Poboy Kustoms

I’m perging my facebook site and using the pictures I’ve posted there for some blogging here on ArizonaPinstriper.com. First in line is this picture of Brian’s original 78′ Honda KZ200. Well except for the front farring. He wanted a more streamline cafe look to this little go getter so we painted one up for him. The rest of the metal still had original paint work on it and was in great shape for being fourty some years old. So when Brian said let’s do a checkerboard pattern I started imagining the finished product matching the finish of the rest of the bike, as if it came direct from Honda. So with the help of Matt Howard who mixed and sprayed the pearl blue base and finished the clear coat with the exact orange peal as Honda was spraying in the 1970′s, I was able to layout the white checkers and fade them into the blue giving this little motorbike some cool!

I never get tired of seeing Frenchy’s 1932 ford. Mostly cause it boasts a Lincoln V 12 and has some great detail work. I also had the pleasure of painting a couple pin-ups on it last year and a whole bunch of pinstriping before that. It even has a little bit of hand lettering. I was going through my pictures the other day and ran across this one i shot of So-Cal Speed Shop’s founder, Alex Xydias sitting in the drivers seat and decided I should share it with you. This was taken last year in front of So Cal Speed Shop of Arizona here in Phoenix.

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Testing out my updated wordpress app and decided to show you what I’ve been up to today. This is in the second stage of about five layers that I’ll do to achieve a more painterly look with a lot of depth. If you would like to see more of this behind the scenes stuff, just friend me on Facebook. I’m posting step by step photos of this job on there and more projects and happenings that never make it onto this site.

I’ve been a big admirer of the generation my grandparents were a part of, those who went to war in World War II. Ever since I was a kid growing up watching actors like John Wayne, all the black and white films about the war, instilled an admiration for those old guys who fought for our freedom. When watching those films you knew who the good guy was and cheered him on because he stood six foot tall and had a weathered, honest, tough look about him. My grandfather was no Robert Mitchum but I admired him just the same because he was there. He did his part like so many who gave a part of their youth to participate in something greater.

So needless to say, bomber and fighter planes have always had an apeal to me and lately while investigating more about the early days of hot rodding and dry lakes raises a question. Which influenced the other in terms of graphics. Those simple numbers, hand painted on the sides of all those modifieds look a lot like the markings and identifying digits of those war birds now don’t they.

Thanks to those who have served, then and now.

This is a test of the emergency posting system. Do not attempt to adjust your screen. I’ve been adjusting my business so I connect with people at a faster more personal level so you are going to witness some additions and slight tweaks to the way things are done here at Poboy Kustoms.

So to keep up with what’s new and give you guys a peek at what’s coming to the store Fall 2011, here’s a shirt design that’s going to print in the next 30 days.

So I finally found some time to read the latest issue of The Rodder’s Journal #50 and decide to finish up after enjoying three well written editorials, my fav being “Senior Trip”. I can never stop myself from seeing what’s on the next page and I flip through the rest of the issue. Looks like a lot of good stuff in this issue as always. So then I stumble upon the last page and looking at what’s to come in the future issue. Hey, I think I’ve seen that flamed, orange and blue, Ford coupe somewhere! So I read the caption of how it’s linked to the Chrome Plating write up and Jon Wright’s CustomChrome Plating. I got up off the couch and walk to the studio, get on the computer and clicked through my collection of customer photos discovering that I had seen and taken some photos of the very same vehicle while at Squeeg’s Kustoms. I was admiring the flame layout and checking out all the details of this car when I snapped this photo back in January. Can’t wait to read the article in issue #51. It just so happens I renewed my subscription today, go figure!

So this was the scene last Thursday night as all these helmets had the appropriate amount of time to cure. It was midnight and they were ready for stickers. I had to put the S-One manufactures stickers on the back, the girls numbers on the side and figure out what I was gonna do for my logo. I had some of my “bombing” stickers and thought they would work but when I placed them on a helmet and tried for different placement to get the right look, I was coming up short. I went ahead and finished putting all the padding back in the helmets to get them ready to go back in the boxes from which they came. The derby girls were expecting them Friday and I wouldn’t have much time to put the finishing touches on so I rushed to the computer, opened CorelDraw and went to work. Thirty minutes later at 2am in the morning I had a file that I sent off to my sticker guy at Swallow Graphics in hopes that he’d have the time to pump them out by 9am. He came through, the stickers look great and the “Hot Shots” Arizona Derby Dames team were happy!

At the beginning of January I was contacted by Joe Proski, Owner of the Mer Low 1950 Mercury coupe.   It was to be on display at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, CA at the end of the month and Joe needed a new show sign considering Squeeg’s Kustoms had recently given the car a complete makeover.  Here’s the sign sitting next to the car just days before the show.

And while we are on the subject of the GNRS, Daryl Wolfswinkel’s 1934 Ford Roadster, built by Squeeg’s Kustoms, won the AMBR award or America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Award.  Congratulations guys!