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Daily Chicken Scratch: Deuce Roadster

Daily Chicken Scratch: T-Bodied Dragster - Car Craft 02/1964

Model A Sedan Comission Piece

Daily chicken scratch: Car Craft 1964

Coachmen Cruiser Car Club Logo

Shirt logo for the Coachmen.

Gil's '51

Did this quicky, based on an older peice of mine. A gent that I met at Autorama showed me a pic of his car and asked if I could modify the green that I had done a few years back to look more like his 51.

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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:

Tribute piece for the late Norm Grabowski.

I know it's only a year and a half late, but finished this piece in time for this years Detroit Autorama. Limited run available HERE

Updating a 66 Canadian Valiant (Dart GT)

Here's our 1966 Valiant GT. My father bought it as a roller, and completed it a few years back. It's a gnarly ride, is fast as hell, and gets plenty of looks. Pro-street cars however, are a bit dated in todays world of pro touring g-machines. I feel like a set of different wheels/tires would bring it outta the 90's and achieve a better look pretty easily. With the exception of the wheel/tire combo, the car actually shows pretty well. There is no super heavy rake; the car hunkers down all the way around, the color isn't a pastel of any sort (black is always the new black), we managed to stuff all the power under the hood with no huge honkin' snorkel, and there's no tweed anywhere in the cockpit.

It's just the shoes... good god, those Centerlines KILL me.

SO! I'm trying to find some decent wheels and tires to swap in to make it look a little more pro-touring... or at least timeless rather than screaming 1990.
Size-wise, I'm thinking 17's or 18's up front, and would be open to anything from 18"-20" out back. Width-wise, the front can probably tuck a 6" wide wheel but no wider, and the rears are currently 15" wide.

Price-wise there's a very big difference between staying with 15's and goin with big dia wheel, so one option would be a "how to be able to still use the existing rear tires" Front tires are cheap enough.

Here's the "lower cost" option. inspiration comes form the ram charger cars of the 60's that ran steel rear wheels and mag fronts. I would run 15"x5" E/T Dragmasters up front and widened black steelies out back.

And here's another option. This would use the 18" Mickey Thompson "HR-1" wheels, that are specifically designed for pro street applications:

More to come on this soon...

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: