Art & Inspiration The Auto Art of the '04 Pile Up !

Hey Joel, you Rock Too.

The Artwork on the stall door looks like Josh Shaw's work to me. But Josh is such a nice young man, and I'm sure he would never deface public property in such a way

 

Awesome pics, Joel! Thanks!

 

I really enjoyed that expose. Thanks
TZ

 

Great shots...and nice story lines.

 

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Close up of the artwork by a unknown artist. I can only imagine what sparked this burst of "Artistic Endeavor".

My only regret was not "Liberating" the door with a few handtools for a more proper venue.

[/ QUOTE ]Nice collection of pictures. I agree Josh Shaw would never do the that in a public place. Somehow after he left my shop this was left on the wall in it.

 

hey Joel, heres a crummy shot of the back of that chopped lincoln. Taken at "fiesta of the fifties" in Centreville, MI this year on the 4th of July weekend
I LOVE that car, and the wild plymouth that runs around with it!

 

Great pics, cool people and great stories. Thanks for sharing them...

 

Roadstar & Ratster: This guy Josh gets it done. I love his style, gotta have him do something for me!

Ka-Zoo: Great pic Man! Everytime I look at that trunk I breakout in da sweats. It's beautiful.

 

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Ka-Zoo: Great pic Man! Everytime I look at that trunk I breakout in da sweats. It's beautiful.

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Trust me, he probably needed to rewash that car after i got done walking, (and walking, and crawling) around it because of all my drool. just about everything about that car is PERFECTO. i think i have a better close up of the trunk at home, will post later.
also, one of my favorite things about that car is the "crossed wrenches and skull" hanging off the plate. about a 1/4" of the wrenches were gone from draggin' too kool!!

 

Proof that just because you stripe, doesn't mean you're a striper. THESE guys are stripers and deserve to be called so.

Thanks a lot for posting. Really great stuff.

 

Great photo's, again! Cool history lession about some of the local 'oldtimer's' who were inspiring to your work. Giving credit where credit was due. And welcoming the young gun's, I know some guy's would feel threatened by new blood and ignore them, not you. Great timing,too. Another Pile-Up fix, on Friday Art Show. Thank-you, sir!

 

The work on the White A might be my favorie ever!

 

P Pan thankyou for a great selection of shots. Not just the striping shots, but also the people shots. The lines people do are neat, but it is the striper on the end of the brush that creates it. They are really unsung heroes in the big picture. But as a striper I know I don't do my stuff for the glory?
Not that many old time stripers over here. But they would be the ones I like to meet and converse with. I did meet Herb Martinez when I was in the states in '98, a real nice guy.
My inspiration is from all the striping I see, but the man for me is Von Dutch, not just as a striper, but for him as a total 'package'. Be it a good or bad package he was what can only be descibed as a genius. Love him or hate him, you can not deny his talent.
Oh and never let them colors intimidate you!!!!
Thanks again, I hope you don't mind but I will be saving a number of images from your post P Pan

 

Thanks................

 

Awsome pics!!! Incredible work by those guys!!! Just wanted to let you guys know that the goldleaf on the GTO was done by hand in real 14kt gold. A good friend of ours Bill Foust did the lettering and the goldleaf. It was kind of hard finding someone to do the gold leaf and NOT use vinyl. Didn't have vinyl in 1965, not going to use it now!!!!

 

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Very nice lettering and striping on this "A", artist unknown. You can tell this ride still has it's Friday "Driving in the rain" finish.

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A Lurker named Bret Mason owns that four banger coupe and does all the pinstriping on it as well...!

He has several pieces for sale at "Sidevalve's" booth and there were a few other cars "Sportin" his "Top Notch" work...!

Sign in Bret...!

 

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This was my "Favorite Hot Rod of da Show" ride. Very cool car and just so happens to be striped to death. Who done the work?

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A guy who goes by the name of Jody did that one... he might have done the Lincoln also. Both cars are from the NW Indiana area (Hammond)

oh, and thanks for the post! This is a neat way of looking at the Pile up!

 

Josh only draws for kids, what the hell was a kid doing in that stall with him??????

 

Thanks for the great pics and words! That was quite a show! When I was there I knew the cars were amazing, it's neat to hear how many amazing artists were there too!

 

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Josh only draws for kids, what the hell was a kid doing in that stall with him??????

[/ QUOTE ]He was doing his best Michael Jackson imitation!

 

thats right, I do only draw for kids. What the hell else do you thing a hamb is... A bunch of kids building hot rods the way they used to be built... well some of em are, most of em just talk about it. I know! I'll post a picture of one of my hot rods on here and everyone can photoshop it the way they woulda built it. No thanks.
I got a knew job that Ill be on the computer more, so Ill try to post some art for Yall from time to time... But you know Ill be also postin' "BLACK SHIRT MAFIA" pics from the shows to put some truth to the rumors of how we do things. some will love this, some will get in loads of shit for it... But isnt that what the hamb is all about? Starting shit from the safety of my own house.

oh... and about the kid in the bathroom stall, Thom...
she said she was 18.

 

Hey Joel:

Did Jack "The Italian" Gachanio relocate to St. Louis. Last I knew, he was in Green Bay Wisconsin. I was hoping to get him to lay some lines for me, but St. Louis is awfully far away.


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Thanks for all the GREAT pics Joel!! Gives me motavation to stripe more often.

Josh

 

Hey Bob K,

I'm a idiot!

Nope "the Italian" is from Green Bay, WisTexan.

My bad, I don't know where I got that St. Louis shit from. He gave me his latest card that day and dang if it don't say Green Bay on it.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention and your ride will be awesome if ya have him do it.


Joel

 

Great selection of pics from what looked like a great show. And the weather looked like it really cooperated. The Kontinentals gotta figure out how to get up there next year for the show and return the favor of attending. If it takes 10 hour to get to Mo-Kan from Austin how much further to Chicago?

 

Joel,
thanks for posting these pics of the pile up! man... what an inspiration it was to view these photos I've been practicing a bit in my artbooks and also on my griptape on the top of my skate deck with some paint markers and it's been fun. I can't wait till i can do the real deal on some metal with a real pin striping brush...need way more practice though. thanks again for all the history as well on some of the famous stripers and the pics of them. Great post and thanks for sharing!
Best wishes,
CAB