Featured motorsports and kustom kulture personalities
Blacktop Magazine captures the fun behind the scenes at Mitzi and Co’s photoshoot. Now on Blacktop TV:: I came up with the idea for this photoshoot while I was soldering the terminals, rewiring the ’56 Fairlane “Project Riff-Raff”. The iPod was changing out a variety of songs when Sinatra’s “Luck Be A Lady” came on. Wow! […]
Well let’s see… Hopefully many of you know me from the car mags from my art and my cars being published in many different auto magazines and other magazines over many, many years. Anyhow If you don’t know of my name or my work I just tell people to google my name. Seems to be […]
Sarah aka Lady Lipstick started doing pinup modeling in 2013 by accident, she is an owner of 3 classic cars and started dressing up at car shows when she would bring her classics. Sarah just fell in love with the pinup culture and style feeling that she finally found her true passion. Since then she […]
Matt Bernal is only 34 years old and already has a successful career under his belt in the automotive aftermarket, where he has spent the last 15 years providing conceptual design, body kit design, project car renderings and sponsorship proposal renderings. What started out as a love of drawing cars in grade school led Matt […]
You know from the moment you meet Chris, he is passionate about the historic techniques used by lettering artists, sign-painters and pinstripers. I was fortunate enough to meet him when he joined the Mercifuls So Cal Car Club. You can’t help but be friends with Chris. He has a pleasant and friendly personality as if […]
Made from Scratch All my work starts out as black-inked clay-coat board and I scratch off the surface with an X-acto knife to reveal the white layer underneath. It’s not exactly drawing in reverse – more like drawing the way light hits an object. I grew up in Los Angeles, and watched my dad build […]
Silversmith Shelley is a Los Angeles based silversmith originally from Houston, Texas. She has lived in the South, East Coast, Midwest and West Coast. Prior to going back to silversmithing she ran Zombie Kitten Originals, a small retro clothing line that artistically explored atomic dish patterns, horror and Sci-fi themes. Shelley holds a B.F.A in […]
Ol-Skool Pinstriping IF someone was to ask how it all started I would have to give credit to a Southern California pinstriper named Shaky Jake. He was my major influence in telling me where to get paint and brushes. I remember him telling me to practice for five years and check back in. Forty-four years […]
Chris Dunlop aka “Pinstripe Chris†is an Automotive Artist and Designer based out of Southern California. He is a full time artist that had started out in the autobody/paint side of the custom car world working hands on with the types of cars he still enjoys. Originally based out of Rockville, Maryland, Chris and his […]
Introducing Jerry Laboranti A Bonneville Salt Flat style roadster Story By Jerry Laboranti, Photos by Don Carrick/Studio 413 I have always thought that a Ford model A roadster on a 1932 frame seemed to be a winning pair in traditional hot rodding. There’s just something about this combination that gets the car to sit just […]
Inspired by the new products, mesmerized by the incredible vehicles, and grateful for all our friends. The 2016 SEMA Show was certainly the biggest ever and definitely a game changer. We have been attending SEMA, the Automotive Industry’s greatest trade show for several years now. It is an overwhelming experience trying to take it all […]
We met Hauser online when she announced that her and her hubby Spencer were headed to the show. Hauser is a pinup model from Olympia Washington and stays fit with Pole Dancing (in a gym, not in a club). We asked if she would hang out with us and she agreed! We got a bunch […]
