Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Hope you guys check back with this here blog in 2015!

Blue Aris lights

keep an eye out for these lights at the local swapmeet!


Sunday, December 28, 2014

Yellow norcal

and not even a sportster this time! cool norcal shovel!



Saturday, December 27, 2014

Movie bike

Another cool movie bike that was used in different productions in the 70s






Friday, December 26, 2014

BMW chopper

 One of the more difficult bikes to get right as a chopper



Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Rule no.1

Rule no1 in bike photography: don't shoot a bike on grass! something to do with reflection, green and too much!

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Tuesday Tankday!

a little cheeky tank art doens't hurt nobody!



Dutch custom painter Ted Sinninge

In a small country like the Netherlands there were a handfull of custom painters starting to learn the tricks of the trade in the early 70s, among those was Ted Sinninge (I'm curious how you english speaking folks would pronounce this!!!) Some other names were Frans de Weerdt, Roy Inca, Goos Letterman (GL paints, still excisting today) Dik's Paint and some dude from Schalkwijk
Mucho thanks to one other oldschool painter Ben Oud!
Click on the pics to have a better look





"the Gladiator" was a 3 wheeled Reliant! ha!

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Yellow Triumph

 And from another magazine is this twin! Apparently a popular method of shooting a yellow Triumph chopper!


Friday, December 19, 2014

Pete Scialabba Norcal

Repeat his name fast 3 times in a row!

Cool Norcal styling, even with the full length rear fender

Closeup of the paint it looks like blue candy over pearl, with acytelene spots, nevermind the Yosemite Sam figure!

Thursday, December 18, 2014

XS650

you don't see that many Yamaha XS650s in the old magazines, its Harleys and Honda's mostly


Monday, December 15, 2014

Sunday, December 14, 2014

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Memo even got a couple of bikes in magazines in the 70s



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The Memo Ortega stories

a very cool history of customizer Memo Ortega has been written up on the Custom Car Chronicles website, including these fine old polaroids, read the whole story here and more is on the way!
http://www.customcarchronicle.com/memo-ortega-files/memo-ortega-stories-part-twelve/



Those were the days! cruising around with no helmet!



Family first, choppers second!



Thursday, December 11, 2014

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Monday, December 8, 2014

Sunday, December 7, 2014