Damn it man!

I finally dragged my Panel truck home from paint, third time they told me it was done....it still has issues, but I'm happy to have it back and start putting some miles on it...

Tea and Crumpets

cousins?

Mother in Law....

....is in town

Sunday

spent sunday afternoon checking out a new(to me) burger stand half way between Ojai and Santa Paula called the Summit. My Friends Jack and Dave joined me, we headed from Ventura to Somis via Los Angeles ave, and cut through Balcom Canyon through the area of the Fillmore fire and into Santa Paula, there were some great twisty roads, and then cut through Santa Paula and up the Ojai highway to where the Summit was and had some Buffalo burgers and Dogs, pretty fucking good. Their Maple shakes are supposed to be great but I couldn't hang with a shake, it was too hot, so I had some fresh lemonade and some really good onion rings with my burger...then headed back through Ojai to Ventura by the 33, and headed home...

Karlson Tea Party

headed south on Saturday night to check out the deal that Nelson and Comune were throwing down in Costa Mesa....it was pretty cool, heres a few pics...

it was hot....

in the valley last week....

glad I only have to spend a couple days a week down there.

Panel Truck come home!

so I am supposed to be finally picking my '58 Dodge Town Panel up from paint on monday after what can only be described as six months of hell dealing with the shop that was painting it. I guess thats what you get for cheap huh, but it's only supposed to be a shop truck, not a show car, so I'll be stoked just to get to drive it again. I'll post pics as soon as I get the new glass, bumpers etc back on it....

NeckFace

Pinstripe neck tattoo I did a few years ago...

rough draft

found this pic of the Singapore Sling in early mock up stages....

my Pops gets a new motor

just dropped a new 350 in his '51 F1 yesterday, hopefully he wont be able to blow this one up....

carnage

one swap meet gas tank can lead to a lot of cutting and welding....

parts hauler

we use this Pea Picker to make runs to the hardware store....

devils in the details

an '87 sporty my friend Richie is building here at da' shop...

kinky donuts

you heard me....

MAN

weird offering from the English version of the 99 cent store....

not the El Camino MC swap

so, I went to the El Camino Swap saturday morning, and it was pretty damn good, found some good parts, saw some cool vintage sickles and lots of friends. I even took some good pics, including one of chopper dave talking to the crazy ol lady from Century Cycles who was tooling around in an old baby carriage. So you're asking yourself, where deez pix at yo? or something along those lines. Well as luck would have it I totalled my brand new iPhone and the pix iz evaporated into th' atmusfear....bummer

heres a pic of my driveway instead....

black jesus

I saw this bike for sale on Ebay a few years ago....it had some trick stuff done to it. Some bro from the bay area built it I thinkith....

OG race jersey

Jed and Wes at NLAMC made me the first of the Old Gold race Jerseys, 100% hand made in the USA, wool. these will be made to order, lemme know if you want one....

Ojai

last Sept we took the '41 Buick up to Ojai for the weekend...hung out with the hippy dippies and the haut granolas...some tweekers and pirates too...

Barney loves babies....

....to eat

Logan Davis

my friend Logan showed up to the open house in this bitchin AV8, he has good taste....

Yokohama '08 pics

just found a few pics from last years show...


This roller coaster is part of a theme park outside our hotel that can be seen in the background. Half an hour before we jumped back on the bus to take us to the Airport, Keith Weesner, Tiffany and I decided to try to hit the park right as it opened, and ride Rolling Coaster Vanish! by the time we got there we had picked up stragglers, Cole Foster, Mark Drews, Jason Phares and Jimmy Shine. We were the only people in the park, it felt like Wally World. This is us about to vanish! into the tunnel...


the garage at mooneyes Yokohama filled with some familiar faces.....


crazy engraved fender...


This bitchin GMC was my pick of the show...

Sunday Fix....Trader Vics

spotted this place in Sun Valley on the way home from a birthday party, Tiffany took the pic....

Old Gold Garage Co. open house pics

I gotta say thanks to everyone who came out and especially to Tiffany, Sean, Geoffrey, and Ritchie who helped me get the shop in order and run the BBQ, and a huge thanks to Captain Jeffrey and the Musical Chumbuckets for comin out and playing again. If you havent seen these guys before, go and check em out....

Old Gold open house '09

here's a teaser, got a bunch more pics to add as soon as I have some spare time. Thanks to everybody who came out to support the shop and eat my food!