Merry Christmas from a car guy. I hope you'll give, and get great gifts, if anyone needs car guy gift ideas, let me know

 I saw the above at the Von Hot Rod pinstripers area in the Grand National Roadster Show

 The above is from the Kaiser-Frazer national club monthly newsletter

the above is a photo from 1948 of Ray Brown's duece, notice the show chains on the back tires, and I've had it for about a year waiting for this christmas to post it, I think I found it on the HAMB.

I've been considering making a post of birthday and Christmas gift ideas for car guys, if you think it would be a good idea, let me know jbohjkl@yahoo.com or use the comment function of this blog

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Hot Rod Magazine finally covers some pinstriping (About time!) they have ignored it for about 40 years

Hot rod Feb 2012 issue

Manuel Cisneros pinstriping http://www.cisnerospinstriping.com/ and my galleries of his work http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-kustom-that-belongs-to-one-of.html and

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/great-looking-harley-terrific.html

David Allen Garcia designs http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=D.A._Designs

Craig Fraser http://ebooksfreedownload.org/2011/04/kustom-pinstriping-techniques-with-craig-fraser.html 

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a couple pedal cars at SEMA were give aways, the Color Faktory did the work on the first one, nice!

http://www.houseofkolor.com/index.jsp

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nice flamejob

1958? or close to that

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the wonderful Cotati Speed Shop and Miller Welding shop truck... this is just great in so many ways, it's legit patina and real work aged, it's a 1969 Chev truck, and they have a welding rod rack in the back window

 that fron bumper push board is damn cool, reminds me of slingshot dragster team vehicle

 to have a old time phone number with a word and uppercase letters... that is a cool touch

 great rims and hub caps, terrific lettering and subtle but superb pinstriping

 and check out the terrific tailgate and side mount vise! But the coolest thing is that the tailgate has the flip reinforced steel table with legs for extra bracing, size and workbenck area

 Notice that the Miller welder logo is on the protective covers, and that they are flip out of the way hinged, both for the tailgate welder, and the side mounted one in the front of the bed

instead of a rear window gun rack.... which as a Michigan birthright I am very familiar with, he has tubes that carry welding rods! That is great!

their website for the Cotati Speed Shop is http://cotatispeedshop.com/
and to read more about the shop truck, go to the bottom of this article from Miller Electric http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/articles/miller--cotati-speed-shop-partner-up-for-2011-hot-rod-power-tour-and-more because it will be in the 2011 Hot Rod Power Tour

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Von Dutch stuff that just sold at the Bonhams auction at the Peterson Museum, 2 days ago

 Somewhere these mototcycles must be the stars of someones collection... but i bet at least one of the bikes Von Dutch restored is not recognized by whoever owns it now.

the auction is the annual Collectors' Motorcars, Motorcycles and Related Memorabilia at the Peterson Museum http://www.petersen.org/default.cfm?DocID=902&CalendarID=935

the online catalog with the prices things sold for is at http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=usa&screen=catalogue&iSaleNo=19466&iSaleLotNo=133 but isn't likely to be there for long

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