Art & Inspiration Candy, Lace, Flake, Flames... wanna see WILD custom paint...

That is a wicked 55! Do you have any pics of the interior? I'm curious if that set back mill meant all the pedals and seat also had to move back.

 

I have been a huge fan of the photos that Howard Gribble aka Kid Deuce
had on his Flickr website.
He has a huge collection of early lowrider photo taken at various shows in the late 60's and early 70's. Amazing paintjobs on nearly stock - but lowered - cars.

I can look at these for hours...
(some of them might have been shown before...)


All photos by Howard Gribble.

 

Perfection in simplicity












Larry Watson paint on the Busonic!




Veiling gun paint ...




Another favorite of mine...

 

More Howard Gribble photos...

 

Nice pics

 

Rikster...thanks for the shots I miss the shows the way they were in the 70s & early 80s.......I had a lotta fun then

 

thanks for posting those Rikster, Howard Gribble is the mother @#$%ing man.

 

Two words...Angel Hair. Must. Have. More. Angel Hair.

Excellent addition to the thread, sir.

 

More of Howard's pics:

http://losboulevardos.blogspot.com/search/label/Lowriders Pasados

 

Very KOOL.love all the 520s and angel hair,and yeah even the days before tru-spokes

 

Rik, you are the man!

 

Rikster, thanks for posting H. Gribble's photos! They are FANTABULOUS!!!

 

bob that shoe box is wicked! I dont usually like full body flames but those are great!

 

Awsome, thanks a lot for those pics !

 

The 56 Nomad with the Packard tailights looks totally natural, too bad Nomads are so expensive I'd love to do that.

 

I'm with Zeke,,,this is rad

 

Just to think about the hours and hours, hell lifetimes for that matter, that are spent on these cars makes you appreciate them. I like em alot.

 

Awesome pics man, nothing better than pics of old school when old school was new school. You do something like that nowadays and call it Ol' School and people will tell you it isn't. Like somebody once said "The past ain't what it used to be."

 

Man, these shots bring back some memories! I remember being stationed at 29 Palms Marine Base in 82. On the weekends, we'd go down to Indio and watch the parade of low riders throwing sparks down Hwy 111. The kandy and pearl on some of those cars was un-freakin'-believable! I can only imagine the time invested just in masking some of these cars. Great thread!!! Keep 'em comin'!

 

FUCK!!
I'm supposed to be working and I just spent an hour looking at all this Great Paint!

Killer stuff...

 

you think this one is long try looking at the "longroof" thread in one sitting. i dare ya!!

 

Oh Holy Shit that Fast Back Impala is the greatest thing I have ever seen. I gotta get me one of those.

 

Don't have interior pics, but most tri-5s gassers of the day that had the maximum 10% engine setback just notched the firewall and had a sheet metal box that ended right about at the dash board lower lip to accommodate the set back, while leaving the pedals where they were. Having your feet right next to the clutch, rather than behind it, made explosion-proof scattershields all the more important.

 

Hey gang, check out my 69 Chrysler my buddy and I just went old school apeshit on. we think it is badass! more pics in my album. check it out.

 

nice!!

 

Helmet I am working on at the moment...


not a very good pic.

 

Silver flake base... then some mirra, then gold and green candy.

 

Oh, and this is curently on the bench too!