History When did the first Lace paint job appear?

reason I am asking is a guy (Gary Kupfer) on the FB custom paint page said he was the inventor of the idea of using lace and his car was a 63 corvette that was displayed in 1965 NY Colosseum show with the first ever lace job.
I was thinking it was around since the wild show car era of the mid 50's.
anybody know? or heard of him?

 

Never heard of him but I remember a guy in my home town that had what appeared to be lace on the top of a 1958 Chevy ,this was in 1961 I think. HRP

 

....................and Al Gore claimed he invented the internet.

 

I believe this '64 Grand Pix is said to be the first lace job. Painted by Larry Watson and I believe it was a new car at the time it was modified.
(Source, Kustomrama site, Rik Hoving collection)
Truth be told it was probably some kid in his moms garage, and he probably caught flack from his buddies for having "girlie" **** on his car...until someone of note decided to do it and it became cool!

Doug-carney-1964-pontiac by G V Gordon posted Apr 21, 2016 at 1:33 PM

 

Gary "The Local Brush" Kupfer is a well known painter in NY area - featured in/on many magazines - as far as use of lace, Watson credited Von Dutch with giving him the use of lace idea

 

No way to really know who did it first, it was not popular until the late '60s or early '70s though.

By the way I invented *** **** I got it *** backwards.

 

Right Larry was at Dutchs. Dutch had a lace cloth on his work bench, Larry noticed the lace pattern when Dutch picked up the cloth. Then painted the pontiac above. And in the Bellflower and local areas everyone with spare bucks, got lace wheither whole car, panels, or roof tops

 

great info guys. Gary says he is still doing custom work. pretty awesome me thinks.

 

The only Lace I've ever cared for was found on women's *******.

Gary

 

As I remember the story Von Dutch had a pair of lace ******* laying on the bench. He had the same tastes as you (and me).

 

- you have a distorted but, interesting, memory

 

As I recall it was the Watson story that started the lace craze. Funny how a lot of the crazy paint ideas back then were usually the result of screw-ups. One of them was called(I believe) Atzei painting. The article was done using a helmet and consisted of spraying it a metallic gold enamel and before it completely set overspraying with white alklyd enamel. The result was the lacquer would separate into crazed areas allowing the gold to show through. The only problem was it was difficult to control.
Then there was always the acetylene torch wandered over a surface and then cleared. It again was usually done in small areas and preferably NOT on motorcycle gas tanks.
The scallop style done by taking an old sanding disc and spraying over one side and then moving it half the diameter and spraying again and repeating until you had rows of these. A friend of mine used to take several business cards and fan them out like playing cards,tape them together and do the same as the scallop style. On smaller areas he would use his thumb as a template.
I remember shooting over a black tank with industrial diamond dust in clear. Great effect;looked like stars against a night sky but tore up the spray nozzles.

 

back in 1937 grandma want me to hang some lace table doilies on the outside close line,
n while i was running outside my younger brother was brush painting his tricycle...
well i slipped and fell and caught myself just in time before i hit the fresh paint but the lace doily was what stopped the fall and out of a reaction i pulled off fast as to not mess up his paint job.. well you can only guess the rest ,we been lace painting EVER since ...lol
the above has been placed here strictly for your entertainment have fun enjoy

 

That's as credible as all the **** posted above you.

 

I remember reading a rare interview with Von Dutch where he described the lace doily on the work bench covered with over spray. The pattern left of the bench got his attention and he did a couple test panels. Later showing larry Watson . Watson then took it to the next level, possibly on the above. Pontiac. I latter read an interview with Watson who credited Von Dutch with the idea. And because of the coverage these two received in those days their ideas spread far and wide in notime. whether they where the first or not, the vast sum of their creativeity out way any debate on the credibility of this . post. They where both masters of their chosen art form. back in the 60s these guys along starbird , barris, windfield and Jefferies where my Bart Starr, Jonney Unitist or mickey mantel, enjoy the art and remember that things you cannot change are not worth worring your self sick about !! Larry

 

Always thought "lace painting" was **** ugly...

 

I always thought using gaskets looked more masculine than lace.

 

One of the HOTROD books about custom painting credits Joe Anderson (Gardena CA) with the ******* on the bench story

 

..............I always wondered how that all came about.

 

Here's my OT '70 big-block Corvette that was only six weeks old when I had the rear panel "laced". 46 years later and I still have the car with it's original paint. I get a lot of comments at cruise-in gatherings when I tell the story of the car's history and why I keep it as a "time capsule" of my young days. I get a chuckle when I tell them that I took a pair of my girlfriends ******* for the pattern. They usually reply with something like "she must have been a big-un", to which I reply "yeah, but she was a good-un".

 

Reminds me of the guy from Greece telling the guy from Italy "...we invented *** you know..." The guy from Italy says " Yeah but we introduced it to women."

 

Couple pics of I '63 bug I did a "lace job" on around 1969 or 70.

 

I don't remember lace being earlier than 68-69, does leopard pattern count?

 

I lived in Woodward OK around '69 and there were two brothers had a body shop across from our apartment who used to buy large granny *******, tape the legs shut an were them on their head when painting.

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A couple of my high school cl***mates painted cars. I can remember how crazy it looked to me to see some fancy table cloth on the hood of a car being painted. Another guy was doing something called pin striping and it looked great. Oh, the year was 1959 in WA state.

 

Regardless of who invented lace painting it's still being done.

Fellow Hamber Quain Stott's Willy's. HRP

 

He also invented "global warming" been a big money maker for him and many others.

 

LOL a million right off the bat from a book and a Nobel Prize. The book has since been disproven (which is no reflection on Algore not his research anyway) but I have noticed that he has not given the million or the Nobel prize back.

Ok so much for politics, to say who did the first lace job is like asking who did the first Gow Job, no one will ever really know will they. It is literally a question without an answer.

 

the last to tell a lie wins