Pinstriping

     Back in the mid 1970’s when I started pinstriping on a part time basis, a large percentage of cars and trucks came from the factory with painted pinstriping on them. I spent a lot of time in auto body shops replacing pinstriping on fenders, doors, and other body panels to make the cars look whole again. It was great practice because the colors and sizes of the pinstripes had to be matched to make the cars look “factory” again. I finally built up enough of a customer base to begin painting full time in the early 1980's. 
    If you have a vehicle that has missing pinstriping on it, whether original factory pinstriping, or hand painted striping done by someone else, I can replace it for you. Also, if you have a vehicle with old faded pinstriping on it, whether it’s straight line striping or scrollwork, I can refurbish it for you to make it look nice and new and fresh again.  
     Over the years I’ve been known to pinstripe on just about any paintable surface, so if you’re thinking about pinstriping your car, truck, motorcycle, guitar, piece of furniture, or any other personal item, give me a call or send me an email. I would love to talk with you about it. Thanks. 
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Hand Painted Pinstriping On A 2019 Ford F-250 Pickup
Below are a few pictures of a full and fairly extensive pinstriping job on a Ford pickup. 
 
 
 
 

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A Guitar With Hand Painted Pinstriping
Having your guitar hand pinstriped is a great way to make it your own and one of a kind.
 On the back as well!
A "before" picture 

Pinstriped flames on a Harley Davidson Trike.
Freehand painted pinstriped flames like the ones on the Harley in the photos below can be a pretty cool look.
 
 
 
 
 


Motorcycle Pinstriping With Matching Helmet
This motorcycle was plain black when my customer bought it. He had me do a complete hand painted pinstriping job to completely transform the look of the bike to what you see in the photos below. About a year later he had me pinstripe his new helmet to match the bike!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


GMC Pickup Truck
A few examples of pinstiping on a pickup truck.
 
 

You're Never Too Young To Get Your Car Pinstriped!
This was a pretty neat birthday present.
(When I took these pictures the paint was still too wet to wipe of my chalk lines.)





Chevy Pickup Hood
Here is an example of one of my handpainted pinstriping designs on the front of a Chevy pickup hood.

1939 Ford
 Classic pinstriping around a beautiful vintage hotrod.

The proud owner of this beautiful 1939 Coupe can be seen in the photo above.

2015 Dodge Pickup
 My customer asked me to paint the large graphic stripe on the side of this truck to emulate the look of the factory stripe on the 1970's Dodge Challenger. I taped the stripe off and painted it with a brush. He left the rest of the design of the truck up to me. The truck was only white and gold two tone before we began.
 

 
 
 

Hand Painted Pinstriping, Chevy Pickup
 More freehand painted pinstriping. It's not often that I get to use green. It's not the most popular color for pinstriping and it was the color the customer wanted. I was more than happy to use it for a change! 

Personalized with a monogram in Old English Lettering.
I painted over the "Z" with the same green I used in the pinstriping. It was originally red from the factory. I also added the orange highlights to the "71" to match the pinstriping.

Pinstripe Design On A Ford Pickup
The tailgate

The roof pillar 

2015 CORVETTE!
Some freehand pinstriping on a world class American sports car.
 
 
 
 
 

Pinstriped Jeep
All of the pinstriping on this Jeep is hand painted, free hand. If it's getting annoying that I keep saying "this is hand painted", or "that is hand painted", I want to apologize. My web designer told me that if I use certain keywords my site will come up on more search engines! :)


Pinstriping On a Motorcycle Tank 
The owner of this bike wanted me to incorporate the "ace symbol" into the pinstripe design.
 I wasn't sure which page to post these bike pictures on. The pinstriping page or the flames page. Obviously I settled on the pinstriping page! I don't have any pictures of this paint job clearcoated. The customer brought it home and had a friend clearcoat it.

Harley Davidson
Some hot rod style pinstriping on a Sportster. In the third photo down you can see we ran a pinstripe around the wheels to complete the look.
 

 
 

A TRUCK CALLED THE WITCH DOCTOR!
 I was asked to create an intense, over the top pinstripe job, INSIDE AND OUT of this wild truck. The last photo will show you a small pictorial I painted on the radiator cover which is underneath the hood of the truck in honor of its name... The Witch Doctor!
This truck can also be seen on the "flames page".
Below is a "before shot" of the interior. What can I say? My customer told me to "go crazy with it!
Ya, that's me outlining the flames on this Ford truck. This is a pretty damn cool truck.
 
You can see some more pictures of this radiator cover by going to the top of this page and clicking on the "Other things I paint" tab. Please check it out!


T-BUCKET ROADSTER
As you can see this hot rod is still in the process of being built. All of the pinstriping on this car is 100% freehand. 
 
 

 
 

FORD F-350 PICKUP

Some more hand painted pinstriping! And as always, it's completely freehand. I did the pickup truck shown in the following pictures for a long time loyal friend and customer. I've painted everything from cars, trucks, motorcycles, and even heavy equipment for him. We always work together on the basic design and layout, and he likes to have a say in the color combinations as well. He likes me to really decorate his vehicles to the fullest!





In the picture below you can see the faint grease pencil "guide lines" that I drew for the freehand lettering. When I took these photos the paint was still too wet to wipe the lines off.





1954 PLYMOUTH SAVOY
This very cool Plymouth was lovingly restored and customized by the owner who also did the paint job. It's always a lot of fun to pinstripe such one of a kind automobiles.
 
 
 

















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3 comments:

  1. I have been a fan of your work since 1986 when I worked on your dodge 6cyl pickup back at Anderson dodge. I have a pulling tractor I would love to have you letter when its done

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    1. Hi Unknown. I'm afraid you have me confused with somebody else. My older brother had a 6 cylinder Dodge back then. It was charcoal colored. It may have been him? But I would love to stripe your tractor when it's done! Give me a call at your convenience at 978-422-6694. I would love to talk with you about it.

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