Art & Inspiration Looking for cool shop T-Shirts - post a link to your shop/store

Almost all of my T-shirts are 4 or 5 years old. I'm a creature of habit and have the same 10-12 T-shirts in a rotation. It's about time those got tossed and I get some new shirts. I am interested in cool looking shirts from traditional / custom shops so, if you have a shop and you sell T-Shirts with your logo, please post a link.

 

You toss out old car shirts ??
Who does that ?
If the armpits look like the rocker panels on an eastern car, use 'em in the garage.
You actually throw them away???
Welding holes? That's just a little extra ventilation..
You throw them away?

 

My toss out shirts aren't car shirts. Just typical, cheap T's.

I have several 80's/90's Bonneville shirts. They are kept safely in a bin.

 

Bwahahah!,,,my kids & grand kids are wearing my old hot rod T shirts.

This is our twin girls and they are now 37 years old,both have children that have worn these same 2 shirts. HRP

 

My wife keeps threatening to throw the really bad ones away.
If she wasn't such a good wife, I'd throw her away.
..................... mind you, one or two of them are more holes than t-shirt any longer, so I just wear them on the hotter days so there's more ventilation.

 

I had a bunch where the neck was frayed badly and wife didn't want to see me wear them in public. I didn't toss them and now she is glad. She lost her balance on Saturday and fell, breaking both her upper arm and her wrist on the left side. So now I am cutting up the old shirts so I can put them on her around her many straps and casts. Just thought I would share this as a reason to hold onto those old tee shirts. Of course it helps in our case that I wear XL tee shirts and my wife is only 4'11" so they are sort of like hospital jonnies on her!

 

I have seen a lot of lady's make patchwork quilts out of old T-shirts.

If my wife ever decided to do this I probably have several hundred old shirts and yes I am a admitted hot rod T -Shirt hoarder. HRP

 

old ragged t shirts should never just ‘be tossed out’ before being utilized as a rag for a automotive project, furniture project, house repair project, or some other project. To just throw it into the trashcan without utilizing the old worn t shirts ability as a rag is just a waste.
(especially old wore out torn T-shirts with cool graphics.)

 

Holley has some shirts for $10.00 each. Some are Retro prints. They are nice shirts I just received minehttps://www.holley.com/products/apparel_and_collectibles/shirts/

 

I have sewed a lot of mine together to make a car cover when stored in the garage. Every body likes it and keeps oxidation away from the polished aluminum parts on the exposed engine................

 

How can you tell when they are worn out? I thought old ones were just nostalgic and proof that you actually work on your hot rod.

 

One of my brothers first, circa early 80s.

 

My buddy's wife used to go through his T shirt collection every now and again and cull out the really scuzzy ones. His solution was to retrieve them out of the rag pile and continue to wear them. Unfortunately for him she had the final word. Now when she relegates an old T shirt to the rag pile she takes a permanent marker and writes RAG in big letters across the front and back of the shirt. I guess its not nice to mess with mama.

 

Least she didn’t write “ I’m wearing the rag on them “

 

I just tossed my favorite Bakersfield drags T shirt. it has been pretty much unwearble for a good 5 years, but I kept it at the bottom of the drawer because of the great artwork.. probably the only T shirt I ever owned that did not get turned into a rag before tossing. it was such a cool shirt.

I recently moved several working on messy junk T shirts to the rag pile as a guy only needs so many working on junk shirts but there are never enough rags.

I have a T shirt from the early 70's with a cartoon 40 Ford woody on it somehwhere... another one with the cool artwork I never tossed out.

 

How about here:

Men's Clothing – The Jalopy Journal

 

I still own the first "car guy" t-shirt my pop bought me at Goodguys Pleasanton when I was a punk ass teenager with a Plymouth Duster.

Holey, faded and several sizes too small for me it hangs in my closet now.

Memories.

 

Having a great old T-shirt is good. but actually wearing it out to where it’s looking really bad around the collar… better.
even better when it’s looking like shit on the collar and you’re still wearing it as obviously so fucking stretched out and distressed…


i’ve got some in that condition. it’s hard to pass them along to just sucking up oil and other shit…But if you have a dozen T-shirts that you’ve been wearing for 10 years or beyond they’re probably going to be ready when they tear out allong the graphics…



Half a year ago I went through my wore out T-shirts. I mean really bad wore out collar faded out graphics and torn along the graphics.
i’ve been focusing on using them up especially on automotive spills and stuff.Trying to get every bit of connectivity with automotive and social value out of them…

after all… I paid up to 20 bucks for each of them…

maybe I should take photos of them in their present condition¿?…

 

All I got left.

The septic guy came over Saturday to pump out my tank. On the back of his shirt it said 'At night we deliver milk'.

 

My car club sells the out of date event shirts for $5-7.00 each. I wait, patience pays off.

 

For some reason my old shirts decided to become too small. I had them made into a quilt. IIRC, it cost about 50 bucks.

 

Car “toonist” Dan Hughes created this design for me. I always wanted my own shop shirt, and finishing my coupe gave me just the excuse.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3038040191...vT0XUylRMe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

I have about 20 car related tee shirts, but very few that advertise companies, products, etc. I refuse to pay $20 just to be someone's walking billboard!

 

Guilty; I wear some ragged ones and feel triumphant doing so.

 

concert T's used to be what i wore. now i wear my favorite builders T's . littleman speed & fabrication , bass custom , plowboy (hotrods from uranus) , hilton hot rods , austin speed shop.