Art & Inspiration Let's See Some Car Show Signs

I did a search and didn't find much. I view the signs as one more version of Hot Rod Art kind of like Model Car Boxes. It's interesting to see what information the owner felt was relevant. So...let's see some signs

 

Here's mine.

 

Painted by Ed Roth in 1989.

 

1998-99 3 AMBR Winners behind it.

 

C'mon guys, how's about a picture of the car that went with the sign.

 

Here's mime.

 

The current sign for Taboo we are using.

 

'28-29 Ford grille shell

 

20210910_154454 by Dos Cincos posted Sep 14, 2021 at 3:55 PM

Ridz by the River Spring 2022_1 by Dos Cincos posted May 31, 2022 at 9:55 PM

 

Car and sign apart over 40years and now back together Big thanks to Tom Timmons it was hanging over his work bench all these years

 

I still love car show signs,but too old an shaky now to do them any more by hand @ 80 yo..
They seem too be less used now days=that's too bad ,I think it's a nice add to any well done car.
I made $,at shows painting signs,under my Art name "The Bat" back in the late 1950s an in to the mid 1960s"around Florida,
Some owners wanted a lot of info,others lowest cost sign they could get.
When asked,I'd tell'm "Less is more",most folks will only read a little anyway !,so the main info is key,even though I got payed more for a lot of info on the signs.

 

Great sign and thanks for sharing the info.

 

I'm a bit prejudiced, being a sign painter from the last century. I like seeing all the hand lettered car signs which to me are just a more elaborate Sho-card, they have so much more soul than their vinyl counterparts. Thanks for posting them Mark.

 

This one was painted in 1961 by a very
young Manual Reyes. Long before he flamed the California Kid for Pete.

 

Halibrand is spelled wrong too. Pretty sure I still have it. It's around here somewhere.