Lone Star 3.3 - FTB

Well should be my last entry (for now) about my Texas trip...

All of these pics were taken while FTB (Mr. Flat Top Bob) gave us a tour through the Wellington, Childress, Amarillo area.... Couldn't ask for a better tour guide!

If you don't know who FTB is... You better asks somebody.. owenssalvage.com

Monday..
We woke up and drove around the mean streets of Wellington.


I was scared... No really, if there wasn't any newer cars, you'd think you had gone back in time


Our first stop was Don Hickey's places, here FTB & Don outside Don's warehouse


Here's FTB opening up a garage door to another one of Don's places, you can see a glimpse of his beautiful Chevy custom


Here's FTB in an old school paint booth... crazy cool..


Nice clock tower.. notice anything weird?


Then we drove to Childress to visit & have lunch with Doug.. love his car


Then stopped at FTB's cousin's house... to look at his car and make an offer.. he wouldn't take $30,000.. I wouldn't either.

Then we headed to Dlebert's place, Coby gave him a few of the Church books.. and in FTB's own words... "I promise you there won't be anyone that you give the books to that will appreciate it more than Delbert." How cool is that


Delbert showed us his boxcar full of cool stuff.. Like these real Brass Knuckles...


And this authentic Klu Klux Clan outfit... I tried it on, didn't fit...


Delbert's awesome place..


Just a couple of his hot rods..

Then we were off to Larry's place... Larry has an obsession with Coke, every time I've seen him he has a Coke in his hands.. and a trail behind him..

Like so..

His other obsession is mid fifties Fords.. He has an amazing collection, amazing!

here's Coby getting a detail shot, his bread & butter

We then headed back to Casa De Flat Top, Here is the Duke (FTB) and his Merc...

I was going down the stairs when I noticed how small they are... tight fit for me.


Linda was being shy


And off to the Salvage yard we went

Coby looking on as FTB does some measuring


Wheels for days, weeks & years

This one is for Sarah

Chucks!


Took a few pics of some nice emblems... You gotta love old car logos

Another

This one I really like, art deco-ish letters

Coby looking for his next target.


Last photo of the night was FTB's beautiful Merc in his barn... Bob is living the dream.

Tuesday..

I woke up to pack all my stuff & head back to California.

But first we stopped at Mark's shop in Amarillo... you're going to have to wait to see parts of his collection on deadendmagazine.com


Here's FTB & Mark


Pipes...


Coby, "That might be the coolest sign I've ever seen!"

Old stuff rules...

And that's that... My Lone Star adventure... I truly enjoyed it!

FTB makes the best tour guide.

PHLOG

I'm posting a few photographs I've taken... Like I said before some are good and some aren't as good. Here you go... stuff I see through my canon. In no particular order.

This is s photograph I took a couple years back at Hollywood Hot Rods' Open house deal in Burbank California. I really dig how colors & composition came out.

I took this photo a few months back at the Tribal Gear warehouse party in San Diego.

The last couple of years I've been going to Austin Texas for the Lonestar Round-Up in April. I took this photo of the infamous Continental Club on a late cloudy evening. I dig old neon signage.

I took this shot of Henry Gong's Salinas Boys built 56 Nomad from the Traveler's Hotel in Oldtown Salinas. Henry thought he got a crappy parking spot but this shot was actually published in the CHURCH Numero Tres book, and was appropriately titled "Ghetto Fabulous."


Took this shot out of the passenger side of my brother's Honda as we followed Lionzo to San Gabriel to shoot his bikes. Clean Moto!

Here's a photo of Killa Vee, she's the 2nd model I ever shot. I really like the mood of this photo.

This was one of the shot's my brother & I took for Confused Clothing & Nor Cal Kustoms. We were called by Nor Cal Kustoms to see if we could set up & shoot a few models the same day and deliver nice cropped color corrected shots in a couple of days. We accepted the challenge and did okay considering both my brother & I aren't "real" photographers.

This is one of the shots I captured while shooting the cover for the next Gearhead Magazine (Issue 18) of Punk Rocker Roger Miret (of the Disasters) & Alex Gambino (of Gambino Kustoms)

Here's a shot of model Kayla D, shot for Make-up artist Alecia Hernandez.

Lots of times when my brother & I both go on a shoot we bring along our old film camera. While my brother was shooting Jeff's car I snapped a few, and liked this shot.

I took this photo of my good friend Beto while we waited for his wife & baby to finish getting ready for a family portrait.. my favorite type of photography (sarcastic)

My beautiful god-daughter on Easter weekend 2008.

Here's little Beto, loving the camera! Haha...

I'll keep snapping away & uploading pictures more often... stay tuned ninjas!
Peace
-Juan