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West Coast Choppers (WCC) is a brand that began selling screen-printed T-shirts and stickers with the company's Iron cross/Maltese cross logo while founder and "master marketer" [2] Jesse James was finishing high school, packaging the accoutrements of the chopper lifestyle long before any actual West Coast Choppers customs had been ordered or sold.
Jesse Gregory James (born April 19, 1969, Long Beach, California) [1] is an American entrepreneur, automotive mechanic, and television personality. He is the founder of West Coast Choppers and former partner of Austin Speed Shop and current CEO of Jesse James Firearms Unlimited, both based in Austin, Texas.
Orange County Choppers is the second spin-off series of the American Chopper franchise. The show ran for one season on CMT with a 2-hour "pilot" and eight episodes between August 18, 2013 and January 11, 2014. [21] The series features Paul Teutul Sr. and his team as they fabricate some of the most complicated choppers of their careers.
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In the 1990s and early 2000s, expensive customs such as those built by Orange County Choppers, Jesse James's West Coast Choppers, [1] Roger Goldammer became fashionable status symbols. There are also companies that are bringing back pin striping , such as Kenny Howard (also known as Von Dutch) and Dean Jeffries from the 1950s, with a continued ...
Vincent DiMartino (born October 9, 1972) is an American automobile mechanic and motorcycle builder, best known for his work from 2002 to 2007 at Orange County Choppers (OCC), the subject of the American TV show American Chopper. In August 2007 DiMartino left Orange County Choppers and founded V-Force Customs, a custom motorcycle shop in Rock ...
The Honda Fury was the first production chopper from a major motorcycle manufacturer (). [7] [9] In a break with tradition, the Fury was the first chopper to have an anti-lock braking system [10] The Fury's styling has been likened to custom-made choppers from Paul Teutul Sr. or Arlen Ness.
Pin striping can commonly be seen exhibited on custom motorcycles, such as those built by Choppers Inc., Indian Larry, and West Coast Choppers.The decorative use of pin striping on motorcycles as it is commonly seen today was pioneered by artists Kenny Howard (a.k.a. Von Dutch), Dean Jeffries, Dennis "Gibb" Gibbish, and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.