Showing posts with label Watson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watson. Show all posts
On Thursday, May 7, 2009
This car was built in the early 60s and has recently reappeared looking almost as good as it did 45 years ago. The grille bar is from a 1959 Imperial. It has 59 Caddy tailights, custom scoops in the roof, Custom made side trim.
The history on this beautiful ford is a little fuzzy. Taking one look at it you automatically presume it's a true Bellflower custom with a Watson paintjob, Bill Hines body mods and an Eddie Martinez interior. Apparently thats not the case. This is what the current owner and restorer had to say about that:
"The car has nothing to do with Watson or Hines, and all [Eddie] Martinez did on the car was keep it for seven years and miss place some parts. Also his friend at globe auto butchard the motor.... The car was originally customized for Johnny, by Art chrome body shop in Hollydale, Bud Lehner sprayed it, and Harry Loveland did the interior. Since the mishap at Martinez shop, I re did the paint my self, and my friend Joe Perez did the interior. The car has been at my house in Hawthorne ca, ever since. My next move is to straigten out the motor problems by taking it to baker auto the guys who built the original motor."
Pics are thanks to Rikster and Kid Deuce.
On Monday, February 16, 2009
Kustomland: The Custom Car Photography of James Potter, 1955-1959 is a book written by car designer Thom Taylor. The first edition of the book was published June 15, 2008, and features pictures taken by professional freelance photographer James Potter in the fifties. In this photographic history of that time and place, Thom Taylor presents the best of Potter’s collection depicting the cars of “Kustomland.” Two- and four-page features on two-dozen renowned customs from mild to radical feature not only Potter’s exemplary work, but brief capsule histories of the cars and their owners and captions detailing the cars’ features. Taylor also includes features on legendary custom painter Larry Watson and the Renegades car club, as well as a biography of Potter and a historic overview of Kustomland and the areas it encompassed (Bellflower, Whittier, Downey etc)
Must have for any enthusiast!!!
Featured Cars include:
Pete Angress' 1952 Ford
Hersh Conway's 1949 Ford
Floyd DeBore's 1958 Pontiac
Jerry Devoto's 1957 Ford
Jim Doss' 1958 Chevrolet
Ron Dulin's 1956 Plymouth
Jerry Feigner's 1955 Chevrolet
Jim Jackson's 1956 Chevrolet
Jack James' 1957 Buick
Al Lazarus' 1955 Chevrolet
Carol Lewis' 1956 Chevrolet
Larry Mammini's 1955 Ford
George Mitobe's 1957 Ford
Harry Okuda's 1957 Dodge
Paul Richards' 1950 Ford
Jim Shiery's 1957 Oldsmobile
Gary Simpson's 1958 Buick
Paul Sobeck's 1950 Ford
Duane Steck's 1954 Chevrolet
Larry Watson's 1950 Chevrolet
Larry Watson's 1957 Cadillac
Larry Watson's 1958 Ford
Larry Watson's 1959 Cadillac
On Friday, November 21, 2008
Duane Steck,'54 Chevrolet. You might wonder why the Moonglow caught the eye and captured the hearts of customizers then and now. It's a simple, owner-built, driveway constructed car, finished in nothing more exotic than appliance white and powder blue enamel. The major modification, of course, was the well-proportioned top chop, complemented by reworked rear fenders with handmade taillights. Other changes were no more intricate than dechroming, frenched headlights, shaved bumpers, and extra grille teeth. But it has the look. In '58 it got a grille change and Watson scallops over silver blue; in '60 it went candy blue; but we like the original '56/'57 form the best. Traded for a sports car, it was scrapped and crushed in the latter '60s.
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