New Shirts

Just took delivery of the first batch of new Rats & Gassers T Shirts yesterday. I decided to go with a blood red, black and white color scheme on dark grey (charcoal) colored shirts. As always these are available on our website
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New Car Kulture DeLuxe Magazine

I have two...two articles in the new Car Kulture DeLuxe and we got the cover! Awesome photographers Chris Gomez and Ralph Gayle and models Griffin Cooper and Kitty Mansfield! The cover article is from our coverage of the Rebel Riot in Tacoma. The other is a feature about Chuck Backman's 1955 Chevy Gasser, a car that was in my last feature film Rat Rod Rockers!

More Shirt Designs

Got on a roll yesterday and made two more designs for Go-Kustom Shirts. I have 3-4 more I'd like to do in the next day or so. I am hitting my stride graphic art wise.

Rats & Gassers Filming

Went over to Chuck Backman's place to interview him for Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes A Ride yesterday. The weather was overcast with sun breaks, but no rain- thank you very much! Did a nice little sit down interview with Chuck about his 1955 Chevy Gasser for my documentary, then model Kitty Mansfield and photographer Ralph Gayle came over to do a shoot with Chuck's '55 for a national car magazine (can't say which one yet). Kitty looked awesome paired up with the big green Chevy. I got a glimpse of a few pics on Ralph's camera and was blown away! Can't wait to see the full shoot on disc and in print! 

Go-Kustom TV @ Rat City Rodz Car Show 2012

Weather was excellent for the Rat City Rodz Car Show in Everett (put on by the Rat City Rodz Car Club). This is the fourth annual and it's been held the last few years at the Anchor Pub on Hewett in Downtown Everett, WA. This year had about 20-25 more cars than last year, so it looks like this event will grow each year. Bands played inside the Anchor, but could be seen and heard outside, via a huge garage style rolling door not far from the stage. Besides filming and interviewing car owners, we had our vendor booth set up and were pushing the Rat Rod Rockers! DVDs full force. We had run out of Hot Rod Girls Save The World DVDs at last weeks Greenwood Car Show, but made up for it in t-shirt and poster sales. The show only lasts from noon until five, so it seemed like a short day, but that worked out perfect. Sometimes the all day shows can get a bit long in the tooth- if ya know what I mean. I got great interviews for Go-Kustom TV, as most of you know, I don't only interview the Hot Rod/Rat Rod Owners, I have a penchant for the early Mopar Muscle Cars and occasional odd ball makes. The quality and variety of cars at Rat City Rodz was excellent. Put this show on your list! 

Rats & Gassers Editing

Some more stills from our interview with fabricator Chris Darland.

Rats & Gassers Day Sixth & Seventh Of Filming

Chris' Roadster

Chris' 1933 Plymouth

1955 "Two Lane Blacktop" Chevy that Chris built

Chris Darland

Another '55 Chris built with his straight axle clip

We went down to Medford, Oregon to interview fabricator Chris Darland for Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes A Ride and Munster Style Issue One, leaving Seattle early Thursday morning. I met Chris during production of Hot Rod Girls Save The World back in 2004. He choreographed the zombie fight scene as well as playing Freddy Dahmer in my film. First we went to Chris small shop by his house and later to his business partners full blown shop/classic car museum (man the cars in there were unreal- even tho they were Chevys...). Chris is a true fabricator's fabricator, with more cars to his credit than most. His latest endeavor is creating kustom straight axle clips for '55-'57 Chevy's, giving those cars an instant mid sixties gasser stance with a minimum of work. Great two day road tip. On the way back we helped with a rollover accident. I will blog about that later.