Question for all you Skateboarders with Hot rods?

Hey fellas,

For those that don't know yet... I am now back riding on Indpenedent trucks again... It's been 10 years since i left the company, but things have worked out this year for their continued support in the skateboard industry and one of my latest sponsors

Thier 30 year anniversary is coming up and they are going to do some special designed limited edition team shirts for the public and a few of the team riders are going to design them! I hear that old school pool skater-Steve Olsen will be one of the first and i was asked to do a t-shirt design as well.

as you know...i'd love to have a Hot rod/ Kustom theme to the shirt design with the cool "Independent truck Co. logo on the door... kinda like a shop truck.

so the question is..." what kind of truck do you think would look cool for the art design for the new shirt?"

any suggestions or picks of some cool looking trucks i could get some ideas from? I do have some ideas, but would love to hear/see yours as well, pictures preferrable

this still has to be one of my local favorites




best wishes,
CAB

 

I'd say a cartoonized version of a 49-54 Chevy truck. IE a low chop, maybe a slight section, more flowing fenders and tuckign big wide whites with six-twos and stacks without a hood. Thats my idea...lol.

 

Damn, CAB...gotta go with your idea there. Fuckin' sweet.

 

use RUDYS truck!!!!

 

Come on, am I the only one? The answer's obvious...
A "CAB"-Over (COE) Ford!

 

Hey I always like throwing my truck out there for the group! Bill

 

58-9 Fords were always my fave, have one on bags scraping the pavement followed by "Built to Grind"

Here is a picture of Colby Martin's 58 off of the classic trucks website

 

yup.!

 

Ditto!

 

'58 Chevy SD?

I love this Studey:



and a couple more ideas from the archives:

 

i got kicked outta school one day for wearing an independent shirt. ...apparently it meant i was a racist.

i like the JD one.

 

how 'bout a model A hotrod pick-up with dropped indy hanger for an axle, haha!

 

Haha yhea, I remember a techer saying, "whoa, what are you in the Knights templar or something?" never got kicked out though.

 

Indy shirt never got me in trouble, neither did the Minor Threat or Black Flag, but my Dead Kennedys shirt pissed off the old man (told me I'd end up with a bullet in my head). Never had balls to wear my "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" shirt to school.

 

i'd go with a woody!

 

I'd like to see a jacked-up, gasser-style pickup with an Indy truck up front instead of a straight axle.

Hey Cab, how about a rear shot of your coupe with an Indy truck peeking out from underneath instead of a Q-C? Or maybe just a pic of an Indy truck with a Q-C center section grafted into it?

When I got sent home for wearing a shirt, it was an old Metallica "Metal Up Your Ass" tour jersey.

Dave

 

I don't skateboard but .......If I was you and owned a Model A......it would HAVE TO be a Model A roadster pickup.....

 

How about a red Econoline?

 

Cab- here are a few Chevy's- and mine. Good Luck from an old cowtown skatepunk...

 

I would go with a ratfink style drawing of a fenderless model a pick-up .
if you are going for an old timey shoptruck look, I was thinkin an original un chopped 28-9 ford with just a lowering job would make a cool shop truck. When I owned Dirt Brothers Industry we wanted to do somethin like that on a shirt.
Just my 2 cents worth.

 

all of the trucks sound good, but add a skater doing a hand plant on a bed rail of a truck so that you can see the bottom of the board with the independent logo

 

Here are a couple more local trucks to choose from...



and another view of the first truck!

 

How about a ford cab-over

 

How about being really different and using a picture of "plowboys" SPACE TRUCK. It would just make your shirt that much more different. And hey, that truck kicks ass!

 

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Got pics of the Ford Cab over?
thanks for all the ideas guys...cool!
best wishes,
CAB

 

..........photo "borrowed" from Custom Classic Trucks coverage of a Goodguys event.......

 

Bill, your truck rocks. I'm hoping our '53 is as nice as yours when it's done for this coming spring. Any other photos or info on it? Thanks,

Also, I think if you're looking for a COE, you should use this one, it's from classiccoe.com:



Ben

 

Cab, I'll bet my truck could hold 20 skateboards.

It wouldn't be the first time someone stuck a logo on the door either. Ha Ha Ha

 

I think this kind of angle would work best. Not to mention the truck is one of my Fav.