Art & Inspiration Traditional images that need no explanation.

Pretty neat cars for 1947. I found this uncropped picture on NHRA archives.

 

Low Rider! Either that or she has her arms tucked inside her sweater

 

I had to look it over pretty closely too. Pretty sure those are elbows.

 

Sure is.

 

Kustomrama
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Hello,

I have always liked all kinds of flames on anything. I learned to draw them in junior high school during cl***es that did no hold my interest… which was most of them other than Crafts/Jewelry and PE. Th early chicken scratch patterns started from the letter c and letter s in all variations. Then came the wavy designs. But, it was not until years later that the crab claw design pattern came into play in various shapes and patterns.

As we all got older, the technique for us was the same, some kind of boring lecture or presentation led to bringing out the paper/pencil for some quick calming “flames and scallops.” It was a way to cope and led to the more modern times when it was a tool to get along in any situation.

Our granddaughter was impressed that I could draw colorful flames on a table top when we went to a restaurant that allowed crayon drawings on the white paper table cover. Of course, the fancy design that the waitress always did was the lead in to waiting for our meal and our grand daughter always drew some thing fun.

The people sitting at the next table thought her grandparents were strange allowing her to see these large flames scribbled across the white paper on my side of the table. Obviously, they were not hot rod folks or had any inclination as to why those flames were so cool. Our granddaughter thought so, and that was what mattered to me.

Jnaki

In the era of hot rods from the beginning had a blank pallete of places for creative design. Flames evolved from simple scallops and now are creative as one can get with the fancy swirls, etc. Sometimes, the flames on a custom car or hot rod are a little overboard and the car gets lost in the vision. The original sighting of a black car with bright yellow/red flames was it. The Bob McCoy 40 Ford Sedan had all of the idea of flames going for it in the early days.


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