Art & Inspiration The **OFFICIAL** door lettering thread

The door is original. The wood sideboards had to be redone.

 

Two layers are visible on this Diamond T. The quality of the lettering suggests that the earlier owner took a little more pride in his fleet. And why wouldn't he? A farmer driving an expensive Diamond T pickup in Centralia, Missouri would have been rare, due to the opulent cost of these trucks in 1947.

Interestingly, a friend owns a top-of-the-line '47 Packard that originally came from Centralia. It is a pretty small, rural town for such fancy vehicles.

 

The right side shows two layers, too, but the bottom one is different: KIRBY of Moberly, Missouri.

 

How about,back of the cab, lettering?

 

I got a link kicked off here , I had some very cool pics of scoops and fabbed valve covers . no pics of cars, the link I was adding to was , 'show us your cool engines' the moderator said , "NO rat rod stuff". you could not see anything but the engine in pics. This thread has dozens of Rat rod pics ... very cool stuff ...

so where is the balance????

I do all different genres of cars old school, traditional , shiny , and rusty , and everything in between.. I own over 65 rigs between 1917 and 72 , I do ALL my own work . I mean ALL, paint , body, design , frame fab, engine builds , ... EVERYTHING !!! This comment will probably be deleted , too. But, love ' em or Hate ' em, ALL genres have great people in their ranks. and gets them off(on) the streets , and off drugs. MY opinion!,

 

Here's one I did last week.Still haven't decided whether to antique the letters or not.Original paint on a 1967 El Camino from Idaho.

 

Just had this truck done. Aged to match the truck.

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Just finished doing my lettering last week. I've never done this before, so used an outline stencil to help me keep things from getting out of hand. It was fun to do, and I'll add some other things later. I'll probably wet sand it a little to help match the Falcon's patina.

 

Almost bought this a couple weeks back...

 

This would look right at home parked with the Jeep FC from a couple posts back.

 

heres my shop vehicle lettered two years ago used letters for the first two digits similar to what was done in the 60's left out the area code cause all of southern oregon is the same. someone actually got it and called me. i think it goes over the heads of most younger people

 

just did this yesterday for a friend. this photo taken before I wiped back the dice, also did some striping and redid the tailgate letters. 65 C10

 

I saw this one a few years back-nice detail work

 

Truck in front is on the way to Bakersfield.

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Mark Brodie, a very talented painter and striper here in Phoenix painted and then distressed some door lettering to match the 49 year old patina of my 64 C20.

 

Should have bought it just for the door, Turkey.

 

Thanks Paco! Enjoyed lettering that Motorville Fairlane! Also, here's a tuff as nails '55 I did this past winter for some great folks (and hamb'rs) at White County Speed Shop in Cleveland Ga.

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The '55 looks good. Hopefully they'll have it at the vintage drags @ commerce in Sept. I will be there!

Fairlane gets questions every time I get it out ... still fake's them out!

Nice job.

 

Just finished my ol Dodge...inspired by the pages of the HAMB

 

Nice job, even like the bumper stickers!

 

Hi,
This is new lettering made by Pierre Tardif this week-end on 1931 Ford.

 

acme likes it!

 

My Dad's truck '46 Studebaker M5...

 

Our '53 Studebaker Champion gasser...

 

On a HUGE older wrecker in Beatrice Nebraska ..

 

Biggo,how come the lettering is only in English? I thought signs down there had to be bilingual?