Scallops......



The Creators Of Kustom

John D'Agostino, Darryl Starbird, George Barris & Gene Winfield

Bill Hines

Richard Parks & Jack Stewart

Dean Jeffries

Blackie G

Ed Roth (Big Daddy)...RIP..

Larry Watson.....RIP..

Kenny Howard (Von Dutch)...RIP

And many more...

Let us be thankfull to these guys..

'54 Mercury Taillights

I can't get Bob Nelsons '50 Chevrolet out of my mind since it featured in Kustoms Illustrated.

So when I had to decide what taillights I was going to use on my project I didn't have to think very long.

It had to be these beautifull 1954 Merc taillights. So they are on their way to our shop!!

These lights were also on Larry Watson's "Grapevine"



Ink & Iron 2010

Found some crappy phonepics from our visit at the Ink 'n Iron festival in LongBeach last year.

It was not allowed to bring camera's in so..Nokia was the only option.

A buch of cool rods..

'51 Mercury

 Voodoo Larry's '46 Ford 'VooDoo Idol'

Buick..

Chopped ratrods

1952 Chopped Chevy

1959 Ford Covertible & ....old mopar??

Customs @ GNRS 2011

Within 2 weeks we're of to California! For us the highlight of 2011 happens here at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona. The Customs "THEN & NOW" will hold 75 of the most historical Custom cars that are still around today. Here some of the cars that will be displayed...

Sam Barris '49 Mercury

Snooky Janich '41 Ford

Dick Fowler's '38 Ford Coupe

Dave York 50 Ford

Sam Foose 1948 Ford Coupe

And many many more...

check out Rik Hoving's page for more participants.

I can't wait....



More chopped stuff...

Marvin Coley's 1950 Mercury

Chris Clark's 1950 Chevrolet with a Gene Winfield paintjob!

1950 Fleetline Owner unknown.. for sale on the HAMB

Probably the most famous chopped merc build for Bob Hirohata by the Barris brothers and recently restored and owned by Jim McNiel.

Will attend at the GNRS...!!

Larry Watson's "Grapevine"

Larry Watson created this Chevy sedan for himself as transportation as well as for rolling advertisement for his pinstripe and custom painting business.When larry bought the car he nosed and decked it and added some very wild pinstripes to the hood, trunk and dash.

This rolling work of art got his business really going. And soon he had money enough to redo his own Chevy into the first version you can see above. Later, Larry would create two more spectacular versions of his personal ride then named the Grapevine as shown below.

Third version with a wild paintjob..

Unfortunatly Larry died in July this year...
But his work will never be forgotten..

R.I.P.