Daily Chicken Scratch: Champion!

Daily Chicken Scratch: Air cooled

Daily Chicken Scratch: Deuce 5 window

Daily Chicken Scratch: Deuce Roadster

Daily Chicken Scratch: 55 Chevy Gasser

Daily Chicken Scratch: Bōsōzoku 暴走族

Something about vintage Japanese iron makes me smile... it's like scaled down American muscle cars of the late 60's, done in the late 70's. Also, I'm fascinated with Japanese car culture... even some of the more eccentric ends of it, like the Bosozoku style...which has a tendency to go way overboard, but in some of the more mild cases.. I confess. I dig it.

Slightly "Boso" styled fastback skyline:

Daily Chicken Scratch: BMW 2002 tii

I love these goofy ass cars.  :)

Gassers, Street Freaks, and Brand Awareness.

These are older sketches but I put them together in this layout for autorama last year and was surprised by not only the amount of attention that they got, but the amount of controversy that they caused. I got more "why aint there a mopar on there?" and "I love the fords, but why's there a chevy?" or vice-versa. I almost forgot how brand-centric people can be. Lesson learned. I'll just have to do one for GM, one for Ford, and a third for Mopars to cover my bases. :)

Instagram: Daily Chicken Scratch Project.

At some point in the 70’s my mother made my old man toss a bunch of his old car mags. I’m not sure where he managed to hide the hundreds that I still ended up with, but regardless, when he “purged” the first time, he ripped pages out with things that were important to him at the time. So I have an overflowing folder with piles of disintegrating magazine pages from the early 60’s. I’ve decided to use them as the subject of my daily Moleskine pocket sketch book til I fill it, or run out of old pages to reference...(I’m sure the former will happen first).  Feel free to look up my Instagram (@design165) to follow as I upload em.

A few to start with:

Roman's '55

Now that Autorama is over, I'm back to getting some work done! Here's the concept for Romans custom  1955 Caddy.

Andy's 33 Chevy Roadster.

Concept of what Andy's badass collection of parts will eventually come together as:

62 Galaxie 500

What to do with an ex-street rod 62 Galaxie 500?

Some quick sketch work ideation for Dane:

Honored.

Received some pictures last night from my buddy Sage, at Acme Signs. He's good friends with John Mumford, who owns and maintains the piece of automotive history that I based one of my Blueprint Series off of. The blueprint is now hanging in Johns garage, within eye shot of...well, the Sam Barris Merc! They sent me these pics of it, and it totally made my day. Needless to say, I'm honored to have one of my pieces be anywhere near the real deal.  Thanks Sage!