Fisheye issues first coat of single stage.

Just yanking your chain :D. Most car builders have ink and piercings but I’m too big of a chicken for those so I settle for long hair and a scruffy beard. My customers demand it :D

Don

My scars are my ink, the hole in my left ear grew shut in the 70's, cut my hair off in 1980 when I got married, I still got the scruffy beard and I don't want any customers. :D
 
first shop. after i came back from Colorado in 79.
 

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Just yanking your chain :D.

Don
Knowing you are a retired engineer I figured you for a certain look. All you Engineers have that look. Didn't figure you for long hair and a beard.....Hippie:p

@shine How did you do this work in that heat with long hair like that? Back in 79 My Pop would have called you a hippie as well. Maybe not a Hippie but you look like you could have been on the cover of a Lynyrd Skynyrd album for sure. Or a Hells Angel. Those were scary guys back then.

The worst look for an aging white guy is the ponytail/receding hairline look. Sorry if any of you have a receding hairline and a ponytail.

I just wish I still had hair on the top of my head.:)
 
Knowing you are a retired engineer I figured you for a certain look. All you Engineers have that look. Didn't figure you for long hair and a beard.....Hippie:p

The worst look for an aging white guy is the ponytail/receding hairline look. Sorry if any of you have a receding hairline and a ponytail.

I just wish I still had hair on the top of my head.:)
I call my shop Hippy Hotrods :D. I’ve had a few nicknames over the years but one of the circuit board layout designers started calling me Hippy probably 20 years ago. I have never looked like your typical engineer… Well aside from my trademark plaid shirts :D

Pics are in 1977 and 2017…

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Don
 
Shine, that's pretty much how I looked in the 70's!! Is that a 57 behind you?

Don, nice cars. 69 Firebird?

I'll have to do some digging to find and take a pic of a pic.

John
 
The only Car Show that I can watch is Chasing Classic Cars. That show is pretty good.
I can't get past Kindigs stupid haircut and the facial hair. :)
Graveyard Cars was pretty good the first season but to me it's like so many of the car shows in that they reek of self promotion.
American Hot Rod was good. It was enlightening what a tool Boyd could be.
I like Rust to Riches. Quirky but so am I.
 
Shine, that's pretty much how I looked in the 70's!! Is that a 57 behind you?

Don, nice cars. 69 Firebird?

I'll have to do some digging to find and take a pic of a pic.

John
Yes a 68 Firebird that was my first car and my first attempt at car building and body work. It was pretty crude… :). The white 69 Camaro was a little more refined…
 
@Toolin , sorry your thread was completely hijacked. But I couldn't help but jump in with some hair.

1977, 15 years old. My first car. 1953 GMC pickup.
The sharp eyed GM guys will spot the W series 348 in the background. I was trying to transplant it into the Jimmy.
Didn't have the tools or knowledge or help to make it happen, but I had fun trying.
The dog lovers might spot the 180lb Alaskan Malamute behind the 348.

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Here is the donor of the 348, a 1957 chevy pickup that my buddy rolled. Bought it from him for $50.
What a picture! To quote David Allan Coe, "If that ain't country, I'll kiss your a$$."

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To continue down memory lane, two years later, age 17, my first paint job on my 1957 Chevy Biscayne.
By first paint job, I mean I did the grunt work and handed tools and beer to the guy that knew what he was doing.
Acrylic Enamel.
I can't remember how many people insisted that it was a '56. "Look at the side trim, no V they said."
I said, "Gun Sights baby, Gun Sights." Biscayne, very low trim level.


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Looks like ya'll had a beautiful place there Dean.
To quote David Allan Coe, "If that ain't country, I'll kiss your a$$."

Not to burst anyone's bubble but DAC wasn't really Country. Not like Cash or Jennings. He was like Alan Jackson sang in "Gone Country". His first two albums were blues and he made a Country album hoping to cash in on it's popularity in the 70's. It was all an act and his biggest song was actually making fun of Country Music. Still a good song though. I can remember when they sold cassette tapes on the counters of convenience stores and we found a tape he had done that was the dirtiest, foulest thing I'd ever heard in my short life. Looked at him in a different light after that.
 
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