Art & Inspiration The **OFFICIAL** door lettering thread

thanks crook! We need to have a couple of beers sometime!!

 

Nice work everyone !

 

Here's a few that I've collected.

 

A few more!

 

Last one's!

 

I don't mind it on parts haulers, but cars????

 

Here's my sedan delivery with the original lettering. It used to belong to Weatherford Motor Parts. Car had been repainted and re-lettered over the years.I'm eventually going to put my own signs on it.

 

This is the original lettering on my truck. I plan to keep it that way. You can barely make out a previous lettering job underneath.

 

Original lettering on a truck at the farm...

 

Hey,

The white, the yella & the lite blue sure covered better when it had lead in it!

Swanky Devils C.C.
" Meanwhyle, back aboard The Tainted Pork"

 

Wife's truck.

 

Here's a few I've done;will post more on the art show as I have to do one tomorrow.

 

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I'm prob gonna catch hell for it, but the '54 will be getting some lettering and striping in the next couple days...

Not to take away from this thread, but here are some older ones too:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=228514&showall=1

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=387555&showall=1

Let's see some new and different ones!

 

...one from Georgia.

 

This car has been out of action since the early 80's. Art by Bobby Messick who did my truck door in 2006. Still stripin' and letterin'.

 

here is my shop truck. pat maxwell designs did it here in spring.

-danny

 

Here's a job I did for my friend Darrell at Southern Speed Shop. We were rushing to get it done for a photo shoot that never happened, that's why the lettering was being done at the same time as the chop.

 

can this skill be taught? is there a school for sign painting? jus curious.
cool stuff btw.

 

This is for real on a Corvair

 

xtralow,
There used to be a sign painting school years ago in California somewhere, if my memory is correct. It may still be operating, I really don't know.
I bought a handful of lettering quills and some One-Shot back in '78 and just started slingin' it. If you were to see pics of some of those first signs, you'd understand my use of the term "slingin'". It was horrendous! haha
I guess you have to have a little "artistic talent", which is something that can't be taught, it's like it's either in there or it's not. If you do have a touch of it, check out youtube and see if there are some videos that might get ya started.
I also remember some books back in the day that dealt with hand-lettering. Maybe do a google search and see what's out there. Good Luck!

 

I saw the the Mooneye VW type II panel bus.

another one I saw on the Mooneye website

 

got this done yesterday

 

A blatant rippoff, but I love this one.

 

Here's a few more from my Fotki album.

 

Not really "Door" Lettering, but in the spirit of...

 

...here's a few I did