Hot Rods Mexican blanket pic thread

so....what do you call your bacon?????
honestly though,,, when did this trend start? year wise? and why?
im not doggin them, i think there cool.. just wondering!

btw, im my {ive won the lotto] file, my car is full of fat lucky or stitch bitch interior...or oldcarmike if he keeps his junk in his pants whilst doing so.......luv ya mikey.....happy new yr!

 

Great pic Kid. It'll make me a great desktop.
Thanks.

 

oh you like that one huh, is it the pile of bottles in the back ground

 

It's the "Whole Enchilada!!"
The serape is the subject........with a perfect background.
Muy bueno.

 

Boy you guys in Estonia have some cool lookin' rides, what I can see of them in the pix. The seats in truck #1 are "Choice!!"

 

Sry I have found these pictures from internet.Yeah wish we had so cool looking cars, mostly stock American cars, very few people into hot rods and customs.

 

I have two in my F1.
A gray one under the Sunday-go-to-town red one.

 

But it sounds like you have the desire.
Welcome to the HAMB.

 

You must be from the, "McFitzee clan. eh!"

 

My 54's......

 

lorodz ...

The R word is Rat.

I won't go as far to say that a "Mexican blanket interior" equates to the car being labeled a "Rat Rod" ... but I won't say they were necessarily a "Traditional Hot Rod & Custom" thing either.

I've looked through hundreds of '40s & '50s Rodding publications (Throttle, HotRod, R&C, CarCraft, & other "little page" magazines) and can't recall ever seeing any blanket seat covers ... I'd surmise that the use of sarapes to cover seats was typically just a temporary thing ... while the owner saved up enough $$$ for an upholstery job.

 

haha, off the beaten path in Ensenada is like off the beaten path at Disneyland. ALL of Ensenada is a beaten path. The blankets work like they should though, eh?

 

Blackie Gejeian 1946
"Every pound you could take off the car made it faster. All the fenders, the running boards, even the upholstery came off. That's how the serape blanket came in. I used my Navy blanket; I came home with it from the service and used it for my seat cover."

 

1966 Dodge truck I put inserts in.

 

nice

 

some cool interiors, I've always liked mexican blankets

 

I will add some pics I found on the web

 

I think they have the "real deal" blankets here in town at the flea market every weekend or in a couple of shops in town.

The local upscale men's store also sells unbrushed Pendleton blanket material by the yard that makes nice inserts http://www.kraffs.com/

 

come on any more pics

 

any more

 

This is what's in my '41.

 

My cat Buddy stole mine!

 

unkledaddy ... Yep, I've read that same "The Blackie Gejeian Story" article (it was written by Dick Martin and appeared in the October 2008 issue of ROD&Custom) ... in fact, that article included a 1947 pic of Blackie's car ... complete with the NAVY blanket:



Ironically, the caption under this photo read: "I still call myself the King of the Rat Rodders," laughed Blackie. "I built a rat rod in 1945; built it to race, not for show, although I did later. I went to El Mirage with it in 1947, won the Oakland Roadster Show with it in 1955, and still have it today."

Again, I'm not saying they didn't exist ... but could somebody please post some '30s, '40s, or '50s photographs of a Dry Lakes car, Hot Rod, or Custom with a Mexican blanket (serape) seat cover.

 

You might as well go with a good upholstery job for the price of some Pendleton blankets

 

So today we've learned that not only are mexican blankets "traditional" but so are rat rods. If you listen closely you can hear the sound of ulcers forming in the belly of the "'fill in the blank' ain't traditional" types everywhere.

 

Or you can buy from the source-

http://www.pendleton-usa.com/section/Home-Blankets/1816.uts


Pendleton sells most fabric by the yard in upholstery weight. Not be cheap.


David

 

thats a nice skate board, I will have to show that to my friend

 

my old 37