Austin Speed Shop's "El Gringo Loco" ... fantastic interior, superb lace paint, terrific total design

I even dig the flame outlines.. .the traced out lines look really good in context to the gold lines from the headlights and along the hood borders

I love the seats, the center console, and the shifter knob.

You don't see many try at lace paint... this is one of the few new lace paints, and nailed it. perfect look!

The Six Shooter; cool paint, cool custom touches in the engine bay, but best of all is the awesome steering wheel

Mi Rancho Grande painted by Darryl Hollenbeck at Vintage Color Studio, wow.

The 59 Ranch wagon we had about 1200 total hours, with 150-200 in just paint work, door jams, under doors, tailgate, under hood, and yes it was my first panel job, but something I had wanted to try for awhile. I had done some blended job Back in the Acme days for Johnny D & Rick Dore.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=443274&page=2

Vintage Color Studios has had a website, http://www.vintagecolorstudio.com/ but it isn't working, and I'd rather they focus on awesome paint jobs instead anyway! Looks like their myspace isn't active either: http://www.myspace.com/vintagecolorstudio

Von Dutch invented lace painting, Watson perfected it

image via: http://customsickles.blogspot.com/

From Rod and Custom Oct 96, page 125:

One night while laying in bed, his thoughts jumped back 10 years to a long "pow-wow" with the legendary Von Dutch. He had told Watson about the time he lifted up a doily laying on his workbench and the bitchin' design that was left from the overspray in the shop. Dutch liked it so much he cleared over the imprint - and would tell everyone this was his favorite area of the workbench.

bet you didn't know that! Watson used the idea to try something new, it was on Doug Carrey's Grand Prix and won best paint in the '67 L.A. Sports Arena Custom Car Show.

Custom Sickles, from Italy. They have it all, the beautiful ...

http://customsickles.blogspot.com/

4th annual King of Clubs car show and drags

One of the nicest simple engine photos I've taken
The coolest accessory I remember ever finding on a car, this is proof that rat rod owners are the most innovative and eclectic bunch to put cars together... look at rat rods to find interesting stuff, restored cars just have factory stuff, but rat rods have incredible build techniques, obscure aftermarket add ons, (in general) the best of whatever could be found to make a car better

Here I am hoping that one of these headlight photos is as cool as I think they are

This gets my vote for best rod of the show... inline 8, dragster rear tires, period perfect front tires, home-made intake and exhaust, Strombergs, real antique liscense plates, cool speedometer etc etc

This just nails the award... a shrunken head in the steering wheel

Love the exhaust and intake

In case you've never seen heavy large metal flake... here ya go

Sorry for the flipped photo, but it's the only way to get a great look at the perfect silhouette shadow



Love the insert for the gauges, nice shape, great chrome

Cool ice chest! Looks like a Von Dutch original (couldn't be)

A Kustom Kulture womens car club? Wow... trying to wrap my mind around that, any chance of an unattached one looking for a muscle car guy?

Don Wang's.. he owns DRW transmission, and that is where I took my last trans for a rebuild. My next one too when I can afford it. I recommend DRW.

If you ever wanted to see a good lace paint job, here ya go