![]() ![]() After visiting the store he bought some German brushes and white 1-shot. Harvey Budoff's 1950 Ford was the first car Larry pinstriped for a customer. It was in a little store down on Compton Boulevard, west of Long Beach Boulevard in Compton. Larry finally found out where Von Dutch bought his brushes and paint. Harvey Budoff called the bluff and pulled into Larry's driveway with his car one day after school. Nobody believed him, they even thought he had had Von Dutch sign Larry's name on the striping. Once completed he drove his newly pinstriped Chevy over to the Bellflower Clock Drive-In where everybody wanted to know how the hell he could afford a Von Dutch artwork on his car. ![]() He spent the next two days striping his 1950 Chevrolet, the Grapevine. Larry went to an art store and bought some brushes, and he went to Jackson Paint Store and bought some copper paint. Jeff answered "What do you want to do? Put me out of business?" At the time it was only Von Dutch and Dean Jeffries who applied what they called "Modern Striping." Larry answered that he just wanted to stripe his own car, but Jeff still wouldn't tell him. Larry stepped over the rope at Barris and asked Jeff where he had bought his brushes. The car he pinstriped was Johnny Zupan's 1949 Mercury. Von Dutch had moved his operation uptown working out of "The Crazy Arab's" Competition Body Shop at 7201 West Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, so instead it was Dean Jeffries doing his first striping for George Barris. One day his friend Gary McNaught came by the house and asked if he would come along down to Barris Kustoms and watch Von Dutch stripe a car. His inspiration came from watching Von Dutch striping, while sitting on his bicycle outside of Barris Kustoms in Lynwood. In 1955, at the age of 16, Larry began his pinstriping career. Larry Watson (JJuly 20, 2010) was a legendary custom painter and pinstriper. Long live Kustomland! Price: $19.99 - Check availability on Amazon.om. Custom by Paint - Made in Bellflower - A tribute to traditional custom cars of the 1950s. ![]()
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