Need scalable hot rod auto art

I'm doing a job for a friend who has just opened a small restaurant in a small town with a "hot rod" theme, using black/white checkered curtains, etc.

I have looked and looked through my large collection of clip art and don't find anything acceptable. The folks who are doing her billboard sent me their .jpg file (@ 300 dpi) and the car there will probably look fine on a billboard but the colors are doing weird things in Photoshop, like when you take a 72 dpi original and try to blow it up.

I've looked online at several previous sources of photos and clip art, and would be willing to pay up to $100, but I need vector art, several different cars, hopefully at least one with flames. I know NOTHING about hotrodding or hot rod/street rod decoration. I just don't have the talent or the time to take a photograph and "decorate" it. I think she's more interested in "fifties" and newer, rather than the older cars.

Because this is a "I work for food" job, I just can't afford to pay top dollar for fine art that an auto detailer might use. I just need clip art for menus, business cards, ad copy, etc.

Because so many guys I have known spend HOURS drawing cars, I thought this would be an easy search. Unfortunately, I have found nothing useable.

Can anyone help me????

Thanks

[zlatiborac]

I don't have that illustration but I did wrote an tutorial on how to make some "hot-rod" effects maybe it can be of some help to you
Burning wheel effect

[MoodsR4Cattle]

There seem to be several vector hotrods on IStockPhoto:

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_sear...ypeID=&x=0&y=0

[Kenni]

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