) and a caption in the banner at the bottom (24 characters, for example “Since 1987 · Galway”). These words are written by our site, not drawn by the AI: they are printed exactly as you typed them. With nothing written, the poster keeps a title that goes with the setting, a default tagline and a default caption.

The poster of his or her car or motorbike, in the setting of an old advertisement, with the name they gave it: for a birthday, Father’s Day, a leaving do, the purchase of a vehicle or a wedding car. Ask for a photo of the vehicle — or take one when they are not around —, add a title and a tagline of theirs, and look at the result before you pay. Order at least ten days ahead; the print-ready file arrives by download link within the day.

It is only used to make your poster. It is stored in a private space, never published, and we delete it thirty days after shipping — or after purchase, for the print-ready file — along with the poster created. Location data in a phone photo is removed as soon as it is uploaded. To be drawn, the photo is sent to an artificial intelligence service (Google), which receives it for that purpose only.

A4, 30 × 40, 40 × 60, 50 × 70 and 70 × 100 cm: standard frame sizes, easy to find (IKEA, HEMA, Action, Desenio). Optional wooden frame on the A4 and 30 × 40, in black, white or natural, with acrylic glass; the larger sizes ship rolled, to frame at home.

250 g/m² satin matte paper, lightfast pigment inks. Printed to order in our workshop in Aveyron, whatever the size. Shipped rolled, in a sturdy long cardboard box; the A4 travels flat, in a stiff card envelope, and a framed poster in a cardboard box.

Yes. The print-ready file contains all five sizes, each as a PDF and as a 300 dpi PNG — ten files in all, by a download link sent after payment, to print wherever you like.

Printed within 48 hours, then delivered to your home or a pickup point — home delivery only for the 50 × 70 and 70 × 100. The download link for the print-ready file is sent the same day.