list your favorite three stripers!!!

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Luke Scanlan Florida

 

Thanks Don for the nice words. Shaky Jake was one of my all time favorites and Kim Dedic another great unsung striper !

 

I undersood this "what do you think are the three best in your area or that you have dealt with"....cant disagree with ya on the rest.......

 

In New York there is only One.....Gary Kupfer ....GARY THE LOCAL BRUSH

 

Von Dutch is the only striper I have dealt with. In '68 I was working at Muntz on Roscoe in the S.F.V. Ca. and Jim Muntz[Earls son] was into racing go-karts and wanted Von Dutch to do the paint and striping on his. I had been up to Von Dutch's place several times for the kart and he was working on a '55 Chevy that some guy owned and kept telling him how to stripe it - Well, the next time I went up there was about 3 wks. later and he had painted hundreds and hundreds of flies all over the dash and window trim[you could almost hear the buzzing] - he said that the guy just kept bugging the hell out of him and telling him he was doing it wrong - But the kart came out just perfect. But to see the '55 owners face would have been priceless

 

The standard heroes you asked us not to note (though many did),

Tommy the Greek
Larry Watson.

and a guy not mentioned:

Larry Lee, had a custom shop on Green St. in Pasadena, CA in the late '50's, early '60's, did striping, surf t-shirts, custom work (watched him french Packard lites into a Plymouth), and built a '29 A sedan with a blown Chrysler for the street, complete with parachute...anyone else remember him, or know what happened to him?

 

MatthewCaine , Skeet , & Mikey .

 

Charlie Decker-One Arm Bandit
Anthony White
Alan Johnson

 

Larry Lee is still around SoCal. I remember when he had a place on PCH in Newport Beach, back in the 60's. If you watch the Indy time trials ,you'll probably see on some of the drivers helmets,"Troy Lee Designs" that's Larrys' son. The apple did'nt fall far from the tree!

 

When I was starting to do striping ,the three guys that influenced me the most were Tom Kelly , Dennis Jones and Chuck Babbitt aka "shakey Jake" . Jakes gone ,but Kelly and Jones have since become very good friends of mine.

 

This is a little O/T I must admit..... But here we go.....
Now lets see........ Gypsy Rose Lee........Hmmmm.... Candy what's her name..........


OOOHHHH!!!!......how embarrassing ........ it's "Stripers" not "Strippers"








( my apologies if this humour has already appeared on the thread - but it is a million pages long )

 

Too funny! I read this as strippers...

 

Anthony White
00Mack
The Pinstriper with the Foot Fetish

 

I have only had one guy do the quality... Mark Peters Asheville NC

 

Fuzz the Striper
Muktuk Jim
Nine-fingered Lenny

 

glen weisgerber
did all the funny cars and house striper at CIRCUS custom paint

 

"Gator" Mike Gaydos got me into striping and is a legend in my book. I am proud to call him freind and own a car he had a hand in customizing many years ago. Great to see his name on here. He never toots his own horn and is happiest when he see's the smile on anyone that enjoys what he does.

 

yep,the apple didnt fall from the tree is right.

http://www.troyleedesigns.com/2010_collection/

 

My favorite artist from southern Illinois, been doin' it since the '60's...
Jack Irwin

Joey Hutson does beautiful work too.

 

David Hightower and Tramp Warner are two of the very best in the country.

David Hightowers work is in some of the most expensive art gallery's in the country and sells for thousands of dollars.

There have been many great stripers over the years and many of them were known for different things such as their design work or images of pin up girls and stuff like that. Some pull staight lines others hate straight lines and don't like doing that kind of work. Other like doing anything with cartoon caractors or animals. Each one is good in their own right.

Not to many still hit the road every year and follow the car shows because of the costs involved with being a vendor.

Jake Hudson was doing it for years but I don't know if Jake still hits the road every year and follows the NSRA events or not.

Many of the bigger shows charge between $1,800 and $2.500 dollars for four days and that is just the cost for your spot with no traveling expenses figured in.

Jimbo

 

Shaky Jake !

 

Knew your dad well, he was a true legend! Be Proud

 

Mitch Kim

 

My picks is:

1. Ron Myers
2. Ron Myers
3. Ron Myers

 

Me, but just cause of the price.

 

Your dad was a good friend and influence in my early years of striping . In my office I have a print of him striping a tricycle that Joy gave me after he passed , it's always been one of my favorites. Still miss him to this day !

 

Nelson Grimes....taught me
Wildman Ishi
Alan Johnson
Pete Finlan

 

The only guy I know and saw work was a local guy here around Vegas by the name of Jake Hudson, been doing it for over 40 years and is smooth!

Michael

 

I saw Huff Jr striping at the east Carbon show last year, that kid kicks ass.