History Von Dutch Interview Car Craft Feb.1956

thanks for the post

 

Very cool.

 

I think he was better at a lot of other things besides pinstripping!!

 

That was the best thing I've read lately.

 

Rocky, thanks for the read. I agree with Chaddiliac, more talent than we know!

 

Very cool artwork and skill. I have enjoyed seeing his stuff on early sleds and hot rods.

 

One of my favorite "Anti-Heros"!

 

Dutch had a naturally kicked back way about him...but I saw him go off on a 'customer' once. He got real wiry, I thought he was gonna turn the guy inside out.

He wasn't outgoing, but he'd talk. A little. Got more quiet as time went by.

 

“I make a point of staying right at the edge of poverty. I don’t have a pair of pants without a hole in them, and the only pair of boots I have are on my feet. I don’t mess around with unnecessary stuff, so I don’t need much money. I believe it’s meant to be that way. There’s a ‘struggle’ you have to go through, and if you make a lot of money it doesn’t make the ‘struggle’ go away. It just makes it more complicated. If you keep poor, the struggle is simple.“ –Von Dutch

Via: http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/kenny-howard-the-pinstriper-known-as-von-dutch/

 

Awsome!!

 

Thanks Rocky, What must readers have thought back in 1956? This is how characters who are bigger than life are created. Cool to read this during his early prime. Great magazine art direction using the photos with typography. Throughout the sixties weren't there references in Cartoons magazine in the margins - small words like Where's Von Dutch?, Who's Von Dutch? Such an interesting cat.

 

Yup, remember them well.

In the summer of '68 I was stationed with a gear head from California, he asked if I had ever seen them and I said yes. Then he told me about hearing about a guy "out in the valley" before he enlisted that would do a helmet for a jug of wine, he had looked him up and turned out to be Von Dutch! No idea if he ever kept the helmet or not, haven't seen or heard from him since my discharge.

 

What beacme of the Barris brothers 49 Ford wagon ??

 

cool

 

when i was 20 in 1970 i bought a 57 chev 2 dr post that was a drag race car that had his name on the side and was striped on the dash and lots on the outside.i put a motor in it and drove it for a year on the street. i've never seen a picture of it. didn't know who he was at the time i traded the car in on a almost new 69 camero and the chevy garage painted over all the signs

 

Thanks for the post! Dutch is my HERO!!!

 

Wonder if anyone has a shotgun that Von Dutch engraved?

 

But he was also the best pinstriper too. Then. He invented it.

A gazillion stripers since, practicing their whole lifetimes, have certainly improved upon his foundation in the subsequent 60 years. Every artist has his work surp***ed by the artists who continue work in the given style.

If he is in museums in a hundred years from now, it will be because his influence was wider in the striping arena than in any of his other endeavors.

 

He didn't merely engrave weapons; he made them from scratch.

Thanks for posting this. My copy of that issue is forty years gone.

 

Such a cool article, thanks for posting!

 

I really enjoyed that. I am always amazed at his talent and intrigued by his philosophy.

 

I really enjoy his work and thanks for posting this.

I have to ask though, what was the talk about him being a wifebeating racist?

 

I think I still have that "little book" in my collection in the garage. Von Dutch was my idol. I used to draw, mostly car and girl, cartoons in middle and high school for gas money. Wanted to try pinstriping but only did a little on my own cars.
Must have not been very good because I ended up doing other ****. Thanks for the memories !

 

Times 2,,,I did this to hang in my shop just after he p***ed,,

 

As stated in the story Dutch said add some 50 weight oil to the one shot ! I wonder how many tried it?

 

"Another customer who was foolish enough to pressure Von Dutch into a quick job he didn't want to do got a striping job that wouldn't dry, as Von Dutch had mixed a lot of oil into the paint."

via: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?***le=Von_Dutch