Like his well-known feathered-friend-image-painting counterpart, John James Autobahn's
one big regret about his
work was that he was obliged to bring to a
stop and park each of the speedy cars that he "captured on canvas", so that
said "subject" vehicle would stay still for him to scrutinize its minute features and reproduce them with his pigments. John was famously known as"the
boy who hated garages" --- he felt that these
man-made and "confining" monstrosities were all so hideously ugly, and that the fast and nimble "light on their wheels" vehicles he loved were so much more beautiful and delightful to observe when they were out roaming and racing about, just as free as the air they passed through.