I am going to preface this article with a request that you reply with a list of cruises or links of lists in your area. Wouldn’t it be cool to find a listing of all the weekly cruises and drive-in’s all across this great country of ours! So if you’re not living in Southern California…
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This month in the Art Garage we take a trip down to El Segundo, a small town just south of the busy LAX Airport. Each year Gasoline Gallery hosts the California Screamin’ Art and Hot Rod Show. This year celebrates the 6th annual show with kustom kulture artists: The Pizz, Keith Weesner, Damian Fulton, Sara…
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I’ve Got An Itch You Can Scratch Today in the Art Garage I get the pleasure to introduce you to a relatively new artist here in Southern California. BOMONSTER. I found him at the Good-guys Del Mar Nationals in April. He was tucked away in the vendors building. He had a great looking booth with…
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What a weekend in Las Vegas. Easter weekend calls the kool kats and kittens to sin city for the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend. With concerts, burlesque shows and a car show the weekend is jam-packed with friends and fun. But, wait, there’s more. This was my first year at VLV. We rolled in specifically…
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I didn’t even have an official shop and I’d already been in eight or nine magazines and gotten two Top 10 Cars of the Year awards, which are extremely coveted. At that point I basically crossed my fingers and opened up a shop in Simi Valley and soon we had another Top 10 Car, but at the same time, I basically lived in my shop. Life’s very different when you live in an industrial complex. The building had no heat, no A/C, so it’s either extremely cold or scorching hot. I joined a gym so I had somewhere to shower! That’s how Pure Vision came to be. I was really surprised. I never thought anybody would pay me to build a car for them.
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My dad’s stories got me into cars. We’d go to car shows a lot and they were all really fun and he’d tell me all the cars that we’d see, but his own stories were my favorite. He and his brothers – he has six brothers – they would get cars and trick them out and race them. There were all kinds of crazy stories of those wild days. That’s what I loved the most about the car scene. My dad was so passionate about it and that passion ignited me.
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