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Kustom Kulture is the artworks, vehicles, hairstyles, and fashions of those who have driven and built custom cars and motorcycles in the United States of America from the 1950s through today. It was born out of the hot rod culture of Southern California of the 1960s. [1] In the early days of hot rodding, many fashions and styles developed. Over ...
David Mann (() September 10, 1940 — () September 11, 2004) [2] was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated biker culture, and choppers.Called "the biker world's artist-in-residence," [5] his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages, on motorcycle gas tanks, tattoos, and on T-shirts and other memorabilia associated with biker culture.
Also a motorcycle enthusiast, Rico's work on his motorcycle paint jobs inspired him to create unusual finishes for his guitars. Rico and his company went on to create several models of guitars and the company prospered. [2] In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Rico licensed B.C. Rich to New Jersey–based Class Axe.
Featured vehicles include a 1925 Model-T hot rod; an unusual customization job on a soap box derby car belonging to Ryan, a teenaged California racing champion, which inspires Mike to challenge Ryan to an impromptu race; and a custom motorcycle that a pair of customers need to raffle off to a military veteran at the Republic of Texas Biker ...
These took many coats to produce a brilliant effect – which tended to flake off in hot climates. This process and style of paint job were invented by Joe Bailon, a customizer from Northern California. Painting has become such a part of the custom car scene that in many custom car competitions, awards for custom paint are as highly sought ...
The "Christmas Bike" had a special rarely seen father/son build team of Mikey and Paul Sr. who came together in this Season 2 episode Santa Claus' sleigh as a chopper. In this build the father and son team focused more on superficial factors like the antlers, paint job, and sleigh look as opposed to the power of the engine or electronics.
Barris custom work in 1952 performed on a 1947 Hudson In 1951, the Barris Brothers designed and built the Hirohata Merc as a customer order based on Sam Barris's own custom car. The Hirohata Merc was shown at the 1952 General Motors Motorama auto show and was so popular, it overshadowed the best work of Detroit's top designers.
It came in a red-on-white color scheme. It was a twin-crank V4 (much like the GP bikes of the era) and was a quite different bike. Some distributors and dealers sold these bikes with custom paint jobs, causing confusion about OEM paint schemes. In many countries, these bikes were known as RDs, but in North America and Australia they were called ...