GOW CART Chronicles Blog begins.

Though this story has been going on for 5 years already almost to date, I'm finally getting around to blogging it up. This will be a specific area for the GOW CART build. Add this to your fav's and links:

http://gowcart.blogspot.com/

Brand FRICKIN' NEW Stocking Stuffers!

Wow! It's about time right? Just in time for the holiday shopping season and everything is stocking stuffer priced! Keep in mind also the "Speed Barn" T-shirts are here (rumor has it you might be seeing them soon on television on a new Discover Channel series) And posters "Blown" , "Tripower", and "Cranked & Shafted" are all marked down too! Take advantage of FREE SHIPPING until 2010 on all posters, after that it will be your nickel (actually it will bring the price up another $6 so it's like getting posters are close to 25% off in some cases)

Car-N-Art limited Patch - Six Pack of buttons - Gow Cart Support - Detroit Tin Patch-

And here are the four Brand NEW Items:

PRE ORDER your Original Detroit Tin Patch now, shipping on Dec. 7th. You don't drive some fiberglass repop of the old thing right? Tell those trophy / trailer queens what you got there by showing this off on your geasey garage jacket or on your colors. This Car-N-Art designed 3" patch is fully embroidered and ready to be stitched. Here is you chance to grab one up for yourself no matter where you are in the world. Only $6 plus $1.50 shipped within USA. Orders outside the USA, please contact me for best rates on shipping. Or send check or money order to: Keven Carter PO BOX 172 Clawson MI 48017 United States

Support the arts by showing this off on your geasey garage jacket or on your colors. This Car-N-Art patch is fully embroidered and ready to be stitched. This item just was recently added to the web store but has been for sale at limited show across the Mid West. Here is you chance to grab one up for yourself no matter where you are in the world. Only $6 plus $1.50 shipped within USA. Orders outside the USA, please contact me for best rates on shipping. Or send check or money order to: Keven Carter PO BOX 172 Clawson MI 48017 United States For some time I've had the little ones come by my booths at shows wanting to take something away that was affordable and I just didn't have anything for people with only a few bucks in their pockets so I came up with the "sixer" series #1. This Six Pack isn't of the cold variety, it's a little hotter than that!. These Car-N-Art designed 1" buttons come along with a Car-N-Art sticker while supplies last. You get the Gas up can, Torque Thrust wheel, The Skull and Crossed Wrenches from the upcoming "Sins of Speed" series, (2) 97's on red and on black and lastly a "Gow Cart" support pin. Only $5 plus $1 shipped. Or send check or money order to: Keven Carter PO BOX 172 Clawson MI 48017 United States The GOW CART is a pet project of mine that I hope to get off the ground in about 2-5 years total. It started with a rear axle and it's come further than I expected in a short while with many helpful hands and folks out there who want to see a good old Hot Rod on the road. But, like every project, it doesn't come without a dollar sign put to it. The plan is to build a traditional style 1929 Highboy Roadster on model A rails but lowered with a drop axle and Z'ed in the frame and a lot of rubber raking. I know there are a lot of good folks out there with parts just sitting around their garages collecting rust and dust all at the same time, so here is your opportunity to get those old "door stops" put to good use! This isn't a "rat rod"! In fact most of us who are younger who are building cars HATE that term. It is a low budget Hot Rod, but trust me, it will be nice. No billet anything, just good ol' parts for a good old A bomb. That's all. So are you interested in helping this poor boy out? What I'm looking for is a small donation. It can be parts, it can be spare change, it can be leads on parts. I'll take what I can get at this point! What I'm offering right now is a bad ass oval sticker (seen above) for $2. All proceeds go to this car and this car build alone! This isn't a scheme to get rich, it's just to get a jalopy on the road. Down the road I will also be offering support T-shirts, Patches, and Posters that will be associated with the project that will be in the same form of donation that will help this project along, but right now I gotta move a few stickers first! The Gow Cart Blog (coming soon) $2 for a Gow Cart Sticker Or send check or money order to: Keven Carter PO BOX 172 Clawson MI 48017 United States

Torque Fest Poster #2 (Customs)

All brand new today. Torque Fest poster #2 from Car-N-Art. This one focuses on Customs both old and new (well, kinda all new in the sense that The Hirohata Merc and The Blue Danube are clones) The poster design is inspired by old car magazines like Hot Rod, Rod & Custom, Hop Up, etc. It's 11" x 17" and will be exclusive to Vintage Torque Fest for sales (I don't even know how many will get pressed) There is a TON of detail in this and impossible to see it all online so I did a few blow ups to show some.

ABOVE: this is 1/4 the detail level. You can start to see the dot matrix halftones of the design if you look very carefully.
Here is a 1 to 1 detail level of the same parts as above and it really starts to show all the details that I got into on this poster. I can't wait to see the printed version!

vintagetorquefest.com

Friday the 13th :: DEAD files

I woke this morning with that Friday the 13th feeling with nothing completely finished this week and started going through my "dead" archives of work that never happened (well, it happened to me, just never got the check for my effort!) It's a shame that they shouldn't be seen and enjoyed so being Dead on Friday the 13th seems appropriate. Here are a few:








"chi-chi-chi, ha-ha-ha" -Jason Voorhees

Sins of Speed™ update

Sins of Speed™

A bunch of badassness coming from Car-N-Art

I've got another patch design that I'm working with from an old patch that my buddy Ed sent along.

REPENT:

The original patch just had a skull and crossbones wearing a helmet that had "REPENT" written on it. I couldn't exactly make heads or tails of exactly how it was meant to be read, so I developed the line: "never repent for the sins of speed; only for what is failed to achieve". I liked the idea of "Sins of Speed" so much I started to play with the idea a little more:

I'm currently so damn excited about this it's kept me up and working away on t-shirt designs. Here is one of them I did. In total there are already 4 concepts going:

You can get your first piece of art for your computer background/wallpaper.

grab it up RIGHT HERE

Stay Tuned!

Moto Boner

I love the "pudding bowl" styled race helmets! I especially love the ones with visors. I wish I could stumble on one for cheap out and about, but I never seem to.

This is a Davida Classic "pudding bowl" that I'm in love with. Not really a silver person myself, but I love the lines and the height of the helmet. They just don't come cheap... These average around $300 for a hand laid fiberglass helmet with leather straps and built in the UK. I don't think you're even getting something DOT approved for that price either, but you will die in style.

Here is the HCI RETRO #50 which is DOT approved and averages around $55. Not exactly all hand made and stitched and certainly not made in jolly ol England either. Still you get the protection and style minus the Davida price tag.

Though many may argue that one must wear a cafe' style racer jacket with this upon their bike, I would also love to point out the Schott leather "police jacket" is what I'd wear.

I searched for years on ebay for one of these and also spent a lot of time in many thrift stores across the state looking for one I could afford. This one is affordable! The down side of this company who was known for being a USA made co. is that they recently in the last few years started making their designs over seas. This made a lot of people who were die hard Schott supporters kinda pissed. Schott makes the "Perfecto" which is widely known for being the jacket worn in "The Wild One". They also stitched the American bomber WW2 jackets and still produce them to this day. I should note that some of their jackets are produced here and some overseas. If you can't tell by the quality then the price tag should tip you off. Schott has high standards so you can count on all their products to be nice