Monday, May 07, 2007

Von Dutch will always remain a Legend

Von Dutch was a legendary American pinstriper and overall artistic mechanic, gunsmith and custom car and motorcycle builder in the 1960's. His trademark was a flying eyeball and was the mainstream feed to the lowbrow kustom kulture movement of southern California.
Pinstriping on cars and motorcycles was a dead art when 15-yr. old Kenneth Howard went to work in George Beerup's motorcycle shop in the mid-forties. General Motors did the last automobile striping on an American car in 1938. Then, in the mid-fifties, customizers brought it back in style in mostly radical form believing they were doing something entirely new! Kenny, the motorcycle mechanic was the man who started this "new" vogue under the name "Von Dutch. The nonconformist way of pinstriping that the late Von Dutch made-up initially came to life by covering up grind marks on the metal canvas of vehicles in which he was working on, the new age of pin came to birth.

Keeping to the core and carrying out the lifestyle applications of Von Dutch is represented in the
fabrications and details of Von Dutch Kustom Cycles, a true lifestyle company.
In respect to a great forefather to a movement that continues to grow, there are only to lifestyle companies in existence today making a difference and not exploiting the rhyme, the reason and the dream of their mentors. They are Harley Davidson Motor Company and Von Dutch Kustom Cycles, building upon dead men’s names, giving freedom to the living.


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