Showing posts with label Gasser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gasser. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Go-Charger Project

Chris Darkand (project builder and fabricator) just sent me a few pics of the Go-Charger project getting it's steering linkage. Little by small. 

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Go-Charger Project

Latest pics of my Gasser Charger that Chris Darland is fabricating. His shop- Chris' Hot Rods in Medford, Oregon.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Rats & Gassers Editing

Two stills from last nights editing of Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes A Ride. I have been using FinalCut Pro directly to adjust color and contrast rather than doing it in Photoshop and then importing to FCP. 

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Photoshoot

Had a great (and very hot) day shooting Lisa Stanger with Big Tom and Carla McDonald's Gassers at Cassidy Lake in Snohomish, WA. I can't post lots of pics, because this is for publication, but here's one.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

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
go-kustom.com

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Rats & Gassers Shirts

Designed these last night. We need new shirt designs for car show season and I really like Chuck Backman's '55 Chevy and Trevor Robinson's '29 Ford Pick-Up as potential t-shirt art. The process to turn video stills into shirt designs is an involved process using extensive filters and multiple layers in Photoshop. Worth the effort IMHO.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Mr. Nasty


Went out to Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, WA. yesterday to take some action pics of Big Tom McDonald's "Mr. Nasty" Henry J Gasser for a magazine article I am writing. The weather was excellent and the track was busy with drivers storming down the 8th mile track. This is the same locale we filmed the drag race scenes of the '55 Chevy racing the '56 T-Bird for Rat Rod Rockers! 



Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Big T's Henry J Gasser With Jean Viva


I am going through the massive amounts of stills, pics and video footage for Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes A Ride. Came across these from last years shoot with Big T and Carla McDonald's Henry J Gasser (model Jean Viva), which is a great build. Big T has massive knowledge as a builder and put this bad boy together in a matter of months. When I interviewed him in late 2011 the Henry J was still in pieces (you can see it behind him during the interview) and by mid-2012 he was racing it!

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Go-Kustom TV Season 5, Episode 1

Been working on Rod Hill's interview about his 1962 Studebaker Gasser for Go-Kustom TV Season 5, Episode 1. This was from the Rat Bastards Slaughterhouse car show. An extended version of this clip will also be in my upcoming film Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes A Ride. My editing schedule has slowed down a bit due to me working full time again and the Holidays. My foot has been bugging me the last week as well. Don't know what I did to it, but it feels like my big to on my right foot is broken or something. Been taking lots of Ibuprofen. 

Monday, November 19, 2012

Fixed the Meat Wagon II

My 1/25th scale 1960 Chrysler Hearse Gasser Concept, "Meat Wagon II" that I had built for my film/story Evil Undead Girlfiend: The Re-Animation Of Issa Kross, got severely damaged, this year. It started when I dropped it at a car show I had taken it too and then got beat up worse in our move from our Arts School. The MWII had been sitting in a box with the leg cutter blade broken off, front axle off, rear bumper off and body apart for months. After re-assembling I added a moon tank on the grill. Almost as good as new. 

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Rats & Gassers Filming




Went out to South Hill, Washington (down past Tacoma) to film Willie Rakes' 1937 Chrysler Gasser- a truly unique car. We shot stills of the Chrysler by an abandon school house, then off to an industrial side street to get some moving shots of the "Rat Killer" in action. Finally we went out to Willy's secluded home to film an interview about the build. Excellent day (and night) of filming for Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes A Ride

Monday, August 27, 2012

Filming For Rats & Gassers @ Billet Proof Hot Rod Eruption Drags




Had a blast out in Toutle, Washington at the fourth Annual Billet Proof Hot Rod Eruption Drags. This remote 1/8 mile drag strip hosted bare knuckle heads up vintage drag racing all weekend. The set up was very well organized, with staff cleaning any oil spills, etc. Hundreds of cars, Hot Rods, Gassers, Vintage Rails, Mini-Bikes, Kustoms and everything in between. This is a must attend event for Vintage Drag Racing fans.  

Monday, July 16, 2012

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! 

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Go-Kustom TV @ Greenwood Car Show 2012
















We headed out early yesterday to Greenwood (in North Seattle) for the 2012 Greenwood Car Show.  This is one of the biggest car shows in the Northwest. Even with the on again off again rain, turnout was excellent. Our Go-Kustom booth was inundated with interested car show peeps. I did feature interviews on several cars including several seen in the video stills to the right. I am really happy with my new Canon HF G10 camcorder. Light weight with great features. So far we are 3 for 3 for rained on car shows. 

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Go-Kustom TV @ 2012 Northwest Billetproof

Pin-Up Photographer extraordinaire Roy Varga at his booth
A rare rain break on Saturday
Miss Mandible Rockatansy was our interview hostess at Billetproof

Mitzi of Mitzi & Co. Photography signing autographs
Look at those grey-black skies!



The rain stopped just long enough for the Pin-Up Competition



Some ride got to park inside, tho space was limited

We headed out early Saturday morning for Chehalis, Washington and the annual Northwest Billetproof. It rained all Friday in North Seattle and all the weather forecasts said to prepare for more of the same in Chehalis on Saturday. I was hoping they (TV & Internet Weather Forecasting Experts™) were going to be wrong, but most unfortunately they were not. We drove the hour and forty minutes through sheets of continuous rain. When we pulled int o the Fairgrounds, we were informed that we could set up inside one of the buildings to stay dry. Ours was the "Floral: building and we were right across from Mitzi & Company Photography, the model car display and April May Photography. The whole building was full of vendors and provided a nice, big, dry room for spectators to wring out their jackets and shake off a few of the extra rain drops. I think that fact helped us do a fair amount of sales, even with the lighter than usual turnout. Miss Mandible Rockatansy and I interviewed several car owners as well as Photographer Mitzi of Mitzi and Company. Miss R did a great job rockin' the interview mic! She will be guest hosting future episodes of GKTV fo' sure, so stay tuned kiddies.

Even with the serious rainfall, many open and no window rides came out to play. One couple wore fisherman coveralls and drove for hours to get their roadster to the show! That is some serious Hot Rodding! If you want it bad enough, you will make it happen- ya know. We are used to rainouts in the Northwest, so far Go-Kustom TV's first two car shows included lots of rain.