Somedays there is nothing better than letting a pencil and sharpie work their way out of my system. For the longest time I worked on "art" that was perfect. When I say perfect, what I really means was that I was all about trying to achieve the perfect human form and line work within my illustrations. The biggest thing it did was to kill any fun I was having while drawing. Spend a long time drawing hands, faces or body gestures and you either get really good at it and can do it in your sleep or you just get burnt out on it. As of late, these looser illustrations have been a lot more fun and I can knock them out in a few hours. Really enjoyed this one as the car is one that my buddy Mopar Rob just got back on the road and it's also for the fellas in Carolina Still.
Process drawing as a photo on instagram.com/rustyknuckles
Final illustration and rendering for Carolina Still's new hot rod tshirt - Runnin' Moonshine
As spring has sprung, many folks are working their asses off to get the latest builds done and out to shows for the summer season. Mopar Rob is cranking away on his 1950 Dodge Wayfarer Business Coupe. This is a two owner car and one of the best aspects is that the other owner just so happened to be his grand father. Nothing better than keeping it in the family.
Mopar Rob cutting out the old firewall with the plasma torch
Cleaning up some excess metal that needs cutting with the grinding wheel
Cool assortment of taps and dies
Cleco pliers, clamps and caps
The Wrench N' Roll is for the hot rod crowd as well as motorcycles
This past weekend, we wanted to do a heavy duty road trip with our buddy Mopar Rob to pick up his newest project, a 1950 Dodge Wayfarer convertible. The ride just wasn't in the cards with too many projects due, but look what showed up in the driveway this morning. Damn right, this is going to be a great ride once all is said and done.
1950 Dodge Wayfarer hubcap, still in place after 63 years
Freshly removed from it's location in Illinois and now about to the hit the southern revival rebuild process
All original and stock interior with a few new old stock parts
Needs some bodywork and tlc but the bones are there on this 1950 Dodge Wayfarer convertible
Hard to imagine finding someone who hasn't seen or heard of the General Lee. You know them, the famous Duke family comprised of patriarch Uncle Jesse, smokin' hot Daisy along with rowdy cousins Bo and Luke. The Dukes of Hazzards influenced generations and made this particular Dodge Charger legendary. To have the money to roll around in this gem would be a dream come true.
"Lee
1 was purchased by a California movie studio in 1978, soon to become
"The most famous television car in the world." Lee 1 was featured
several times in the first episode of CBS' hit television series "The
Dukes of Hazzard." This episode titled "One-Armed Bandits," aired on
January 26, 1979 and was filmed in the Covington, Conyers and Oxford
area of Georgia. The show's opening sequence, featuring Bo and Luke
Duke, included the clip of Lee1 jumping over a Hazzard County police
cruiser. That jump, for which Lee 1 is most famous, was made by a stunt
man on the campus of Oxford College on Saturday 11, 1978. Lee 1's first
and only jump was 16 feet up and over the cruiser, landing 82 feet from
the take off ramp. The only cast member that ever drove Lee 1 was John
Schneider, who played Bo Duke.
After 23 years in a junkyard, in Metro Atlanta, Lee 1 was rescued and
professionally, passionately restored to pre-jump condition over a 16
month period.
Lee 1 is truly an American Icon."
General Lee #1 up for sale by Barret Jackson
383ci Mopar Four Barrel Engine with 4 Speed Automatic Transmission
General Lee #1 up for sale by Barret Jackson
General Lee #1 interior complete with cb for calling in Cooter on missions
